Akira a Secret Inspiration for Stranger Things?
If you've read the manga or at least seen the movie, there's a ton of similarities, and I don't think they're coincidences, I just think more people know The Goonies than they do Akira. Here's what I found:
A group of friends on bikes/motorcycles get caught up in a swirling plot
Rival gang who get's embarrassed or killed by the psychic (the school bullies/the clowns)
A friend in the group goes missing/kidnapped by the a mysterious monster or group (Will and Tetsuo)
A mysterious psychic character appears with a number on their arm/hand (11, and 28)
A government agency cultivating child psychics
A man in a suit from the government being like a father the psychic child/children and hunts them down for their return (Papa and Colonel)
The main boy falls in love with the girl who's a psychic (Kaneda and Kei/Will and 11)
A cop/merc goes on his own investigation (Chief Hopper and Ryu)
The correlation's of monsters and psychics (Tetsuo is a psychic and turns into a monster)
These are just a few that I noticed, although the child psychic stuff was the most stand out.