The manga is infinitely better than the movie, but the movie feels like an awesome animated companion piece to the manga. It's still one of my favorite animated movies of all time.
The animation is still fantastic, I love how the characters are drawn, because they actually look like stylized Japanese people, and very different from the "usual" way anime characters are drawn. Katsuhiro Otomo is one of my favorite artists, and I think his style is amazing. Read the manga. I can't recommend it enough. It has so much more characterization, depth, plot, and interactions that were completely absent from the movie, which makes it feel kind of disjointed. I saw the movie before I read the manga, but I was still blown away. Granted, I was in high school back in the 90's when I first saw it, but I think it still holds up. It was ground-breaking at the time, but it's still a damn good movie today.
If it's not for you, it's not for you, but saying, "I don't get the appeal" isn't going to open the door for non-heated discussion. I don't like Overwatch or the Gears of War games, but I get why people dig them and love them. But again, read the manga, it's like 1,000+ pages and has excellent world building, art, and the narrative is so much more coherent and better plotted than the movie.
The animation is still fantastic, I love how the characters are drawn, because they actually look like stylized Japanese people, and very different from the "usual" way anime characters are drawn. Katsuhiro Otomo is one of my favorite artists, and I think his style is amazing. Read the manga. I can't recommend it enough. It has so much more characterization, depth, plot, and interactions that were completely absent from the movie, which makes it feel kind of disjointed. I saw the movie before I read the manga, but I was still blown away. Granted, I was in high school back in the 90's when I first saw it, but I think it still holds up. It was ground-breaking at the time, but it's still a damn good movie today.
If it's not for you, it's not for you, but saying, "I don't get the appeal" isn't going to open the door for non-heated discussion. I don't like Overwatch or the Gears of War games, but I get why people dig them and love them. But again, read the manga, it's like 1,000+ pages and has excellent world building, art, and the narrative is so much more coherent and better plotted than the movie.