| during its time its considered unique just like Evangelion and Dragonball are considered unique in their time but now those kind of stories are so common it lost its uniqueness and made new fans bored |
| Basically this movie is considered the epitome of realistic cell animation, along with the first Ghost in the Shell movie. An appex that has never been reached since because nowadays anything kind of realistic relies on rotoscopy or filters based on pictures. |
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Harley3579 said: The plot is really messy and there is no emotional connection to the characters at all. It just didn't interest me and all the violence and explosions for nothing just bored me. Why is this movie considered a masterpiece? It was a technical marvel back in its time. It's kind of similar to Avatar (2009) where the 3D experience made the movie really shine. There was nothing ground-breaking in Avatar otherwise. |
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| Not only you It is one of the worst movie I've seen. I don't care about animation. If the show has not plot, boring characters, then it is bad no matter how animation look. |
| You're definitely not the only person to think this lol a ton of people have this gripe but at the time it was made the production quality was bar none. The mystique that surrounds it today exists because of the street wear brand and movies that constantly reference it. |
Harley3579 said: Why is this movie considered a masterpiece? I don't see many consider Akira as a masterpiece, but rather a culturally significant movie whose success made the West start paying more attention to anime movies. There's where its value comes from. Most of people agree that it's in reality a dull experience. |
| Having watched it yesterday for the first time, I have mixed feelings about it. On the one hand, I can sense that it must have been unique back then, something that came to shape some future animes. On the other hand, I feel it has not aged well - the story is quite rushed and leaves way too many subjects without any proper explanation or hint. As an adaptation, it lacks answers to my "why, when, what, how" questions. With that said, I understand that people might have found it a masterpiece when it released, though I can't understand why people would say that nowadays. |
deg said: during its time its considered unique just like Evangelion and Dragonball are considered unique in their time but now those kind of stories are so common it lost its uniqueness and made new fans bored I watched Evangelion in 2019 and I put it at my #1 spot alongside MP100. Akira was good, which I also watched in 2019 (pretty ironic). It's not AS good as some people overhype it to be, but still very interesting. |
| I mean, it all comes down to tastes and what you personally like/are looking for in anime. I think Akira still holds its ground even in 2019 (the irony is too real), on par and better than plenty iconic anime we have nowadays. Though I understand why it wouldn't appeal as much to newer (specifically younger) fans. To some it's overhyped, to others it's a masterpiece and it's all subjective. For example, I don't like Cowboy Bebop and I can go on a rant as to how I think it's overhyped, but evidently not everyone would agree with me.XD So yeah. |
| Yep idk why people like it so much |
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I don't think it's bad. It was a solid 7 to me. The animation is very solid though and holds up perfectly. I respect Akira, but I don't think it is as God-tier as a lot of people seem to think. |
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| Maybe is not the best movie or the movie everyone say is part of the bests anime movies all time, but a bad movie? no, is good movie anyway. |
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| It is fucking trash, and yes obviously you are suppose to review things based on the time period but even back then it was just fucking flashy garbage with good animation. Junk with good animation is still junk but a lot of the plebs on this website think otherwise. Kimi no na wa for example is terrible but it has good animation so its a top 10. |
| It changed the anime climate and was massively influential both in Japan and in the West. It doesn’t have to be good but it’s one of the most important anime movies made. |
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| Having just seen it, I wouldn't say it's that bad, it's decently entertaining and the animation is nice. However, it's not great or even good. I'd say it's just mediocre with a vague plot, contrived coincidences, characters not dying when they are killed (the MC should have been dead like 5 times), pointless subplots (the Executive council trying to demote to colonel) and a ridiculous giant blob monster in the final. |
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| It is not only of cultural importance for it's insane animation standards, but also its glimpse into an eerie future for Tokyo. The narrative we follow is messy, but like with more atmospheric series it is not the main point. I've read the manga beforehand and maybe that lack of narrative annoyed me less, but I think this is more of an evocative movie than a plot-focused one. And it achieves it's job greatly. Imagine living in 1988 in the US just minding your business and then some random movie gets a lot of attention, you go watch it and boom your mind is blown by an animation movie. Must've been pretty cool for people at the time. Now animation like Akira's isn't as rare. |
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| I remember watching it 1 decade ago and expected to be better, but I felt it was just decent. I just rewatched today, and gosh, its just a piece of mediocrity. Amazing visuals wasted in this mess. Reminds me of venus wars. But at least venus wars had better designs. |
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| Akira is important for it's cultural significance not it's quality (I still think it's good though) |
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deg said: during its time its considered unique just like Evangelion and Dragonball are considered unique in their time but now those kind of stories are so common it lost its uniqueness and made new fans bored It wasn't even unique for it's time, if you actually look into anime from that time period you will find a ton of anime very similar to Akira, though most of them were OVAs and didn't have the budget that Akira did. That being said, the reason it gets critically praised is because it SEEMED unique in the west (and still seems unique to your average youtube expert that doesn't know as much about anime as they think they do) and the animation is very well done. Otherwise though, I agree, that the film it's self is not very good in my opinion. I'm too tired to go into why right now. |
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| I remember watching this movie when I was younger and I was blown away by the animation, the blood, the explosions and whatever. But today I decided to rewatch it and, wow, I was actually bored and gave up watching after an hour and 12 minutes. It's seriously nothing but loud teenagers with lots of shooting and explosions. How was I ever impressed by this garbage? Seems like 99% of the budget went into the art, sound and animation, it's truly groundbreaking but they clearly didn't spend enough to write a coherent story and well written characters. |
Yalaa said: lol Well said.It's seriously nothing but loud teenagers with lots of shooting and explosions. How was I ever impressed by this garbage? The first time I watched Akira, it was because it was recommended to me as something great. This was back around probably 2007 or earlier. I couldn't empathize with the characters and thought the plot was muddled. I also expected to see science fiction, but in my view magic mental powers are strictly fantasy (despite how they used to be thought of as SF). But I'm generally fine with fantasy and magic and stuff, so maybe I just came in expecting hard SF and was disappointed because of my prior expectations or an SF-focused bias... kind of like how the first time I watched The Fifth Element, I was expecting serious SF, not a spoof, so I hated it. Years later, I rewatched Akira, hoping that my experience would be similar to my second viewing of The Fifth Element: knowing more what to expect, I really enjoyed that film. Sadly, not so with Akira. I hoped that there would be more there in terms of small details of the writing, more show-vs.-tell for me to discover and interpret, more depth of the story and themes and characterization. But Akira still fell flat for me. The writing still felt muddled, the psychic powers still seemed silly (but admittedly not as bad as they seemed during my first viewing), and the characters still struck me as completely unsympathetic. The film was really not enjoyable. I sat through it mainly from a sense of duty and not because I was having a good time. It was a slog. I appreciate and respect the film's place in anime history: It deserves accolades for really bringing the West into the genre. And it did some impressive things with its cinematography and sound design for its time. But those aren't the kinds of things by themselves that make me want to watch a film again and again. Give me something instead like Howl's Moving Castle, something with rich writing and complex characters with whom I can empathize despite their flaws (or perhaps because of them). Give me something like Mushoku Tensei (admittedly a series, not a film), which uses its violence purposefully, in ways that make total sense and that advance both plot and characterization, not gratuitously because exploding bodies and extreme blood spatter are supposed to look cool. Give me something like Yoru wa Mijikashi Arukeyo Otome: sure, it might be more focused on expressionist rather than realistic storytelling, and might have had characters that are more ideas than genuinely realized people, and might just be an example of style over substance--it might not even have had the most realistic ending--but at least it ended with me thinking "huh, that was ... kind of weird, but I enjoyed it and would probably watch it again with a friend." Give me something, Akira. Give me something better than... you. sigh! g- |
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SoldierDream said: Harley3579 said: Why is this movie considered a masterpiece? I don't see many consider Akira as a masterpiece, but rather a culturally significant movie whose success made the West start paying more attention to anime movies. There's where its value comes from. Most of people agree that it's in reality a dull experience. Most people agree it's dull? Lol what the hell? Mindboggling statement. Could you provide a source for this claim? If it's "dull" why are we still talking about it 33 years after it's release? |
| one of these days, where there's agreement. I didn't like Akira. The animation was good and colorful that I thought I was watching a Blu-Ray and that's it. but BAD MOVIE! |
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| It's simply "B-back in muh day" clowns hyping this film up as one of the greatest anime ever, thanks to the animation it had going for it (incredible for it's time). Everything else is lackluster. |
| Akira is a masterpiece and is the greatest anime of all time! |
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