@@Neko.VirtualIt actually is that hard. A lot of anime from this era was hand-drawn, frame by frame. And that's also including the backgrounds and assets needed. It's easier to replicate this style today, but back then, it was **HARD.**
@@Neko.Virtual then, why don't you try do an animation by traditional hand-drawn frame by frame for all the episodes without cheating with digital and 3D CGI
Bogmire777 I'm a year late but... you're so right man. Some games i consider to be true modern art as well. not a blue square on a white background...or some womens period blood (I'm guessing that's what passes for modern art nowadays) on canvas. Ironically vaporwave is closer to modern art than anything in a gallery.
To anyone who has never done any work pictorial art yet is still criticising this masterpiece: check ALL the frames. Every single frame is an absurdly complex picture to draw on its own. Look at the angles, the cut, the perspective. Can you imagine yourself animating that with the same amount of fluidity, making characters feel almost like they have a physical weight and shape?
The only animated part is the characters and cars and such, usually the backgrounds are beautiful art that sets as backdrop, there will be lights moving or something in the distance to make it seem like it's not a drawing.
Work like this takes multiple teams of animators and cinematographers and lighting directors. The amount of work the put into anime in the past rivals the efforts done my major blockbuster Hollywood hits. All in the name of attention to detail. This is why anime is so deep, and dirty. ;)
Sadly, a project of this size is unlikely the future. Akira is well remembered now, but in it's time it was an expensive flop. You also remember that Akira was a HUGE project in its day. If you pay attention to the credits, they must have had half the animation studios in Japan doing in-between work at one point or another.
Wow... to think I started my journey into Retro Wave with this song more than a year ago... After that it only got wilder and louder, Perturbator, Lazerkawk, Miami Nights, Burgeoisie, Power Glove, Lost Years, Mega Drive, Trevor Something, Carpenter Brut, M.O.O.N., LIFELIKE, Dynatron, Kavinsky, Droid Bishop, Electric Youth, Le Matos, STARFORCE, DANCE WITH THE DEAD, Protector 101, Tokyo Rose, Quixotic... and I'm sure I'm forgetting A LOT. If anyone is listening to this song/genre for the first time check out all these artists, they're all awesome.
I can remember listening to this song in a shed in 2017 and it absolutely taking over my music taste as I madly scrambled to get my PhD done. Coming back to it takes me back to some of my tumultuous twenties and the agony of grad student life in all its messy forms.
Yeah, I hoped the world would eventually catch up and realize how awful CG looks in movies/anime but now its the end of 2016 and its still all over the goddamn place
+Hugh G. Rekshun Well made CG in movies looks like a part of the movie and you will not notice it. But bad CG is outstandish and unnatural, thus awful. Also, well made CG in anime can be very good. It is making production easier and making it cheaper to animate... God just if they spent those saved money to hire skilled writers and make some mindblowing plot and setting...
+Supreme Iron Just came back after a while, and I still love this video. The song fits and the whole editing of clips together for the music video just works wonders.
I swear I will become rich, so that someone can finance a production like Akira again. Without CGI, without the same story you tend to get in anime nowadays... just a good film.
I listen to this almost everyday at work at least once or twice during the day. It helps me remotivate, and sends chills down my spine, the music, the sync with the Akira visuals, it's just... wow !
I swear to god, the edit of Akira makes this at least ten times more enchanting, when I'm just listening to it on my phone it's pretty average sounding but with this edit it gives me shivers.
The part @ 1:00 is so genius it really sounds like we’re tuning into some kind of signal from an outer space colony. It really trips me out every damn time 🤯
I cant adequately describe how much I love this edit. Thank you for this, Lars. This is the soundtrack to my life from 2015-2019, smashing the Beijing midnight city streets on a CBR600rr. What a ride.
lvl of aesthetics in every frame of this movie is just mind numbing, just look at trail left by rear lights for example, its perfection in art form. This movie was truly ahead of its time.
I like your choice for footage. Akira is one of the most beautiful anime movies I have ever seen and will probably hold up for many years after I say this
I keep coming back to this song and video all the time, it has been months now and I cannot stop listening to it while working. It makes my whole body and mind shake with intensity. Congratulations for this masterpiece
There is nothing else that I want to do as much when I hear this music, as to just take my bike and go for an all night long ride, listening to this. Has to be my #1.
I used to listen to this all the time but forgot the name. As you can imagine searching "Akira vaporwave" did not exactly narrow it down. Glad to be back again!
I fell that 80s90s spirit is to have hope for the future, to have a open mind for the possibility’s life has. I Believe to have the 80s spirit is to remember what those books and media from that time stood more, adventure, love, family, world peace, freedom of speech mind and creativity, standing up to bullies form school to he dictators and elites who rule over people using fear and a class system to stop real good change. ❤️ love you all.
HOLY SHIT, is it really back? I thought this video was taken down due to some copyright garbage but then it just popped back into my recommendations out of nowhere. Praying that it stays up forever 🙏, it's a masterpiece, I was legit depressed that it'd be gone forever.
This was a fantastic track, I need more!! Also near-future setting is so much better than distant future.How I wish I lived in such a world (without all the mutants of course...nah it wouldn't be the same).I want to live in a city with rain slick streets bathed in neon light.
Akira, Neo Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell are some of the best Cyberpunk pieces of animation to be found, amazing imagenry, btw nice mix ^-^
not to hate on the soundtrack of Akira, but it wouldve been dope to have synth stuff like this in the actual movie. Wouldve gone so well with neo tokyo
beefdawgamadeus Each scene is hand drawn by real people. today it would cost way to much money to do animation like this without some sort of computer assistance involved.
Bryan Tee well fuck? i think i may have made this post on the wrong video? i remember commenting on someone for saying "why cant they get this sort of animation detail today" but it appears to be gone.
This is how i met the Akira cartoon movie... First i watched this clip, then i wondered what's the source and whole story. Man, i didn't even realized what was waiting for me there xDD
Crazy how music can change the vibe of a scene so much. With music like this the scene feels very fun and flashy like a 80s movie but when you actually watch the movie the time is way different. The music is ominous and unorthodox sounding and the scene feels more brutal
Upon my initial viewing on this video, it made me want to watch Akira. So I got the chance, I went to the store a few days later, got the DVD along with tons of extras all for $5. Years later I'm still stunned at how beautifully crafted this truly is.
The 80's and early 90's Japanese cartoon's inspired many Hollywwod directors and screenwriters. Careful and conscious viewers immediately realize this.
maybe weird feeling and feel of emptyness if i imagine live in cyberpunk makes me crazy bout cyberpunk. Blade runner and akira movies are in my vein since my childhood.. you should go to Kowloon city or Hongkong to listen this music. its got the feels..
To think Akira was hand drawn frame by frame never fails to blow my mind.
Modern Anime: block by block
its not that hard
@@Neko.VirtualIt actually is that hard. A lot of anime from this era was hand-drawn, frame by frame. And that's also including the backgrounds and assets needed.
It's easier to replicate this style today, but back then, it was **HARD.**
@@Neko.Virtual then, why don't you try do an animation by traditional hand-drawn frame by frame for all the episodes without cheating with digital and 3D CGI
@@Neko.Virtual if hand-drawn is so easy, then, the anime industry would have not resorted to digital and 3D CGI
In my opinion, Akira was *THE* authentic animated cyberpunk experience.
Don't forget Fasa Games and Hare Brained Schemes Shadowrun and BladeRunner!!!!!
@@TeAtomicNumber.52 Bladerunner Was a big turning point and akira was just as big just the Japan take on the genre. And god I'm grateful for that
@@niteliniN I agree with you!!! ; )
Also ghost runner it's amazing
Haven't played cyberpunk at all but yea real cyberpunk at it's realest.
Screw modern art galleries, this is modern art.
Bogmire777 I'm a year late but... you're so right man. Some games i consider to be true modern art as well. not a blue square on a white background...or some womens period blood (I'm guessing that's what passes for modern art nowadays) on canvas. Ironically vaporwave is closer to modern art than anything in a gallery.
yes
agreed
yes
@@The_Order_Of_William_Marshal i couldnt agree more my man....i weep for what modern art has become.
To anyone who has never done any work pictorial art yet is still criticising this masterpiece: check ALL the frames. Every single frame is an absurdly complex picture to draw on its own. Look at the angles, the cut, the perspective. Can you imagine yourself animating that with the same amount of fluidity, making characters feel almost like they have a physical weight and shape?
Like a good pair of boobs
The only animated part is the characters and cars and such, usually the backgrounds are beautiful art that sets as backdrop, there will be lights moving or something in the distance to make it seem like it's not a drawing.
SwaffyX I admire it so much that I cried though
Ignorant people live in a world of lies
Work like this takes multiple teams of animators and cinematographers and lighting directors. The amount of work the put into anime in the past rivals the efforts done my major blockbuster Hollywood hits.
All in the name of attention to detail. This is why anime is so deep, and dirty. ;)
Bring back animation like this, I feel like id actually enjoy it.
just watch ghost in the shell
Which ones would you recommend? I watched Akira and Ghost in the Shell.
Sadly, a project of this size is unlikely the future. Akira is well remembered now, but in it's time it was an expensive flop. You also remember that Akira was a HUGE project in its day. If you pay attention to the credits, they must have had half the animation studios in Japan doing in-between work at one point or another.
Anyone know where I might be able to find some online?
R E D L I N E
I am a simple man. I see Akira, I click like
+MegaMac464 Me too.:P Absolute classic and one of the best there is.
Exactly what I did.
yes!
facts
youre an awesome buddy, like all that hit like
今こんだけのアニメ作れる制作会社無いだろ
CGなんか殆ど使わず手描きセルアニメでこれだけ動かせるって、一体どれだけの情熱(と予算)で取り組まれたのか
別にCGを悪いとは言わない…っつーかCGや3Dの方が効果的な演出も有るが、セルアニメでそれらに引けを取らない出来に仕上げるって凄い事やと思うよ
私はSWも1stシリーズ原理主義者なので、こういう制作サイドの情熱溢れる素晴らしい仕事に感銘を受けるわけであります
One of the most important artistic insights we can get from Akita’s world building is it depicts a world without the internet
Wow... to think I started my journey into Retro Wave with this song more than a year ago... After that it only got wilder and louder, Perturbator, Lazerkawk, Miami Nights, Burgeoisie, Power Glove, Lost Years, Mega Drive, Trevor Something, Carpenter Brut, M.O.O.N., LIFELIKE, Dynatron, Kavinsky, Droid Bishop, Electric Youth, Le Matos, STARFORCE, DANCE WITH THE DEAD, Protector 101, Tokyo Rose, Quixotic... and I'm sure I'm forgetting A LOT. If anyone is listening to this song/genre for the first time check out all these artists, they're all awesome.
Will do.
Replying to save
And for any of you old school fans be sure to check the grand pappy's of synth like tangerine dream and john Carpenter
You should try the midnight my favorite song is sunset
I hope eventually it'll be the thing to take out the whole EDM scene LOL. It's gone waaaaay too mainstream now a bit.
I can remember listening to this song in a shed in 2017 and it absolutely taking over my music taste as I madly scrambled to get my PhD done. Coming back to it takes me back to some of my tumultuous twenties and the agony of grad student life in all its messy forms.
akiras animation is insane , amazing quality and detailing. I love the aesthetic.
Wish it were still a thing today
@@justauser9082 And wish cyberpunk was still prevalent instead of all the isekai and slice of life crap.
amazing how "akira" still look very good in 2016!
Because it was before computers created anime
It will continue to look good.
Yeah, I hoped the world would eventually catch up and realize how awful CG looks in movies/anime but now its the end of 2016 and its still all over the goddamn place
panzerdiv
Japan is the last bastion of quality two-dimensional animation.
+Hugh G. Rekshun
Well made CG in movies looks like a part of the movie and you will not notice it. But bad CG is outstandish and unnatural, thus awful. Also, well made CG in anime can be very good. It is making production easier and making it cheaper to animate... God just if they spent those saved money to hire skilled writers and make some mindblowing plot and setting...
The beginning always gets me, the sight of Neo Tokyo in the flesh is absolutely ripping.
Im in the cool part of youtube now. Awesome!
lol
Aren't we the lucky ones!
damn right you are
Hehe good shyt
One thing Batman series, and the movie The Warriors taught me?
There is always a Clown themed street gang.
ikr
Pretty much ICP lol
Juggalos
Warriors come out and plaayay
CAN YOU DIG IT?!!!
this is amazing
Your Channel is amazing too!
+sshdka 33 ur damm right
When Vaporwave meets Synthwave.
when senpai enters the room
Your the best channel
Perfect use of Akira for this song.
And this song is perfect.
I have been listening to it nonstop for the past week.
.
.
.
Help me.
+Supreme Iron
Just came back after a while, and I still love this video. The song fits and the whole editing of clips together for the music video just works wonders.
Neo Tokyo: the city I don't want to live in but want to visit.
You can visit Hong Kong.
Golden age of anime welly equipped with golden age of music.
Early 2010s synthwave is certainly the golden age of music.
One of the best retrowave tracks ever, that's for sure 🌌
i went on a high speed bike ride in down town tokyo, nearby Shibuya... pretty epic time
+Joel Parizi I am so envious!!!
+Joel Parizi did you gain psychic powers and destroy the city?
I thought the max speed limit allowed was pretty low in japan.
+EggiTheShadow YAES BUT WHO CARES?
Ni jQ Your wallet does :/
about 2 years after i discovered this genre, and i still haven't found a more representative archetype for the whole new wave thing. utter perfection.
Akira is a absolute masterpiece! add a flashworx and becomes heavenly .
The genius of this genre is it’s an improvement on the music of the 80’d while staying 100% faithful to the aesthetics
I swear I will become rich, so that someone can finance a production like Akira again. Without CGI, without the same story you tend to get in anime nowadays... just a good film.
I drove through the desert listening to this. I picture myself in this are. I also picture the song Night begins to shine by Teen Titans.
I want a anime of Blade Runner in this style.
Now I remember why I love Akira so much. It's a masterpiece!
I listen to this almost everyday at work at least once or twice during the day. It helps me remotivate, and sends chills down my spine, the music, the sync with the Akira visuals, it's just... wow !
Never would have discovered Akira if it wasn’t for this. Thank you.
1:00 to 2:00 is amazing musical textures.
I swear to god, the edit of Akira makes this at least ten times more enchanting, when I'm just listening to it on my phone it's pretty average sounding but with this edit it gives me shivers.
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
+Scaran100 NARRRRRUUTTOOOOO
CANADAAAAAA!!!
ASHITAKAAA
SNAAAAAAAAAKE
WEEEABOOOOOOOO
I always avoided this movie thinking its some anime crap, but it looks amazing, gonna check it out tomorrow.
we're gonna make anime great again.
XmXFLUXmX2 trump supporters will make anime great again #maga
The part @ 1:00 is so genius it really sounds like we’re tuning into some kind of signal from an outer space colony. It really trips me out every damn time 🤯
I’m going to be honest, this video got me into anime. Opened the door to the world of insane retro anime
Finally again on RUclips TY!!!
I cant adequately describe how much I love this edit. Thank you for this, Lars. This is the soundtrack to my life from 2015-2019, smashing the Beijing midnight city streets on a CBR600rr. What a ride.
It is incredible how much 1980s sci fi sounds and looks like 2015.
That's probably the thing I liked most about the visuals of that movie: Those lovely lingering tail lights...
A nostalgic video, a nostalgic songs and a nostalgic anime. always coming back to listen to this.
The last music of the EP is such a perfect intro for this music
lvl of aesthetics in every frame of this movie is just mind numbing, just look at trail left by rear lights for example, its perfection in art form. This movie was truly ahead of its time.
I like your choice for footage. Akira is one of the most beautiful anime movies I have ever seen and will probably hold up for many years after I say this
2years later and still is👍
I keep coming back to this song and video all the time, it has been months now and I cannot stop listening to it while working. It makes my whole body and mind shake with intensity. Congratulations for this masterpiece
This has to be one of the best pieces I’ve heard in my 18 years of life. Truly. Provides inspiration like no other.
Akira
starwolffan13 bi
There is nothing else that I want to do as much when I hear this music, as to just take my bike and go for an all night long ride, listening to this. Has to be my #1.
Honestly Akria And Synthwave is Something special. We need a epic Akria Synthwave Tribute album.
This is amazing I love the music and colorful city
AKIRAのこの辺のシーン本当に好きなんだよなあ
I really like scenes of the bikes and the city. AKIRA is extraordinary.
I used to listen to this all the time but forgot the name. As you can imagine searching "Akira vaporwave" did not exactly narrow it down. Glad to be back again!
I fell that 80s90s spirit is to have hope for the future, to have a open mind for the possibility’s life has. I Believe to have the 80s spirit is to remember what those books and media from that time stood more, adventure, love, family, world peace, freedom of speech mind and creativity, standing up to bullies form school to he dictators and elites who rule over people using fear and a class system to stop real good change. ❤️ love you all.
HOLY SHIT, is it really back? I thought this video was taken down due to some copyright garbage but then it just popped back into my recommendations out of nowhere. Praying that it stays up forever 🙏, it's a masterpiece, I was legit depressed that it'd be gone forever.
I was legit shocked too when I saw it pop back up
Same, same. This was the one video that popped up in my recs and led me down the synthwave rabbit hole.
@@wageslave387best rabbit hole I ever went down.
This was a fantastic track, I need more!!
Also near-future setting is so much better than distant future.How I wish I lived in such a world (without all the mutants of course...nah it wouldn't be the same).I want to live in a city with rain slick streets bathed in neon light.
one of my Work Out songs, man this thing hits nostalgic 💪🏻
Great video for this amazing track.
I can never find such clean HD rips of this movie my god it looks so crisp and clean in 720 upscaled
The best syntwave I've ever discovered, hard to believe 2011 was so long ago
Just Amazing! Take's your ears...eyes...and thoughts on an adventure!!!
This is, without a doubt the best use of the movie as a music video I've seen. It fits really well together. Props to Lars.
This video for this song is sublime
Great video editing of an excellent movie with magnificent music. Thanks.
Akira That movie still freaks me out
Skull knight I know that feel
The Manga isn't as pretty, but it's just as trippy
The Manga isn't as pretty, but it's just as trippy
Oh but it is pretty, the art is incredibly detailed and the motion jumps off the page.
Where Puppers Go to Die I was debating on buying AKIRA because volumes 2-6 are being sold at an Indigo near me
5:35 starts the best part
5:57 slow motion
6:02 priceless ending image
6:15 fucking nostalgia
I have this as steam background lol
back in 80s this style faded too quickly away, we need it back. and music and visuals
80's and 90"s. Best decades to animes and cartoons. That is awesome. Let's get the third part of it.
Akira, Neo Genesis Evangelion and Ghost in the Shell are some of the best Cyberpunk pieces of animation to be found, amazing imagenry, btw nice mix ^-^
not to hate on the soundtrack of Akira, but it wouldve been dope to have synth stuff like this in the actual movie. Wouldve gone so well with neo tokyo
beefdawgamadeus Each scene is hand drawn by real people. today it would cost way to much money to do animation like this without some sort of computer assistance involved.
thelasthallow Since when did he mention about animation?
Bryan Tee well fuck? i think i may have made this post on the wrong video? i remember commenting on someone for saying "why cant they get this sort of animation detail today" but it appears to be gone.
thelasthallow lol
beefdawgamadeus Well, I disagree. This track is rather unfitting. And the OSTs of Akira are breath taking.
brooooo every single frame is MAD AESTHETIC.
idk why it was removed in the first place. But iam very happy to see this video up again✨
This is how i met the Akira cartoon movie... First i watched this clip, then i wondered what's the source and whole story. Man, i didn't even realized what was waiting for me there xDD
awesome music with an epic backdrop of akira? can't get any better! the music totally suits the background footage
People keep talking about the visuals, but that song is awesome.
love that bikers gang battle in that movie, it was really inspired by the mods vs. rockers fights in the 60's
made me want to watch Akira again.
Loving. This. Track. More. Everyday. Been in my rotation for almost 3 years now.
Crazy how music can change the vibe of a scene so much. With music like this the scene feels very fun and flashy like a 80s movie but when you actually watch the movie the time is way different. The music is ominous and unorthodox sounding and the scene feels more brutal
KANEDAAAAAAA!!
+Alessandro La Via TETSUOOOOOO!!
+Alessandro La Via NARUT.... ough...
That's mr. Kaneda for you punk!!!
A K I R A
I S A W E S O M E
I S *
Ａ Ｋ Ｉ Ｒ Ａ
Ｉ Ｓ Ａ Ｗ Ｅ Ｓ Ｏ Ｍ Ｅ
akira is shite
***** IT'S SHITE AND YOU KNOW IT!
***** Nah I'm just kidding I've never seen it lol
Goddamn that was a journey.
This is a masterpiece and I need it in spotify D:
Upon my initial viewing on this video, it made me want to watch Akira. So I got the chance, I went to the store a few days later, got the DVD along with tons of extras all for $5.
Years later I'm still stunned at how beautifully crafted this truly is.
THIS ENTIRE THING IS FUCKING INCREDIBLE
I listen to this every night before I sleep - it takes me back to Akira
Akria always goes good with 80s beat music
That was unbelievable cool! Whatever its 12 years old...
Feels like it's been years.
Really puts that cyberpunk feels to it.
Here we are 12 years later and synthwave is still not out of fashion. Unlike Dubstep. Remember?
Anyone else listening to this in 2021? This still rocks
Yeah
Street of rage 2 soundtrack at the end of the video, nice touch !
Awesome video and music! Very futuristic with 80's ambiance, setting, and electro background. So cool! ✌
The 80's and early 90's Japanese cartoon's inspired many Hollywwod directors and screenwriters. Careful and conscious viewers immediately realize this.
maybe weird feeling and feel of emptyness if i imagine live in cyberpunk makes me crazy bout cyberpunk. Blade runner and akira movies are in my vein since my childhood.. you should go to Kowloon city or Hongkong to listen this music. its got the feels..
Akira was just ahead of it's time
I've never watched old anime but this music and the video makes me want to. The feeling I get from this is indescribable, just pure awesomeness
"The dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow."
The anime is akira for all you new anime fans and it’s better than anything else you’ve seen
10/10 best synthwave
Nothing is better than to drive in downtown at night while this music is on
Cries in Covid restrictions
Love the beginning of intro song. The rhythm feels like to be in the futuristic. ❤✌
This one is such a banger