Bobbie Sellers <
bliss@mouse-potato.com> wrote:
Hi Reader and Typers, anime lovers
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed Akira. An apocalyptic SF
story
with super mutants escaping the Tyranny of the Government and
destroying Neo-Tokyo along the way.
Akira is a classic movie that has stood the test of time. Apart
from the cartoony billowing smoke the animation looks very modern
compared to other anime films of that era. I like the realism of
the grimy city and the flickering fluorescent lights etc.
I love how all the many plot strands intertwine - the military
backed government of old fogies, pro-democracy demonstrators,
religious cults, terrorists, biker gangs of delinquent teenagers,
and, lurking in the shadows, mad scientists experimenting on the
brains of orphaned children in order to tap into the primal
psychic forces that underpin the universe....
The manga is also a classic, but very different. As with Nausicaa,
the anime only deals with the first part of the story and comes to
a different ending.
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