I think we're more likely to see someone in a Godzilla suit walk up to the Olympic flame dish and use a build-in flamethrower to light it. After all, Godzilla IS one of Japan's most important citizens and ambassadors :p
A. Theil OMG Im actually hoping to see that now. Truth be told the 2020 olympics need to pay some nods to Akira. They practically owe it to that movie.
@@justinratcliffe947 I'm pretty it's more to do with millions of dollars in bribes to Olympic Committee, but Akira might have had a small influence somewhere in the process
"Akira predicted the 2020 Tokyo Olympics" That, or Akira left such an impact that people spent 25 years trying to get Tokyo to the 2020 slot just because (Akira released in 1988; Japan won the bid to host the 2020 games in 2013).
Tried to trick my dad into taping Golden Boy when I was kid and told him it was about a guy with a bike. My dad saw the description for bikers in the TV guide and taped this instead and my life was that much better for it
It's animated mainly in 2s with some moments in 1s and 3s It does not make sense for someone to say that it is totally 1s when anyone can see the movie and realize that it is not like that
i've only ever seen it shown on UK TV twice. Film4 usually has Anime seasons, but usually more family friendly like Howl's Moving Castle or Princess Mononoke, they never show Akira
Not the first anime I saw, that title is held by warriors of the wind that I saw on HBO. Akira was a movie I remember renting at a place called music plus. I was 8 or 9 and my mom had no idea what she was getting me, neither did I. That night I went home and was scarred for the rest of my life. Best anime ever.
#4 is incorrect, the holgraphic representation of Tetsuo's power was digitally created, i've seen it on the official making of on the DVD, it was created, like Tron, frame by frame, purely using code
"Touched by as few computers as possible" as they show that exact scene, so I'll allow it. The script definitely doesn't help though, with how many times 'No CGI' (and all of the possible variations of it) is repeated during this segment. Could've pointed it out in the video but it looks like they only caught on after recording and were trying to correct it in editing.
I LOVE Akira. Kaneda is the first anime figure i ever got as a kid. I was born in 92, so the figure I had was already aged when i got it. As a kid, this film scared me. It still freaks me out a bit, but i absolutely adore the gross evolution throughout it
Ever read the manga? The story went on Much longer and even crazier. With the movie basically only covering the first arc with a few references to the other parts. Akira's power went of once after waking up, Tetsuo had a cult of super powered drug head bikers after Akira's first explosion, Akira was awake for like a year, Tetsuo was hit by a neurotoxin while mutating and evolved into a monstrosly powerful albino form that could punch craters into the moon, the woman Tetsuo saved became his girlfriend until rebels shot her and made Tetsuo go berserk, the journalist lady was lent psychic powers from the elderly experiment children to try and make Tetsuo powers rampage with negative energy by flying down while firing a satellite cannon so Akira's positive energy would react and absorb it rather then the two powers repelling each other and tear the world apart.
Akira is like a phenomenon.....its like describing the effect and magic of Starwars for the 1st time...or the majesty of The Lion King. Its just an absolute Marvel.
@Tidder T I was trying to think of something majestic comparable to Akira. Kimba is of coarse the genuine artical but what would u choose to say how epic Akira is? Id like to hear it for a modern audience as Akira is in a class of its own.
Akira is a hugely important movie, which 'brought' (the concept of) anime to the western world, but also animation to a mature serious audience. It was a mature and serious story. It broke boundaries, and at that time, could basically only have been told through animation. That said, the manga it's based on, is even better. Much much better.
Do you mean the german town, the suriname village or the beer? Or maybe Cronenberg the famous body horror director after which a dimension is named in the "Rick and Morty " franchise ?
Eisenwulf666 alright, kronenburg morty, we’ll fit in here, i know i changed all the kronenburgs back home and couldn’t change them back, but here everyone looks like us now.
This was my first anime I ever watched. I was perhaps 10 years old and I remember BBC 2 advertising a late night showing at 2am or something. So, I stayed up with headphones plugged into my ancient colour tv, vhs recorder primed and ready to go. And in those small hours of weekday night my young mind was just blown completely away by this unknown subtitled "cartoon" I was not supposed to be watching. Luckily my parents were none the wiser. And I have been hooked on Anime ever since!
One thing the video missed is Akira's huge impact on the cyberpunk genre. Akira essentially redefined cyberpunk. Most of the later cyberpunk works that followed Akira were influenced by it, from cyberpunk anime like Ghost in the Shell and Battle Angel Alita, to Hollywood movies like The Matrix and Dark City, to video games like Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Deus Ex. And many of these Akira-inspired cyberpunk works went on to be very influential in their own rights. Anime, Hollywood and video games have all been greatly influenced by Akira, as a result of its huge impact on the cyberpunk genre.
@@festo8756 Ghost in the Shell's creator Masamune Shirow cited Akira among his favourite manga and anime works. He acknowledged Akira as an influence on the art and animation of GITS. It's also worth noting that the only reason Kodansha even published GITS in the first place was because of Akira. After the Akira manga series debuted in 1982, it became an unexpected success, sparking a cyberpunk boom in '80s Japan. Following the success of Akira, Kodansha was looking for the next cyberpunk manga hit, which they eventually got with GITS. In other words, Akira is the founder of Japanese cyberpunk. Every cyberpunk manga and anime owes a debt to Akira. And beyond that, Akira also influenced plenty of Western cyberpunk works from the '90s onwards.
The moving having 160,000 animated cels goes hand-in-hand with the actual length of the source manga, which is more than 2,500 pages long. I've read it a couple of times, and will do so again. The artwork is fantastic, and the story is far, far deeper than any one-off movie -- as good as it is! -- could properly present.
I mean... If we want to be serious about this. There's actually good arguments for both, and it often depends on the actual show. Anyone that is 100% on one side or the other likely doesn't understand the ACTUAL nuances of the topic. If you can't name a single dub or sub you find superior to the other, you have your blinders on. There's massive issues of translation, intent, and whether the original Japanese cast was phoning it in and people just THINK it sounds better because the accent sounds "exotic". Also, the west tends to ironically honor Lip Flaps WAY closer than Japan does.
Yeah. Not all, but many subs feel like the English VAs are just there to read a page for their paycheck, while the original ones sound like they're legitimately getting into the role.
Great stuff, but why didn't you make a numbered point to talk about the sound design? The music has always stuck with me since i first saw it way back when, even today. I can still hear the drumming intro and then the bike engines... then the choir starts.
Goddamnit Tony, you really have become a master at the meta-analysis. These bits you do are the biggest reason why I'm still subbed to Dorkly, though I do feel like you're being stifled by the "Top X" format that tends to get more clicks. Awesome work as always.
Thank you for setting this video to the 80's sci-fi music it demands. It's been a long time since I saw Akira, so it could just be from that, but I'm reminded to watch it again.
To be fair, Akira did have one part with CGI. The part where the scientist was looking at the digital glowing energy data presentation when observing the powers that Tetsuo had.
@@risingred1241Yeah! Masashi Kishimoto (the creator of Naruto) started losing interest in manga as he started playing baseball and basketball but it all changed when he saw the poster for the animated film Akira.
re: no CGI was used in Akira, per Wikipedia: "Computer-generated imagery was also used in the film (created by High-Tech Lab. Japan Inc. and the cooperative companies for computer graphics, Sumisho Electronic Systems, Inc. and Wavefront Technologies), primarily to animate the pattern indicator used by Doctor Ōnishi, but it was additionally used to plot the paths of falling objects, model parallax effects on backgrounds, and tweak lighting and lens flares." Which explains why the patterns pop out of the screen so much.
one time, i think it was in 1993 or something, a local channel aired this movie...i was blown away...i went out , for weeks, searching for it on vhs...no luck...years later....i was in a bookstore, there was a shelf called ''kids movies'' , i casually skimmed it...then i froze up, there was a tape, in a white plastic case...it said ''akira'' on it...i picked up, i couldn't believe it, i was holding a vhs tape of akira, these were years before the internet and streaming and online purchases...it was a miracle...i found a vhs copy of akira...and it was for like $10...i ran home, saw my brother in the neighborhood with the guys..i showed him the tape...he was dumbstruck....we rushed home, went to out room, closed the door and watched that movie all weekend non stop....it was brutal, gory, bloody and it has scenes we knew that our parents would kill us if they knew we were watching it.....i laugh now when i know i can just log in to amazon and buy things, but we lived in an era where finding niche things was down to dumb luck...same thing happened years later with SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN on DVD, and GHOST IN THE SHELL on VCD....what a time it was...
Oh my god, I thought that movie Secret Nimh was some fucked up dream I had as a kid because I couldn't find anything about it, but that little clip brought it all back to me. I gotta go watch that again, it scared the hell outta me as a child
I remember the first time I knew of it's existence was when I was a wee lad. A commercial for the VHS came out on KDOC oddly enough. It wasn't until years later when I was at Hollywood Video that I came across it accidentally and right away I remembered the commercial nearly a decade before. I finally got a chance to watch it and after doing so I had to have my own copy.
One of my favorite song Stronger (By Kanye West and Daft Punk) was the reason I watch the movie to know how good it was and honestly it is a Godlike Masterpiece, personally I'm really happy they choose this movie to represent the music.
Really liking the new format you guys are taking with the videos. Before they were a bit cringey and felt forced, but now the content is being presented really well. :)
Man listening to you talk about Anime in the 90s really brought me back...you're not lying that trying to find anything to watch was obscenely difficult. I think there's probably a good argument to be made for the popularity of Dragon Ball Z (maybe even Toonami in general) being in part due to the fact that it was one of the few easily available at the time. Although I still remember the 9am Saturday morning anime movies on the Sci-Fi channel...that's where I was first introduced to anime actually: Casshan: Robot Hunter followed by Vampire Hunter D. Once a friend introduced me to Bio-Booster Armor Guyver I was irrevocably hooked.
Akira was ahead of its time and extremely impactful for the Anime films that followed! And yes, it is the most important anime ever made! Nice video! 🏍️🏍️
I watched it this weekend, and become my 2nd best anime after “Your Name”. Even though it was 30+ years old, it looks so modern and vibrant. Enjoyed very much!!
god... I remember seeing Akira on the sci fi channel when I was like 8. My family was like "its a cartoon, no worries"and it warped my perception of cartoons forever.
Tony! Omg good to see you, man! Akira is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was only like 7 when I first watched it. It opened my mind to anime, because later MMX4 was released, and Robotech was a daily thing and my love grew tenfold. It also features the first anime boob that I laid eyes on! Seriously though, that movie is a work of art. I had a silk poster of the movie too, but it was stolen.
Everything you said is interesting but I am surprised that all Akira's importance is reduce to technique and budget. Films are also stories. According to what you said Akira could have been a completely different film at it will be praised as long as the impact and technique are the same...
Funny thing, i'm not an anime type guy, but recently i watch Edgerunners on Netflix, and couldn't shrug off that Akira vibe in the anime... Not sure if this is common stuff for anime or Edgerunners does have something special like Akira, but the fact is that Akira is probably the anime that everyone saw at least once in their lives...
The notion that Akira was entirely animated on ones has become a bit of an urban myth. While it's true Akira's animation is on one's, it is ALSO on twos (and longer, if we're counting the held frames of unmoving poses). In general, faster moments are animated on ones (motorcycle scenes, smoke and explosions), while dialogue scenes are usually less frames ( or a mixture of ones and twos for different movements in a single scene). Really great video!
MAK3X7 you’re not wrong. The point was there was no way Williams could have used so much creativity in his role if the character had been animated first.
One of my absolute favorite movies I remember when I was like 4 or 5 seeing this on toonami or adult swim and I was so hype that animation could look so fucking cool.
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 17 I think in my friends house. We were lit and it had just came out. I was amazed back in 95 and I’m still amazed today. Ghost in the Shell, the original not the remake was another one on par with Akita though. Those two are definitely my top two of all time. I would have to say though the most badass of all was MDS Geist. Not the best in animation but the dude was unstoppable. His armor too. That midnight black and gold trimmed set is the shit. Man this brought back a lot of good memories. Very nice video as well. Everything you said was spot on about this movie. The actual meaning behind it though still boggles me a bit. Akita’s organs brought back a super powerful being or was in Tetsuo?
The Manga is a very good read too. There is so much more to it than the movie. I mean it's 6 volumes of ~400 pages each. I was personally impressed by the strong female characters like Kei, Lady Miyako (who has a much larger role in the manga) and Chiyoko (a "true" she-hulk). I think Major General Armstrong would be glad to have Chiyoko under her command. xD
5:55 Subs>>>dubs argument is not about Japanese voices matching the animation or having some input in the animation. It's about American voice actors sucking monster balls and some nuances get deleted in the translation. I know that some Japanese character is a country bumpkin because he has a accent or that someone is dignified and proper by the way that they speak. Dubs just try to give them dumber sentences or the dignified people fake English accents.
Always loved Akira but didn't know how to describe it. Then I watched it with my girlfriend who didn't like it and said it was like a "fever dream" (those freaky dreams you have when you're sick). Now I got the perfect description of what I like about those old school Anime's. Ghost in the shell, Akira, cowboy bebop, etc. Almost all of them have this same dreamy but also a bit dark feeling to them. Also while typing this, Alien(s), terminator 2, RoboCop, The matrix, Game of thrones also kinda fit this description... I just love these types of movies!
I appreciate Dubs because that way I can look at what they're doing rather than reading the whole way through and missing what's playing out on screen!
I still have yet to watch any anime film as amazingly gorgeous as Akira. It might just be the limit of anime beauty. There are other gems like Spirited Away looking glossy as Hell, and Interstella 5555 being max psychadelic euphoria, but other than Steam Boy (8:49 that shot is F*CKING PAINTING), the cityscapes of Blame!, and maybe the tech. details of Evangelion... yeah, Akira tops all. Still can't believe my eyes.
I remember... I remember 20 ish years ago, how I'd know what was in the cinema was the local newspaper (yeah, I know) and I remember being amazed that an anime movie was playing. It was Spirited Away :)
Imagine during the 2020 Japan Olympics we see someone dressed up as Kaneda driving the iconic bike with the torch in hand
Yoooo
I think we're more likely to see someone in a Godzilla suit walk up to the Olympic flame dish and use a build-in flamethrower to light it.
After all, Godzilla IS one of Japan's most important citizens and ambassadors :p
A. Theil OMG Im actually hoping to see that now. Truth be told the 2020 olympics need to pay some nods to Akira. They practically owe it to that movie.
"KAAAA-NEE-DAAAAAAAAAAA!!!"
@@justinratcliffe947 I'm pretty it's more to do with millions of dollars in bribes to Olympic Committee, but Akira might have had a small influence somewhere in the process
"Akira predicted the 2020 Tokyo Olympics"
That, or Akira left such an impact that people spent 25 years trying to get Tokyo to the 2020 slot just because (Akira released in 1988; Japan won the bid to host the 2020 games in 2013).
Did you know the rank 1 immunologist in the world is named Akira?
Tokyo to Coronavirus: the culmination of my life’s work ruined!
When a movie is so good that people still talk about it 30 years later
*laughs in toei*
@@cabrondemente1 same with NGE
*laughs in Count Dracula from the 1930's*
Star Wars....?
@@jgfjgfify nope
Tried to trick my dad into taping Golden Boy when I was kid and told him it was about a guy with a bike. My dad saw the description for bikers in the TV guide and taped this instead and my life was that much better for it
That’s hilarious!
Bet tetsuo at the end of the film freaked you out
Akira doesn't animate on 1s for every second. It mixes 1s 2s and 3s.
A lot of animations do that now right?
It's animated mainly in 2s with some moments in 1s and 3s
It does not make sense for someone to say that it is totally 1s when anyone can see the movie and realize that it is not like that
Who remembers that Glory Days of when Akira was shown religiously on Syfy channel?( back when it was spelled Sci-Fi)
i've only ever seen it shown on UK TV twice. Film4 usually has Anime seasons, but usually more family friendly like Howl's Moving Castle or Princess Mononoke, they never show Akira
Pepperidge Farms remembers. Lol. I do, too.
I remembered, but I also watched Akira on Starzs channel back in the day too.
Erik Cobra Kai never Dies make syfy scifi again!
Saturday Anime was pure gold.
Not the first anime I saw, that title is held by warriors of the wind that I saw on HBO. Akira was a movie I remember renting at a place called music plus. I was 8 or 9 and my mom had no idea what she was getting me, neither did I. That night I went home and was scarred for the rest of my life. Best anime ever.
lmaoo you watched the full Akira by yourself at 9?
@@lamthanhnguyen1500 yea, my mom thought it was kid's movie because it was animated. It really blew my mind.
*Am I the only that thought Kaneda's name was "Canada" when first seeing this movie?*
"TETSUO!"
"O' CANADA!"
@@Menaceblue3 we dont need laser bears here
Menaceblue3 kuhnayduuuuuh
#4 is incorrect, the holgraphic representation of Tetsuo's power was digitally created, i've seen it on the official making of on the DVD, it was created, like Tron, frame by frame, purely using code
"Touched by as few computers as possible" as they show that exact scene, so I'll allow it. The script definitely doesn't help though, with how many times 'No CGI' (and all of the possible variations of it) is repeated during this segment. Could've pointed it out in the video but it looks like they only caught on after recording and were trying to correct it in editing.
I LOVE Akira.
Kaneda is the first anime figure i ever got as a kid.
I was born in 92, so the figure I had was already aged when i got it.
As a kid, this film scared me. It still freaks me out a bit, but i absolutely adore the gross evolution throughout it
Ever read the manga? The story went on Much longer and even crazier. With the movie basically only covering the first arc with a few references to the other parts.
Akira's power went of once after waking up, Tetsuo had a cult of super powered drug head bikers after Akira's first explosion, Akira was awake for like a year, Tetsuo was hit by a neurotoxin while mutating and evolved into a monstrosly powerful albino form that could punch craters into the moon, the woman Tetsuo saved became his girlfriend until rebels shot her and made Tetsuo go berserk, the journalist lady was lent psychic powers from the elderly experiment children to try and make Tetsuo powers rampage with negative energy by flying down while firing a satellite cannon so Akira's positive energy would react and absorb it rather then the two powers repelling each other and tear the world apart.
I_Am_Dragoon the Manga is amazing, word on the street is they’re making a series based on the entire manga run.
Akira is like a phenomenon.....its like describing the effect and magic of Starwars for the 1st time...or the majesty of The Lion King. Its just an absolute Marvel.
@Tidder T
I was trying to think of something majestic comparable to Akira. Kimba is of coarse the genuine artical but what would u choose to say how epic Akira is? Id like to hear it for a modern audience as Akira is in a class of its own.
Akira is a hugely important movie, which 'brought' (the concept of) anime to the western world, but also animation to a mature serious audience. It was a mature and serious story. It broke boundaries, and at that time, could basically only have been told through animation.
That said, the manga it's based on, is even better. Much much better.
2:40 go watch the hallway running scene. One of the best pieces of animation ever created
which hallway scene
But Akira isn’t Hamtaro you fricken posing click-bait liars.
I loved your mumkey video. It was very entertaining
Hi dunkey
Hamtaro? The glorious hamster porn?
I ain’t an anime fan but damn it looks neat. It’s also one of those older animes that really give you that... *older* anime feel.
Redline is a modern masterpiece of hand-drawn art also!
right! redline is up there with akira imo.
Because _Kronenburg_ is the normal state of life for Akira.
Do you mean the german town, the suriname village or the beer? Or maybe Cronenberg the famous body horror director after which a dimension is named in the "Rick and Morty " franchise ?
@@Eisenwulf666 To me, he'll always be German...;-)
Eisenwulf666 alright, kronenburg morty, we’ll fit in here, i know i changed all the kronenburgs back home and couldn’t change them back, but here everyone looks like us now.
Eisenwulf666 Rick and Morty now have a straight Akira episode.
Im glad Tony hadnt had to be cringy in silence for 15 seconds at the end of the video as usual. Good content, the channel is significantly improving!
Akira and Cowboy Bebop 🔥👌🔥👌🔥
Yeah, Cowboy Bebop is Good, but Akira is God
@@robb6560 i wonder what happend to tetsuo after he and akira made their own universe
@@josephchandler7140 Akira and Tetsuo are in our heart, because humanity is one essence, all together...
This was my first anime I ever watched. I was perhaps 10 years old and I remember BBC 2 advertising a late night showing at 2am or something. So, I stayed up with headphones plugged into my ancient colour tv, vhs recorder primed and ready to go. And in those small hours of weekday night my young mind was just blown completely away by this unknown subtitled "cartoon" I was not supposed to be watching.
Luckily my parents were none the wiser. And I have been hooked on Anime ever since!
Ouch. That Berserk slam.
But seriously, Akira is an amazing work of art that really deserves your time, attention and respect.
Akira is fucking overrated. Grow up.
@@robinhyperlord9053 k weeb
One thing the video missed is Akira's huge impact on the cyberpunk genre. Akira essentially redefined cyberpunk. Most of the later cyberpunk works that followed Akira were influenced by it, from cyberpunk anime like Ghost in the Shell and Battle Angel Alita, to Hollywood movies like The Matrix and Dark City, to video games like Final Fantasy VII, Metal Gear Solid and Deus Ex. And many of these Akira-inspired cyberpunk works went on to be very influential in their own rights. Anime, Hollywood and video games have all been greatly influenced by Akira, as a result of its huge impact on the cyberpunk genre.
Fire Water How was Ghost in the Shell influenced by Akira?
@@festo8756 Ghost in the Shell's creator Masamune Shirow cited Akira among his favourite manga and anime works. He acknowledged Akira as an influence on the art and animation of GITS.
It's also worth noting that the only reason Kodansha even published GITS in the first place was because of Akira. After the Akira manga series debuted in 1982, it became an unexpected success, sparking a cyberpunk boom in '80s Japan. Following the success of Akira, Kodansha was looking for the next cyberpunk manga hit, which they eventually got with GITS.
In other words, Akira is the founder of Japanese cyberpunk. Every cyberpunk manga and anime owes a debt to Akira. And beyond that, Akira also influenced plenty of Western cyberpunk works from the '90s onwards.
The moving having 160,000 animated cels goes hand-in-hand with the actual length of the source manga, which is more than 2,500 pages long. I've read it a couple of times, and will do so again. The artwork is fantastic, and the story is far, far deeper than any one-off movie -- as good as it is! -- could properly present.
My only real argument for subs not dubs is that sometimes the voice actors for the dub suck.
I mean... If we want to be serious about this. There's actually good arguments for both, and it often depends on the actual show. Anyone that is 100% on one side or the other likely doesn't understand the ACTUAL nuances of the topic. If you can't name a single dub or sub you find superior to the other, you have your blinders on. There's massive issues of translation, intent, and whether the original Japanese cast was phoning it in and people just THINK it sounds better because the accent sounds "exotic". Also, the west tends to ironically honor Lip Flaps WAY closer than Japan does.
Yeah. Not all, but many subs feel like the English VAs are just there to read a page for their paycheck, while the original ones sound like they're legitimately getting into the role.
Subs are better because you actually hear original intended emotions.
Along with censorship and changing the dialogue
I saw *Akira* in a movie theater in the east village when I was 12 (1989)... my mind was *_blown_* (as was everyone else there, all 10 of them).
Akira is definitely an important moment in the history of anime!
history of cinema
History of animation in general
Wow just watched Akira and this comes to my recommended. Nice video.
Did ya like irt.
Great stuff, but why didn't you make a numbered point to talk about the sound design? The music has always stuck with me since i first saw it way back when, even today. I can still hear the drumming intro and then the bike engines... then the choir starts.
Goddamnit Tony, you really have become a master at the meta-analysis. These bits you do are the biggest reason why I'm still subbed to Dorkly, though I do feel like you're being stifled by the "Top X" format that tends to get more clicks. Awesome work as always.
Thank you for setting this video to the 80's sci-fi music it demands.
It's been a long time since I saw Akira, so it could just be from that, but I'm reminded to watch it again.
The animation of akira jaw. Dropping. Eventually I hope to make a show with animation just like it
I once had a girl in my class that considered herself an "anime fan". She watched 150+ series of loli anime and never even heard of Akira -_-
The Naruto Attack on Titan herd
Not only did it predict the 2020 olympics, but it predicted that they would be postponed...
*TETSUOOOOOOO !!!*
*"NUFF SAID"*
Sean Baugh KANEDAAAAA!
To be fair, Akira did have one part with CGI. The part where the scientist was looking at the digital glowing energy data presentation when observing the powers that Tetsuo had.
I'm digging the revamped look for "Today In Nerd History." Tony is the only reason I'm still subbed to Dorkly still.
It actually predicted the 2020 Neo Tokyo Olympics
*dabs*
Brooo I saw mask of the phantasm again last night and I noticed the animation reminded me of akira but I thought I was tripping wtf
Also without akira Naruto probably would never be created
French gentlemen damn really???
@@risingred1241Yeah! Masashi Kishimoto (the creator of Naruto) started losing interest in manga as he started playing baseball and basketball but it all changed when he saw the poster for the animated film Akira.
Right on for the knowledge bro
Why so many reviews of Akira this year.....Can it be because its 2019?
And sunrise studios is adapting the manga next year
@@treWavey_30 yup ...didn't saw that one coming. a pleasant surprise though.
The movie was about to predict the Olympics in tokyo, but then a global pandemic happened so...
"It makes Blade Runner look like Disney World!"
Ebi-San The Sacramento Bee
Ebi-San i don’t think thats a good statement
Wrong statement..
I just watched it last night. I loved the city scape and the motorcycle scenes. And then you make a video on it. Wow
I'm not big on anime, but I fucking LOVE Akira. That and "Ghost in the Shell."
re: no CGI was used in Akira, per Wikipedia:
"Computer-generated imagery was also used in the film (created by High-Tech Lab. Japan Inc. and the cooperative companies for computer graphics, Sumisho Electronic Systems, Inc. and Wavefront Technologies), primarily to animate the pattern indicator used by Doctor Ōnishi, but it was additionally used to plot the paths of falling objects, model parallax effects on backgrounds, and tweak lighting and lens flares."
Which explains why the patterns pop out of the screen so much.
one time, i think it was in 1993 or something, a local channel aired this movie...i was blown away...i went out , for weeks, searching for it on vhs...no luck...years later....i was in a bookstore, there was a shelf called ''kids movies'' , i casually skimmed it...then i froze up, there was a tape, in a white plastic case...it said ''akira'' on it...i picked up, i couldn't believe it, i was holding a vhs tape of akira, these were years before the internet and streaming and online purchases...it was a miracle...i found a vhs copy of akira...and it was for like $10...i ran home, saw my brother in the neighborhood with the guys..i showed him the tape...he was dumbstruck....we rushed home, went to out room, closed the door and watched that movie all weekend non stop....it was brutal, gory, bloody and it has scenes we knew that our parents would kill us if they knew we were watching it.....i laugh now when i know i can just log in to amazon and buy things, but we lived in an era where finding niche things was down to dumb luck...same thing happened years later with SERIAL EXPERIMENTS LAIN on DVD, and GHOST IN THE SHELL on VCD....what a time it was...
Oh my god, I thought that movie Secret Nimh was some fucked up dream I had as a kid because I couldn't find anything about it, but that little clip brought it all back to me. I gotta go watch that again, it scared the hell outta me as a child
I remember the first time I knew of it's existence was when I was a wee lad. A commercial for the VHS came out on KDOC oddly enough. It wasn't until years later when I was at Hollywood Video that I came across it accidentally and right away I remembered the commercial nearly a decade before. I finally got a chance to watch it and after doing so I had to have my own copy.
Hey Tony. Say "theatrically released" five times fast! 😅
One of my favorite song Stronger (By Kanye West and Daft Punk) was the reason I watch the movie to know how good it was and honestly it is a Godlike Masterpiece, personally I'm really happy they choose this movie to represent the music.
They literally had the 2020 Olympics in Tokyo because of Akira
Akira is such an incredible piece of art. One of, if not the, the best anime films ever created.
Make that cAt A fReAk! Thanks for making me laugh
I lol'd
Really liking the new format you guys are taking with the videos. Before they were a bit cringey and felt forced, but now the content is being presented really well. :)
Man listening to you talk about Anime in the 90s really brought me back...you're not lying that trying to find anything to watch was obscenely difficult. I think there's probably a good argument to be made for the popularity of Dragon Ball Z (maybe even Toonami in general) being in part due to the fact that it was one of the few easily available at the time. Although I still remember the 9am Saturday morning anime movies on the Sci-Fi channel...that's where I was first introduced to anime actually: Casshan: Robot Hunter followed by Vampire Hunter D. Once a friend introduced me to Bio-Booster Armor Guyver I was irrevocably hooked.
The part where it shows Akiras brain in the containers it shows the pineal gland
Akira was ahead of its time and extremely impactful for the Anime films that followed!
And yes, it is the most important anime ever made! Nice video! 🏍️🏍️
Tony, how about an evaluation/review of Megazone 23?
7:48 Way to subvert my expectation here. I was 100% certain you were about to say AS F***.
Doesn't Harry Partridge stick to the Akira spirit?
I watched it this weekend, and become my 2nd best anime after “Your Name”. Even though it was 30+ years old, it looks so modern and vibrant. Enjoyed very much!!
How many ghibli movies have you watched?
When I blow up I’m connecting with Dorkly 🔥💯💪🏼❤️
Thanks for the support 😇🙏
god... I remember seeing Akira on the sci fi channel when I was like 8. My family was like "its a cartoon, no worries"and it warped my perception of cartoons forever.
Akira is such an iconic piece of cinema, it was part of the curriculum for the senior seminar took in college called "tokyo in the modern era"
I really enjoy the music in the background
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Tony! Omg good to see you, man! Akira is one of my favorite movies of all time. I was only like 7 when I first watched it. It opened my mind to anime, because later MMX4 was released, and Robotech was a daily thing and my love grew tenfold.
It also features the first anime boob that I laid eyes on! Seriously though, that movie is a work of art. I had a silk poster of the movie too, but it was stolen.
Everything you said is interesting but I am surprised that all Akira's importance is reduce to technique and budget. Films are also stories. According to what you said Akira could have been a completely different film at it will be praised as long as the impact and technique are the same...
"The Thing" already did the body horror genre.
Yeah...and despite all that the manga is still miles better.
I bought Akira years ago at Best Buy cause it looked cool and it sparked my love of anime forever.
Funny thing, i'm not an anime type guy, but recently i watch Edgerunners on Netflix, and couldn't shrug off that Akira vibe in the anime...
Not sure if this is common stuff for anime or Edgerunners does have something special like Akira, but the fact is that Akira is probably the anime that everyone saw at least once in their lives...
The notion that Akira was entirely animated on ones has become a bit of an urban myth. While it's true Akira's animation is on one's, it is ALSO on twos (and longer, if we're counting the held frames of unmoving poses).
In general, faster moments are animated on ones (motorcycle scenes, smoke and explosions), while dialogue scenes are usually less frames ( or a mixture of ones and twos for different movements in a single scene).
Really great video!
Words can't describe how important Akira is to me 👏
Oh, and the original Pioneer (Cam Clarke) dub is superb & trumps that hammy-as-hell 2000's tripe 🤗
Every picture in 24 shots per second
That evangelion scene was a creative choice not a matter of saving. He was letting you take in the moment
Trading anime tapes feels so nostalgic. Ninja Scroll is the one I always think of.
Tony is my fav.
Akira is my fav.
Favs all around.
That Berserk joke got me in trouble at work. HAHAHA
*THIS MOVIE WAS THE BASIC INSPIRATION FOR CHRONICLE, MOB PSYCHO 100, AND BRIGHTBURN!*
In my theory
It was the inspiration for far more anime than just those.
@@thenew4559 good to know
6:25......... genie was literally made to be voiced by Robin Williams.
MAK3X7 you’re not wrong. The point was there was no way Williams could have used so much creativity in his role if the character had been animated first.
8:31 Awesome effects for voice reverb and zoom-in! 🔊
This was the first anime I ever watched as a kid, and loved it.
Akira is fucking overrated. Grow up.
One of my absolute favorite movies I remember when I was like 4 or 5 seeing this on toonami or adult swim and I was so hype that animation could look so fucking cool.
Akira is one anime that every fan of anime must see. It is a classic, and was the first anime I myself ever saw as a kid.
Any 0ne remember Vampire Hunter D? 0r better yet, NINJA SCR0LLS!!!
Who’s been watching watching Dorkly for over a year now 🔥💯💪🏼💪🏼
I watched this movie for the first time when I was 17 I think in my friends house. We were lit and it had just came out. I was amazed back in 95 and I’m still amazed today. Ghost in the Shell, the original not the remake was another one on par with Akita though. Those two are definitely my top two of all time. I would have to say though the most badass of all was MDS Geist. Not the best in animation but the dude was unstoppable. His armor too. That midnight black and gold trimmed set is the shit. Man this brought back a lot of good memories. Very nice video as well. Everything you said was spot on about this movie. The actual meaning behind it though still boggles me a bit. Akita’s organs brought back a super powerful being or was in Tetsuo?
The Manga is a very good read too. There is so much more to it than the movie. I mean it's 6 volumes of ~400 pages each.
I was personally impressed by the strong female characters like Kei, Lady Miyako (who has a much larger role in the manga) and Chiyoko (a "true" she-hulk). I think Major General Armstrong would be glad to have Chiyoko under her command. xD
5:55 Subs>>>dubs argument is not about Japanese voices matching the animation or having some input in the animation. It's about American voice actors sucking monster balls and some nuances get deleted in the translation. I know that some Japanese character is a country bumpkin because he has a accent or that someone is dignified and proper by the way that they speak. Dubs just try to give them dumber sentences or the dignified people fake English accents.
Lmao 😂 dub over subs Glad I don't have your snobby opinion
This was the first anime I ever watched and it seriously sent me down the rabbit hole and I couldn’t be happier about it
*TETSUOOO!*
*KANEDAAA!*
*GOKU!*
Correction: Shrek is the most important anime ever made.
correction the most important anime is tellytubbies
You've convinced me dorkly. I'm gonna go watch Akira on Hulu this weekend.
It's a piece of cyberpunk cinema that you need to indulge in.
Always loved Akira but didn't know how to describe it. Then I watched it with my girlfriend who didn't like it and said it was like a "fever dream" (those freaky dreams you have when you're sick). Now I got the perfect description of what I like about those old school Anime's. Ghost in the shell, Akira, cowboy bebop, etc. Almost all of them have this same dreamy but also a bit dark feeling to them. Also while typing this, Alien(s), terminator 2, RoboCop, The matrix, Game of thrones also kinda fit this description... I just love these types of movies!
I appreciate Dubs because that way I can look at what they're doing rather than reading the whole way through and missing what's playing out on screen!
Train your brain to do both
I still have yet to watch any anime film as amazingly gorgeous as Akira. It might just be the limit of anime beauty. There are other gems like Spirited Away looking glossy as Hell, and Interstella 5555 being max psychadelic euphoria, but other than Steam Boy (8:49 that shot is F*CKING PAINTING), the cityscapes of Blame!, and maybe the tech. details of Evangelion... yeah, Akira tops all. Still can't believe my eyes.
I remember... I remember 20 ish years ago, how I'd know what was in the cinema was the local newspaper (yeah, I know) and I remember being amazed that an anime movie was playing. It was Spirited Away :)
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Lyp syncing was used in Grave of The Fireflies before Akira
I always thought it was a meh movie
One of the first and only animes I ever watched .... Even I realised this was something special upon first viewing