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Summary: akira did it for me
Review: An anime that leaves you guessing untill the very end,A classic style anime that should be in every anime fans collection (if it's not BUY IT NOW)Starts of a little slow but if you get past the first half an hour its all uphill from there.Once again do yourself a favour and watch this even if you don't like anime.
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Summary: One of the Best Anime's of all TIME!
Review: I've always been hearing good things about this movie! Ever since it had originally been released in America. I never had really taken what I heard seriously, because I'm always suggested different kinds of anime, I've been collecting anime for over 3 years now... in my collection I have titles including: Martian Successor Nadesico, Evangelion, Robotech, Escaflowne, Lupin the 3rd stuff, Tenchi, DBZ (eh!) etc. It wasn't until the other day I had purchased this movie! This is seriously one of the best movies you will find under the anime name! It's too hard to explain, I'm just saying that this is seriously GOOD! The only other person who could possibly beat this movie is Hayao Miyazaki!
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Summary: Does this contain the orginal English sound track.
Review: I've watched Akira over and over on my VHS and it's a new experience every time I watch it. I have also read the Comic over and over (which is far more intense), but I love this movie so much that I want it on DVD. The problem is that any Akira DVD I can find has a new English translation, which I bought and resold, but I'm looking for one with the original English translation. The new translation just throws me off becaue in my head all I can hear is the original. The new translation is all wrong. Is this the one with the Original English translation like on the VHS?
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Summary: Neo Tokyo's about to EXPLLLLLOOOOODDDDE!
Review: This movie is the best movie you will EVER see in this lifetime (Ghost in the Shell comes close). It's the story of Tetsuo and Kaneda, best friends, and bikers. When Tetsuo gets hurt getting out of the way for a kid, he's subjected to experiments from the army to advance his psychic powers. The dub is good, and features voice talents like Johnny Young-Bosch (Power Rangers, Trigun) and Josh Seth (Digimon, Tokyo Pig, every Saban dub since '98). Pioneer went all out on restoring this. They did a feature on the restoration that shows you how much work went into this. Although the sub is 2.0 only, there's a new disc out in DTS (thank God I have 5.1) Overall, good transfer, good extrras, perfect movie.
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Summary: classic anime
Review: I'll just state up front that I didn't really understand everything that was going on in Akira. I understood the basic story, that of Tetsuo trying to find an identity in a motorcycle gang, but when he meets a strange child he has psychic abilities which begin to awake in him. The animation is fantastic, and it is easy to see why this was one of the first anime to gain mainstream acceptance in America. I'm just a little confused on the story. Watching it, there were a lot of moments where I just think, "What the hell?" The story is easy to follow, but a little difficult to understand. I'm not sure about the motivations of some of the characters, and very little backstory was given on the characters. It felt as though I was being led along on a ride, but I didn't know where I was going and only had a vague idea of how I got there. With that said, Akira is an anime classic, and any fan of the genre absolutely has to watch this. Akira has influenced much of modern anime and before Akira, I wouldn't have imagined that anything animated would contain that level of fairly realistic violence. This is worth watching, perhaps two or three times to get a chance to better understand the story.
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: this was a great movie. it made you think and want to become an anime charector. when its over you just keep craving more.a great movie for any new anime lover
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Summary: a masterpiece
Review: this was a great movie. it made you think and want to become an anime charector. when it was over you just keep craving more.
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Summary: Absolute garbage.
Review: I am amazed at the popularity of a movie that is so shallow and simplistic. This movie puts to shame the Manga which is one of the greatest triumphs of. The vague plot and exagerated seemingly disconnected series of violent scenes may pull some viewers in-but for those looking for more will be sorely disapointed by this movies aversion to plot and character development. What so many people seem to label as "mysterious" and "thought provoking" is the simple fact that the movie itself was a poor execution of an epic story. A very similiar failure to "Ghost in the Shell". The people who have read the manga of either tend to view the movies as being inferior as they represent the creativity of the Manga very poorly...If mindless violence with vague references to what one could possibly interpret as plot and character development is your thing-than Akira Movie is for you. If you want more then that, you will be disapointed with the movie by itself and should read the Manga. As the movie is intended to accompany the Manga otherwise it doesn't make any sense.
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Summary: WHAT? you havent seen Akira?? Hang your head in shame!
Review: It's safe to say that if you love anime, ..., this is by far one of the best anime I've ever seen (one of the first also). I can't tell you enough how warming it is to watch this movie. You run through all kinds of emotions without really realising. I could watch it 50 times more and never get sick of it; and that is exactly why its worth spending money on this disc instead of downloading the movie from the net .... AKIRA is the story of Tetsuo, an insecure young kid who's a member of a young bike gang in futurisitc Tokyo when political unrest and terrorism seems to be everywhere. These youngsters have no real direction in life and Testsuo finds his identity through Keneda, the leader of the group, also a chirpy, likeable and charming young man. Despite these faily simplistic plot elements, AKIRA is an anime that runs alot deeper then you would imagine and challenges you on several different psychological standpoints. Let's just say the story unravels quiet alarmingly to a climactic, enigmatic ending that you will be trying to decipher the rest of your life! One of the most enjoyable facets of AKIRA is the characterisation. Every person seems quite realistic and I guess people can relate to them on some level - mainly Tetsuo and Keneda. The animation is fantastic, if I'm not mistaken, AKIRA was the first of its kind to use cell based animation or something of the sort. The visuals are great for an anime made back then. The voice acting (I've heard it only English) is fantastic which is something you can't say for many anime. On this special edition, you have the option of listening to the original voice acting or the newley dubbed version which sounds much crisper (although I imagine many AKIRA fans will be slightly dissapointed at the new voices). The original voice-audio track seems a bit muffled in comparison to the newer audio but it's still watchable. I would not hesitate to add this to my collection any time. Those who enjoyed watching the Patlabor movies, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell ... etc (basically any anime which challenges your intellect) should love AKIRA, though there are those of you I know who will grumble about not understanding what is going on. Regardless, it's certainly wonderful to watch and I see it's made an impact on more then a few anime's since its release, eg Spriggan.... Have fun my beautiful readers, have fun.
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Summary: A master-piece and soon-to-be classic
Review: The plot of this movie isnt those simple annoying unorigonal ones such as....Terrorists kidnapped your daughter/son and gotta get him back, gotta catch them all, stoping a killer and such and such. The plot goes very deep and you have to be those careful and not wandering TV watchers to understand why this and that is going on. This movie is very hardcore in action and may be a bit to brutal, bloody and disturbing to young viewers, this movie suits young adults, or wide-eyed teens IM NOT TELLING YOU JACK ABOUT THE MOVIE BECAUSE I DONT WANT TO RUIN IT FOR U, but 2 words, BUY IT!!!
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