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People keep saying that the animation is great, but there hasn't been much explication of why it is great, so I'll give it a stab.
The greatest thing about Akira's animation is how well it conveys a sense of physical tangibility for objects in its world. Nothing is flat, everything has volume and a space that it occupies and a real sense of weight and mass. This smoothly ramps up from the fist fights at the beginning all the way to the climactic shoving building sized stuff around with telekinesis at the end. It provides an essential foundation for the verisimilitude of the psychic powers, you can see and almost feel the runaway growth of Tetsuo's ability.
You monster!It was OK. The animation was nice except for the way people were drawn. Hated the way they looked. Some nice action scenes. Soundtrack was bad ( DUN DUN DUN!). Story was meh. Characters were meh. This movie is considered one of the best anime films ever. I honestly don't get the love for it and I don't understand why Hollywood wants to make a live action film. Am I missing something Gaf or is it 2deep4me?
Unless you're talking about not liking the art style for faces, I'm pretty sure disturbing you was the intended response.
Yes.The appeal comes from the insane production values.
It still looks amazing to this day and it's close to 30 years old.
The plot is garbage and confusing. And the characters aren't really likable or interesting.
The manga is better.
this dude didnt like the soundtrack to akira
whats to discuss?
Whether or not Akira is a good movie overall is definitely debatable but you lose all credibility saying the soundtrack is bad. Get better taste.
The older I get the more I enjoy the original GitS film. Even it's sequel.
I don't think it's all that deep or anything, but I do think it's kind of a masterpiece of hand-drawn animation and incredible scope for what it fits into it 2+ hour running time. It goes from being just a crazy biker/buddy story, to a political war movie, to a psychological thriller, to an apocalyptic monster movie, and it does all of this without feeling like it never knows exactly what it wants to be.
Did I mention the animation is fucking amazing?
I just remember feeling a sense of unease throughout the whole film in a way that movies rarely make me feel. Definitely wasn't expecting animation to have that effect on me. Props to the filmmakers if it was intentional, even if I'm still unclear of what the point of that would be in the context of the movie's story. Don't remember the plot that well TBH, but at the time I thought it was weird in a way that it might be if The Matrix or Blade Runner made you feel disturbed throughout most of the movie.
There's like 5 songs in the movie whole movie. Canada's theme is alright but not mind blowing.
It was OK.
The animation was nice except for the way people were drawn.
Soundtrack was bad
Story was meh.
Characters were meh.
I understand, among the Ghibli movies some are imo fun and easy to research like Kiki's Delivery Service, Porco Rossi, Laputa, and Spirited Away. Others.. I appreciate em but I'll probably never watch again like Naussica,Grave of the Fireflies, P Mononoke.
The art isn't nice, it's breathtaking. Plus Akira is one of the very few anime movies to be animated entirely "on ones," meaning there is a separate drawing for every single frame, 24 drawings per second. This gives the movie a fluidity virtually un-heard-of in anime, while still retaining the complex shading often found in older anime. Your problem with the faces sounds like a 21st century prejudice; the faces are great, very expressive and fitting for the characters. And there are a lot of sequences in the movie that are just stunning; the part where the espers project visions of giant, monstrous childhood toys on Tetsuo comes to mind.
And what really gets me, as someone else on the internet put it, is the operatic grandeur and gotterdammerung feeling of the whole thing. It really feels like a universe that's willing to completely tear itself apart. When I watch, say, a Marvel cinematic universe movie, even if it's really good, you know they're not gonna blow up the earth or kill off all their characters. But with Akira, you really feel like Tetsuo or Akira might rip apart the whole world and transform it into something entirely and terrifyingly new.
Now the plot... the plot is a mess. No disputing that.
People keep saying that the animation is great, but there hasn't been much explication of why it is great, so I'll give it a stab.
The greatest thing about Akira's animation is how well it conveys a sense of physical tangibility for objects in its world. Nothing is flat, everything has volume and a space that it occupies and a real sense of weight and mass. This smoothly ramps up from the fist fights at the beginning all the way to the climactic shoving building sized stuff around with telekinesis at the end. It provides an essential foundation for the verisimilitude of the psychic powers, you can see and almost feel the runaway growth of Tetsuo's ability.
The story was meh? What the fuck?
Watch it again. The story is incredible.
The animation was nice except for the way people were drawn.
This is so true. Going from the anime to the manga gives you so much context and background info that the film simply doesn't give you.The movie makes so much more sense after reading the manga, it's kind of a cliffnotes take on a very dense story.
This is so true. Going from the anime to the manga gives you so much context and background info that the film simply doesn't give you.I was blown away when I found out that akira is actually alive in the manga.
Say what you will about the characters, story and pacing (Otomo crammed a 2,000 page manga into a 2 hour movie) but the animation, art direction and music are objectively phenomenal.
It was the first anime/manga I ever watched so I have fond memories.
But I didn't uncle remember having no fucking clue what was going on. Like, I haven't watched it since the early 90s but why did Tetsuo become an all consuming giant blob?
Losing control of his power.
Crtl f my post and let me know if you find the word "overrated" anywhere, or you quoted the wrong poster.I mean, I get if they aren't your (others) favorites and all, but overrated? Really? I just can't see eye to eye with someone who says something like that.
The movie also used pre-recorded voices with mouth movements drawn to conform to them rather than the lip-flap animation and post-production recording typically done in Japan.
There is an incredible draftsmanship running through the film. Amazing construction and form and weight. The use of light is stunning.
Nerdwriter has an excellent video called How To Animate Light that analyses Akira in example. Highly recommended viewing.
Might have to watch it about 5 more times. Or better yet, read the book. The book is a much better way ro digest the plot and understand the characters and the art is mind-blowing.
The movie makes so much more sense after reading the manga, it's kind of a cliffnotes take on a very dense story.