Lol, I just watched Akira (and I'm reasonably unfamiliar with anime in general), and was so grateful when this popped up on autoplay right after the movie ended.
Akira summed up. Cool bikes Laser weapons KANADA TETSUO Psychic powers A weird ass universe implosion ending And art that is still far ahead of its time.
KAZ the general literally says you are working for corrupt capitalist politicians in one Scene and there is another where that said corrupt capitalist politician is clutching his briefcase full of money as he has a heartattack😂 yup I’m projecting
"Born early in his life and died at the end. In most of his life, he knew that in every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes. Contemplating whether the floor is made out of floor or not, he decided to decide what he's going to do. Expert say he died by death."
@@DanielDaniel-xt3jh Not at all. It's about destroying the system. Tetsuo managed to destroy Neo Tokyo in the manga (not in the anime, though it's implied) and became the emperor of this new world, the only form of government and the ultimate authority. But it made everything worse for everybody because he never wanted a better world or justice for all in the first place. He only wanted the power to do whatever he wanted in impunity. And he got just that. And he killed all these people, his friends, the scientists who held him, the military, the politicians, the teachers, the other gangs he was fighting back when he was a biker. Everybody. And if anything, Akira is about power and what it does to the people who yield it. In the case of Tetsuo, it changed not only his personality but also his appearance. It severed whatever still tied him to humanity. He no longer looked human and became unable to relate to his peers. It took him from young thug to psychopath and in the end, to monster. But he DID manage to escape the system and the society he hated. It's just that A LOT of people had to die for that to happen (Freedom never comes cheap). It's his own power he couldn't escape.
I made my mother, who was about 70, watch Akira. She thought it was a warning against nuclear energy. I'm sure neither of us understood it fully. I think she was about right in the general direction.
This is a very in depth analysis, and I thoroughly love Akira But I can't help but laugh over how a skirmish between two biker gangs led to the formation of a new universe
@@manuelm2300 The only gangs mentioned in Akira(Or the movie, at least. I never read the manga) were the clowns and the capsules. There wasn't a third gang, and even if there was, it was the first skirmish between the clowns and capsules that led to Tetsuo meeting the espers, so a third gang wouldn't have affected the story. And it's fine that you're responding to an old comment lol
The irony of a little skirmish between two gangs starting a new universe can also be though of as two nations in a war using the nuclear bombs and creating something neither imagined
I was 12 in 1989 when I saw *Akira* in a small theater in the east village. It was only supposed to be one showing but the projectionist asked if we wanted to see it again, which of course everyone did... I can’t describe how massive a moment that was for me...
One of the things I noticed about the Akira manga, was the government's use of drugs to repress Tetsuo and the Espers' powers, was kind of similar to what's done to kids in general. Hyperactive? Drug it. Disassociative disorder? Drug it. Depressed? Drug it. Ask too many questions? Drug it. Psychic abilities? Drug it. That's one of the themes of the movie, control.
Trust me those “drugs” do help to a degree. Then again it’s up to the patient who is prescribed them to elevate their mental health. Allow me to explain, a depressed person will be prescribed medication during this time they’re encouraged to try to partake in hobbies, go out more, and interact socially. In order to elevate their depression. Their diet is also taken into consideration, also their environment, and who they interact with. The medication is suppose to serve as a help to their depression until they can cope with it. With a better diet, healthy hobbies and supportive people. Their medication is slowly lowered. Until the person is able to handle their depression.
Ohwell 0 thank you I don’t blame people for looking down at medication but it’s better than being in a dr. Stone situation and there aren’t any drugs for unknown sicknesses
Some of those "things" that you mention are actual issues, and those "drugs" help them, like, do you want to be depressed? Probably no, so if you take those drugs you can actually live a good life, the thing here is that people see the drugs regarding mental health as a thing to be scared when no, they help a lot actually.
@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 if i'm not mistaken, Lady Miyako was one of the patients? I haven't read the manga but saw some comments about Akira series that Lady Miyako was one of the many 'Patients' including the three espers, Akira, and Tetsuo
I think I was like 14 when I saw this for the first time. My friend's parents had it on VHS and I remember loving it, but also being VERY confused. Then I remember it airing on Toonami once and watching it again and fell back in love. Time for another rewatch with my 25yr old big brain lol. You always notice new things when you rewatch old classics!
We are the same age so I find the fact you got to watch it on VHS super cool. No one used it had them when I was growing up. (Outside of when I was like 6, but I don’t really remember that too much)
Wait, considering the year is 2019 and we're in an alternate history to the film, could that mean the movie eludes that WE are in Tetsuo's created universe? Edit: Wow, I have returned a year later to a pretty amusing conversation!
Edit: Just wanted to let yall know I was fucking with ya Edit 2: Still think its a shit joke Over the years i've studied the universe, multiverse, metverse, omniverse, planes a existence, pocket universe, dimensions, and planes of reality. In my opinion this s wrong. Any form of media is in a plane of reality below us. We created it, we designed it, gave it visuals, a voice, and thoughts. The same applies for the movie. People from our reality plane animated it, created the story, gave them voices etc. We created akira. He cant control us. We gave akira thoughts in the first place.
True. Neutron bombs were a big deal in the 1980's. I think this movie describes the effects of nuclear warfare on the spirit, soul and collective consciousness in general. People say Tetsuo is evil but that's not true, he is more chaotic neutral and then goes mad from all the power from Akira (who already blew up!)
So was Akira already his own universe some where else? Then the kids used his organ samples to summon his Consciousness to come back to the movie universe, to help contain Tetsuo’s transformation into a universe of his own and show him how to do it? Basically, the movie universe is A, Akira’s universe is B and Tetuso has now become Universe C. separate gods in there created places? Or did the two of them, Akira and Tetsuo merge their powers together to create a new universe and now they exist there together? Like yin and yang
I would say the last bit it's what made more "sense" if you think about it, anything in our reality relies in the belif of what's right and wrong, good or evil, and you can not have one with out the other (at least in theory), so assuming akira is the force for good it needed to exist first to do what good does, create stuff, and in an opositive reaction, evil came to exist trough Tetsuo, and merged in the new universe to balance the equation and complete the sense of existence of all things in that new universe giving the the Father of good and the counterbalance the father of evil. But that's just my philosophical bullshit. It could be what the author tried to send as a message of his own set of belifs. XD
They don't become an universe. Their consciousness became part of the universe through their awakened ability to control the Akira energy...... That's how I think it is.....just my thoughts.
akira was still in a physical form, just chopped up. sealed and dormant. tetsuo was the only one strong enough to wake him up when he entered his presence. I think tetsuo losing control was his powers reacting to the presence of akria. once the container and seals were broken, akira was able to manifest himself again, like Dr Manhattan. since the 3 kids were not as strong as akria and tetsuo, I believe akira and tetsuo made a universe and all 5 of them exist there.
Ehhh I’m pretty disappointed ngl... it seems overhyped now bc everyone told me I had to watch it bc it was such a great anime movie but I’m rating it a solid 6/7 😪
Great explanation. I now realize that there were so many parts of the manga and the anime that I didn't understand despite reading and watching it countless times... I never associated that orb of light with the big bang and the creation of a new universe. When at the end they say "it's already begun", I thought it meant more espers like Kay would appear. And when Kyoko says " big people like you shouldn't have that power" and talks about amoeba (through Kay)... I always thought that meant the akira abilities were due to a microbial infection. But she meant that great powers to flawed individuals only enhance their ability to do what they were already doing: evil. It doesn't improve them. It just multiplies their respective propensity for good or evil. And apparently the fact that Tetsuo's psychic pattern is the exact opposite of Akira's alludes to their respective natures. Japanese mangas can be so deep and reflective sometimes... It's amazing. You'd never find that in western comics.
It's important to note that this is only my interpretation of the film. Your interpretation is just as valid! The creation of a new universe might as well mean the creation of future espers.
Akira and tetsuo pretty much acted as suns. A sun is ultimate energy. When they got so much power they exploded like a star. They went supernova and created a black hole. This whole thing is just things we already know or believe in someway percieved in someones own perspective.
I learned that the reason Tetsuo even had psychic powers in the first place was because his grandfather was apart of the first Akira plan, and the powers skipped a generation.
Every time I try to say this almost no one hasn't spoken about it but, DID THEY JUST PREDICTED THE OLYMPICS IN JAPAN OF 2020?! I was it to honor the movie?
This thread: proof that people need to read up on their Olympic hosting history :D @spook, I didn't know the IOC is into anime when they voted Tokyo as the 2020 Summer Olympics host :D
just finished the movie and what i thought right after it ended, was that it's supposed to be a commentary about the corruption of politicians, military, hiding the truth from the people, how selfish humans are in nature, etc., but i missed a lot of things, geez. i'm particularly bad at analysing media as complex (and not so complex...) like this film, and your video was really helpful, well made, and straight to the point, loved it!!
I literally CANNOT believe that the very first words out of your mouth in this video are the actual content of the video, and aren’t some sort of contrived introduction or “welcome back everybody so today we’ll be talking about one of my favorite movies of all time and bear in mind that it’s really blah blah blah” monologue. That sort of intro thing always happens in RUclips video essays like this-so well done! Thank you very much for this editing decision. It makes me instantly want to watch your video more, because I don’t have to wait for it to start.
I always thought Tetsuo overused his power and it turned on him. He went against the flow of the universe too much and it finally overwhelmed him. He was he was then rescued by Akira and placed in a different universe where he wasn't affected anymore by the causality of his actions in our universe.
One of the prevalent thoughts I had during the movie was that everyone were always antagonizing eachother and so many of the disasters that happened during the plot would probably not have happened if they just communicated. Like if the government/scientists just explained to Tetsuo that he contained dangerous powers and could end up dying and killing a lot of people maybe he would have collaborating. Even after the chaos started they could maybe have talked him down instead of shooting a bunch of weapons pointlessly at him. If Tetsuo had been honest about how being mocked or bullied affected him then maybe their friendship wouldn't have rifted. The kids keep refusing to elaborate themselves and people keep thinking they're bad guys because of it. Hell if they told the people the truth about Akira/the "bomb" maybe the war wouldn't even have happened. Plus, the politicians being exposed as liars and manipulators in the end leads me to believe there's a message in the movie about trying to understand eachother and just being honest.
Akira was the movie that made me love anime. I watched it for the first time when I was 13 back when everybody thought stuff like this was only for nerds. But it opened my mind to how this stuff isn't nerdy at all its awesome and has so much to offer. As I kid I always watched yugioh and Pokémon but considered them cartoons but this was the movie that opened the doors to everything else.
If a movie is made where it can REALLY make a person think about what it meant, then you have created a masterpiece. That is what this movie is. Not only visually and groundbreaking but story-wise. I loved is movie from the first time that I saw it. And it still blows me away every time I see it years later as an adult.
thank you for the breakdown. last time I saw this movie was 1992 in middle school & the ending had me stumped. all these years later, you've answered my question. thank you spook!
The guy that made the movie and manga was a genius. He thought about concepts that resemble a lot what Stephen Hawking seemed to have thought about black holes that could be their own big bang to the eyes of eventual observers somewhere in the future of this big bang.
I remember watching this with my brother as a kid. It stood out in my mind like some kind of myth. Ever since becoming an adult I've been trying to remember what I watched as a kid. Now I know, it was Akira I watched all those years ago. Quite serendipitous to have it randomly pop into my RUclips suggested videos. Makes me wonder if the SNES game that stands out in my mind will resurface in my life in the same way Akira did. Thank you for this video. It concluded a 15 year long quest.
One of the best Akira analysis videos on yt! Props to the mentioning at the end that anime was influenced by the atomic bomb and the destruction it caused in hiroshima and nagasaki! I thought the same thing! Keep making these analysis videos! Btw you should totally have more subscribers!
Wow man, this is incredibly high quality and in-depth content. I have no choice but to subscribe to you. Thank you for spending the time to make this video.
Seriously, what is it with you people and this, "Who's watching this in (Insert Current Year Here)?" Who started this? At this point its the one meme that won't go away.
@@albireotheredguard1599 Well, here this meme is appropriate because both the manga and the movie versions Akira takes place in the year 2019, which is this year of course!
The explosion didn't kill everyone. They know Akira was the cause because they were experimenting and monitoring on those psychic children including Akira.
This movie is a masterpiece. It is not hard to understand it if you are a little awake during it. It is great to watch these kind of videos and others to further understand all the meaning behind each scene, dialogue and even music. I love this movie. I will read the mangas someday.
I always thought Akira = Tetsuo Kannada = Takashi The girl = Kyoko Akira never got to become and adult. In order to stop his explosion he had to literally invert himself... when all the espurrs jump into the 2nd explosion, they too invert themselves to imprint on the 4 protagonists left at the end of the movie... I think kyoko notices their psychic ability earlier in the film
Spook じめじめミーム haven’t found any forums or anything who agree with me/ share my view. But my 1st real watch through I was like... the old kids are phsychic. They say it’s weird that the new kids have some ohsychic abulity. Testuo is compared to Akira the whole movie. His energy pattern is even inverted. I thought it seemed obvious they had inverted themselves into their own uni erase creating some kind of paradox... Testuo ams Akira being the Big Bang that caused our own universe respectively (the constant acceleration of dark matter, dark energy and mass in general kind of being how we saw tetsuo constantly expanding at the end... then we see the universe expansion as the last images of the movie... So,ebony please discuss this with me in great detail please!
i think this sums up what i saw, but i did get vibes of becoming pure energy through rebirth which spawns big bang kind of sense as tetsuo looked like a giant god fetus like creature before he was swallowed by the light that was akira. and i think that the estimation that akira took tetsuo away to his dimension or universe to more or less save him from himself or maybe recruit him was what happened in the end, i'm not sure. the movie had some stellar animation however i feel like it was a pretty rough movie to watch as it was really hard to follow plot points and it jumped from different parts of the cast giving away very little information except the visuals and it's like you had to just guess a lot of the plot or what they were trying to convey through the entire movie by context clues. it was nice to look at but i felt no emotional connection to it, but it was pretty interesting because the plot points seemed pretty cool and i had to invest myself into it to understand it.
This movie changed my fucking life when I first saw it 25 years ago. I went and saw the original print for the 30 year anniversary, even met the guy who owns 90 percent of the cels. What a masterpiece, everyone should see this movie at least 5 times. I notice/learn something new every time I watch it. Have prob seen in 80+ times.
I loved this video and it gave great insight into the explanation of a lot of the core of the movie. It does however fail to acknowledge the highly political messages of the film and it’s symbols. Not only was Akiras effect disguised as a a nuclear bomb and WW3. It is a message that the greed and hunger for that power is what caused it in the first place that the power should not be in the hands of one person. It turns them into a disgusting baby monster. Or the scenes of the corrupt politician and his true importance as a symbol as he literally runs away with a big briefcase brimming with money dying of a heart attack. Or when the general kills the official trying to take his power and tells the soldiers “ they were working for corrupt capitalists” this video is great for the content but the true beauty of what makes Akira great is it’s understanding and depth rooted in real problems.
That last bit at the end regarding Akira and Tetsuo's pocket-verses was great, I had always pondered what the explanation could be but that was an excellent summation.
The movie is pretty self-explanatory to people who understand the topics Akira touches. For me, there is overwhelming amount that watching it once I cannot grasp the true beauty of the film.
Superb video! Thanks for explaining this movie greatly. I couldn't understand much in the movie when I watched it . But your video helped me to understand most of the movie. Thank you so much.
i knew i wasn’t the only person who didn’t understand akira. after so many years of trying to understand i still don’t. this video helped but not to much. thank you for your time
Can I ask a question? if Akira creates a new universe, he can reset everything right in that area he borrowed right?!! That means Kaori is still alive. That’s just a theory though
I unfortunately do not know the extension of Tetsuo's abilities, but I feel if they are powerful enough to produce a new universe they would be powerful enough to do just that!
Personally I don't think he can, or will. Kaori died before the new universe was created, and none of Akira's or Tetsuo's powers indicate they could bring back the dead. They could possibly make an identical looking copy of Kaori in the new universe, but it wouldn't be the same one most likely, i.e it wouldn't have her memories or experiences.
Tetsuo says that he felt him absorb her, so I imagine that they might share a consciousness within their own new universe. Maybe Akira will teach him how to be a god with two personalities. Idk
For some reason I don't think their powers would be that specific, like being able to copy a thing like a person as if it were a set of Legos. If Akira created a separate universe I don't think it would be like say, Franklin Richards, I think he would create the necessary pressures and gravity for a universe to create itself if that makes sense.
I watched this movie with my partner and it was a wild ride because it went from gang wars, to political rebellion, to philosophy class, to action horror, to body horror, and then to existential horror I loved every second of it even if I needed a while to process the whole thing
Akira capture common theme in human society. When the old system got problems there are people who want to change it, they gain absolute power that that power making them corrupt, inhumane and out of control only for it to collapse and creates something out of that ruin: a new society and then repeats. Edit- i just realize this is also common theme in everything in the world, in short old dies and new one creates over and over again be it on cellular level to universe indefinitely.
It is necessary to discuss the destruction of the old and the creation of the new separately from physical and political matters. Reality is constructed according to the ideas of social construction. Because we build with the wrong philosophy from the beginning, we end up destroying things. Ideas that justify this have become widespread. Due to the wrong doctrines of creation, ownership, rulership, and selection, humanity has been formed to repeatedly destroy and invade. A history of mistakes that began with lies and division is completed by Akira and Tetsuo. The work Akira is the key to humanity's awakening. 古いものの破壊と新しいものの創造を物理的な事柄と政治的な事柄とは別に論じる必要があります。 社会構築の理念に従って現実は構築される。 初めから間違った理念で構築するから破壊を実行してしまう。 それをあたかも正当化している思想が蔓延してしまった。 創造と所有と支配権と選別という間違った教義により、何度でも破壊や侵略を繰り返す人類を形成している。 嘘や分裂から始まった間違いの歴史はアキラとテツオによって完了する。 アキラという作品は人類の目覚めの鍵である。
Just watched it and what a experience had so many emotions watching this and it's so unique it comes really close to what is happening in our world with all the lessons in here
Fantastic video! Please do more of these! Super easy to follow and understand, as well as well put together! Cant believe you only have this many subs you deserve a lot more. Please keep uploading!
Thanks! Comments like this one drive me to continue working on youtube videos. I'll shortly be releasing my new series called Spook's Spotlights! Featuring the 1991 Capcom classic Nights of the round!
@@Spook_1994 this randomly came back into my recommended well done you cracked 100k views only 6 months after my original comment where you had basically none.
Well thank you! There's so many little plot points I didn't understand (maybe because of translation or because I didn't pay attention), this cleared my mind. Ivey tried to understand te movie by rewatching it multiple times, but you were the one, man.
Somebody give this man godlike Powers for helping me understand akira after 20 years
I'll settle for more free time to create further content!
Lol, I just watched Akira (and I'm reasonably unfamiliar with anime in general), and was so grateful when this popped up on autoplay right after the movie ended.
Just read the manga
@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 basically.
We don't want another massive blob of flesh, do we?
When I first watched it I thought it was about motorbikes and was prepped for motorbikes but I got philosophy class instead
Felt the same way about Neon Genesis. was expecting a dope mech anime but got an existential crisis
same lmfao- i thought it was just gonna be a sick action anime but it turned into something i was totally unexpecting
In metamorphosis i expected a children but i got an overdose instead
Me too lol, i was expecting a motorcycle gang in a futuristic Tokyo which is sort of what I got but also not at all.
@@co1520 I like your pfp lol
Akira summed up.
Cool bikes
Laser weapons
KANADA
TETSUO
Psychic powers
A weird ass universe implosion ending
And art that is still far ahead of its time.
Sherbet_Bomb what about big forehead
And fuck capitalism 🤤 it’s the best movie
CANADA
@@nandohead *the abuse of authority, not "capitalism" which is a total projection.
KAZ the general literally says you are working for corrupt capitalist politicians in one Scene and there is another where that said corrupt capitalist politician is clutching his briefcase full of money as he has a heartattack😂 yup I’m projecting
“Akira, a boy, was a young boy.”
You found one of the few overlooked mistakes confined within my multiple re-written script! Thanks for the laugh, and for watching!!
Spook じめじめミーム Now why would there parents abandoned them all and send them to the orphanage?!
Have you watched evangelion?
"Born early in his life and died at the end. In most of his life, he knew that in every 60 seconds in Africa a minute passes. Contemplating whether the floor is made out of floor or not, he decided to decide what he's going to do. Expert say he died by death."
gnasty gnork well crap man, he sure was
After all these years and this in depth analysis, this particular anime still confuses the shit out of me.
God bless y’all! We need to turn to Jesus as Lord and Savior and leave sin behind. Preach the Gospel! John 3:16
You need to read the manga to understand what's going on in the anime. Otherwise it can be extremely confusing.
Akira is about not being able to escape the system
@@DanielDaniel-xt3jh
Not at all. It's about destroying the system. Tetsuo managed to destroy Neo Tokyo in the manga (not in the anime, though it's implied) and became the emperor of this new world, the only form of government and the ultimate authority.
But it made everything worse for everybody because he never wanted a better world or justice for all in the first place. He only wanted the power to do whatever he wanted in impunity. And he got just that. And he killed all these people, his friends, the scientists who held him, the military, the politicians, the teachers, the other gangs he was fighting back when he was a biker. Everybody.
And if anything, Akira is about power and what it does to the people who yield it. In the case of Tetsuo, it changed not only his personality but also his appearance. It severed whatever still tied him to humanity. He no longer looked human and became unable to relate to his peers. It took him from young thug to psychopath and in the end, to monster.
But he DID manage to escape the system and the society he hated. It's just that A LOT of people had to die for that to happen (Freedom never comes cheap).
It's his own power he couldn't escape.
@@Laurie111981 good analysis
I made my mother, who was about 70, watch Akira. She thought it was a warning against nuclear energy. I'm sure neither of us understood it fully. I think she was about right in the general direction.
She's spot on!
That one scene with the girl and the biker gang probably wasn’t ideal
Nuclear energy is the safest technology :P Nuclear WEAPONRY isn't nuclear ENERGY.
I showed this to my dad. All he said was that it was too long.
Nuclear energy is only a bad thing when the soviets make it happen. Nowadays its extremely environmentally clean.
The atom bomb and the whole world war 2 had great affect on anime and Japanese people. It's insane.
I'd say there is no anime without the atom bomb
@@furiousfuryan ???
@@stfu1803 at least it would look very different
you sound surprised. it's crazy what was done and it must not happen again. absolute war crime.
@@web9195 what the Japanese did to the Koreans and Chinese was a real war crime.
This is a very in depth analysis, and I thoroughly love Akira
But I can't help but laugh over how a skirmish between two biker gangs led to the formation of a new universe
Sorry this is a year old comment but there were actually three the capsules, clowns, and smiles
@@manuelm2300 The only gangs mentioned in Akira(Or the movie, at least. I never read the manga) were the clowns and the capsules. There wasn't a third gang, and even if there was, it was the first skirmish between the clowns and capsules that led to Tetsuo meeting the espers, so a third gang wouldn't have affected the story.
And it's fine that you're responding to an old comment lol
The irony of a little skirmish between two gangs starting a new universe can also be though of as two nations in a war using the nuclear bombs and creating something neither imagined
War never changes
@@danielscharff9945 Fallout, boy.
His forehead is larger than my future
I can't stop laughing at this. 😂
btw your donut is even larger
His hairline is more distant then my my chances of getting laid
your art is worser den his forehead
@@Spook_1994 did you ever make the vid about the impact of nuclear weapons on anime?
I was 12 in 1989 when I saw *Akira* in a small theater in the east village. It was only supposed to be one showing but the projectionist asked if we wanted to see it again, which of course everyone did... I can’t describe how massive a moment that was for me...
East village, where are you from?
@@NuIIname new york city
That's awesome
One of the things I noticed about the Akira manga, was the government's use of drugs to repress Tetsuo and the Espers' powers, was kind of similar to what's done to kids in general. Hyperactive? Drug it. Disassociative disorder? Drug it. Depressed? Drug it. Ask too many questions? Drug it. Psychic abilities? Drug it. That's one of the themes of the movie, control.
Under rated comment right here 👀
@@Spook_1994 OG original watcher in 1988, I had a lot of time to spend microanalyzing it.:) All my lives you might say.
Trust me those “drugs” do help to a degree. Then again it’s up to the patient who is prescribed them to elevate their mental health. Allow me to explain, a depressed person will be prescribed medication during this time they’re encouraged to try to partake in hobbies, go out more, and interact socially. In order to elevate their depression. Their diet is also taken into consideration, also their environment, and who they interact with. The medication is suppose to serve as a help to their depression until they can cope with it. With a better diet, healthy hobbies and supportive people. Their medication is slowly lowered. Until the person is able to handle their depression.
Ohwell 0 thank you I don’t blame people for looking down at medication but it’s better than being in a dr. Stone situation and there aren’t any drugs for unknown sicknesses
Some of those "things" that you mention are actual issues, and those "drugs" help them, like, do you want to be depressed? Probably no, so if you take those drugs you can actually live a good life, the thing here is that people see the drugs regarding mental health as a thing to be scared when no, they help a lot actually.
It was predicted to happen in 2019. Now here we are.
Twinkling Star im still waiting
Very very fucked
Best thing is that we got 2020 olympics in japan too. :)
Shhhhhhhiiiiiiiittttttttt
I first watched Akira a week ago, and I was flipping out when I saw the time stamp
The ending of the movie is only 1/3 of the manga story. If you like the movie you should definitely read it.
I have the entire manga collection and would love to do a video highlighting exactly what you said!
Lady miyako is the MVP in the manga
@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 if i'm not mistaken, Lady Miyako was one of the patients? I haven't read the manga but saw some comments about Akira series that Lady Miyako was one of the many 'Patients' including the three espers, Akira, and Tetsuo
@@justarandomperson868
Yes.
@@iliveinsideyourhouse3943 ah, thanks, probably gonna read the manga after this
I think I was like 14 when I saw this for the first time. My friend's parents had it on VHS and I remember loving it, but also being VERY confused. Then I remember it airing on Toonami once and watching it again and fell back in love. Time for another rewatch with my 25yr old big brain lol. You always notice new things when you rewatch old classics!
Yes, I need to get a copy on VHS! Now, if only I could track down the Sega game...
We are the same age so I find the fact you got to watch it on VHS super cool. No one used it had them when I was growing up. (Outside of when I was like 6, but I don’t really remember that too much)
like mutated testuo's UGLY ass nutsack
I’m 23 and watched it for the first time. I still didn’t understand the ending but this video helped.
There is a SEGA game if Akira?
Wait, considering the year is 2019 and we're in an alternate history to the film, could that mean the movie eludes that WE are in Tetsuo's created universe?
Edit: Wow, I have returned a year later to a pretty amusing conversation!
ur woke af
The Olympics are taking place in Japan next year, Just as the film predicted! You may be on to something!
@@Spook_1994 this is too woke for me
Edit: Just wanted to let yall know I was fucking with ya
Edit 2: Still think its a shit joke
Over the years i've studied the universe, multiverse, metverse, omniverse, planes a existence, pocket universe, dimensions, and planes of reality. In my opinion this s wrong. Any form of media is in a plane of reality below us. We created it, we designed it, gave it visuals, a voice, and thoughts. The same applies for the movie. People from our reality plane animated it, created the story, gave them voices etc. We created akira. He cant control us. We gave akira thoughts in the first place.
@@cowmoo5596 he was making a joke lay off a bit
Most confusing movie ever
it's like a japanese Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas lol
Huh? Try Ghost in the Shell (1995).
@@ieru.rapha.7 Or perfect blue
Honestly it's not, maybe you're just too young to understand.
@@Mecks089 Can you explain the film in your own words?
True. Neutron bombs were a big deal in the 1980's. I think this movie describes the effects of nuclear warfare on the spirit, soul and collective consciousness in general. People say Tetsuo is evil but that's not true, he is more chaotic neutral and then goes mad from all the power from Akira (who already blew up!)
yeah people who call tetsuo evil are retarded
Tetsuo was killing people like the soldiers who were just doing their jobs. How is that not evil?
@@HumanPhilosopherPatriot its called self defense they kidnapped him the start with anyways
@@vincenthammons-kd9du bruh he killed the barkeep and one of his closest friends what do you call that?
Chris Lopez lol you got him there
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So was Akira already his own universe some where else? Then the kids used his organ samples to summon his Consciousness to come back to the movie universe, to help contain Tetsuo’s transformation into a universe of his own and show him how to do it? Basically, the movie universe is A, Akira’s universe is B and Tetuso has now become Universe C. separate gods in there created places? Or did the two of them, Akira and Tetsuo merge their powers together to create a new universe and now they exist there together? Like yin and yang
Hillshire maybe
The first explosion that created Neo Tokyo was Akira becoming an universe
I would say the last bit it's what made more "sense" if you think about it, anything in our reality relies in the belif of what's right and wrong, good or evil, and you can not have one with out the other (at least in theory), so assuming akira is the force for good it needed to exist first to do what good does, create stuff, and in an opositive reaction, evil came to exist trough Tetsuo, and merged in the new universe to balance the equation and complete the sense of existence of all things in that new universe giving the the Father of good and the counterbalance the father of evil.
But that's just my philosophical bullshit. It could be what the author tried to send as a message of his own set of belifs. XD
They don't become an universe. Their consciousness became part of the universe through their awakened ability to control the Akira energy......
That's how I think it is.....just my thoughts.
akira was still in a physical form, just chopped up. sealed and dormant. tetsuo was the only one strong enough to wake him up when he entered his presence. I think tetsuo losing control was his powers reacting to the presence of akria. once the container and seals were broken, akira was able to manifest himself again, like Dr Manhattan. since the 3 kids were not as strong as akria and tetsuo, I believe akira and tetsuo made a universe and all 5 of them exist there.
Anyone else appreciate akira way more after finishing the movie?
I just literally finished it man i dont even know what to say lmao
Ehhh I’m pretty disappointed ngl... it seems overhyped now bc everyone told me I had to watch it bc it was such a great anime movie but I’m rating it a solid 6/7 😪
@@pauljorge5089 The insane animation skills alone are nothing you can ruin through overhyping. Not to mention the soundtrack. Both are flawless.
@@pauljorge5089 it’s definitely not overrated, it deserves every bit of attention
you need to read the manga to complete it
Spook: talks about how a kid caused ww3
2020 :
Everyone : *getting drafted for ww3*
Looks like the 2020 Olympics prediction wasn't the only thing that came true...👀
@@Spook_1994 delayed
Watching this film high is a religious experience.
I just did, didnt get much kick, last night saw Purple Blue, that was damn trippy
Just watched it trippin nuts last night always a great time doing that lmao
might be.
take acid and watch it
Watching this on LSD is a must
Great explanation. I now realize that there were so many parts of the manga and the anime that I didn't understand despite reading and watching it countless times... I never associated that orb of light with the big bang and the creation of a new universe.
When at the end they say "it's already begun", I thought it meant more espers like Kay would appear.
And when Kyoko says " big people like you shouldn't have that power" and talks about amoeba (through Kay)... I always thought that meant the akira abilities were due to a microbial infection.
But she meant that great powers to flawed individuals only enhance their ability to do what they were already doing: evil.
It doesn't improve them. It just multiplies their respective propensity for good or evil.
And apparently the fact that Tetsuo's psychic pattern is the exact opposite of Akira's alludes to their respective natures.
Japanese mangas can be so deep and reflective sometimes... It's amazing. You'd never find that in western comics.
It's important to note that this is only my interpretation of the film. Your interpretation is just as valid! The creation of a new universe might as well mean the creation of future espers.
Akira and tetsuo pretty much acted as suns. A sun is ultimate energy. When they got so much power they exploded like a star. They went supernova and created a black hole. This whole thing is just things we already know or believe in someway percieved in someones own perspective.
Funny how a slime tutorial brought me here.
I learned that the reason Tetsuo even had psychic powers in the first place was because his grandfather was apart of the first Akira plan, and the powers skipped a generation.
I wished nothing bad happend to tetsuo he was so sweet and just wanted respect and got misunderstood
I agree with you 💯 👍
Me: just watched Akira
Status: thoroughly scarred and looking for answers
Da Pug Lord same I didn’t sleep for a while thinking about the film
Every time I try to say this almost no one hasn't spoken about it but, DID THEY JUST PREDICTED THE OLYMPICS IN JAPAN OF 2020?! I was it to honor the movie?
You know they did it to honor the movie!
as far as I know, the year of the countries where the Olympics take place are already set, decades in advance
Jeff Japan 2020 wasn’t announced yet in 1988, it was announced in 2013
This thread: proof that people need to read up on their Olympic hosting history :D
@spook, I didn't know the IOC is into anime when they voted Tokyo as the 2020 Summer Olympics host :D
PLUS
it got delayed
thank you for this, i just finished akira and this answered a lot of my questions!
Ishmael Muhammad Akira really spirals off near the end! It’s a great film but I was originally pretty confused as well 😂
same, just finished it at 4am
just finished the movie and what i thought right after it ended, was that it's supposed to be a commentary about the corruption of politicians, military, hiding the truth from the people, how selfish humans are in nature, etc., but i missed a lot of things, geez.
i'm particularly bad at analysing media as complex (and not so complex...) like this film, and your video was really helpful, well made, and straight to the point, loved it!!
I literally CANNOT believe that the very first words out of your mouth in this video are the actual content of the video, and aren’t some sort of contrived introduction or “welcome back everybody so today we’ll be talking about one of my favorite movies of all time and bear in mind that it’s really blah blah blah” monologue. That sort of intro thing always happens in RUclips video essays like this-so well done! Thank you very much for this editing decision. It makes me instantly want to watch your video more, because I don’t have to wait for it to start.
I always thought Tetsuo overused his power and it turned on him. He went against the flow of the universe too much and it finally overwhelmed him. He was he was then rescued by Akira and placed in a different universe where he wasn't affected anymore by the causality of his actions in our universe.
One of the prevalent thoughts I had during the movie was that everyone were always antagonizing eachother and so many of the disasters that happened during the plot would probably not have happened if they just communicated. Like if the government/scientists just explained to Tetsuo that he contained dangerous powers and could end up dying and killing a lot of people maybe he would have collaborating. Even after the chaos started they could maybe have talked him down instead of shooting a bunch of weapons pointlessly at him. If Tetsuo had been honest about how being mocked or bullied affected him then maybe their friendship wouldn't have rifted. The kids keep refusing to elaborate themselves and people keep thinking they're bad guys because of it. Hell if they told the people the truth about Akira/the "bomb" maybe the war wouldn't even have happened. Plus, the politicians being exposed as liars and manipulators in the end leads me to believe there's a message in the movie about trying to understand eachother and just being honest.
> disasters that happened ... would probably not have happened if they just communicated
Sounds like life.
Lol still confused... these writers must’ve been coked outta their minds creating this .
It was the 80s...👀
There's an interview of the director of this movie (who is also the author of akira manga) and is the most normal guy ever lol, also very smart.
ITS FUCKING GARBAGE. BEAUTIFUL GARBAGE, BUT GARBAGE NONETHELESS. LAZY WRITING AT ITS WORST.
@@mkocel how is the writing lazy-
@@mkocel bruh
leave me alone!
Akira Akira
OMG I AM INTERESTED in your explanation on atom bomb in anime as a whole!!! Love the video, I subbed.
1:01 low key bars
After 40+ years, I've finally come to understand Akira...
I think
Akira was the movie that made me love anime. I watched it for the first time when I was 13 back when everybody thought stuff like this was only for nerds. But it opened my mind to how this stuff isn't nerdy at all its awesome and has so much to offer. As I kid I always watched yugioh and Pokémon but considered them cartoons but this was the movie that opened the doors to everything else.
If a movie is made where it can REALLY make a person think about what it meant, then you have created a masterpiece. That is what this movie is. Not only visually and groundbreaking but story-wise. I loved is movie from the first time that I saw it. And it still blows me away every time I see it years later as an adult.
Masterpiece of animation. Great analysis.
thank you for the breakdown. last time I saw this movie was 1992 in middle school & the ending had me stumped.
all these years later, you've answered my question.
thank you spook!
Akira is basically the same story as Star Wars prequels. kid gets corrupted by power and destroys everything, thinking that what he is doing is right.
False actually.
The guy that made the movie and manga was a genius. He thought about concepts that resemble a lot what Stephen Hawking seemed to have thought about black holes that could be their own big bang to the eyes of eventual observers somewhere in the future of this big bang.
I was born in 1988 and watch this film in 2019 - what a terrifying coincidence
I remember watching this with my brother as a kid. It stood out in my mind like some kind of myth. Ever since becoming an adult I've been trying to remember what I watched as a kid. Now I know, it was Akira I watched all those years ago. Quite serendipitous to have it randomly pop into my RUclips suggested videos. Makes me wonder if the SNES game that stands out in my mind will resurface in my life in the same way Akira did. Thank you for this video. It concluded a 15 year long quest.
This movie is crazy fun and badass and looks phenomenal. I recommend every anime fan watch it.
One of the best Akira analysis videos on yt! Props to the mentioning at the end that anime was influenced by the atomic bomb and the destruction it caused in hiroshima and nagasaki! I thought the same thing!
Keep making these analysis videos!
Btw you should totally have more subscribers!
I really appreciate your support! My dream is to create content full time, media is my passion and these classic films deserve more of a spotlight!
Wow man, this is incredibly high quality and in-depth content. I have no choice but to subscribe to you. Thank you for spending the time to make this video.
Dammnn got to give a hand to the creator....this anime's concept is gold
Who is watching this on the first day of 2019?
Good way to start of your year!!
Spook じめじめミーム ありがとうこざいました！
@Steve akira is set in 2019
Seriously, what is it with you people and this, "Who's watching this in (Insert Current Year Here)?" Who started this? At this point its the one meme that won't go away.
@@albireotheredguard1599 Well, here this meme is appropriate because both the manga and the movie versions Akira takes place in the year 2019, which is this year of course!
Holy hell, was really getting in my feels with how deep, and creative this film is.
So glad i took time to see the explanation.
just finished watching a fun slime tutorial i now suddenly feel the need to watch this
"Leave me alone!"
LEAVE ME ALOOONEEEE
This is the epicist anime movie i have ever seen in my entire life
Where did the scientists and the rest of the humans come from? How did they know that Akira was the cause of the explosion?
hate to be that person but... read the manga.
@@AstralThrob i just downloaded it I'm going to read it when I get a reader program for it
The explosion didn't kill everyone. They know Akira was the cause because they were experimenting and monitoring on those psychic children including Akira.
Lalboi Manlun than they should be dead already after that explosion
@@lilbastaman Akira saved the 3 remaining espers (those 3 freaky looking kids) during the first bomb. they probally told them it was him.
"I AM TETSUO." -What a profound and beautiful scene. Gives me chills every time... and reminds me of my 5meodmt trip.
This movie is a masterpiece. It is not hard to understand it if you are a little awake during it. It is great to watch these kind of videos and others to further understand all the meaning behind each scene, dialogue and even music. I love this movie. I will read the mangas someday.
ufff i liked this video,being honest your explanation is way better than others, your channel is underrated
I'm glad you enjoyed my analysis!
juan_da_one I agree. One of the best explanation I have ever heard.
I always thought
Akira = Tetsuo
Kannada = Takashi
The girl = Kyoko
Akira never got to become and adult. In order to stop his explosion he had to literally invert himself... when all the espurrs jump into the 2nd explosion, they too invert themselves to imprint on the 4 protagonists left at the end of the movie...
I think kyoko notices their psychic ability earlier in the film
I love this idea, maybe we will see what happens next in the reboot series coming out!
Spook じめじめミーム haven’t found any forums or anything who agree with me/ share my view. But my 1st real watch through I was like... the old kids are phsychic. They say it’s weird that the new kids have some ohsychic abulity.
Testuo is compared to Akira the whole movie. His energy pattern is even inverted. I thought it seemed obvious they had inverted themselves into their own uni erase creating some kind of paradox...
Testuo ams Akira being the Big Bang that caused our own universe respectively (the constant acceleration of dark matter, dark energy and mass in general kind of being how we saw tetsuo constantly expanding at the end... then we see the universe expansion as the last images of the movie...
So,ebony please discuss this with me in great detail please!
This is by far the most complete explanation I could find online. Thank you.
I just saw this movie today.
Same.
I saw this 2 days ago!
i think this sums up what i saw, but i did get vibes of becoming pure energy through rebirth which spawns big bang kind of sense as tetsuo looked like a giant god fetus like creature before he was swallowed by the light that was akira.
and i think that the estimation that akira took tetsuo away to his dimension or universe to more or less save him from himself or maybe recruit him was what happened in the end, i'm not sure.
the movie had some stellar animation however i feel like it was a pretty rough movie to watch as it was really hard to follow plot points and it jumped from different parts of the cast giving away very little information except the visuals and it's like you had to just guess a lot of the plot or what they were trying to convey through the entire movie by context clues.
it was nice to look at but i felt no emotional connection to it, but it was pretty interesting because the plot points seemed pretty cool and i had to invest myself into it to understand it.
I reckon he was recruited to ram ranch
This is the best explanation and analysis of the film on youtube.
This movie changed my fucking life when I first saw it 25 years ago. I went and saw the original print for the 30 year anniversary, even met the guy who owns 90 percent of the cels. What a masterpiece, everyone should see this movie at least 5 times. I notice/learn something new every time I watch it. Have prob seen in 80+ times.
Sad!
Ive never heard of nor seen this movie, but after all the memes, the algorithm has finally brought me here
Akira Is one of those movies that are confusing but the way its presented Is so unique and intriguing you cant help but love it
This is probably the best analysis of Akira yet! I seen and read many interpretations but yours is by far the best
I'm going to subscribe
Thank you, this really means a lot to me!
I loved this video and it gave great insight into the explanation of a lot of the core of the movie. It does however fail to acknowledge the highly political messages of the film and it’s symbols. Not only was Akiras effect disguised as a a nuclear bomb and WW3. It is a message that the greed and hunger for that power is what caused it in the first place that the power should not be in the hands of one person. It turns them into a disgusting baby monster. Or the scenes of the corrupt politician and his true importance as a symbol as he literally runs away with a big briefcase brimming with money dying of a heart attack. Or when the general kills the official trying to take his power and tells the soldiers “ they were working for corrupt capitalists” this video is great for the content but the true beauty of what makes Akira great is it’s understanding and depth rooted in real problems.
I wish I had this video to go along with the movie back in 1989 when I first saw it.
I'm glad you enjoyed it! (Even if I was 30 years or so late)
After finishing the movie I was so confused, and I knew the ending had a deep meaning but I didn’t know what it was. This video helped a lot with that
you've answered questions I've had for decades! Thank you for this video!!
Thanks for the supportive comment! I could clear some things up!
That last bit at the end regarding Akira and Tetsuo's pocket-verses was great, I had always pondered what the explanation could be but that was an excellent summation.
The movie is pretty self-explanatory to people who understand the topics Akira touches. For me, there is overwhelming amount that watching it once I cannot grasp the true beauty of the film.
Akira - - As someone that read the manga, and saw the movie countless times... you did a great job explaining it...
I almost came to the same conclusion, but the points you made really helped me understand the ending completely, thanks for sharing your knowledge :)
I watched this when I was a little girl, I was scared and confused but for some reason, I remember the name of the movie, thanks for explaining
Superb video!
Thanks for explaining this movie greatly.
I couldn't understand much in the movie when I watched it .
But your video helped me to understand most of the movie. Thank you so much.
Watched Akira last night...and this filled in two blanks for me.👍🙂
Akira is a masterpiece
i knew i wasn’t the only person who didn’t understand akira. after so many years of trying to understand i still don’t. this video helped but not to much. thank you for your time
Can I ask a question? if Akira creates a new universe, he can reset everything right in that area he borrowed right?!!
That means Kaori is still alive. That’s just a theory though
I unfortunately do not know the extension of Tetsuo's abilities, but I feel if they are powerful enough to produce a new universe they would be powerful enough to do just that!
Personally I don't think he can, or will. Kaori died before the new universe was created, and none of Akira's or Tetsuo's powers indicate they could bring back the dead. They could possibly make an identical looking copy of Kaori in the new universe, but it wouldn't be the same one most likely, i.e it wouldn't have her memories or experiences.
But that’s just a theory.....A game theory
Tetsuo says that he felt him absorb her, so I imagine that they might share a consciousness within their own new universe. Maybe Akira will teach him how to be a god with two personalities. Idk
For some reason I don't think their powers would be that specific, like being able to copy a thing like a person as if it were a set of Legos. If Akira created a separate universe I don't think it would be like say, Franklin Richards, I think he would create the necessary pressures and gravity for a universe to create itself if that makes sense.
I watched this movie with my partner and it was a wild ride because it went from gang wars, to political rebellion, to philosophy class, to action horror, to body horror, and then to existential horror
I loved every second of it even if I needed a while to process the whole thing
Akira capture common theme in human society. When the old system got problems there are people who want to change it, they gain absolute power that that power making them corrupt, inhumane and out of control only for it to collapse and creates something out of that ruin: a new society and then repeats.
Edit- i just realize this is also common theme in everything in the world, in short old dies and new one creates over and over again be it on cellular level to universe indefinitely.
It is necessary to discuss the destruction of the old and the creation of the new separately from physical and political matters.
Reality is constructed according to the ideas of social construction.
Because we build with the wrong philosophy from the beginning, we end up destroying things.
Ideas that justify this have become widespread.
Due to the wrong doctrines of creation, ownership, rulership, and selection, humanity has been formed to repeatedly destroy and invade.
A history of mistakes that began with lies and division is completed by Akira and Tetsuo.
The work Akira is the key to humanity's awakening.
古いものの破壊と新しいものの創造を物理的な事柄と政治的な事柄とは別に論じる必要があります。
社会構築の理念に従って現実は構築される。
初めから間違った理念で構築するから破壊を実行してしまう。
それをあたかも正当化している思想が蔓延してしまった。
創造と所有と支配権と選別という間違った教義により、何度でも破壊や侵略を繰り返す人類を形成している。
嘘や分裂から始まった間違いの歴史はアキラとテツオによって完了する。
アキラという作品は人類の目覚めの鍵である。
Just watched it and what a experience had so many emotions watching this and it's so unique it comes really close to what is happening in our world with all the lessons in here
Fantastic video! Please do more of these! Super easy to follow and understand, as well as well put together! Cant believe you only have this many subs you deserve a lot more. Please keep uploading!
Thanks! Comments like this one drive me to continue working on youtube videos. I'll shortly be releasing my new series called Spook's Spotlights! Featuring the 1991 Capcom classic Nights of the round!
I watched Akira in the early 90's.....I am today years old where I can finally understand it lol.
Akira: debating how might makes right is wrong with awesome art and sound.
40k: proving with its own existence, that might ALWAYS makes right.
Am I the only one who watched Akira more than once and left with my mouth open and not understanding it....then immediately say “that was awesome”
Why does this have so few views, really well done!
Thanks, I really appreciate it!
@@Spook_1994 this randomly came back into my recommended well done you cracked 100k views only 6 months after my original comment where you had basically none.
Josh Adams It’s been very encouraging for me to continue my video work! I’m currently working on the script for my next video!
I've watched this movie so many times and loved it without really being 100 percent behind the story. But your explanation is very good
Yea if you ever done any type of psychedelics this movie makes sense in pieces
@ShrekLiveActionMovie420 Where can I get some acid?
Well thank you!
There's so many little plot points I didn't understand (maybe because of translation or because I didn't pay attention), this cleared my mind. Ivey tried to understand te movie by rewatching it multiple times, but you were the one, man.
Hes transformed into a Giant amobea that makes sense right?
Yes you are right, a human with the massive ability of an amoeba
Jing Yi Ong what the... so you’re saying amoebas have a great power?
Finally a video that explains the nontrivial parts of the film! Thank you
Thanks for watching, I really appreciate you taking time to comment! I worked really hard on this video, it's always good to hear from a fellow fan.
Great !! Movie still rocks in 2019.
Excellent analysis! This was very clarifying to me as someone who just watched Akira for the first time.