Akira

As it was said: classic/legend/masterpiece. Nothing to add.

Awesome movie!!!!!

This film is a masterpiece. Every few years I look to see if there is any new Anime out there of equal scope and quality, and am completely disappointed.

To the haters who watch Akira and didn't "get" it, you shouldn't mistake your own lack of comprehension for a lack of meaning. One needs to watch Akira a few times to really piece together what is happening.

This is not a Hollywood film. It will not spoon feed you a convenient plot with happy endings. But if you put a little effort into it, this movie will deliver.

Pro-tip: Don't watch the English overdub, do subtitles. The Japanese voice actors deliver powerful performances. Also the subtitles make a lot more sense than the English overdub, as by necessity, the writers must hack on a script quite a bit to make the voice over fit into the pace and rhythm of the film. This is why overdubs almost always lose meaning, in addition to making the lips look silly.

**Neo-Tokyo is about to E.X.P.L.O.D.E.**

This is the best animated ever made. Katsuhiro Otomo is a true visionary. this movie is a wild futuristic ride from start to finish. The animation is the best I've ever seen. The voice acting is superb and the story is spectacular. It's the perfect anime film. You can tell from the start how much time and effort the animators put into each scene. Plus Kaneda's bike is one tricked out ride.

It was so captivating, fast-paced and jam-packed with action that I never realized how quickly 2 hours flew by. It's a mind-blowing cyberpunk action film that has a number of great things which include the simple but fresh story that is absolutely driven by action sequences and the gorgeous animation that encompasses every single bit of it. It's also a gory experience, so I can't recommend it for kids. For adults, it's a full-blown explosive ride!

so good but i couldnt look away from testuos massive DOME of a forehead for most the movie

A must watch every 6 years.

Beneath the cutting-edge animation, rich soundtrack and dense atmosphere, Katsuhiro Otomo’s animated masterpiece portrays a desperate city in conflict with itself. Clouds of warring motorcycle gangs swarm the highways. Scores of abandoned children rot in filthy, state-run institutions. Apocalyptic religious demonstrations share public space with violent political protests. Elected officials puff and posture, making speeches and pointing fingers without hearing or solving anything. And the military operates free of supervision, violently quelling discontent in the streets while scheming to outmaneuver its rivals using a slew of morally-questionable human experiments. Thirty years after a secretive large-scale disaster wiped out much of its population center, Neo Tokyo is once again on the verge of an explosion.

The prevailing theme of this multi-faceted story is extreme power in the wrong hands. An emotionally unstable biker punk; a brash, stubborn military commander; an overzealous lead scientist; an opportunistic group of activists; each contributes to a perfect storm of raging discontent and untimely misfortune that might just bring about the end of the world. If that sounds stuffy and impenetrable, don’t worry. We’ll run into plenty of telekinetic dwarves, machine-gunning sky scooters, orbiting space lasers and arena-sized glop monsters between talking points.

Not to mislead anyone here: _Akira_ can definitely feel unintelligible. It moves fast, gives us a lot to follow, asks about a thousand ambiguous questions and leaves most of the answers open to interpretation. I’ve probably seen this movie fifty times over the years and still go back and forth over what the ending really means. I love that about it. Likewise, I love its ability to feed me more detail, and further context, after so many viewings. It’s an audiovisual powerhouse, no doubt - even after almost forty years, its artwork resides at or near the top of the pile and its music remains powerful, distinct and thematically perfect - but the reason it’s stuck around for so long, striking chords in generations of open-minded audiences, is that incredible depth of meaning. Every character means something, every softly-tinted flashback enriches the moment and every decisive action compounds the next. This is as well orchestrated as any type of big-picture cinema gets. That it’s also a brilliant, genre-defining example of high end anime is just icing on the cake.

"The future is not a straight line. It is filled with many crossroads. There must be a future that we can choose for ourselves."

It had been awhile since I've last seen Akira but it is still a damn joy to watch. It still looks fantastic. I really like the late 80's early 90's anime animation style. Akira is also a film that will grab you by your horns within the first few minutes. When that jukebox starts to play it is off to the races.

You get an interesting story, great action, humor and some brutal deaths. Now that I'm older I can enjoy Akira much more, I think I wasn't really into anime when I watched it for the first time, but having consumed more of the media I love Akira even more. A

Anyway Akira is an legendary anime movie and it might be the best one ever made. Go check it out if you like to see a Neo-Tokyo, haven't seen it yet, if you love sci-fi or you just want to check out a legendary movie. You can't go wrong with it.

cannot find words to describe how unbelievably good this anime is

I've watched this movie a few times and every time I do, I find more details I missed before. The animation in this movie is so stellar and so impressive that even now, it still holds up and surpasses other films that were made after it.

While I wish they had been able to adapt the whole series, I'll still take this movie as a summation of it and forever rank it as one of the best examples of anime there is -- and one of the best animated films ever made, period. Do yourself a favor and watch it at least once if you haven't yet. And if you've watched it before, watch it again.