Akira Assessment アキラ
For the reason that Group Anime Critiques website steadily has points, I’m republishing a few of my OG opinions from there. I’ve corrected apparent spelling errors although. I’ll add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB observe.” 😅 I gained’t rely these as a part of the “Again to the Vaults” sequence as I’ve not rewatched them.
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Group Anime Assessment of Akira
(ANB observe: This sequence was initially reviewed on 09-Nov-2003.)
Assessment from English dub on Pioneer DVD as I couldn’t get the Japanese DTS audio to play…and (to me) it isn’t price making an attempt to acquire a Japanese model…
Characters
I’d forgotten I’d seen this till a co-worker let me borrow it. Then I remembered I’d seen this in Japan untranslated and thus didn’t know the story. Now I do and to be sincere, it isn’t all that.
For a film executed within the late 80’s, the artwork and animation simply rock and even nonetheless beat a whole lot of trendy stuff. However that’s the place the title ceases to excel. For starters, the character designs are dangerous. Rei appears to be like like a smegging man. So do a whole lot of different ladies. Once they do look extra like ladies, they’re ugly. However then this isn’t the normal smooth and big-eyed anime character most of us love. These individuals look much less anime and extra “regular” if that’s doable. That’s positive, simply make the ladies appear like ladies!
Whereas on the topics of characters, I didn’t look after any of them. The one (stunning) stand-out character was the army Colonel in control of the Akira challenge. Whereas a gung-ho army kind, he truly cared concerning the Akira check youngsters and so they cared for him. In order that was good. However the so-called “hero” Kaneda was a punk in the beginning and a punk ultimately (although barely much less of 1). To be honest, I did really feel a little bit for Tetsuo’s “girlfriend” (who’s title eludes me) as a result of she cared for him although he didn’t look after her.
Story
The story didn’t do a lot for me both. I perceive that that is primarily based off of an enormous manga sequence and so I respect the truth that compressing a whole lot of manga right into a 2-hour film means a whole lot of stuff will be missed. And whereas some individuals say to observe this a number of instances, I simply am uninspired to sit down by means of this once more. Not less than with a weird title like Fooly Cooly (FLCL), there have been issues that made me wish to watch once more, despite the fact that it isn’t my type of anime.
That stated, there’s nothing about Akira that makes me wish to revisit this darkish world aside from the hope that perhaps this time, the so-called “hero” will get killed. Since that’s not going to occur, I’m simply tired of losing one other 2-hours, particularly when there’s a lot extra anime that I haven’t watched/reviewed.
Backside line:
Overrated in my view. Now I do know why I forgot about this when different Japanese stuff I noticed within the 80’s caught in my thoughts. Darkish, dreary, poor characters, and a narrative which frankly irritated me. Nonetheless, the artwork and animation are nice even right this moment.
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