AKARI is a cyberpunk anime short set in a layered, near-future Tokyo, depicting the resistance of youth shut out of ever-costlier AI. Japan, a minor AI nation, relies on costly American AI, and teens, who most need to get used to AI, are farthest from it. Through the awakening of Akari, an AGI, and the students around her, it asks: who will have access to the future? A story of inequality, and of a small light that refuses to go out. *Created entirely by students in Japan.