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Akira (movie).

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i think this was in an old issue of Neo Magazine in the UK (about the only decent magazine going in the UK that talks about Anime).

Why is it that nowhere sells that magasine?

I THINK one of the shortfalls of the film was the ending, I recall he had to "do it on the fly", becuase the manga wasn't finished. I got the feeling he was trying to imply everything had come full circle and (Neo) Tokyo was destroyed by a mysterious explosion again (remember the explosion at the beginning fo the film is VERY similar to the one generated by Akira at the end). I'm afraid I haven't got the issue to hand anymore, but I do remember parts of the interview, because I still consider Akira to be one of the major turning points in Anime, despite it's plot holes and short-falls. The Manga certainly explains some of them (I'm slowly plowing my way through it)...

Assassin_ wrote:

Quote: i think this was in an old issue of Neo Magazine in the UK (about the only decent magazine going in the UK that talks about Anime). Why is it that nowhere sells that magasine?

I stopped caring when Tetsuo turned into a giant ball of snot...a stupid, nonsensical ending to a stupid, nonsensical movie. The butt-ugly character designs didn't do much for me either.

How else do you think someone would react if they were completely out of control of their own body? play a satisfying game of golf!? lol

BOOMpass wrote:

How else do you think someone would react if they were completely out of control of their own body? play a satisfying game of golf!? lol

You have a good point there, but still the movie as whole missed the mark for me. I never understood why it often gets mentioned with the first Ghost in the Shell movie as one of the "classics" of anime even though it's not in the same league.

Well, I believe that in the end, when Tetsuo started accumulating so much energy, he triggered a process similar to that of a birth of a universe (the doctor's words), only within himself.

Boomer wrote:

BOOMpass wrote: How else do you think someone would react if they were completely out of control of their own body? play a satisfying game of golf!? lol You have a good point there, but still the movie as whole missed the mark for me. I never understood why it often gets mentioned with the first Ghost in the Shell movie as one of the "classics" of anime even though it's not in the same league.

I was more confused with Ghost in the Shell then I ever was with Akira. Personally I hate ghost in the shell because I thought the storyline was just boring and not there to pull me in. Graphically GitS was good but the story, gosts tryign to figure out what those are, who's the puppet master, what the hell is he talking about, just really broke my concentration and ultimately made me hate it. Akira I had no troubles. I did question alot of the items in the movie but it wasn't in the middle of the movie, I questioned them at the end. Where as GitS I was constantly questioning items DURING the movie, and which I can never get into a movie like that, however, after watching hte movie more then once I did understand alot more but still it never change the fact that I don't like the movie. The show is good but movie...