Get ready for a future letdown of Anime fans everywhere; Leonardo DiCaprio has signed on to produce a live-action version of the classic Anime hit “Akira.” It has apparently been a project DiCaprio has ben wanting to tackle a long time now, with the usual rights to the licenses being tied up. Of course, changes will be made, the first of which will feature the story being set in New York City and not Tokyo. Yeah. You know, the nice thing about Anime is that it is distinctly Japanese, even when Western pop culture is incorporated into the stories. In this writer’s opinion, it shouldn’t be tinkered with (let alone made into a live action movie). Fans would go to see it, yet undountedly the fear that the majority of American movie goers not “getting” it if it wasn’t tweaked and set in their homeland is the engine pulling the train here. Too bad.