Akira
A Review by Noah Antwiler
I spend many nights alone in my room watching the incredibly dull G4 Channel in the vain hopes of seeing my one true love Morgan Webb, or tuned to the Sci-Fi Channel -- the morons who cancelled Mystery Science Theater and replaced it with such drek as Stargate Atlantis and Battlestar Galactica. Recently, I've become enamored with the Sci-Fi Channel for their new never-ending quest to be the network responsible for creating the stupidest movie of all time. Tune in at the wrong time, and you can catch cinematic upchuck as Boa vs. Python, Frankenfish, and Mansquito -- a movie about people who turn into huge mosquitos. Inspired by this new direction in programming, I plan to pitch such movie ideas as Dracullama ("Witness the horror of vampire llamas!") and Manchigger, where men turn into giant vampiric chiggers. Anyway, I usually end up invading my DVD collection after trying to force myself to watch yet another intensely painful episode of Battlestar Galactica, because the Sci-Fi Channel sucks, and Morgan Webb wouldn't touch me even if given the chance to bash me to death with a crowbar.
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I'm getting to Akira, just hold your horses. One one particular Morgan Webb-less night, a commercial played on Sci-Fi shilling the cult anime favorite Akira. I'm well-known as not really being an anime fan (surprise!), because anything that inspires grown men to dress like anthropomorphic cats, rub blue Kool-Aid in their hair, and carry six-foot polystyrene buster swords while arguing vehemently with other cosplayers that Goku could TOTALLY kick Sephiroth's ass...well, it's evil and it must be destroyed. Like Enterprise. The commercial listed off a bunch of movie critic endorsements-- the kind you see so much your mind doesn't even process them consciously anymore-- until one in particular stood out. "Makes Blade Runner look like Disney World," it said.
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I paused. I was intrigued. That's a bold claim for any movie. I know some guys who'd probably shoot you for talk like that. I'm not one of those people; I'm well-adjusted. But if you try to sell me the idea that Deckard was a replicant, I'll strangle you with your own small intestines. I had to see this movie now. It's not like I was doing anything more worthwhile, such as writing my Dracullama script.
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Akira is based on the hit manga, which is Japanese for "twenty dollars a book." 'Akira' is a Japanese word that means "most honorable phone-book-sized manga you can easily bludgeon gaijin to death with." And 'gaijin' means "snarky American movie critic." At my last count, there are six total Akira mangas, and they all weigh in averaging 400 pages, and that translates to "not enough time in my life to read this stuff." Even Tolstoy managed to wrap up after about 1400 pages, but I've never managed to find a copy of War and Peace that had pictures. I felt cosmically inadequate in the face of comics that size, and so I abandoned my plan to investigate the source material before watching the movie. I'll just accept from the onset that Akira has a back story which rivals the most convoluted Gundam and DragonballZ series. Besides, I should approach this movie from the viewpoint of Joe Average viewer, without any advance knowledge of the story.
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The movie begins with Tokyo exploding, which for anime is the cliché equivalent of "It was a dark and stormy night." The movie is actually set in a post-apocalyptic place called Neo-Tokyo, a place that has the whole cyberpunk motif of too much neon, bad highways, and pervasive gang violence. Sort of like now, only the gangs have better wardrobes. For some reason, the English dub on my copy has decided to give most of the characters New Jersey accents, so it's hilarious to hear Japanese people sounding like they're being dubbed by the cast of The Sopranos. From my conversations with various otaku (Japanese for "freaks who should never reproduce"), my version of Akira is known as "the bad dub." I still say there are few animes out there with worse dubs than Yu-Gi-Oh!, so anything is a step up from that.
Anyway, the movie's about two motorcycle gang members: Kaneda, a guy with a cool motorcycle and a strange jacket with a picture of a pill on the back, and Tetsuo, a whiny scrawny kid with a very large head. Everyone makes fun of Tetsuo because of his giant skull, which no motorcycle helmet will fit. Kaneda's gang is at war with The Clowns, which makes Kaneda a good guy, because nobody likes clowns. While engaged in a motorcycle chase with these clowns, Tetsuo swerves to miss a little blue person in the road and wrecks his bike. His name is Tito, rejected albino pygmy from the Blue Man Group. He's one of a race of blue people created by the government's Andorian/Hobbit Hybrid Program, and they want him back!
The blue guy just escaped from the military, but it isn't long before choppers swoop in and recapture him. They're led by another blue guy who looks like a shrunken Louis Anderson. All of the blue folks are short and wrinkly, like Smurfs who have Methuselah Syndrome. I have no idea where they come from, why they're blue, or what their role in anything is. All they seem to do is scowl and say foreboding things like "This chapter's finished," "The future is not a straight line," and "I'll never join you, Dooku." The blue guys take the injured Tetsuo, too, and take him back to a super-science lab to diddle with his DNA. But something goes wrong, and Tetsuo suddenly develops godlike power over every living thing on the planet. But Tetsuo is damaged goods because of all the teasing about the giant planetoid he calls a head, and instead of using his powers for the good of humanity-- like finding the ultimate no-workout weight loss plan-- he decides that inflicting horrible petty apocalyptic revenge on the planet is more fun. If I had hair like Tetsuo, I'd be angry and vindictive too.
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If you've ever seen a Godzilla movie in your life, you won't be surprised to learn that the Japanese military is about as useful as men's nipples. The army goes to pieces faster than the Packers' secondary defense, but luckily Kaneda's around to save the day. Where the entire armed forces of Japan fail, Kaneda manages to duel the demigod Tetsuo to stalemate twice and escape with his life. It must be the motorcycle. Unfortunately for Tetsuo, he didn't have Master Yoda around to have him float stuff around while standing on his head, and he can't control his powers. The big-headed dope's powers go bonkers, and he transforms into a gargantuan city-sized mass of chaotic shrieking fleshy stuff (like Star Jones). And then Tokyo blows up again. I know, it seems like a minimal plot, but frankly that's all there is to it. Oh, they pad it up with other stuff. There are clunky, stilted discussions of how stupid politicians are and their inability to learn from past Armageddons, a romance subplot that stalls from the outset, and an attack by malicious teddy bears who spew milk. I can't make that up.
All that comprises a scant 45 minutes of screen time, however. Here's what they fill the other half of the movie with:
"TETSUO!" *zzzzaaaapppp!*
"KANEDA!" *SCHWING* *CRASH*
"GRRRRRR!!! RRAAAAAAA!!! TEEEEETSSSUUUUOOOOOO!!!!" *FWOOSH!!*
"EEEEYYYAAAAAAUUUUUUUGGGGH!!!! KAAAAANEEEEEDAAAAA!!!" *SPLORCH SQUISH*
"TETSUOOOOOOOOO!!!!"
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The majority of Akira is grunting, shouting, panting, growling, screaming, and Kaneda playing name tag with Tetsuo. You might make a drinking game out of it, such as taking a shot whenever someone shouts "Tetsuo" or "Kaneda," but I think you'd die of alcohol poisoning. I haven't heard this much angry screaming since I tried being a professional male stripper. Maybe the sidewalk wasn't the best place to try it. Becoming evil seems to inspire Tetsuo to speak like Jack Nicholson, but I suppose there are less-menacing people to sound like when you've become The Beyonder. I still can't stop wondering why an all-powerful being would pick that haircut. I'm also wondering how long it'll be before they make a good giant comic movie, like Watchmen. I love Rorshach almost as much as I love Morgan Webb. And if you don't know who she is, don't bother finding out, because she's mine. Mine! Mine, do you hear?? Soon I will collect all the Sacred Egyptian God Cards, and nations will kneel at my feet and weep at my glory! Any who resist will be crushed utterly by my Veritech squadrons and Gundam mecha! KANEDAAAAAA!!!!
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I'll give credit where it's due. If you're watching a cartoon, it either has bad animation, good animation, or it's Akira. It's full of surreal, weird imagery on an epic scale. You'll see things that were never meant to be drawn, and they've made them breathtakingly gorgeous to behold. The action sequences are swift, gory, and brutal. I could say the words "a giant tentacle-covered fleshy cancer devours Tokyo," but to see it animated in Akira is akin to a religious experience. It's a rare movie that can show me something I've never seen before, and Akira is definitely one of those movies. It's also one of the most unfulfilling, confusing films you'll ever see, because by the time it's over, you'll have absolutely no idea what in the hell just happened. It's sort of like every girl I ever dated in college. I have no idea why Tetsuo has suddenly become the Kwizatz Haderach. I don't know who Akira is or why they've sealed all his internal bits floating in Tang in individual Mason jars. I don't know why he's buried under a football field. I don't know why people worship Akira as a savior. "Come back and kill us all, Akira! We love you!" I don't know who the Methuselah Smurfs are, or where they came from. I don't know why they're still continuing with this Akira-related experimental stuff, especially since he already nuked Tokyo once already and he's sort of making a habit out of it. I don't know why Kaneda--who is, as far as I can tell, a normal guy who is only cool because he has a motorcycle-- is able to engage in protracted battles with Tetsuo, who can make your head explode if a naughty thought crosses his mind. Why do teddy bears want to kill him?
What I really puzzle over is why Akira seems to want to end on a high, hopeful note. The entire city just got turned into smoking glass, and I'm supposed to be feeling good about it? The skies are blackened with the ashes of several million innocent people, crushed under the heel of a maniacal demigod, and they want me to be thankful to Akira and his holy blue gnomes for saving the day? Suck it, Akira!
So I return to the issue at hand. Does Akira make Blade Runner look like Disney World? I'm not even really sure what that's supposed to mean, but if we're talking about an overpriced waste of time with a lot of running and screaming, then Akira should be wearing the Mickey Mouse ears. There's nothing as memorable or as visually unique as the urban wasteland of Blade Runner, nor as poetic as Roy Batty's musings on the brevity of life. Best of all, I can watch Blade Runner and know what the heck just happened! Not only does Blade Runner win this contest, Ridley Scott holds Akira down and slaps the stupid out of him.
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I can't even decide if there's any real message to this movie. What else is there than a Godzilla story about a kid driven by an inferiority complex that goes postal on an unsuspecting city? Don't tamper in God's domain? Those who are stupid enough to screw around with the Destroyer of Worlds a second time deserve to die? Don't pick on the runty kid in your high school, else he taps into the Power Cosmic and annihilates your ass? I've learned one thing for sure: if I see a teenager crushing tanks with his mind on the news, I'm driving somewhere safer. Like Camp Crystal Lake. And I'm bringing mansquito spray.
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I missed the part where the webmaster told everyone to say the movie sucks – but anyway… I saw Akira once, 14 1/2 years ago and thought two things. 1. That was unique and 2. I don’t need to see it again, ever.
All that stuck in my mind after all these years is that there was THE STUPID NAME TAG THING going on that would never work in an episode of The Smurfs, and the part where dude’s girlfriend got squished in other dude’s spleen. That was exactly where the whole movie made sense (she thought she had a crush on him but it was the other way around – metaphors, people). Right there.
mvx248, I saw Akira first time years ago. And it sucked. And I’ve seen it like… 5 times all together. You think that only people who like spoony hates akira?
Akira has no plot, the reason it’s called classic is because it was brought to USA and it is the first anime movies that people saw there. Just like Ninja Scroll, it is a classic in a way, but it still sucks. Akira is not a good movie, in my opinion.
You might like it, but you can’t say that people hate it because “webmaster told them to”.
It answers all those questions, though they can be hard to find.
I think most people like Akira because of nostalgia. It was one of the first animes brought to the US. Back when anime in the US was scarce and most of the stuff you could get was only available in japanese with no subtitles. I watched Akira for the same reason I watched NeonGenesis Evangelion. Because every anime fan told me they were awesome and I felt like I was missing out on something. Well, they weren’t and I wasn’t. Akira was just weird. Give me Evangelion:ReDeath anyday. Now that shit’s funny, even if you haven’t seen the series.
I watched Akira for the first time yesterday. I really wish I had done something else instead.
At least now I know what happens when you mix Dragonball Z with the last 10 minutes of 2001: A Space Oddysey.
One time my boyfriend and I tried to count all the people that die in this movie. We just had to give up after that scene when the bridge collapses with everyone on it, not a good idea for a drinking game.
I didnt know there were Spoony-Nazis as well… huh…
Well anyway this is one of my favorite movies of all time, if you don’t like it thats cool just don’t be a prick about it. I’m the type of person that can put pieces together easily, so all the questions Spoony asked I can probably answer. I enjoyed this review, but I guess other people didnt…
Wow. I’m just…wow. I wasn’t aware there was so much hatred for Akira. Lemme tell you a bit about myself. I have no flaming hard on for japan or anime, though i watched it on Toonami and such and have a collection of a couple shows I liked enough(Big O, FLCL, etc). Akira is one of my favorites and people seem to have a lot of problems with this.
BG Lion: stop being a bigoted tard, I always watch Akira in the english dub and I love it that way. Fuck anyone who says otherwise.
To those saying this film isn’t deep, it’s really not in the typical ways you want it to be. It’s an apocalypse, an exercise in how easily human life can be robbed. Blood literally gushes out of people in that movie. Then there is the themes of evolution of science and the power it taps that we should never go near. My personal choice is how we live in such a futuristic society yet we are still nothing but barbarians(the tribal music in the film pushes this over the hill in obviousness).
But mainly, this is a movie about two boys who love each other. Yeah, like that. I saw this film near the end of highschool(2007-ish) and early in HS i read the Epic of Gilgamesh for class ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epic_of_Gilgamesh ). Not that special but they are essentially similar stories, the bonding between two men. Kaneda and Tetsuo have a serious intimate bond together that goes back to them being children, and the motorcycles are a symbol of their immature childish behavior. Because what is a bike gang except a bunch of boys on bicycles who grew up. I actually had a really rare fucked up moment, when I saw the girl being crushed and Tetsuo screams, “I FEEL HER PAIN, SHE”S BLEEDING INTO ME”. I made a period joke, but honestly thats the idea. Ever notice how she ‘enters’ Tetsuo’s body and is killed, yet Kaneda does as well and isn’t? That moment represents the tear of the virginal hymen and it only gives Tetsuo agony: little far-fetched but i like the idea of it :P
So to those who masturbate to harem animes or naruto: fuck you. People who think this is just a nostalgic joke: fuck you. I love this movie, it’s awesome.
This has been one of my favourite anime films since my childhood, since when it came out.
Sure the storyline never really explained anything, but that’s the beauty of it. To fill in the blanks, you say it’s not very fulfilling, however I found it very. Or maybe I didn’t, I was just captivated in the awesome hand-drawn backgrounds, I even remember watching a documentary behind it on the Bonus Features of the DVD. It IS an awesome anime movie, especially for 15 years ago, you CAN’T compare it to blade runner, but in it’s own league of anime, it kicks the shit out of everything.
I’d say it’s just as good as if elfen lied was one movie.
I rewatched this about 20 times and I’m still trying to fill in the blanks myself, I see the guy getting bullied and think akira is him, I see the guys guts spilling out and I’m like “wtf”, but when I was a child I didn’t care. It was all awesomeness.
I think it stoops down half way through the movie.
I disagree, I think the end is the best part.
Also this film(INCASE ANYONE GIVES A SHIT) uses sound REALLY well. Like most movies have blasting noise and sound effects and a score going 24/7. Akira dares to be silent and give amazing moments like when the guts fall out and stuff.
Zognar: This isn’t a positive review. And there’s retards who are now talking shit about the movie just because of what they read.
Assiman: Remind me how the movie has no plot. Besides most of the peope talking shit about the film have the same points as the webmaster. Did that occur to you?
mvx248: Will you give it up? Here, I even saw akira. I watched the whole thing, beginning to end. I’ve seen a lot of different anime and I have to say spoony’s right on most of his points. Does that make it a bad movie? I would say no. Visually it’s amazing and a fun romp. But I agree the plot is exceedingly hard to follow in places. It’s a problem a lot of these sort of movies and anime seem to run into. They mistake confusing the audience with setting up mysteries and thought provoking scenes. In all honesty? Akira isn’t bad. It’s fun to watch. But it isn’t a magnum opus by any means other than say visually and in it’s sound use. Plot wise and coherency it suffers horribly.
In closing, I’d say people comparing it to dune are correct. Good, but without the background of the book it’s hard to really get as much as you might like to out of it.
“Whatever the context is and shit, as long as you can go through a new a experience it could’nt be possibly a bad movie.”
Whoah there, buddy! That’s a rather sweeping generalization you’ve got there. New doesn’t automatically equal good just as archetypal doesn’t always equal bad. I’ve seen movies that offer new situations and ideas that completely fail, and movies that are cliched as all shit still be entertaining.
One important thing to remember is when this movie came out. At the time most anime that had made it way stateside were kiddy shows and most animation was child oriented. This movie was that first taste for some of what anime really was. This is the movie that made anime popular stateside and I think that’s why it’s held in such high regard. For most it’s that nostalgia factor of being the first real anime they ever saw.
When I first saw Akira back in college (oh so many moons ago), I had a lot of the same issues with this film as you did….the plot is overly convoluted and the character’s motivations can sometimes be a slap in the face of logic.
If I have to constantly ask “Why are they acting that way?”…..”What was the point of doing that?”……and just plain “What the Hell?” then, for me, that’s a problem. (And don’t gimmee that ‘you need the book to fill in the holes’ that’s just lazyness OR that ‘you’re just not bright enough to understand the metaphors’ when everyone on this blog has given multiple interpretations like some kind of Rorschach test.)
I do agree the imagery was breath-taking and stylistically it was ground-breaking, but you still need tight story-telling to wrap it around. It definitely was the SOTA look/design and the handling of ‘adult material’ that gave it its wow factor. (oh, and btw, I LOVE Dune but can admit its got similar problems.)
While I enjoyed the movie, I do agree. It is very hard to follow with the story. Yes, yes, you can argue that it was meant to be looked at it as “narrative technique”, but to there gets to be a point where the technique obscures direction. I dare anyone to actually give a solid plot to this movie that makes sense.
We aren’t talking about a poem that can be interpreted different ways or perhaps the Holy Bible, this is a movie for the public. Granted, you are entitled to what you think, but at least admit that the movie can be confusing at times. Even math equations can make no sense to people, that doesn’t make them a moron.
This post is in defense of Noah, but not to ridicule anyone either.
Akira is an awesome movie, about molecular physics and hidden power and evolution combining to create new universes… geez did you listen to the movie at all…?
i watched this movie when i was 13 and i got the movie what with you guys?
for a reviewer your lazy as hell this is like trying to fit lord of the rings in three movies its doesn’t work
yes it makes since if your bother actually you know WATCHING the damn movie but other then that its up there with
Serial experiment Lain and FLCL if your dont pay attention it wont make since DuH.
the books better but in the end there two different Beasts.
its like comparing Street Fighter to Street fighter the movie
Alex: Thing is, you’re saying the movie wasn’t bad. That’s not what the morons posting here think.
Akira is one of those films I went into with an open mind and walked out of with a thoroughly confused one. Yes it’s very pretty and it has a nice sense of style but that was about it for me. Quite frankly one viewing was enough. It’s not the earth shattering experience it’s made out to be. What people like mvx248 and Kerrigen need to realize is that people are entitled to their own opinion of something even if it isn’t the same as theirs. And Mvx68, just because people have opposing views doesn’t mean they’re morons. People don’t need Spoony to have an opinion of something. I personally think Akira tries to make up for a bonkers plot with pretty surroundings and nice music. If all you are going to do is bitch then keep on bitching. It gives us some amusement watching you get butthurt over a simple review and a couple comments. Hell, probably why Spoony did it in the first place
“I’m also wondering how long it’ll be before they make a good giant comic movie, like Watchmen.”
Your wish was GRANTED! <3
Mvx68? Not sure how you got that.
I guess it didn’t occur to you that Spoony made this review because he was butthurt over someone liking Akira better than Blade Runner.
Also be sure to tell docawesome that everyone is entitled to their own opinion, because he was trying to make it a fact that Akira sucked.
Morgan Webb is married to a billionaire.
It is a fact that Akira sucked.
going to the point on how expensive akira is lets look at all the editing cuts that have gone through blade runner which you can find here
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Versions_of_Blade_Runner
tldr
spoony is a poor troll
I thought Spoony is more of a beanie baby than a Troll. He doesn’t have enough wrinkles or the purple puffy hair to pull it off. :)
It is a fact that Helpful sucks at trolling.
eh, it was an O.K. movie. but if this busted your brain, I wouldn’t suggest looking any further into the horrors of ‘deep’ animes. Paranoia agent is pretty good but if someone pulls something called ’serial experiment lain’ out on you… run. just run
Isn’t the internet fantastic? It just bursts with so much free entertainment! I bet you $500 Spoony is laughing his ass off at this little flame war.
Morgan Webb is ugly mcmanjaw, you can keep it.
Lol you people are stupid.
And Morgan Webb is mine.
I really liked this film.
Hey, Mansquito has an AK to M4 conversion! Cool.
I’ve been into anime for around 6-7 years, I’m not entirely sure either. I’ve watched Akira at least 4 times. I have yet to understand what is the exact message this movie is trying to bring across.
And to all of the morons who insist this is the greatest animated movie of all time (or even ANY kind of movie) – It isn’t. It’s not even CLOSE to being the greatest animated movie. But it’s damn good with really sweet animation that I would prefer every day over the shit that Japan is churning out lately.
Normally I agree with you when it comes to reviews but I can’t agree when it comes to this, its a very easy to follow movie with awesome animation. Not the greatest movie, but satisfying as hell.
You are correct – Akira is a confusing, nonsensical, trippy, poorly-dubbed hodgepodge of a film.
It is also incredibly fun to watch. There’s no moral, but plenty of shit blows up and there’s lots of cool visuals. It’s like a cheesy ’80s flick combined with an incomprehensible highbrow art film. Gotta disagree with you on the bad-movie part – it’s a hell lot of entertainment.
Dear SerBrian, Jenx im sorry you where not able to follow Akira’s movie plot maybe when you get a little older you will be able to follow whats going on in Akira
I have to say that i found this movie rather boring. I mean there are lots of better anime films out there. Just look at the 3 Ghost in the shell movies or the studio ghibly ones.
The thing I hate about most anime shows is that they have the tendency to be a series of superficial pity parties vieled in a complex but meaningless moral message. Akira, for example, is the authority on what would happen if the average cranky teenager were suddenly and inexplicably gifted with the powers of a god for a day. Does that kid get a job working in the construction industry, building structures in mere split seconds at a fraction of the cost, endearing himself to society while putting thousands of people out of work? No! He blows up the military and fights with his dumbass friend! What a completely purile waste of unfettered cosmic power!
The thing is, the western world’s favorite anime series often have a lot to do with making stupid decisions and then regretting them. Gee, I guess the killer robots shouldn’t have been given a “Kill For” loop, I am a failure. Gee, I guess I shouldn’t have destroyed the facility full of people who could have helped me as my psycic powers reached critical mass. Darn it! Golly goodness, I guess that no matter how powerful I become there will always be someone or a group of someones more helpful than me, and really I’m not the frickin’ center of the universe. Also, trust in the heart of the cards because chess is like dueling.
Sometimes you have to ask yourself if you’re a bit of a wet blanket before you decide an entire genre is for you.
All anime blows chunks and Akira is no exception.
I… I have yet to see Blade Runner…
I know. Akira is mind-blowingly overrated, though. It is incoherent, poorly dubbed, and outdated to a point. I like anime, but this isn’t the masterpiece people convince themselves that it is.
I’m something of an anime fan and I could never get what was so great about Akira. For that matter, I could never understand why everyone loved Neon Genesis Evangelion so much other than the sheer mindfuckery of some of the scenes.
Though, I’ve gotta tell you, Spoony, you should check out some anime or manga. There’s a diverse enough mix of genres out there that you should be able to find something to your liking. But, if not, then that’s cool, too.
I do, however, have to take issue with your hating on Battlestar Galactica.
dear meshi im sorry you where unable to understand the philosophical story line in eva perhaps if you sat down with someone who doesn’t watch bleach or naruto and have them explain it scene by scene you might be able to understand it
@ the poopsmith, NGE is Space Runaway Ideon ripoff. So there goes your philosophical story line. And also, NGE makes no sense if you don’t read the manga. It’s a fact. The whole Gainax studio is pretty useless, except for the awesome movie Wings of Honneamise, IMO.
Spoony, you should check out some anime from 70’s and 80’s. Stuff like Gundam, Ideon, Harlock, Galaxy Express 999 etc. etc. if you like sci-fi (and I know you do).
NGE is not deep. It has no “philosophical storyline”. Just because the author couldn’t come up with anything and opted instead to throw in religious iconography and stuff even he didn’t understand doesn’t mean it’s “really deep”. Any philosophical statements and references to society or whatever is supposed to be there is entirely made by the fans themselves.
dear assiman and gentleman im sorry you where both unable to understand the jungian imagery or terms eva displayed then again saying shows like gundamn or harlock are worth a watch is like asking some one to eat shit and die., Since gundam is about little boys with a small penis complex, and harlock is a show about throwing up every morning so he can fit into his so called captain suit. WAit WAIT WAIT why don’t you ask noah to watch robotech its pretty much the same thing as any anime brought out in the 70’s and 80’s.
TLDR
just go back to your naruto its nice and safe nothing happens and your both use to it
Wow. Just… wow. I’ve seen less incoherent rage on political forums during the height of election season. Valium, people. Valium.
I first saw Akira roughly ten years ago and it didn’t make a damn bit of sense. When I saw it, I was watching with a friend who was obsessed with it, and she patiently spent an hour afterward trying to explain everything to me. It still didn’t make a damn bit of sense. Even she admitted that it needed to be watched several times to fully understand. Frankly, I have better things to do with my time than watch it over and over. Besides, I’d rather spend time delving into more interesting and “deep” anime movies, like Key the Metal Idol.
As for the connection to Blade Runner, that’s just marketing. I wager Spoony’s dislike has nothing to do with being “butthurt” (when did I walk into 4chan, anyway?) over the comparison, it’s the fact that the comparison is intellectually dishonest. It’s like saying “The Notebook makes Terms of Endearment look like a pork chop.” Why even compare the two? Why make such a ridiculous comparison? Simple: to make people like Spoony spend time and/or money watching the movie.
Wow.. holy crap at this review it’s pretty damn obvious after all these years that Blade Runner is one of the most overrated movies of all time (Anyone who says only Akira is overrated is hypocrite plain and simple) LOL at Spoony throwing a **** fit about the visuals seriously they are TWO completely different movies and have TWO completely distinct visual styles (What is says about Blade Runner being like disneyland compared to it is only the American tag line since it is something completely different and stands on it’s own without trying to live up to such an overhyped and overrated movie) And neither of them has a better style than the other.
And it’s painfully obvious that to enjoy an anime like this you need to have an incredibly open mind (Which most reviewers and critics lack entirely) so maybe it’s a bad idea for Spoony to review something that he obviously isn’t ready for and something that obviously isn’t his style.
“Ridley Scott holds Akira down and slaps the stupid out of him.”
If you have actually watched the movie then it’s pretty damn obvious that Akira would just wipe that overrated Ridley from existence altogether -_-
Of course if it was Akira vs Spoony it would be
Akira: You’re standing in my spot sir! *Spoony no longer exists
Good lord what an abomination of a review of such a masterpiece (I guess his review is more like a fanboy rant though ¬_¬)
Wow…. after reading this I try to see hings from Spoony’s point of view but there is just one problem…
I CAN’T JAM MY HEAD THAT FAR UP MY ASS!!!
And so Spoony’s review comment section was taken over by the anime fans.
Have to agree with some of the points in the review, though i’ve always found the graphical styles of manga and anime sort of to my liking. Was thinking about watching this movie to get more into the anime scene, and since it’s so highly prized by the anime community… but i’m getting second thoughts now.
And don’t get me wrong, i’m neither an anime-hater, nor an anime-fan. I just like the pictures =)
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