Quote Originally Posted by The Devourer Of Worlds
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Akira doesn't even come close to the brilliance that is The Lion King and it's blasphemous to even suggest such. Certainly a good film, but it fails in it's origin base (it was based off a multi-volume manga), and character depth. Comparing it to The Lion King is like comparing Final Fantasy X-2 to Xenogears.

It is however one of the greatest, if not the greatest animated film of all time in sole terms of animation, given that it was made in 1987.