Whats Your Opinion Of Akira ?

[XxSephirothxX]

The anime is an absolute classic, and quite enjoyable to watch, despite how convoluted the plot is. I have yet to read the manga, but I really want to, considering how much more there is to it. I should probably go download that after work.

My reaction to the film grew more positive after seeing it several times. Originally, the bizarre ending just left me with a "wtf" attitude, and I saw it late at night, so I had considerable trouble following the mess of a storyline. But after seeing it again, it became much easier to focus on how badass it was; the awesome animation, gritty cyberpunk setting (perfectly accompanied by a great score) and the random scenes of hallucinations are all executed extremely well. The scene where Tetsuo briefly imagines a giant pile of organs slipping out of his stomach and frantically tries to scoop them back in is one of the most memorable things I've seen in a movie, and, for some odd reason, one of my favorites.

[Dreddz]

Actually, Akira is reviled by at least as many as the people who praise it.

Yeah, but the people who bash Akira are nobodys. The people praising Akira are usually the people who know what there talking about.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Dreddz, don't talk like that. Don't call people nobodies. Not if you want to stick around.

[Dreddz]

Dreddz, don't talk like that. Don't call people nobodies. Not if you want to stick around.

When I say nobodies I dont mean it in an attacking sort of way. Our comments dont mean much compared to other anime critics, our comments dont get shouted out to everyone, while others do. That is what I meant by calling people nobodies. I wont use it in the future if it makes you happy.

[edczxcvbnm]

Dreddz, don't talk like that. Don't call people nobodies. Not if you want to stick around.

When I say nobodies I dont mean it in an attacking sort of way. Our comments dont mean much compared to other anime critics, our comments dont get shouted out to everyone, while others do. That is what I meant by calling people nobodies. I wont use it in the future if it makes you happy.

Then I still win and you lose!

My search revealed this bit of shocking news!

http://www.animeacademy.com/finalrevdisplay.php?id=16

[Dreddz]

70% dosent equal a mess. I can pull out hundreds of positive reviews of the film....if I wanted to.

[edczxcvbnm]

The average is 6*%. I don't know about you but a D isn't a very good grade. I am sure those reviews you could pull out are also from nobody just like mine.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

Try reading the reviews instead of just looking at the scores.

My problem is that while the manga does an excellent job of fleshing out the story, the anime does not. Yes, I am very well aware of the implications of trying to stuff hundreds of pages into a movie format, but the slicing and dicing was done to such an extreme that the story borders on incoherency. The manga would have been better suited for television or an OVA format. There is just not enough time allotted to make it work.

While the ending is not quite a train wreck disaster, it is close. All of the proper connections are made to bind everything together at the very end, but this is done using whatever is available, which really is not very much or just is not that good; some things are summed up too quickly while others simply are not summed up at all.

If Akira was recommended to you for its three-dimensional characters and engaging storyline, the person making the recommendation was probably talking about the manga.

[edczxcvbnm]

I read the reviews and agreed with them for the most part. I would just be a bit harsher than they were. One thought it was close to a train wreck while I think it is the train wreck.

[Kawaii Ryûkishi]

I read the reviews

Of course <i>you</i> did.

[edczxcvbnm]

Thanks for agreeing with me. Nevermind the italics indicating sarcasm For the sake of things lets just use Kawaii's post again about how just and many people praise and hate it. It goes for reviewers also. The split difference in people's opinions in general make it somewhere in the middle by laws of averages.

[Dreddz]

I dont have time to read all the reviews, I just glanced at the scores and summary ( why do all of them hate the music?). And thoses are just 3 peoples view point. Heres Other peoples views. Shows that not all nobodies hate the film. The film is loved by most.

[eestlinc]

I dont have time to read all the reviews, I just glanced at the scores and summary

Try reading the reviews instead of just looking at the scores.

lol numbers are pretty meaningless anyway, in terms of movie reviews. sometimes people give good numbers and then proceed to write not very complimentary reviews becauser they realize as they write about it and are forced to analyze their positions that they had a much higher impression of the movie before they stopped to think about it.