The Duffer brothers have named Akira, alongside Firestarter, for Eleven: a child taken young by a government programme, identified by a number, whose power arrives with nosebleeds. The lab, the earlier subjects who did not survive, and the pursuit through an ordinary town all come from the same place. The graph already holds E.T., The Goonies and D&D as sources for the show; this is the one that is not American.