Akira Evaluate
アキラ
Because the Group Anime Opinions website regularly has points, I’m republishing a few of my OG evaluations from there. I’ve corrected apparent spelling errors although. I’ll add new notes in parenthesis, labeled “ANB word.” 😅 I gained’t depend these as a part of the “Again to the Vaults” sequence as I’ve not rewatched them.
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Group Anime Evaluate of Akira
(ANB word: This sequence was initially reviewed on 09-Nov-2003.)
Evaluate from English dub on Pioneer DVD as I couldn’t get the Japanese DTS audio to play…and (to me) it isn’t value attempting 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 completed within the late 80’s, the artwork and animation simply rock and even nonetheless beat numerous trendy stuff. However that’s the place the title ceases to excel. For starters, the character designs are dangerous. Rei appears like a smegging man. So do numerous different women. Once they do look extra like women, they’re ugly. However then this isn’t the standard tender and big-eyed anime character most of us love. These folks look much less anime and extra “regular” if that’s attainable. That’s nice, simply make the ladies appear like ladies!
Whereas on the topics of characters, I didn’t take care of any of them. The one (surprising) stand-out character was the navy Colonel in control of the Akira undertaking. Whereas a gung-ho navy sort, he truly cared concerning the Akira check youngsters they usually cared for him. In order that was good. However the so-called “hero” Kaneda was a punk initially and a punk ultimately (although barely much less of 1). To be honest, I did really feel a bit of for Tetsuo’s “girlfriend” (who’s identify eludes me) as a result of she cared for him although he didn’t take care of her.
Story
The story didn’t do a lot for me both. I perceive that that is based mostly off of an enormous manga sequence and so I recognize the truth that compressing numerous manga right into a 2-hour film means numerous stuff will be missed. And whereas some folks say to look at this a number of instances, I simply am uninspired to take a seat via this once more. A minimum of with a weird title like Fooly Cooly (FLCL), there have been issues that made me wish to watch once more, regardless that it isn’t my form of anime.
That stated, there’s nothing about Akira that makes me wish to revisit this darkish world apart from the hope that possibly 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 for my part. 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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