Man, I watched this film so many times when I was younger.

In fact, you could say I watched A Keira Knightley.......

I'm sorry.

Thirteenth watch of Japanese July. A brief synopsis of Akira. It's 1988 and Tokio is destroyed. It’s 2019 and Neo-Tokyo is awesome. Kaneda yells: “Tetsuo!” Tetsuo yells: “Kaneda!” *Explosion* Tetsuo yells: “Kaneda!!” Kaneda yells: “Tetsuo!!” Some more beautiful animation. *Explosion* Kaneda yells: “Tetsuo!!!” Tetsuo yells: “Kaneda!!!” MIND BATTLE. Bodily mutations, so many bodily mutations. “Kaneda…” “Tetsuo!” *EXPLOSIONS* “Tetsuooooooooooooo!” MIND BATTLE. More stellar animation, yet another explosion, another mind battle and some more explosions. “Kanedaaaaaaaaaaaaa!”

94/100

An aggressive tour de force of influential animation, tangible world-building, inferiority complexes, biker gangs, giant teddy bears, and overwhelming sequences of violence. It stays burrowed in your psyche, ruining a certain, seemingly simple nerve and, in the blink of an eye, shifting perspective and rendering previous knowledge meaningless. Strangely enough, this is only the second time I've seen Akira, with the first being my "initiation" (age 11) via a dubbed VHS copy, but I can't imagine spending more than a year away from this film ever again. It's a horrifyingly grandiose tragedy piece, melding flesh and metal, revolutions and minuscule angst, mind and body, rubber and pavement into a Nuclear aftermath of neon and rubble. In spite of its countless influences (Metropolis, 2001, A Clockwork Orange to name a few), there's nothing quite like it.

probably the most galvanic and visceral example of a nation's collective psychic fallout since Honda's GODZILLA. simultaneously dreading and anticipating a return to power.

Neo-Tokyo. A giant-ass explosion. A crotch-rocket battle with the Insane Clown Posse. Suicide by cop. Ryu without Ken. Weird looking kids with cool powers. Student riots. Fuck is fuck in any language. Super-powers that make Carrie look like a Telekinesis Smurf. Oh Kaneda. Anime boobs. A barkeep's last pour. A determined general. Blowing a lot of shit up. Showdown at the Olympic Stadium with your best friend. A huge fuckin teddy bear. Attack of the giant arm. Becoming something you sure as fuck never dreamed of. A wild-ass visual adventure that is a must see for anyone who is Anime-curious.

I’ve seen this film so many times, it’s phenomenal. An amazing view of power and destruction. Trauma, pain and suffering. Anger, loneliness and frustration. This movie just nails all those emotions. The manga is a must read as well.

Taking Anime Seriously 101
WATCH AKIRA!

For a better understanding of overseas influence on American, as well as universal, cinema...
WATCH AKIRA!

If you were invested in the idea behind Chronicle, but couldn't relate to or find interest in the characters, find any sense of depth to those characters, or were just flat out sick of the found-footage fad,
WATCH AKIRA!

If you haven't watched Akira yesterday...
WATCH AKIRRAAAAAA!!!!!!!

Not really...
but kinda really.

jaw was on the floor right from “2019 tokyo”
SCORE

I may need to watch this again, as I watched it as I was going to sleep over several nights. It definitely made it a little more difficult to follow. Basically Tetsuro is a kid who wrecks his bike and gets taken by a group running a secret military experiment, where kids practice telekinesis and mess all kinds of shit up. Like starting World War III, leaving Tokyo in destruction, only to rebuild as Neo-Tokyo.

I’m not going to try to explain more than that, because I probably already got some of that wrong. So, I guess I’ll just rate it as I remember it.

Akira

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imagine seeing animation and emotion like this and caring about how the plot is too simple

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just rewatched

akira was set in 2019, and i reckon otomo had a better idea of the future than back to the future did.