BS Anime Reviews: Akira

My latest request from user Bluedragonmaster98 who has requested one of the biggest and well known anime films ever created, the sci-fi epic "Akira." I know this film has LOTS of fans behind it. Stars the vocal talent of Joshua Seth, Jonny Yong Bosch, Wendee Lee, Michelle Ruff, Michael Lindsay, and Jamieson K Price.

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[grayfox12817]

Ive allways called it AKIRA not AHKIRA. every time i hear AHKIRA I kinda want to slap him..

Is it pronounced Akira or Ahkira??

[BionicSlime]

@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.

[kitchen867]

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

[BionicSlime]

@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]

@WafflesMgee THANK YOU!!!

[WafflesMgee]

Stop telling him to read the manga. This is a review of the movie, not the manga damnit.

[GoodFriendsForever]

the reason the movie feels so everywhere at times and doesnt know where it is going... Its because they tried to jam a 6 volume anime into 125 minutes and they had to cut alot of stuff. In the manga Akira is around for alot longer and its crazy how many times tokyo is destroyed.

[Na11441]

The one thing I didn't like about Akira was its protagonist: Kaneda. He had no impact on the story!!! I mean yeah he does some stuff, but none of it really impacts the story. You could have just as easily removed Kaneda from the whole story and made Tetsuo the main character. I guarantee you would have gotten the same outcome to the whole story.

[gamegloss]

@grayfox12817 I pronounce it AKIRDA with a soft D.

[timothypike1991]

did u like the streamline version? i thought the voice acting was better lol just my opinion

[emilixa15]

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)

[saltireBLACKOPS]

@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]

@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]

@saltireBLACKOPS Watch the review again! He made a good point in: 10:00

[BEyondDaGamer]

nice review man, funny as hell!

[weirdy8]

Even though the story was confusing, I can't stop rewatching it.