The Angry Video Game Cuck

[Rapeculture]

Haven't watched, but it's somewhere on my list. I kinda picture it being similar to Ghost in the Shell, but with gore instead of waifu.

I like it better than Ghost in the Shell. I quickly ran out of patience with GitS's pretentious philosphising. Still a good movie though.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

If you think GitS is bad with that, you'll hate the sequel.

[rpgworm]

Akira is mostly remebered because of some key images and the great animation.

If you ask anyone that claims to like Akira, why they like the movie, you get the same answers, the cool bike, the blob monster by the end, and some cool scenes, like the bike chase and so on and forth.

But aside from that, i don't see a lot of people mentioning the story, characters, fuck, aside from Kaneda and Tetsuo, I doubt anyone even recalls any of the other characters... does anyone remember the name of the chick with powers that tries to stop Tetsuo by the end?

And that is the problem with Akira, the story tries to be grand but it is a fucking mess,it has bland character, hookey dialogue.

All kudos for being ambitious and some master class animation craft, for sure, but aside from that, there isn't much else to Akira.

here, i'll sum the movie for you:



That is all people remember from the movie.

[Some Sick Fuck]

I quickly ran out of patience with GitS's pretentious philosphising. Still a good movie though.

I haven't seen it, but I saw Ergo Proxy. Awful. Just awful - the definition of pretentious. Whatever it was supposed to be just sunk into nothingness as less and less made sense and in return made me more apathetic.

I don't mind when something goes chaotic or crazy when I am still interested and keep asking questions when I know I'll at least get some answers. The problem with pretentious storytelling is that they'll quickly show that they don't have any interesting answers.

[VoiceOfReasonPast]

It's mostly about wowing the audience with your supposed deepness, really.

And that is the problem with Akira, the story tries to be grand but it is a fucking mess,it has bland character, hookey dialogue.

It's almost like they tried to cram too much of the manga into too little runtime.

[Rapeculture]

I quickly ran out of patience with GitS's pretentious philosphising. Still a good movie though.

I haven't seen it, but I saw Ergo Proxy. Awful. Just awful - the definition of pretentious. Whatever it was supposed to be just sunk into nothingness as less and less made sense and in return made me more apathetic.

I don't mind when something goes chaotic or crazy when I am still interested and keep asking questions when I know I'll at least get some answers. The problem with pretentious storytelling is that they'll quickly show that they don't have any interesting answers.

I actually have Ergo Proxy on DVD, but haven't watched it yet. The art direction is what sold me on it. Sad to hear that it sucks.

[Bobito]

Akira has very good visuals, not much besides that, it’s just a mess of a movie and the manga is even worse in case someone is wondering.

[Rapeculture]

It's mostly about wowing the audience with your supposed deepness, really.

And that is the problem with Akira, the story tries to be grand but it is a fucking mess,it has bland character, hookey dialogue.

It's almost like they tried to cram too much of the manga into too little runtime.

Yeah, the manga is like 2000 pages long or something. They probably tried to adapt the more visually intresting bits, story be damned.

[Guest]

Did anybody watch Akira? I never did because when I was younger and saw that giant fat blob growing in some random amv I wasn't very enthusiastic about ever watching it and forgot about it's existence

First ever anime I ever watched, must have seen it about 6 times but I haven’t watched it for a while

[Poonoo]

Akira is mostly remebered because of some key images and the great animation.

If you ask anyone that claims to like Akira, why they like the movie, you get the same answers, the cool bike, the blob monster by the end, and some cool scenes, like the bike chase and so on and forth.

But aside from that, i don't see a lot of people mentioning the story, characters, fuck, aside from Kaneda and Tetsuo, I doubt anyone even recalls any of the other characters... does anyone remember the name of the chick with powers that tries to stop Tetsuo by the end?

And that is the problem with Akira, the story tries to be grand but it is a fucking mess,it has bland character, hookey dialogue.

All kudos for being ambitious and some master class animation craft, for sure, but aside from that, there isn't much else to Akira.

here, i'll sum the movie for you:



That is all people remember from the movie.

That's because he tried to condense the much longer manga into a movie and mashed shit together. All the characters actually develop in it and it's drastically different from the movie and significantly better. It made me like the movie a whole lot less since what I thought was some vague grand storytelling was actually Otomo cutting shit out like crazy to get this long TV series length story into a movie. There is nothing vague about the manga at all and it's brilliant, I don't know what Bobito is on about.

I never read the manga, but I hear it fully fleshes out the story. But I mean, that's pretty much par for the course when it comes to anime adaptations of manga.

Much more so than usual, it's night and day because it was so poorly condensed down.