Kinda boring and generic. the animation is great tho

kinda boring and generic. the animation is great tho.
is manga any better?

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>i think Akira is boring and generic.
>all i like is the animation.
>would i like the manga, which has no animation at all

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holy shit OP BTFO!!!!

the manga animates itself if you look at the pictures really, really fast

Generic does not mean "thing I don't like." Why can't anyone use this word correctly now? It's not like it's a complicated word.

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the film was made before the manga finished so there is a whole of shit happening in the manga

>generic
bait

manga is a lot better, read it while listening to that GOAT soundtrack

thanks for the gold

op just bitched slap with a 9 inch logic dick.

The movie is like the barely the first two volumes of the manga.

yea the story is kinda meh but the animation is GOAT

The manga is a lot better. I highly recommend it.

The comic is way too long. You could read a couple of actually worthwhile real books in the time it would take to read the comic.

In what way is Akira generic?

Character design.

If the character designs were generic then it would be difficult to immediately recognize them, and that's not the case with Akira.

The manga is better insofar that it goes into more detail and continues the story to a more final conclusion after the movie, but I think that's a bit of an unfair advantage when comparing them. The movie should be judged on its own merits.

Blew me away when I saw it on tv when I was 14 but yeah it's not very good.

They all have that same generic mango face that all Chinese cartoon characters have.

It's not long at all by manga standards. Especially when you take into account of how many pages of it are just pure action with little dialogue.

No such face exists, and character design is more than drawing faces.

The whole manga takes less than an hour to read. What picture books are you reading that you can do several in that time?

It couldn't been two hours of snare drum farts and it wouldn't matter. The ending alone and the fact that the animators actually had the balls to try and portray a man becoming a god and pulled it off convincingly enough deserves all the praise it can get.

I never actually read it. I saw how many volumes it was and decided any comic that long was not worth the time.

I've never seen such a severe case of fpbp in my life.

Incredibly based

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>kinda boring and generic
No, you're just a adderall-popping zoomer who fell victim to the "seinfeld is unfunny" effect. Go back to watching jojo and filthyfrank videos you tasteless little nigger.

You think it's generic because you've seen the series that it influenced, retard.

>generic
Do you know what that word means?

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kek it was bait, love it

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OP went in with expectations regarding story/writing but the film did not deliver, so they're asking if Manga's better in that regard.

>kids with psychic powers controlled by the government
>experiment goes wrong, city blows up
WHOA!

It's generic because it's been ripped off for decades you zoomer subhuman

You can make anything seem generic if you just cherry pick and oversimplify.

The character design was the first animated faces with that much expression in the history of anime

I agree and disagree. There are moments where I'm like "ok, now this has got to be the finale" and it more or less resets, like a marvel Netflix series. On the other hand, it gave me moments where there were several factions duking it out in the city and shit gets fun bananas. The battle for custody of Akira was one of my favorite bit of comic writing ever, it felt like a movie in the best way.

Try doing that with Game of Thrones
PROTIP: You can't

>people fight each other in a medieval world
Wow, so original.