I had to watch the movie two times and read its wikipedia definition to actually get it..... still I loved the movie all the way trough (sorry if I spelled somthing wrong.. I tlk mostly spanish hehe)
WOAH WOAH WOAH!! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THE FUCKING MANGA IS? THEY CAN'T PUT 19 VOLUMES IN A 2 HOUR FILM. YOU WANT AND EXPLANATION READ FUCKING MANGA, KID!!!
@Vyz3r *sigh* ok they do explain this. just like the ending where tatsuo mutates akira did the same fucking thing his powers went out of countroll and he destroyed TOKYO . So i stay right besides my statement. it just proves how stupid this guy is at putting the story together.
@Vyz3r And the film isn't suppose to tell you all the shit that happened it's called a marketing plan. The film releases but just to know the full story YOU HAVE TO BUY AND READ THE MANGA. AND EVEN IF IT WAS NOT MARKETING THE FILM CAN'T PUT ALL THE DETAILS IN THE MOVIE IT WOULD BE TO GOD DAMN LONG. FUCK THIS GUY AND HIS ART OF REVIEWING
some of you guys didn't understand the story and that's why you think it's bad. Watch the movie at least 3 times with the original english dub from 1988 and you'll see it's much deeper than you think.
Everybody has the right towards an opinion, and some people prefer SCI-FI movies to explain things a lot more. He has a legit point, but I adore this movie, even the story. I haven't read the manga either so I'm biased towards only what the movie presents to me. I think that the story was left to interpretation, not to spew it in your face (even though, again, sci-fi kinda requires that). But I let that slide because Akira had a warm feeling to me and I fit right in. I'd watch it again and again
@grayfox12817 Its pronounced whatever the hell you want it to be. Just like tomato, toMATO, or caramel and CARamel. Each saying gets the same message across and I have heard both pronunciations of it spoken so either would be acceptable.
I guess its just one of those films that really needs you to be with the series, like watching a random bleach movie or something after never watching bleach XD The funny thing is, the film was made before the manga was finished. Good review, even though akira is one of my favorite films.
there's no problem. it's called exposition - information that gives what's happening in the story context for the sake of the audience. why mention ww3? let's THINK: japan was devastated after ww2-destroyed cities, rampant crime and violence, poverty etc similar to what we see in the film. and akira is a metaphor for nuclear power for war(uncontrollable and dangerous). that's all we NEED to know and i hope you can see how these things are connected and give meaning to what's going on in the film
@kitchen867 Just who are you to tell ME what I NEED to know about a movie? You could have easily started us off with Japan being wrecked & not used the war exposition, what good is a war exposition if you don't explain why we had a war in the first place? It's just another story element they failed to flesh out. Akira talks more about psychic powers than nuclear power, I interpreted this movie differently so saying it IS your metaphor is presumptuous since art is always interpreted differently.
@BionicSlime is it really that big of a stretch for you to imagine that a major catastrophe could be responsible for starting a war? it makes sense that post-war tokyo could be this way. it's relatable to at least a japanese audience(read my last post). who cares that it's not explicitly stated why? that's not the reason it's mentioned. this is my problem with your review:it's nitpicky. the exposition's meant to flesh out the world of neo-tokyo; you don't need to know every detail. you interpret
@BionicSlime You're right. WWIII was a direct consequence of Akira going out of control which is the explosion that destroyed Tokio originally. Never is the film does any of this get linked together. And it should have been linked together or else not been included because it just occupies your mind with things that are impossible to comprehend. But don't get angry with people. It's not good for your cred.
@BionicSlime he's right, theres a bit more thought put into it before you just say that the story is weird, or that images are just put there for shock factor or something or other, everything is quite relevant, you should watch the movie again.
I really like this film (I'd probably give it a 4.5/5) and I think you have a lot of strong points. I don't think the character art is lazy or anything, the characters are well drawn and obvious effort was put into it. But yes, Tetsuo looks like he has Down's Syndrome because of his giant-ass forehead. I read the original 2000+ page epic manga, and I still agree that the movie threw in some really just fucked-up shit that made no sense for no reason. There were no scenes of Tetsuo tripping lik
I have to be honest, I remember watching this film many times when I was younger, and I remember loving it (quite a bit); however, I haven't seen Akira in a while, and I think I might give it another viewing. You bring a lot of great points, and I respect you and your points, like how the anime should stand on its own, and not rely on the manga. People have told me in some of my reviews, like Gantz and Elfen Lied, that the manga is better...but yeah, we review ANIME. Still, nice job!
honestly, you make the plot sound unintelligible when it's not. the main characters are well developed and their motivations are clear throughout the film. there's some political and philosophical mumbo jumbo, but it's all secondary to a thematically rich story that's actually pretty easy to follow. and who cares why the giant psychically constructed stuffed bear with the lizard arm bleeds milk? use your imagination!
@kitchen867 I never doubt the characters motivations or the characters themselves, I doubted the logic and reasons behind this film's so called message. It's not a matter of having imaginations, it's a matter of the film thinking if we flash enough cool looking crap to the audience, that means this movie is sophisticated. Not everything in movies needs to be explained but it sure as Hell couldn't have hurt this movie.
@BionicSlime if the film were to go out of its way to explicitly explain details in words that are implied visually, it would have slowed everything down to a crawl. the movie doesn't hold the audience's hand, but it's not like it's overly difficult to connect the dots. Akira is sophisticated because it is able to tell this story about a complex relationship between two friends in an affecting way-saying the movie's trying to trick people with its visuals is a cheap shot
@kitchen867 Who says anything about going out of its way, I'm talking about them actually making an effort which they DIDN'T. They don't explain anything about why these guys go to school, why this stuff happens in these dream sequences, how it has ANY bearing on the point of the story or how we are supposed to understand their reality when the movie does a shitty job explaining it. Plenty of movies can and have told goodstories about relationships without pointless, nonsensical goofy shit.
@BionicSlime kids go to school, you know? maybe they have nothing better to do during the day or maybe it's more trouble than it's worth to skip, who knows. it's a relatable social space-a nice bit to help the audience understand how this future society has devolved (school's important in Japan). I LOVE the dream sequences-they add a lot of depth to tetsuo and kaneda's relationship. did you only watch this movie once before reviewing it? you seem to have missed a lot (imo, not the movie's fault
@kitchen867 Maybe, maybe, maybe, that;s the problem right there, we don't know because it doesn't EXPLAIN it. I've seen this movie multiple times and last I checked, the movie missed explaining a lot, like with Akira himself, the pointless mention of another world war in the beginning (which was my fav. part btw considering all we learned about that war was just there was a war and we saw a mushroom cloud in the beginning).
I admit the film had so much quantity including great animation, and of all animes out there this one actually has lip syncing. sountrack was phenomenal, and voice acting was decent enough to receive praise as well. but I thought the ending was hastily written with too much unexplained vague elements. This is the same with end of evangelion when gainax is obviously a trolling company.
@necronomicon009 This is called ANIME reviews NOT manga reviews, I don't read manga and even if i did, why would I bother reading the manga format of a movie I wasn't too crazy about to begin with?
@BionicSlime uh, to fill in the holes you had with the plot. I think maybe you recognize that not all material is meant to stand alone, and not all the themes in films of this nature are supposed to make a hole lot of sense, it's just visual candy, it looks cool! don't get to rapped up in these kind of things man, you think that akira leaves you unanswered questions, you should look at some Picasso's, Salvador dali's work, or Cobains music. sometimes it just doesn't matter if it makes sense :)
@BionicSlime Akira is a great manga itself. The problem with this film is that it tries taking six books worth of content and putting it into one two hour feature. There's a lot of sub-plots and character development that they cut out because of the time constraints. Hell, they don't even get the manga's ending because the manga wasn't finished until TWO YEARS after this film came out!. The film doesn't get an excuse for a badly written plot but sure needs consideration for why it wasn't better.
you had good points in this review, i really enjoyed the movie, but again, i tought they would explain why some things happen, as a fan of animation, this is The Thief and the Cobbler of Anime. i really like the animation, and at times, it looks like they rotoscoped like in Lord of the Rings, but no, just gorgeus.
I'm gonna sum up those who hit the dislike button in a nutshell:
"Durr! How dare you disagree wit me! As a reviewer, it is ur jerb tu agree wit everyting I tink! Durr!"
God, people, grow up. If you can't attempt to understand his reasons for not calling this the best anime movie evar, then don't even bother giving feedback of any kind.
@slashermaster28 WOW your pretentious! if someone dislikes this its probably because of the fact that HE SPOILS THE ENTIRE FILM!!! DO NOT WATCH IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS! but yeah if your saying that there opinion is different than the reviews and therefore they dislike it, you may be right. or maybe they just don't like this review! THAT'S THERE OPINION AND THERE ENTITLED TO IT! JEEZ!!
@link1stheman Oh please, nothing I showed in my review spoiled anything that everyone hasn't already seen before. This movie has been parodied dozens of times and its pretty famous so I doubt anything I showed or said hasn't already been shown or said before. lay off man.
@BionicSlime its nothing against you its just usually, for me anyways, I watch a review for a movie before the movie itself and this was one of the first I found. keep in mid this movie I did not want to watch any reviews for so I had just finished watching it before watching you review. that being said I feel like a lot of the movie has been spoiled had I watched the review first... that's all I mean and you opinion is your own and I mean no disrespect, sorry if I was rude.
@link1stheman You were better about it this time, let's put it that way. But you have to understand, reviewing a movie means that's all I got to work with, the movie. I can only show so much of it during my review that I am eventually going to probably show something that might be spoilerish. I try not to show anything spoiler like but I thought I kept it pretty clean here, at least the best I could and again, this movie's been round for a long time so everyone's at least seen something from it.
@BionicSlime I totally agree but I just was a little disappointed to not only see someone unhappy with a film I recently found and fell in love with as well as the minor spoilers you discussed. see for me going into the movie I had only seen the poster and had no expectations so when it got into the more "sci fi" elements I loved it. A good change of pace I thought? but yeah thats just my opinion and the ending was a little too quick and forgot to wrap up a few plot lines, but I still love it!
As you said you were confused what was going on with a lot of skipping between the characters I believe is because of the original manga series. Akira is kind of supposed to represent the apocalypse. He doesn't get much explaining other than abstractions but he is heavily linked with the apocalypse and acts kind of like a pseudonym. There are a lot of ongoing abstract concept that works great the way they are and I think you should not everything has to be explained.
The WW3 doesn't need to be explained, Japan and other countries thought it was some kind of attack so they went to war. That's in the manga but not the film because it doesn't need to be. Also, isn't it shown that Akira was also part of the military program along with the other kids when you see them training near the end. The teddy bear and stuff is all a manifestation of the 3 kids' psychic powers and Tetsuo transforms because his power, which he can't control, and it's changing his body.
@superanimelovermania Furthermore, you haven't mentioned that the manga wasn't finished when this was brought out. It was barely over half way done so of course this isn't as conclusive as you'd like it to be since Katsuhiro Otomo didn't even know what the ending was going to be himself. The plot does make more sense in the manga but only because they had to edit out loads of the story for it to fit into the 2 hours and the writer didn't know how it was all going to end. Clear now?
@superanimelovermania Did you at all consider the reason I didn't mention the fact the manga wasn't finished was because I DON'T READ MANGA? I have not now, nor have I ever, read manga and since my reviews are on the anime and not the manga, it would be pointless for me to mention anything about the manga since my reviews are on the anime as they stand alone: don't bother mentioning the manga because it will NEVER have ANYTHING to do with my reviews. I review anime, not manga, period.
@BionicSlime Of course I considered that. I thought that was the most likely reason. I just thought that it was a bit of information that should be shared with the people who are watching this review. I think it's great that you're reviewing anime as it stands alone, for a lot of things the anime and manga are so different they really have to be reviewed seperately. Just remember that if the anime is an adaptation of a manga then they will always be tied together, the same as any adaptation.
@BionicSlime But that's like reviewing FF7 advent children without having at least a rudimentary knowledge of the game plot. Akira's direction is plainly predicated on the fact it was, and is, one of the most popular comics in japan. The kids watching it already knew the nuances to Tetsuo and Kaneda's characters, so the film didn't have to rhapsodize on them. It's not like Lupin the Third where you can completely forgo the manga because the dynamics in every anime are akin to any Bond movie.
@IggyTthunders I know. What I mean is that he hadn't thought of the ending to the series before this so he had to create an ending based on what was shown in the film which isn't as much as had been shown in the manga, so it had to be different. Also, Katsuhiro Otomo scripted the whole film so he made the ending based on what would be shown in the film and made an ending to fit with it. It's functional but it's a bit vague and nowhere near as good as the manga's ending.
I think this was a fair review, and it did take me a long time to understand the story, but it was over all a good movie I think. But I did have a lot of personal issues. (spoiler) like how kaori died in the end.
Hi there, I just finished watching this for the 1st time, cuz I saw some clips of it when I was watching AMV Hell. I was totally mind raped. Basically, I loved & was inspired by the animation, but the story was whack. The makers of this movie was probably on some serious hallucinogenic crap.
I thought watching a review would clear things up, but there's only boring ones, until I watched this video. But not even you understood this movie. Still, thanks a lot man. You did it with enthusiasm.
this revie was bs, you dont care about my point of view but 2.5/5 is to freakin harsh, this movie deserves way more than that, not a 5/5 but something like 4/5
@kingboobs20 No, the moral is just because you put a lot of stupid psychedelic weird visual crap doesn't make your film any more intelligent or more like "art".
@kingboobs20 The Hell it did. Where was the clear explanation when the giant ass monster teddy bear, toy car, and baby doll started spurting milk out of their bodies?
@BionicSlime it's a film of interpretations for people with minds to have different perspectives on the imagery. you are used to generic ways of film making where the characters constantly explain shit. you probably hate 2001: a space odyssey then. fuck you there is art and there is film this is not a film. this is art the foreheads even are metaphors of hidden psionic awareness.
@LoKimLinProject Oh grow up, that's a cop out answer. If you call this a film interpretative then I can interpret it as a pile of acid enduced mental crap that was made for LSD shits & giggles. You make baseless assumptions movies I watch because I didn't praise this film like everyone else. This is a MOVIE, its got a script a plot etc, its no more art then any other movie. Like you said, its open to interpretation, & the foreheads look visually unappealing regardless if they have purpose.
Yeah I can understand how the movie was bad, that's the issue with book to movie. Alot is changed, but the manga is amazing... It covers alot more than the movie. But maybe you should review the manga and give your opninon on that and compare & contrast it with the movie
How does changing things make something bad? When you DON'T change things when jumping from one medium to another that is almost always a bad thing because many things don't work as well in a movie, because they are very different mediums. A movie that tried to cover the whole manga would have been impossible.
The manga and anime were made by the same person, it's not like it was made by somebody who didnt understand the work ffs.
The story wasn't meant to be spoon fed, especially when the author went to the effort of creating multiple story lines and connecting them in one single film while having good character development.
.............dub? u missed out......................wait did u really just put akira and bleach in the same sentence?...............................no just no bs reviews true to your name lol you ask to many questions you dont even deserve to review this dude way to above your head
@devil12993 Oh yeah, ha ha, BS reviews true to my name...yeah never heard that one before. I ask too many questions? Sorry, but I'm not gonna just blindly treat this anime like gold because everyone else does and turn my brain off and not ask questions. I can review whatever I want to review, besides genius I was requested to review this. Don't like it? Take it up with who requested it or just don't watch my reviews.
Wait, you didn't get that Akira destroyed the city? The milk was there b/c the kids are scared of blood (remember when Tetsuo stepped on the glass cup?). That dude with the afro is the leader of some cult that thinks Akira is a god. The fights in the street were the result of a lock down by the military after protests. If you haven't noticed, Neo-Tokyo looks horrible so the economy is probably garbage. You don't need to read the manga to get a lot of the answers and not all movies give you them.
@Tenryo How does the fact they don't like the sight of blood explain why milk appeared at all? If they didn't like blood then why have liquid come out at all, WHY was there liquid in the first place if it was a giant stuffed teddy bear? All the movie showed was a city blown up, we got bits of pieces of info about Akira but nothing was ever concrete. I can see the city is in shambles but WHY, just because a movie fails to give you answers doesn't mean we can't point out such an obvious mistake.
@ultimabladerxx I said IF I had done that meaning I never read it to begin with. I don't read manga and besides this was a request for the movie. If the movie leaves stuff out then the movie is at fault, whether or not that missing info. is covered in the manga is irrelevant because I am not reviewing the MANGA I am reviewing the MOVIE.
@BionicSlime I agree with you fully on your review of this movie. For me all the visuals and animation itself in this film are jaw dropping. The story however is completely loose and gives no real solid ground as to what is going on. I still enjoy the film and I just saw it again yesterday after 8 years. Apparently a live action movie is on the way.
This movie has a great story. It is a timeless classic. There are definently animes out there that are much more at fault that this for trying to be "cool" or "sophisticated".
@seangames111 Improvised mostly. It's a pain in the ass because I have to do a lot of retakes and editing to get it right. I tried scripting it once but I end up talking too fast past the words I wrote so I stopped doing that. All of my reviews are improvised, there's just more editing work going into them then people realize.
Akira is an experimental work which intentionally ignores the plot and its quality. The most remarkable point about Akira is how Katsuhiro Otomo tried to accomplish his own handwritten dynamism in animation format. Actually Akira is visually better than most of any other 80's anime/cartoon but not a kind of timeless masterpiece.
@yakkun31music It can be visually mesmerizing all it wants, a movie or anime is more then its animation style and without a cohesive plot, this movie really didn't wow me and no matter how impressive the art style was, I don't feel that's enough to make this film out to be the godfather of anime films peoples say it is.
Definitely. And I really don't criticize Otomo,himself. Comic series has far stronger and more persuasive plot than this film version. He can write the better plot such as Rojin Z,Memories etc. But Akira is sometimes overvalued like you said before. I personally recognize that the best 80's Japanese anime film is not Akira but Nausicca or Grave of the Fireflies or Macross: Do You Remember Love?.
could you do a video on what makes a good film? (because I really don't know. it has to be something really horrible like Dragonball Evolution in order for me to say it's a bad film.)
@toasega I suppose I could but do you mean an anime film or a RL movie because they are quite different in terms of what makes a movie good and what makes a movie bad. I may have to make a video like that.
@Shikunisai Just because you disagree with my opinions or my review ratings does not make what I say bullshit. I'm honest with all of my opinions on things and I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me but again, that doesn't make what I say bullshit.
i think in my opinion the directer just wanted to race to the end or the climax while i would say the artwork was very good i would also have to give it a negative review in terms of storyline you almost forget what the true storylines about
I wholeheartedly agree with you about this movie. It has been years since I last saw Akira, so I was thinking that maybe I was too young to really appreciate it. But after watching your review... and noticing how completely on the mark your opinions are with mine, I don't think my opinion of the movie would change if "older me" decided to give Akira another chance.
The problem is they tried to cram an epic Manga into an hour and a half, you can't do it. No matter how wondrous the animation is, no matter how good the voice acting/dub is-
You can tell a good story, without telling the story itself.
People don't get Akira because they got into anime from Dragonball or whatever else, saw all the stuff since - it's like saying Batman is a bad movie because you got into comic book movies from The Dark Knight. I find most anime people who didn't like Akira tend to be Dragonball (ugh) fans or people who didn't watch it until they'd already seen all the stuff which has come since - like watching Halloween after every other horror movie since and saying it didn't scare you...
@DistantJ Uhh....for the record I AM a Dragon Ball fan and that has nothing to do with it. I didn't grow up with this anime but it was one of the first anime i was exposed to just not THE VERY FIRST one. Just because someone doesn't get it doesn't mean they're too stupid or over exposed to anime, its possible the movie ISN'T that great as everyone says it is.
Just because I don't like this film doesn't mean my anime tastes are tainted, I didn't like it because I DID NOT LIKE the movie ITSELF.
@BionicSlime Lol, I'm just winding ya up, bro, I think you're awesome. I wasn't talking about you in particular. I do think, like for example, the thing about the character design - they all have big foreheads, look like clones of each other with different hair/gender, surely that should be in DB reviews too.
I did think some questions towards the end were a little irrelevant though, like asking "why is Michael Myers a killer" or "why is Gandalf grey and Saruman white?" They're just set-up.
@DistantJ Except Halloween wasn't presented was some sort of holier than thou anime film. There comes a point where "leave it to mystery" gets old and speculation gets annoying. Certain things just don't make sense and it makes you ask "why am I looking at that?" or "why is it in there?" Directors have a reason for putting everything in their works and weird stuff garners confusion, attention, and of course, curiosity.
dude this is your best review yet, i haven't seen it in years and when i first watched it i disliked it, i heard this film is god, its as good as they say yadda yadda but yeah you pretty much pointed out everything that i thought was wrong with the movie.
and yeah i hate when people say "its explained in the manga" because hows that ment to help the film
Ouch! 2.5 out of 5? Well, you do have a few good points about the anime. But one thing that I didn't like about Akira is the pioneer dub. Even though the pioneer dub was very close to the Japanese dub script, I didn't feel that the voice actors were passionate enough in playing their characters.
@whoisyouranime I love the movie's music and visuals but in all honesty, the movie didn't click with me and cool gore and awesome visuals are not enough to make a movie a hit with me. I thought these actors had quite a bit of passion, specially Tetsuo and Kaneda but its just me. I know alot of people will disagree with me on this rating but I honestly never felt this film was that incredible and I'm not gonna lie about it because its popular.
Nice review, this is the first video you made in a while I didn't skip around watching.
unfortunately I ended up finding out the story isn't finished in the movie before seeing the movie, and just seeing alot of parodies. so I just laughed at this film the entire time i could pay attention which since it was all over the place was hard not to just take scene by scene for me.
and seems you watched the new dub. did you get to see the other cause I didn't wanna bother with the version you saw.
@BionicSlime you know when you get bored of a video so you jump a minute or two to see a different topic or a wrap up. I do that alot when I rewatch Psych and Monk episodes online now and then.
@BionicSlime The older dub has some better lines - they're less literally translated and more organic/human, and a few clever one-liners etc., but the actual acting and emoting in the new one is leaps and bound ahead of the old dub. The old one has a certain nostalgia to it though, for people who watched it back in the day, for example as great as Johnny Yong Bosch is, a lot of us took some getting used to him after being used to Kaneda's 'Ninja Turtles' voice etc.
I always thought the story was extremely simple... I felt the list of questions you had about the story where all answered in the movie. score i think is, very low. But i guess your aloud to have an opinion of your own.
@SetTheWorldAblaze They never explained anything enough properly, at the least we got glimpses of answers but again, most people I felt have favored this movie for its wacked out visuals and not so much on story integrity which is what I felt this movie lacked.
@BionicSlime I don't think everything needs explaining though... The sense of mystery is a plus in a lot of movies, including this one for me. I purposely never read the manga because I like a movie which makes you ask questions even after it's over, and watching it over and over again reveals more etc. Like how recently Inception was so popular, etc.
@DistantJ What "mystery" was there with milk coming out of a giant teddy bear? There's a difference between having mystery and just throwing in weird stuff to look/sound cool and artistic. Story elements left with enigmatic surroundings promote deeper thought and critical thinking, most of the stuff I mentioned didn't look like it had a point other than "its weird and cool."
For example, I mean why bother mentioning WW3? you could have just started in Neo Tokyo, what did that accomplish?
Ahh... My long-awaited review. A bit low, but hey- it's fair. I would've been disappointed if you had no complaints, because I had a lot. It turns out, that the movie was only a fraction of how long the manga is...
did u like the streamline version? i thought the voice acting was better lol just my opinion
timothypike1991 3 weeks ago
I had to watch the movie two times and read its wikipedia definition to actually get it..... still I loved the movie all the way trough (sorry if I spelled somthing wrong.. I tlk mostly spanish hehe)
emilixa15 1 month ago
nice review man, funny as hell!
BEyondDaGamer 1 month ago
Even though the story was confusing, I can't stop rewatching it.
weirdy8 1 month ago
WOAH WOAH WOAH!! DO YOU KNOW HOW LONG THE FUCKING MANGA IS? THEY CAN'T PUT 19 VOLUMES IN A 2 HOUR FILM. YOU WANT AND EXPLANATION READ FUCKING MANGA, KID!!!
saltireBLACKOPS 1 month ago
@saltireBLACKOPS Watch the review again! He made a good point in: 10:00
Vyz3r 1 month ago
@Vyz3r *sigh* ok they do explain this. just like the ending where tatsuo mutates akira did the same fucking thing his powers went out of countroll and he destroyed TOKYO . So i stay right besides my statement. it just proves how stupid this guy is at putting the story together.
saltireBLACKOPS 1 month ago
@Vyz3r And the film isn't suppose to tell you all the shit that happened it's called a marketing plan. The film releases but just to know the full story YOU HAVE TO BUY AND READ THE MANGA. AND EVEN IF IT WAS NOT MARKETING THE FILM CAN'T PUT ALL THE DETAILS IN THE MOVIE IT WOULD BE TO GOD DAMN LONG. FUCK THIS GUY AND HIS ART OF REVIEWING
saltireBLACKOPS 1 month ago
OH man read the mange kid. It will explain more of it.
saltireBLACKOPS 1 month ago
some of you guys didn't understand the story and that's why you think it's bad. Watch the movie at least 3 times with the original english dub from 1988 and you'll see it's much deeper than you think.
OldSchoolFPSPCGamer 1 month ago
Everybody has the right towards an opinion, and some people prefer SCI-FI movies to explain things a lot more. He has a legit point, but I adore this movie, even the story. I haven't read the manga either so I'm biased towards only what the movie presents to me. I think that the story was left to interpretation, not to spew it in your face (even though, again, sci-fi kinda requires that). But I let that slide because Akira had a warm feeling to me and I fit right in. I'd watch it again and again
TheBeefyWizard35 1 month ago
Ive allways called it AKIRA not AHKIRA. every time i hear AHKIRA I kinda want to slap him..
Is it pronounced Akira or Ahkira??
grayfox12817 2 months ago
@grayfox12817 Its pronounced whatever the hell you want it to be. Just like tomato, toMATO, or caramel and CARamel. Each saying gets the same message across and I have heard both pronunciations of it spoken so either would be acceptable.
BionicSlime 2 months ago
@grayfox12817 correct pronunciation is ah-kira
ntvee89 1 month ago
@grayfox12817 I pronounce it AKIRDA with a soft D.
gamegloss 2 days ago
your right kei dose kinda dose look like a kaneada with expression of a vigina
brawler250C 2 months ago
I guess its just one of those films that really needs you to be with the series, like watching a random bleach movie or something after never watching bleach XD The funny thing is, the film was made before the manga was finished. Good review, even though akira is one of my favorite films.
pixiri21 3 months ago
there's no problem. it's called exposition - information that gives what's happening in the story context for the sake of the audience. why mention ww3? let's THINK: japan was devastated after ww2-destroyed cities, rampant crime and violence, poverty etc similar to what we see in the film. and akira is a metaphor for nuclear power for war(uncontrollable and dangerous). that's all we NEED to know and i hope you can see how these things are connected and give meaning to what's going on in the film
kitchen867 3 months ago
@kitchen867 Just who are you to tell ME what I NEED to know about a movie? You could have easily started us off with Japan being wrecked & not used the war exposition, what good is a war exposition if you don't explain why we had a war in the first place? It's just another story element they failed to flesh out. Akira talks more about psychic powers than nuclear power, I interpreted this movie differently so saying it IS your metaphor is presumptuous since art is always interpreted differently.
BionicSlime 3 months ago
@BionicSlime is it really that big of a stretch for you to imagine that a major catastrophe could be responsible for starting a war? it makes sense that post-war tokyo could be this way. it's relatable to at least a japanese audience(read my last post). who cares that it's not explicitly stated why? that's not the reason it's mentioned. this is my problem with your review:it's nitpicky. the exposition's meant to flesh out the world of neo-tokyo; you don't need to know every detail. you interpret
kitchen867 3 months ago
@BionicSlime You're right. WWIII was a direct consequence of Akira going out of control which is the explosion that destroyed Tokio originally. Never is the film does any of this get linked together. And it should have been linked together or else not been included because it just occupies your mind with things that are impossible to comprehend. But don't get angry with people. It's not good for your cred.
RevolutionaryLoser 1 month ago
@BionicSlime he's right, theres a bit more thought put into it before you just say that the story is weird, or that images are just put there for shock factor or something or other, everything is quite relevant, you should watch the movie again.
ntvee89 1 month ago
Stop telling him to read the manga. This is a review of the movie, not the manga damnit.
WafflesMgee 3 months ago 2
@WafflesMgee THANK YOU!!!
BionicSlime 3 months ago 4
I really like this film (I'd probably give it a 4.5/5) and I think you have a lot of strong points. I don't think the character art is lazy or anything, the characters are well drawn and obvious effort was put into it. But yes, Tetsuo looks like he has Down's Syndrome because of his giant-ass forehead. I read the original 2000+ page epic manga, and I still agree that the movie threw in some really just fucked-up shit that made no sense for no reason. There were no scenes of Tetsuo tripping lik
StickMotionVids 3 months ago
total and hard true
MRXZEROWILSONX 3 months ago
I have to be honest, I remember watching this film many times when I was younger, and I remember loving it (quite a bit); however, I haven't seen Akira in a while, and I think I might give it another viewing. You bring a lot of great points, and I respect you and your points, like how the anime should stand on its own, and not rely on the manga. People have told me in some of my reviews, like Gantz and Elfen Lied, that the manga is better...but yeah, we review ANIME. Still, nice job!
TheLavaBuster 4 months ago
honestly, you make the plot sound unintelligible when it's not. the main characters are well developed and their motivations are clear throughout the film. there's some political and philosophical mumbo jumbo, but it's all secondary to a thematically rich story that's actually pretty easy to follow. and who cares why the giant psychically constructed stuffed bear with the lizard arm bleeds milk? use your imagination!
kitchen867 4 months ago
@kitchen867 I never doubt the characters motivations or the characters themselves, I doubted the logic and reasons behind this film's so called message. It's not a matter of having imaginations, it's a matter of the film thinking if we flash enough cool looking crap to the audience, that means this movie is sophisticated. Not everything in movies needs to be explained but it sure as Hell couldn't have hurt this movie.
BionicSlime 4 months ago
@BionicSlime if the film were to go out of its way to explicitly explain details in words that are implied visually, it would have slowed everything down to a crawl. the movie doesn't hold the audience's hand, but it's not like it's overly difficult to connect the dots. Akira is sophisticated because it is able to tell this story about a complex relationship between two friends in an affecting way-saying the movie's trying to trick people with its visuals is a cheap shot
kitchen867 4 months ago
@kitchen867 Who says anything about going out of its way, I'm talking about them actually making an effort which they DIDN'T. They don't explain anything about why these guys go to school, why this stuff happens in these dream sequences, how it has ANY bearing on the point of the story or how we are supposed to understand their reality when the movie does a shitty job explaining it. Plenty of movies can and have told goodstories about relationships without pointless, nonsensical goofy shit.
BionicSlime 4 months ago
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kitchen867 4 months ago
@BionicSlime kids go to school, you know? maybe they have nothing better to do during the day or maybe it's more trouble than it's worth to skip, who knows. it's a relatable social space-a nice bit to help the audience understand how this future society has devolved (school's important in Japan). I LOVE the dream sequences-they add a lot of depth to tetsuo and kaneda's relationship. did you only watch this movie once before reviewing it? you seem to have missed a lot (imo, not the movie's fault
kitchen867 4 months ago
@kitchen867 Maybe, maybe, maybe, that;s the problem right there, we don't know because it doesn't EXPLAIN it. I've seen this movie multiple times and last I checked, the movie missed explaining a lot, like with Akira himself, the pointless mention of another world war in the beginning (which was my fav. part btw considering all we learned about that war was just there was a war and we saw a mushroom cloud in the beginning).
BionicSlime 3 months ago
I admit the film had so much quantity including great animation, and of all animes out there this one actually has lip syncing. sountrack was phenomenal, and voice acting was decent enough to receive praise as well. but I thought the ending was hastily written with too much unexplained vague elements. This is the same with end of evangelion when gainax is obviously a trolling company.
suruxcv 4 months ago
READ THE MANGA!
5/5 stars for Akira the greatest anime movie of all tiem! Aside from Ninja Scroll which also gets a 5/5 for me.
necronomicon009 5 months ago 2
@necronomicon009 This is called ANIME reviews NOT manga reviews, I don't read manga and even if i did, why would I bother reading the manga format of a movie I wasn't too crazy about to begin with?
BionicSlime 5 months ago
@BionicSlime Cause the original manga of this was fucking awesome and better.
marioskywalker64 5 months ago
@BionicSlime uh, to fill in the holes you had with the plot. I think maybe you recognize that not all material is meant to stand alone, and not all the themes in films of this nature are supposed to make a hole lot of sense, it's just visual candy, it looks cool! don't get to rapped up in these kind of things man, you think that akira leaves you unanswered questions, you should look at some Picasso's, Salvador dali's work, or Cobains music. sometimes it just doesn't matter if it makes sense :)
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@BionicSlime Akira is a great manga itself. The problem with this film is that it tries taking six books worth of content and putting it into one two hour feature. There's a lot of sub-plots and character development that they cut out because of the time constraints. Hell, they don't even get the manga's ending because the manga wasn't finished until TWO YEARS after this film came out!. The film doesn't get an excuse for a badly written plot but sure needs consideration for why it wasn't better.
my18yearoldaccount 4 months ago
you had good points in this review, i really enjoyed the movie, but again, i tought they would explain why some things happen, as a fan of animation, this is The Thief and the Cobbler of Anime. i really like the animation, and at times, it looks like they rotoscoped like in Lord of the Rings, but no, just gorgeus.
aquelescaraaaaaaaaaa 5 months ago
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slashermaster28 5 months ago
*Notices number of dislikes*
I'm gonna sum up those who hit the dislike button in a nutshell:
"Durr! How dare you disagree wit me! As a reviewer, it is ur jerb tu agree wit everyting I tink! Durr!"
God, people, grow up. If you can't attempt to understand his reasons for not calling this the best anime movie evar, then don't even bother giving feedback of any kind.
slashermaster28 5 months ago
@slashermaster28 WOW your pretentious! if someone dislikes this its probably because of the fact that HE SPOILS THE ENTIRE FILM!!! DO NOT WATCH IF YOU DON'T WANT SPOILERS! but yeah if your saying that there opinion is different than the reviews and therefore they dislike it, you may be right. or maybe they just don't like this review! THAT'S THERE OPINION AND THERE ENTITLED TO IT! JEEZ!!
link1stheman 5 months ago
@link1stheman Oh please, nothing I showed in my review spoiled anything that everyone hasn't already seen before. This movie has been parodied dozens of times and its pretty famous so I doubt anything I showed or said hasn't already been shown or said before. lay off man.
BionicSlime 5 months ago
@BionicSlime its nothing against you its just usually, for me anyways, I watch a review for a movie before the movie itself and this was one of the first I found. keep in mid this movie I did not want to watch any reviews for so I had just finished watching it before watching you review. that being said I feel like a lot of the movie has been spoiled had I watched the review first... that's all I mean and you opinion is your own and I mean no disrespect, sorry if I was rude.
link1stheman 5 months ago
@link1stheman You were better about it this time, let's put it that way. But you have to understand, reviewing a movie means that's all I got to work with, the movie. I can only show so much of it during my review that I am eventually going to probably show something that might be spoilerish. I try not to show anything spoiler like but I thought I kept it pretty clean here, at least the best I could and again, this movie's been round for a long time so everyone's at least seen something from it.
BionicSlime 5 months ago
@BionicSlime I totally agree but I just was a little disappointed to not only see someone unhappy with a film I recently found and fell in love with as well as the minor spoilers you discussed. see for me going into the movie I had only seen the poster and had no expectations so when it got into the more "sci fi" elements I loved it. A good change of pace I thought? but yeah thats just my opinion and the ending was a little too quick and forgot to wrap up a few plot lines, but I still love it!
link1stheman 5 months ago
And all the organizations are fighting each other. It's suppose to represent the chaos going on in the movie. Everybody is fighting everybody
lilpuppet1992 6 months ago
That''s the point. It's not linear plot line. It's a bunch of different stories having to do with each other.
lilpuppet1992 6 months ago
As you said you were confused what was going on with a lot of skipping between the characters I believe is because of the original manga series. Akira is kind of supposed to represent the apocalypse. He doesn't get much explaining other than abstractions but he is heavily linked with the apocalypse and acts kind of like a pseudonym. There are a lot of ongoing abstract concept that works great the way they are and I think you should not everything has to be explained.
Great review anyways.
pressove 6 months ago
Classic nerd voice.
bobx9000 6 months ago
The WW3 doesn't need to be explained, Japan and other countries thought it was some kind of attack so they went to war. That's in the manga but not the film because it doesn't need to be. Also, isn't it shown that Akira was also part of the military program along with the other kids when you see them training near the end. The teddy bear and stuff is all a manifestation of the 3 kids' psychic powers and Tetsuo transforms because his power, which he can't control, and it's changing his body.
superanimelovermania 6 months ago
@superanimelovermania Furthermore, you haven't mentioned that the manga wasn't finished when this was brought out. It was barely over half way done so of course this isn't as conclusive as you'd like it to be since Katsuhiro Otomo didn't even know what the ending was going to be himself. The plot does make more sense in the manga but only because they had to edit out loads of the story for it to fit into the 2 hours and the writer didn't know how it was all going to end. Clear now?
superanimelovermania 6 months ago
@superanimelovermania Did you at all consider the reason I didn't mention the fact the manga wasn't finished was because I DON'T READ MANGA? I have not now, nor have I ever, read manga and since my reviews are on the anime and not the manga, it would be pointless for me to mention anything about the manga since my reviews are on the anime as they stand alone: don't bother mentioning the manga because it will NEVER have ANYTHING to do with my reviews. I review anime, not manga, period.
BionicSlime 6 months ago
@BionicSlime Of course I considered that. I thought that was the most likely reason. I just thought that it was a bit of information that should be shared with the people who are watching this review. I think it's great that you're reviewing anime as it stands alone, for a lot of things the anime and manga are so different they really have to be reviewed seperately. Just remember that if the anime is an adaptation of a manga then they will always be tied together, the same as any adaptation.
superanimelovermania 6 months ago
@BionicSlime But that's like reviewing FF7 advent children without having at least a rudimentary knowledge of the game plot. Akira's direction is plainly predicated on the fact it was, and is, one of the most popular comics in japan. The kids watching it already knew the nuances to Tetsuo and Kaneda's characters, so the film didn't have to rhapsodize on them. It's not like Lupin the Third where you can completely forgo the manga because the dynamics in every anime are akin to any Bond movie.
IggyTthunders 6 months ago
@superanimelovermania Point of order, Katsuhiro himself stated that the ending to the movie is a functional alternative he wrote himself.
IggyTthunders 6 months ago
@IggyTthunders I know. What I mean is that he hadn't thought of the ending to the series before this so he had to create an ending based on what was shown in the film which isn't as much as had been shown in the manga, so it had to be different. Also, Katsuhiro Otomo scripted the whole film so he made the ending based on what would be shown in the film and made an ending to fit with it. It's functional but it's a bit vague and nowhere near as good as the manga's ending.
superanimelovermania 6 months ago
I think this was a fair review, and it did take me a long time to understand the story, but it was over all a good movie I think. But I did have a lot of personal issues. (spoiler) like how kaori died in the end.
RSSpeacemaker 7 months ago
Hi there, I just finished watching this for the 1st time, cuz I saw some clips of it when I was watching AMV Hell. I was totally mind raped. Basically, I loved & was inspired by the animation, but the story was whack. The makers of this movie was probably on some serious hallucinogenic crap.
I thought watching a review would clear things up, but there's only boring ones, until I watched this video. But not even you understood this movie. Still, thanks a lot man. You did it with enthusiasm.
TranAran 7 months ago
this revie was bs, you dont care about my point of view but 2.5/5 is to freakin harsh, this movie deserves way more than that, not a 5/5 but something like 4/5
TehLiquid 7 months ago
So the moral is, art should never ever be ambigous because thinking hurts.
kingboobs20 7 months ago
@kingboobs20 No, the moral is just because you put a lot of stupid psychedelic weird visual crap doesn't make your film any more intelligent or more like "art".
BionicSlime 7 months ago
@BionicSlime
Yet every "psychedelic" scene in the movie had a pretty clear explanation.
You're basically just bummed that this isn't your basic generic anime up it's own ass in pointless exposition.
kingboobs20 7 months ago
@kingboobs20 The Hell it did. Where was the clear explanation when the giant ass monster teddy bear, toy car, and baby doll started spurting milk out of their bodies?
BionicSlime 7 months ago
@BionicSlime
It was the children messing with him, the film isn't cryptic about that at all.
kingboobs20 7 months ago
@BionicSlime it's a film of interpretations for people with minds to have different perspectives on the imagery. you are used to generic ways of film making where the characters constantly explain shit. you probably hate 2001: a space odyssey then. fuck you there is art and there is film this is not a film. this is art the foreheads even are metaphors of hidden psionic awareness.
LoKimLinProject 7 months ago
@LoKimLinProject Oh grow up, that's a cop out answer. If you call this a film interpretative then I can interpret it as a pile of acid enduced mental crap that was made for LSD shits & giggles. You make baseless assumptions movies I watch because I didn't praise this film like everyone else. This is a MOVIE, its got a script a plot etc, its no more art then any other movie. Like you said, its open to interpretation, & the foreheads look visually unappealing regardless if they have purpose.
BionicSlime 7 months ago
Yeah I can understand how the movie was bad, that's the issue with book to movie. Alot is changed, but the manga is amazing... It covers alot more than the movie. But maybe you should review the manga and give your opninon on that and compare & contrast it with the movie
Tallgeese003 8 months ago
@Tallgeese003
How does changing things make something bad? When you DON'T change things when jumping from one medium to another that is almost always a bad thing because many things don't work as well in a movie, because they are very different mediums. A movie that tried to cover the whole manga would have been impossible.
The manga and anime were made by the same person, it's not like it was made by somebody who didnt understand the work ffs.
kingboobs20 7 months ago
You had a hard time with the plot? I felt it flowed and made sense rather well. Beyond that, good review, dude.
Gordikramer 8 months ago
It's my favourite film. I love it.
AlienRodeo 8 months ago
The story wasn't meant to be spoon fed, especially when the author went to the effort of creating multiple story lines and connecting them in one single film while having good character development.
ragnarocks0 9 months ago
.............dub? u missed out......................wait did u really just put akira and bleach in the same sentence?...............................no just no bs reviews true to your name lol you ask to many questions you dont even deserve to review this dude way to above your head
devil12993 9 months ago
@devil12993 Oh yeah, ha ha, BS reviews true to my name...yeah never heard that one before. I ask too many questions? Sorry, but I'm not gonna just blindly treat this anime like gold because everyone else does and turn my brain off and not ask questions. I can review whatever I want to review, besides genius I was requested to review this. Don't like it? Take it up with who requested it or just don't watch my reviews.
BionicSlime 9 months ago
Wait, you didn't get that Akira destroyed the city? The milk was there b/c the kids are scared of blood (remember when Tetsuo stepped on the glass cup?). That dude with the afro is the leader of some cult that thinks Akira is a god. The fights in the street were the result of a lock down by the military after protests. If you haven't noticed, Neo-Tokyo looks horrible so the economy is probably garbage. You don't need to read the manga to get a lot of the answers and not all movies give you them.
Tenryo 10 months ago
@Tenryo How does the fact they don't like the sight of blood explain why milk appeared at all? If they didn't like blood then why have liquid come out at all, WHY was there liquid in the first place if it was a giant stuffed teddy bear? All the movie showed was a city blown up, we got bits of pieces of info about Akira but nothing was ever concrete. I can see the city is in shambles but WHY, just because a movie fails to give you answers doesn't mean we can't point out such an obvious mistake.
BionicSlime 10 months ago
unfortunatly because the manga was 2400 pages or so long
making it into a 2.5 hour movie is nigh impossible i would say a 2 part remake based off the manga would be better still a good movie though
sirshmooppy 10 months ago
@ultimabladerxx I said IF I had done that meaning I never read it to begin with. I don't read manga and besides this was a request for the movie. If the movie leaves stuff out then the movie is at fault, whether or not that missing info. is covered in the manga is irrelevant because I am not reviewing the MANGA I am reviewing the MOVIE.
BionicSlime 11 months ago
@ultimabladerxx If I had done that I wouldn't have bothered WATCHING the movie in the first place.
BionicSlime 11 months ago
@BionicSlime I agree with you fully on your review of this movie. For me all the visuals and animation itself in this film are jaw dropping. The story however is completely loose and gives no real solid ground as to what is going on. I still enjoy the film and I just saw it again yesterday after 8 years. Apparently a live action movie is on the way.
nuke97 1 year ago
This movie has a great story. It is a timeless classic. There are definently animes out there that are much more at fault that this for trying to be "cool" or "sophisticated".
foottothenuts 1 year ago
I think I'll just read the manga it sounds like the story has promise and craming it in one movie doesn't seem like it would do it justice.
nintendonut100 1 year ago
dude i ask u to do this review can u give me a thanks or something like that??
KDOGTHEGAMER14 1 year ago
@KDOGTHEGAMER14 I don't recall you asking me for this review and I already credited the person who did request this.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
god damn... you're the best reviewer ive seen on youtube... did you have this review scripted at all, or did you improvise?
seangames111 1 year ago
@seangames111 Improvised mostly. It's a pain in the ass because I have to do a lot of retakes and editing to get it right. I tried scripting it once but I end up talking too fast past the words I wrote so I stopped doing that. All of my reviews are improvised, there's just more editing work going into them then people realize.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
Akira is an experimental work which intentionally ignores the plot and its quality. The most remarkable point about Akira is how Katsuhiro Otomo tried to accomplish his own handwritten dynamism in animation format. Actually Akira is visually better than most of any other 80's anime/cartoon but not a kind of timeless masterpiece.
yakkun31music 1 year ago
@yakkun31music It can be visually mesmerizing all it wants, a movie or anime is more then its animation style and without a cohesive plot, this movie really didn't wow me and no matter how impressive the art style was, I don't feel that's enough to make this film out to be the godfather of anime films peoples say it is.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime
Definitely. And I really don't criticize Otomo,himself. Comic series has far stronger and more persuasive plot than this film version. He can write the better plot such as Rojin Z,Memories etc. But Akira is sometimes overvalued like you said before. I personally recognize that the best 80's Japanese anime film is not Akira but Nausicca or Grave of the Fireflies or Macross: Do You Remember Love?.
yakkun31music 1 year ago
@BionicSlime so do you called this a masterpeace?
martinezmarcio1 1 year ago
@martinezmarcio1 No, I don't. Many people do and I've heard many people refer to it as a masterpiece but I just honestly don't agree.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
Review was 100% spot on keep it up :)
TheQualy 1 year ago
Maybe the old dvd version is better, I bet the new version they rushed it.
SlavicDemon 1 year ago
This movie was awesome. Loved it. Seen both. Both rule.
MrBubbleKing 1 year ago
what? i swear i just saw link shooting a tommy gun.
el10presidential 1 year ago
great review i agree 100%
paydae 1 year ago
i went and watched this i liked it
narutoninetails12 1 year ago
Did you ever review Hitman Reborn?
hecatomb 1 year ago
@hecatomb No, isn't that a video game?
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime no its a anime, its about 203 eps
hecatomb 1 year ago
@BionicSlime
Its a anime
jfran101 1 year ago
could you do a video on what makes a good film? (because I really don't know. it has to be something really horrible like Dragonball Evolution in order for me to say it's a bad film.)
toasega 1 year ago
@toasega I suppose I could but do you mean an anime film or a RL movie because they are quite different in terms of what makes a movie good and what makes a movie bad. I may have to make a video like that.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime I suppose a RL movie. although no matter what kind it is, i've always been bad at seeing the difference between bad and good.
toasega 1 year ago
@BionicSlime I'm sorry if that was kind of rude but it actually does in some cases stand for bullshit...
Shikunisai 1 year ago
@Shikunisai Just because you disagree with my opinions or my review ratings does not make what I say bullshit. I'm honest with all of my opinions on things and I'm not expecting everyone to agree with me but again, that doesn't make what I say bullshit.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime ALRIGHT I TOOK IT BACK!
Shikunisai 1 year ago
BS stands for Bullshit...
Shikunisai 1 year ago
@Shikunisai Actually in my case it stands for Bionic Slime.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
i think in my opinion the directer just wanted to race to the end or the climax while i would say the artwork was very good i would also have to give it a negative review in terms of storyline you almost forget what the true storylines about
MrLateniteanime2010 1 year ago
I wholeheartedly agree with you about this movie. It has been years since I last saw Akira, so I was thinking that maybe I was too young to really appreciate it. But after watching your review... and noticing how completely on the mark your opinions are with mine, I don't think my opinion of the movie would change if "older me" decided to give Akira another chance.
Sonic2332 1 year ago
The problem is they tried to cram an epic Manga into an hour and a half, you can't do it. No matter how wondrous the animation is, no matter how good the voice acting/dub is-
You can tell a good story, without telling the story itself.
Skybaby79 1 year ago
People don't get Akira because they got into anime from Dragonball or whatever else, saw all the stuff since - it's like saying Batman is a bad movie because you got into comic book movies from The Dark Knight. I find most anime people who didn't like Akira tend to be Dragonball (ugh) fans or people who didn't watch it until they'd already seen all the stuff which has come since - like watching Halloween after every other horror movie since and saying it didn't scare you...
DistantJ 1 year ago
@DistantJ Uhh....for the record I AM a Dragon Ball fan and that has nothing to do with it. I didn't grow up with this anime but it was one of the first anime i was exposed to just not THE VERY FIRST one. Just because someone doesn't get it doesn't mean they're too stupid or over exposed to anime, its possible the movie ISN'T that great as everyone says it is.
Just because I don't like this film doesn't mean my anime tastes are tainted, I didn't like it because I DID NOT LIKE the movie ITSELF.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime Lol, I'm just winding ya up, bro, I think you're awesome. I wasn't talking about you in particular. I do think, like for example, the thing about the character design - they all have big foreheads, look like clones of each other with different hair/gender, surely that should be in DB reviews too.
I did think some questions towards the end were a little irrelevant though, like asking "why is Michael Myers a killer" or "why is Gandalf grey and Saruman white?" They're just set-up.
DistantJ 1 year ago
@DistantJ Except Halloween wasn't presented was some sort of holier than thou anime film. There comes a point where "leave it to mystery" gets old and speculation gets annoying. Certain things just don't make sense and it makes you ask "why am I looking at that?" or "why is it in there?" Directors have a reason for putting everything in their works and weird stuff garners confusion, attention, and of course, curiosity.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
dude this is your best review yet, i haven't seen it in years and when i first watched it i disliked it, i heard this film is god, its as good as they say yadda yadda but yeah you pretty much pointed out everything that i thought was wrong with the movie.
and yeah i hate when people say "its explained in the manga" because hows that ment to help the film
again man your best review yet.
sky11dragoon 1 year ago
@sky11dragoon Wow, thank you very much, that means a lot coming from you.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
Im 100% with you on this one
EternallyGodless 1 year ago
Ouch! 2.5 out of 5? Well, you do have a few good points about the anime. But one thing that I didn't like about Akira is the pioneer dub. Even though the pioneer dub was very close to the Japanese dub script, I didn't feel that the voice actors were passionate enough in playing their characters.
whoisyouranime 1 year ago
@whoisyouranime I love the movie's music and visuals but in all honesty, the movie didn't click with me and cool gore and awesome visuals are not enough to make a movie a hit with me. I thought these actors had quite a bit of passion, specially Tetsuo and Kaneda but its just me. I know alot of people will disagree with me on this rating but I honestly never felt this film was that incredible and I'm not gonna lie about it because its popular.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
Nice review, this is the first video you made in a while I didn't skip around watching.
unfortunately I ended up finding out the story isn't finished in the movie before seeing the movie, and just seeing alot of parodies. so I just laughed at this film the entire time i could pay attention which since it was all over the place was hard not to just take scene by scene for me.
and seems you watched the new dub. did you get to see the other cause I didn't wanna bother with the version you saw.
BrokenFWD 1 year ago
@BrokenFWD I saw bits of the old dub and trust me, the new dub is considerably better. What do you mean skip around watching?
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime you know when you get bored of a video so you jump a minute or two to see a different topic or a wrap up. I do that alot when I rewatch Psych and Monk episodes online now and then.
BrokenFWD 1 year ago
@BionicSlime The older dub has some better lines - they're less literally translated and more organic/human, and a few clever one-liners etc., but the actual acting and emoting in the new one is leaps and bound ahead of the old dub. The old one has a certain nostalgia to it though, for people who watched it back in the day, for example as great as Johnny Yong Bosch is, a lot of us took some getting used to him after being used to Kaneda's 'Ninja Turtles' voice etc.
DistantJ 1 year ago
@BionicSlime I saw both dubs in their entirety and new dub is not better.
xvm842 1 year ago
I completely agree with this reviews complaints =)
EdmontonGamers 1 year ago
this was a funny review
captainscryed 1 year ago
I always thought the story was extremely simple... I felt the list of questions you had about the story where all answered in the movie. score i think is, very low. But i guess your aloud to have an opinion of your own.
SetTheWorldAblaze 1 year ago
@SetTheWorldAblaze They never explained anything enough properly, at the least we got glimpses of answers but again, most people I felt have favored this movie for its wacked out visuals and not so much on story integrity which is what I felt this movie lacked.
BionicSlime 1 year ago
@BionicSlime I don't think everything needs explaining though... The sense of mystery is a plus in a lot of movies, including this one for me. I purposely never read the manga because I like a movie which makes you ask questions even after it's over, and watching it over and over again reveals more etc. Like how recently Inception was so popular, etc.
By the way I love David Lynch :P
DistantJ 1 year ago
@DistantJ What "mystery" was there with milk coming out of a giant teddy bear? There's a difference between having mystery and just throwing in weird stuff to look/sound cool and artistic. Story elements left with enigmatic surroundings promote deeper thought and critical thinking, most of the stuff I mentioned didn't look like it had a point other than "its weird and cool."
For example, I mean why bother mentioning WW3? you could have just started in Neo Tokyo, what did that accomplish?
BionicSlime 1 year ago
Ahh... My long-awaited review. A bit low, but hey- it's fair. I would've been disappointed if you had no complaints, because I had a lot. It turns out, that the movie was only a fraction of how long the manga is...
BlueDragonMaster98 1 year ago
Well, I thought Akira was awesome, but reviews are supposed to be fair, personal opinions, right?
CrescentMoonGold 1 year ago
@CrescentMoonGold Oh, you already commented. Well, I agree.
CrescentMoonRed 1 year ago