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Written and directed by Katsuhiro Ôtomo (as well as Izô Hashimoto as writer), Akira is the groundbreaking Japanese anime from 1988. Set in a dystopian future in Neo Tokyo, a biker gang member turns into a rampaging psychic psychopath who can only be stopped by a teenager (Kaneda), his gang of biker friends and a trio of child psychics.
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[@virality9000]

Watch Hit Monkey ! its amazing

[@manofcultures]

i aint gonna sound like preference .. but .. AKIRA dub is one of few anime tat is APPROVED to have Great DUB .. i recomend watching the english dub too

[@Arsolon618]

Japan's entire animation industry came together to hand-draw every cell in Akira.

[@thedarkknight2221]

The most influential anime film ever made! The “Akira Slide” alone has been used almost countless animated and live action movies, tv shows and video games.

[@marcradar24joubert]

Honestly I didn't think of that until about a year or two ago when I saw the video for that part. It was an inspiration for several anime, Clone Wars, Batman, TMNT, etc.

[@zbennalley]

My favorite recently was in the movie Nope.

[@kah_hota]

Also, no one mentions the SOL satellite idea was used in other movies and video games, Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker (hell, the entire look of future Gotham is modelled after Neo-Tokyo, it's even called Neo-Gotham) Invincible Season 1 Episode 7, Gears of War, Command & Conquer, Final Fantasy 7, I'm sure I am missing some others

[@Cau_No]

​@@kah_hota Probably the Bond Movie "Day Another Day", Fallout and GTA V, … This was a real Cold War concept for the SDI "Star Wars" program during the 1980's, intended to position such laser satellites in orbit. Although it would not have worked as depicted, that's where the idea originated from.

[@Vulcanerd]

Yep! I think there’s a super cut of all the anime that uses the “Akira slide”.

[@popeye697]

Tron, Blade Runner, and the Manga for Akira all came out in 1982, so none of them influenced or were influenced by one another

[@SuzakuX]

Not sure about Tron, but Blade Runner and Akira were both heavily influenced by Metal Hurlant magazine.

[@JayPadrig]

The classic 80s anime bubblegum crisis was so influenced by blade runner and borrowed the same names such as Dekard, Priss, and a rock band called the replicants! Don’t let the name of the show Fool ya, it’s four bad-ass chicks in iron man power armor versus green “terminators” called Boomers 😂 if you ask me, it’s the next logical step in a live action movie after Alita battle Angel

[@JohnSmith-wl8ts]

studio execs were doing a lot of cocaine then, as a result we got some of the best movies ever

[@KylearnBT]

@@JayPadrig Yes indeed, Bubblegum Crisis is a cool show.

[@totenanh294]

"Can I ask you which websites you use to watch anime and read manga?"

[@Miguel.Angel.Galvez]

Remember: this is before computers. Every frame is made by hand.

[@MauiDave74]

Not true at all. They used CG in this. The CG was created by High-Tech Lab. Japan Inc. and the cooperative companies for computer graphics, Sumisho Electronic Systems, Inc. and Wavefront Technologies, primarily to animate the pattern indicator used by Dr. Onishi, but it was additionally used to plot the paths of falling objects, model parallax effects on backgrounds, and tweak lighting and lens flares.

[@vooodkathetruthseeker6747]

Still holds up and it's still gorgeous

[@Miguel.Angel.Galvez]

@@MauiDave74 Nothing more than a couple of cool effects. The movie itself is hand-drawn.

[@totenanh294]

"Can I ask you which websites you use to watch anime and read manga?"

[@Vulcanerd]

@@totenanh294I think Crunchyroll is the big one?

[@WeareCreative360]

imagine having so much psychic power that not only it can't be measured, but able to create another universe.

[@adgato75]

Dr Manhattan

[@neomoscoso10]

An anime masterpiece that catapulted the genre to a worldwide appeal.

[@darthken815]

"Masterpiece" definitely describes Akira. I didn't get around to seeing this until 2003 and my face was 😮 from the opening until right after Tetsuo's accident.

[@Wickerrman]

@@darthken815 I can't really agree, the animation is 10/10 for sure...but the story is like 6/10. Confusing as hell tbh.

[@Zephhi]

@@Wickerrman Yeah bro it gets put on a pedestal. The animation is fucking amazing, but the story isn't all that. Of course the themes are good, but people who praise it so hard come off as pretentious to me.

[@KingGalen]

The "Akira Slide" never gets old.

[@batbrick3949]

I remember when Akira first came to the US, there was an ad that said it “Makes Bladerunner look like Disney World!” This is an epic masterpiece.

[@scottalynch]

I saw it in a theatre in my hometown, back in 1990

[@definitelydelish]

"Is that a kid or a little old man?" ............ [Us:] "Yes"

[@mikesg001]

The city doesn't look the same because it isn't. A world war happened in 1988 and Tokyo was destroyed, Neo-Tokyo was built was built in its place. The year the film is set in is 2019.

[@Renoistic]

I've always thought that Tetsuo, subconsciously, held back when fighting Kaneda, which is why Kaneda wasn't a stain on the ground in seconds.

[@crescendyr8438]

He was just toying with him for the most part.

[@coldflamebluedragon196]

Well this a movie that I did not thought to ever see on this channel. Ghost in the Shell (1995) and Perfect Blue (1997) are two 90’s classics that are a must watch for the medium

[@dread_kaathulhu4903]

As kids growing up in this era, myself and a lot of others were introduced to Japanese animation through the 'Holy Trinity' of Akira, Ghost in the Shell, and Ninja Scroll.

[@jadedlotuz5095]

Yes!

[@Navin4061]

It is one of the best and most influential anime films ever made. The animation and use of the light still hold up to this day.

[@matthewneufeld8854]

Man that moment though when tetsuo calling out kanedas help when he starts loosing control. Gets me every time.

[@Scallycowell]

The manga deserves an adaption because there is so much of the story and so many characters cut from the movie to save time. It really needs to be a series to tell the entire story. Also, how evil is the government in this movie? Well, they discovered psychics, attempted to harness their powers for military use, wiped out an entire major city, and after all that decided, “You know what? Let’s give these psychic kids chemically induced progeria too.”

[@tuhkathri9126]

Every scene is a hand drawn masterpiece

[@delwynklassen3644]

The manga was so popular from the beginning that they adapted it BEFORE it was even close to finished (just the first volume and a half I think). So the completed manga expanded and improved on a lot of characters and plot shown in the anime (by the same author/artist/director)

[@Andrew-Bastin]

Yeah as good as this movie was the ending was clearly rushed. They probably should’ve ended the movie on a cliff hanger and told the rest of the story in a sequel, the manga was very popular and the movie made nearly 10x it’s budget so a sequel would have been justified.

[@Captianjim]

It also helps that the original Manga creator was the director for the movie so he already knew the vision of what was going to appear later on after the movie. He had it all planned out! If anyone is interested after watching this, check out Metropolis that he worked on and Steamboy which he also directed.

[@matsu7086]

The manga definitely needs a new anime adaptation or series of movies! That doesn't get the Berserk or Uzumaki treatment, that is...

[@Max_The_Alien]

One of my all time faves for over 30 years. I was huge into anime in the 90s and Akira was like god-tier. :) Made in 1988 and still looks absolutely stunning too. :D

[@LeonardoKlotz]

Katsuhiro Otomo also did "Metropolis" and "Steamboy". You guys need to check them out.

[@Captianjim]

Love the old retro deco style of Metropolis and Steamboy I think is actually pretty underrated. I don't ever hear it brought up, even when people praise Akira.

[@ayushnayak8746]

And Metropolis was created by non other than the Godfather of modern Anime and Manga "Osamu Tezuka"

[@JamesSerapio]

The thing that always blows me away watchinh this is knowing it was hand-drawn animation

[@WillardWright1986]

Bike gangs were actually very common in Japan in the 60s 70s and 80s

[@RabbitShirak]

Indeed. Crime was sky rocketing and people genuinely thought the Japanese society would fall into anarchy.

[@cronos12_psn]

Like kei explained (well kiyoko explained through kei), tetsuo was essentially an amoeba, evolving to something further advanced. The lashing out of tetsuo's body to absorb everything around it to gather energy helped spark it to evolve to that pure energy form, which made that nuclear explosion like blast. The energy given off from the reaction of that evolution was the explosion. And akira was in pieces because they examined his physical body and dissected it, after he evolved out of it.

[@steampunkster2023]

Yes. This came out in 1988, and yes, it was ahead of it's time. Hollywood back then was scared to make animated films like this cos they think there's no market for it, and there are mature animated films that failed, like _Fire and Ice_ for instance. Otomo's draftsmanship in this film really stands the test of time.

[@3DJapan]

The 3 kids that were experimented on grew old prematurely as a side effect.

[@Savenso]

I think that the child's body is the side effect. The experiments were carried out on them several decades ago. After all, Akira destroyed Tokyo 30 years ago, so they already had their strength back then and would have to be at least 40-50. Probably even older, depending on how much time there was between the experiments and Toykio's demise in 1988. So you have aged without developing further physically.

[@3DJapan]

@@Savenso Interesting point. I hadn't thought about how long ago the experiment happened. It is odd that they still live in a children's play room though.

[@totenanh294]

"Can I ask you which websites you use to watch anime and read manga?"

[@marasmusine]

@@3DJapan The experiments really messed up their emotional and physical development.

[@Savenso]

@@totenanh294 I'm still a bit old-fashioned Back then I bought the original manga series on paper in 20 volumes, with 19 volumes containing the story and 20 containing background information.

[@chandlermorgan708]

10/10 Trademark Manga for the Western culture Without a doubt the necessary injection of Manga culture Western audiences needed. Personal objections (or should I say appraisals) aside, Akira deconstructs the form of narrative and character development that we had all become accustomed to through Hollywood and produces a reasonably honest translation of Katsuhiro Otomo's Manga epic, with mass deletions of unnecessary characters and plot avenues. The story is complex enough to keep western audiences attention, yet simple enough to digest whilst taking in the wonderfull animation and excellent soundtrack (a collection of traditional Japanese instruments and modern day synthesised electronica that allow for elements of cinema to establish themselves for the audience) The conflict between the two main characters, Tetsuo and Kaneda is ultimately superceded by the films namesake, the mystery of the boy Akira, and as with very few films Hollywood produces it leaves it's more labour intensive thinking until the end. A delight to follow, with periods of intense action and thought provoking predictions of a neo society, one would like to think of the film as the pipe dream of one who predicted such tragic events as of September 11. Akira, whilst violent for the medium, is a lush metropolis of gang warfare, a psuedo examination into the possible, and a fantasy tale of elements long lost in modern cinema. A cool, entertaining piece littered with cult visions and awesome bikes.

[@sgcastle8389]

The animation is so great, you can actually read everyone's leaps and see that it match with what they are saying

[@pulithevar8135]

No one seems to have mentioned it yet, but its also impressive that the whole movie is 24 fps as opposed to 12 which is what most Ghibli films use. Thats why that light trail effect looks so cool is they have twice as many frames to add extra detail. By the way Each scene in the whole movie was hand-drawn.

[@donnidonner3157]

that's not true. some sequences like the big teddybear are in 24fps, but most of the movie is in 12fps

[@Iyalo-cw7eb]

isn't it 24 but in ones?

[@ShiroKage009]

Much of it is animated on ones but significant chunks are also animated on twos. They just chose which scenes did which so well.

[@logicp313]

That ending still gives me goosebumps after all this time.

[@ayushnayak8746]

Well, Akira did predict the 2020 Olympics Venue.

[@NavsangeetSingh]

How in the hell have you guys not seen this before! Also, 118 K is about -150 degrees celsius. So pretty dang cold. Akira is stored at 0.0005 K which is only a thousandth degree above absolute zero at which nearly all motion of the particles that constitute a system stops. It's so cold the particles don't even behave like individual entities. It's an entirely new state of matter.

[@RaptorNX01]

its worth remembering that Japan IS a post-apocalyptic society. Its the only nation to experience nuclear weapons used offensively. so they have a very unique view of nuclear energy. its why so much of their media has that kind of imagery and ideas. even many of their sword and sorcery fantasy stories take place in post-apocalyptic worlds. also of note. this film DID influence the matrix, but it was more indirect. This movie was a one of the big inspirations and influences on the film Dark City. which that film was in turn a big inspiration for the Matrix (so much so they even reused some of the sets from Dark City when filming The Matrix). the dub for this was also really good, esp the one done for the special edition dvd release by Pioneer in 2001.

[@Cau_No]

Dark City can hardly be an influence when it was produced at the same time as The Matrix, it is said they even used the same studios after each other. What influenced"The Matrix" most was "Ghost in the Shell", according to the directors. The storyboards looked like Manga (seen in "The Art of the Matrix" book) And Blade Runner had also a major influence on Future Noir and Urban Sprawl designs after the German 1927 movie "Metropolis". This is where Cyberpunk as a genre took off.

[@rodprime79]

It's pretty cool how the movie predicted that the 2020 Olympics was going to be in Tokyo.

[@davidjarmuth1057]

saw this in 1996 at 14, had no idea what I was getting into. We had just hiked a week straight on the Appalachian trail and pretty much immediately someone took this VHS out and said we gotta watch this.

[@ultrainferno.]

Since akira has 6 dictionary sized manga volumes theres alot that was taken out to make this movie. If they would've adapted the manga fully, we wouldve had about 5 more movies. Also tetsuo in the manga is pure evil who does alot more terrible deeds then what was shown in the movie.

[@AppleFrogTomatoFace]

yeah, they condensed the story too much it became some abstract ambiguity story, in the manga there are way much more story. i can’t remember exactly but this movie is like less than one third of the manga story. anyway the movie was still cool, they kinda elevated to some kind of art house movie. lol when i first saw this was when i was 8 or 9, and all the hallucination scene and the all the screaming when they fight kinda got to me… lol i think i saw korean dubbed version first and korean dubbed version screams were way intense i think…

[@marasmusine]

In the UK in the 90s, Akira was serialized in the magazine Manga Mania. When it was finally finished, it was a kind of "huh, now what?" moment, since it was what kept the mag running for so long. They went with serializing Ghost in the Shell after that, but I think pretty much everyone had already purchased that graphic novel by then anyway.

[@nthdgree5078]

It’s because the manga was nowhere near being finished when the movie was in production. It was only about one and a half volumes of what ended up being six volumes deep at the time. Thankfully the author was also the director of the movie so he was able to put in story points that hadn’t been published yet.

[@jasoneitemiller978]

The animation is stunning; characters are always in motion, even during intense dialogue scenes. This level of quality surpasses that of 99% of today's anime.

[@76063co2]

I'm not a huge aime fan, but Akira is a stunning movie and the greatest Japanese animated movie of all time. It's the "Citizen Kane" of anime and I'm shocked that Jaby hasn't seen it.

[@DanABA]

The real life nuclear bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki are also big themes of this from a visceral level of being Japanese during WW2. This movie has so many deep dives regarding metaphors of society, it's dense. This movie was also restricted by budget, and in that sense, the artists and production crew who made this movie are considered some of the greatest in the history of animation. This movie is one of the greats of all time, anime or otherwise. Stranger Things credits Akira for one of its influences.

[@blorgin1]

I actually get goosebumps anytime this movie is mentioned

[@michaelconnor1542]

Imagine in 1988 predicting world wide unrest in the late 20-teens, that Tokyo would have the summer Olympics, and it would be canceled or postponed to a world altering event. RIDICULOUS! Nover going to happen.

[@white-noisemaker9554]

LOL! I was laughing my ass off when you kept saying that this was NOT like Japan, because as someone who was there during the 80’s, this was a LOT of the urban landscape of Japan; Bosozoku bikers, black leather “Karasu Zoku” minimalism, the steel rebar and concrete construction lots everywhere, the Japan you know now, is VERY different from the one Ingrew up around.

[@floatingdisembodiedhead8975]

Also I thought this wasn't actually Tokyo but Neo Tokyo. It's a city on top of a man-made island close to Tokyo. I always thought that was the reason why it does look like Tokyo to them.

[@深町祐太-l6n]

鉄雄がスーパーマンの主人公 クラークケントなのか？ 22:14 アキラグロい 25:12 27:24 28:53 29:34 31:00 33:26 37:15 39:53 グロテスク 43:49 ドクターが押し潰され死亡

[@mikeduplessis8069]

8:05 the biker rolling on the ground was rotoscoped from the 1973 US film 'Electra Glide in Blue'.

[@classictowers668]

Industtial Platform Diagonal Elevators are 100% references to Akira.

[@noneed4me2n7]

The manga fleshes the story out a lot more. It’s also complete.

[@FortheLoveofMonsters]

“Japan doesn’t look anything like this!” is so funny. It’s like watching Blade Runner and being like “America looks nothing like this!” Yes 😂 Because it’s a MOVIE. 😂😂😂

[@jonathanh5929]

This is one of my favorite animes and one of my first, in like 93. I still own a dvd copy i bought way years later. Dope.

[@JoergWeida]

The Criterion Laserdisc edition of Akira I bought in 1992 was the first laserdisc I owned

[@valashar5313]

The detonation at the start of the film was NOT a nuclear weapon. It was Akira doing the same thing Tetsuo did at the end: Ascending and becoming the big bang of a new universe beyond their own.

[@crescendyr8438]

That was Akira emerging, manifesting and taking Tetsuo back with him beyond the 3rd dimension to the state of conscious will.

[@scottallen6160]

No one has made a film like this before or after. The epic and unique story, animations, music and creative designs and direction put this film at the top of my favorite movies ever. This is an inspiration for comic book artists, graphic novelists and film makers everywhere. It also sparks speculation in science and philosophy about the evolutionary potential of human beings. I love it! Thanks for doing this film reaction. ✌️😎💕

[@Diogmetes]

The fact that Jaby hasn’t seen this … well it’s effed up. Obviously, that’s not the case anymore, but prior to his viewing… just super bananas. Thanks for the reaction!

[@adriangaliver]

Kanedaaa! Tetsuooo!

[@maumautg]

What do you have to do to know someone have been to Japan? Nothing, they will make sure to tell you, over and over

[@liferiot]

The way the dogs are drawn at the beginning... wow. They go around a corner so fluidly.

[@elijahrace955]

I literally just watched this last night for the first time and thought to myself “I need someone to react to this”. Thank you for reading my mind

[@Rain1]

I remember commenters often saying that the movie tried to squeeze a whole ton of the original story into what it did and had to skip out on a lot. This is only part of the story

[@Renoistic]

It's more like the manga has a whole lot more detail (like Tetsuo becoming a gang leader) and a less abrupt ending. They had no way to animate the whole thing so they chose to focus and extend certain aspects of the story. It's a bit messy but still really cool.

[@crescendyr8438]

I ordered the manga off Amazon. It's HUGE. A LOT is cut. They did a very good job on this adaptation considering how much they had to condense into 2 hours.

[@nthdgree5078]

It’s because the manga was nowhere near being finished when the movie was in production. It was only about one and a half volumes of what ended up being six volumes deep at the time. Thankfully the author was also the director of the movie so he was able to put in story points that hadn’t been published yet.

[@marcradar24joubert]

When I saw it, my first thought was which audio are you guys going with: Original Japanese release, Cam Clarke English release, or Johnny Yong Bosch English dub. I think Bosch and that cast was closer to the original dialogue as far as translation.

[@KaiHouston-m6j]

Tetsuo has so much pride that he resorts to evil.

[@scottvanhille5688]

Awesome guys! Wish more reactors would watched animated films, I mean the shows are nice but this is where my years as a teen in the 90's took over by recording anime Saturday mornings at 6am on the SyFy channel such as this one Demon City Shinjuku, Record Of Lodoss War, Venus Wars, Casshan: Robot Hunter, Roujin-Z, Vampire Hunter D, Robot Carnival, Odin Photon Space Sailor Starlight, Project A-ko, etc. This is a revolutionary film, absolutely fantastic. Nice reaction.

[@Super-Nerd]

Am basically copy pasting the same thing I commented on another *Akira* reaction but ya - This is the genre I love the most in Anime, not the Sci-fi aspect but specifically the Psychological Horror that keeps you intrigued to the core of the story you're witnessing. Sure, sometimes you'll overthink stuffs too much while it's not that deep but that's the beauty of these Animes. Monogatari, Tatami Galaxy, Fooly Cooly, Madoka Magica, Texhnolyze & Ergo Proxy are some of my absolute favourites cuz of that 🛐 Also that explains that if it isn't a Psychological - Avant Garde anime that am watching then my next go to will always be IYASHIKIE or ROMANCE🧑‍🦯

[@xdecroix]

don't forget : the Akira manga was running when the akira movie came out. so Akira number one was largely earlier than 88.

[@xdecroix]

now read it ^^

[@brownsupahero]

This movie predicting the 2020 Tokyo Olympics.

[@Merco81]

For the style and the time period, this anime was insanely ahead of its time. The story was insanely compacted to fit in a movie. Anyone who loves the anime owes it to them self to read the manga. Stories in the manga are considerably more fleshed out and a lot more things make sense.

[@CZJames20]

Now you should watch Cyberpunk: Edgerunners, absolutely amazing anime within an amazing world. You´ll love it.

[@mrhatnclogs2391]

I second this!

[@MrPudelNudel]

Oh yeah lets go! I had already given up on my hope to ever see a reaction on this masterpiece. 🤩

[@lilmartinez48]

This movie is what brought me into the world of anime.

[@RabbitShirak]

For me it was Moomin and Ginga Nagareboshi Gin.

[@MarkITEXE]

I love this movie SO MUCH, Tetsuo is the GOAT and one of my favorite characters of ALL TIME!!! And yeah I can agree that the 3rd Act can take a lot of Brain Power to understand. But I personally would like some kind of Remake in the future.

[@emp0rizzle]

FYI the fastest production bike available today only makes 190hp. So 200hp is quite a lot.

[@Dust_Bin_Gaming]

Kaneda's bike basically had a Honda NSR5000 engine in it (A 499cc V4, with exactly the numbers Tetsuo rattles off in the scene. But it was built in '97, so maybe they were a little prophetic in making Akira. xD )

[@avionugrohoomar]

the creativity in the 80s japan animation.. amazing !!

[@Pendy555]

It was so fun to see you both see this for the first time. It's such a classic.

[@PeDr0.UY131]

A gem of animation. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 And an ending that seemed a little confusing, until NEON GENESIS EVANGELION arrived.😂😂

[@Trashcan_Waifu]

Asuka is best girl

[@JoergWeida]

And the ending of the original Berserk!

[@imarxb]

Akira is my favourite cinema experience ever. I ended up watching it four times. One time being at the Glastonbury Festival with well over a thousand other appreciative nerds.

[@jakecameron2976]

For another wild ride watch Redline. Took 6 years to animate

[@radkonpsygami7634]

Akira was a movie which really popularized anime in USA. The original manga has many differences in the story, but considering how much material it covered, the changes done in a movie of a limited length make sense. If there is a movie/series which borrows a lot from Akira then it would be Stranger Things. Personally, the anime movie which influenced me a lot was Wings of Honneamise which came out 2 year before Akira and was most expensive to produce anime until Akira came out.

[@dudermcdudeface3674]

This is what we used to refer to when we were kids as "the shiznit." Akira is the shiznit.

[@coltonpiper6156]

“Leave me alone!!”

[@Vulcanerd]

Lol, loved the “Not yet!” Clip from your LPK 😄

[@matthewneufeld8854]

Wow some of favorite KZbinrs watching a classic anime.

[@ebraheemfredericks5736]

Oh wow, awesome! Ya'll are gonna love this.

[@MankabirRahman-z2d]

Some great anime movies - Memories Anthology (1995) - 1. Magnetic Rose 2. Stinking Bomb 3. Canon Fodder Neo Tokyo (1987) Metropolis Movie (2001) Steamboy (2004) Summit Of The Gods (2021) I lost My Body (2019) (Not anime - a french movie, eng dub available on Netflix)

[@Kurdinov83]

Otomo belongs to an older generation of japanese mangakas that lived through post war japan, and that was closer to Akira, not technology wise, but totally violence wise. Also, biker gangs were all the rage back in 80's japan!!

[@mageeaaron2624]

This is where the fun begins!!!! One of the animes that inspired future ones! Also, welcome back!! I'm glad you two enjoyed your trip to Japan! God willing I visit myself one day! 🙏🏽💪

[@Achara]

@@mageeaaron2624 gooooo!!! It’s amazing!!

[@wraithryder]

japan 30yrs ago was a little different than today...

[@cstephen98]

It's a bit confusing because the movie is a kind of Cole's Notes of the 6 graphic novel it's based on. A friend of mind had the series and it took up most, of not all, of a bookshelf. I had to rewatched it a few times to catch everything. It's all there but it's easy to miss info that impacts the story later.

[@Byrvurra]

Speaking of inspiration that motorcycle slide scene appears in animation all the time, it's a direct reference to this movie.

[@damaruslove8688]

Tetsuo!!!!! Kenada!!!! Girl gets squished in monster baby 😂😂😂

[@nanzotaro1949]

AKIRA is the only anime movie that doesnt used 'cheat' method in the animation. All done in details and in complete sequences. No skipping motion, mouth vowls have more drawings than usuals, all the windows on the background been painted manually etc. Everything is moving and all details counts in the movie. This is a masterpiece works where all it's genre using cheat method as a normal thing because of ridiculously tight deadlines. If you wanted to watch anime works that don't used cheat in their inbetweens and production, this is the one.

[@davidmichaelson1092]

I am glad you did the subtitled version. The dubbed version I saw was so-so. They cleaned up the language a lot which really made it silly. When I first saw this I was just blown away. It throws you into it and never lets up. Kelvin is an absolute temperature scale. Zero Kelvin is when molecular motion completely stops. For reference, the freezing point of water at standard conditions is 273.15 K.

[@sagemodeq544]

A masterpiece. Nothing more needs to be said.

[@jean-christophelebachelet5926]

Akira is first a Manga published between 1982 and 1990, The movie production began in 1984, the movie shortened the original Comics story with his 120 chapters and 2200 pages...... Akira is one of my bigest cinematic shock, I saw the movie in theater in 1990 when I was 17..... Tetsuo highly influenced the creation of Vegeta in DBZ !

[@varieedeventualii]

the first scene It's not because of fear in 80's, it's because the japanese have nukes explosions imprinted in their culture. If the US was nuked at some point in history, you can bet they would cram nuke explosions even into sit-coms opening themes.

[@michaelwardle7633]

I mean, Godzilla is synonymous with Japanese popular cinema and it’s explicitly a nuke film.

[@UberNoodle]

Akira also predicted Japan getting the Olympics in 2020, but it obviously didn't take into account a certain global catastrophe that delayed it to 2021. Otomo dropped the ball there! Hah.

[@jefffredenburg7231]

In 1999 James Cameron purchase the rights to Gunnm. About a little girl cyborg Soldier named Gally (Battle Angel Alita). He wanted to make a movie but the technology wasn't ready yet so he first make the show "Dark Angel" staring Jessica Alba anime BAA which had the iconic scene where she's jumping and leaping on tops of the buildings like Alita did

[@Mugthraka]

BY the end of it yes. The only alternative that Akira found to not blow up our world was to basicly create anoher univers Well more like the psychic energy they are able to unleash is on par with the energy neccesary to create the big bang. So at the end when Tetsuo is like "I am....Tetsuo" its not really a question, but an affirmation, cause he is reborn as a being.

[@brianmoreau5274]

The original 1989 English dub is the ultimate edition. It has the best voice acting, soundtrack and dialog. All other versions are mere shadows of the '89 release.

[@jean-rochdion4898]

Golgo 13 should be on your list!!😏

[@Super-Nerd]

Among Japanese Audience it's pretty Popular but outside of that it's sadly pretty Underrated! A GREAT RECOMMENDATIONS NONETHELESS 🤌

[@jean-rochdion4898]

@@Super-Nerd 47 yrs old French-Canadian.... happy to be a exception!!! first time I seen "The Professional" was early 90's. I grow up watching "Robotech".... and "San Ku Kaï" in the 80's!!!🤣

[@christophertsai4670]

Akira reactions always deserve a like

[@nsato75]

I really enjoyed your comments on the whole sequence of the film. Thank you,

[@lfyoung]

great reaction. this is my absolute favorite anime and one of my top five favorite movies of all time. I'm sure you know the level of change this movie had when it was released. but just in case you don't know. this movie fundamentally changed the way not only anime but movies in general were made. anime and movies wouldn't be where they are now if it wasn't for this movie. this was also the first real fully blown anime that came to America that was English dubbed and showed not only America but the who world just what anime, great story telling, artistry and style could be if you pushed it to the edge and beyond. the world wasn't ready for a movie like this but afterwards the world wanted more and more of this level of storytelling and level of drawings. it's hard to sum it up into words just what this movie did to the world, you had to be there and had to be into anime before this movie came out. i was very fortunate that i lived in Hawaii at the time and we got more anime sent to us over in the islands then they did in the mainland of USA.

[@erikramirez8422]

I'm so happy y'all saw this!