Akira goofs

When the camera sits back from Akira's capsule, the nameplate is displayed in katakana (a Japanese syllabary). As Tetsuo draws nearer, it is, as if by magic, rendered in Romaji (English characters).

Early in the film, inside a street-side bar, the lettering on the jukebox changes from "MASTAR" to "MASTER" from one shot to the next.

In several shots the colonel's rank insignia alternates between two stars and three stars.

In a long shot where Nezu and Ryu are discussing Kaneda's usefulness to the resistance movement, a couple passing by appear to be heading for the same set of steps Nezu and Ryu are about to descend; yet in the following shot the couple are shown climbing a flight of steps on the opposite side of Nezu and Ryu.

When Tetsuo, having swollen into a giant amorphous blob, absorbs Kaneda into his body he is wearing gloves; yet when Kaneda is shown inside the mutated Tetsuo he is bare-handed, and after he escapes his gloves are back on.

When the unnamed man escorting Takashi places himself between him and the danger as a shield, Takashi appears to have specks of blood on his head; however, as he gets to his feet it becomes apparent the blood was on the pavement and happened to lie over Takashi's head because of an animation error.

While Yamagata shouts to Kaneda amidst the terrorist bombing, Yamagata's feet are suspended above the ground.

When the Clown biker is thrown through the window of the diner in the opening chase sequence, the stacking order of the animation cels shifts for a couple of frames (watch for the curtains in the background briefly appearing in front of the fallen table in the foreground).