21-year old Harry Partridge has released his spoof of the 26-year old manga property Akira. His short, titled The American Akira, sends up Katsuhiro Otomo’s post-apocalyptic story about a teenage boy with extraordinary powers. With his spoof, Partridge is alluding the upcoming Warner Bros. feature films that set the story in New Manhattan as opposed to Neo-Tokyo.

Harry Partridge has entertained us in the past with his shorts Chuck’s New Tux and Jimmy Tickles’ Magic Pickles, and he returns today with perhaps my favorite. Michael The Terrible Boyfriend: A Slice of the Action delivers an oven-fresh box of clever. Harry, who lives in the UK, let us know that he currently has two projects in the oven, and we can only hope that one of those is a second episode.

A few months back, we featured Harry Partridge’s short Jimmy Tickles’ Magic Pickles, which is filled with very “traditional” looking animation. Since then, Patridge has been hard at work on his next piece, which reminds me of Bart Simpson’s title sequence skateboard ride, but with a slightly different outcome (which is slightly NSFW). Chuck’s New Tux was written by Harry’s friend Nathan Tuffin, who had recently been lamenting the fact that his scripts never ended up being realized. Problem solved.

Harry Partridge is an animation student at UCCA in Surrey, England, and for his latest class deadline, he submitted a Flash-animated short titled Jimmy Tickles’ Magic Pickles. The class was limited to 2-minutes running time, and Partridge used this opportunity to try out the tween function in Flash. Tweening can be a tough nut to crack, but the results here are smooth and snappy.