AKIRA

What does Yea Forums think of the Akira manga?

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terrible animation

godly animation

Wish I could read it not flipped without having to buy it!

thicc

Legit answer: I think it's a fantastic manga, but I also feel that the plot and themes don't really hold to scrutiny. It's been over a decade since I last read it, but I many plot elements are nonsensical. For example, what is the nuclear-like explosion of Akira supposed to represent or accomplish? Akira and Tetsuo reaches some sort of enlightenment, so they explode at each other and become a new universe? There's a lot of metaphysical mumbo jumbo that is extremely vague for the sake of pseudo-depth. I'm sure not even the author himself can explain what many of the metaphysical story elements are supposed to mean. It's a work you could endlessly analyze because there's no real answer or logic to those parts of it.

Yep, that is what I felt too.

I also felt that after the awakening the story dragged on quite a bit.

Came to post this. It's fucking impossible to find decent scans in right-to-left format. Does Dark Horse have the monoply on this shit?

the entire "this is our japan now" ending was really fucking stupid imo

Stupid as hell overrated cap movie and manga. I'm tired of reading zoomers and millenials stroke their collective dicks over how good the animation is. The actual story was and still remains shit. There's no deep meaning or symbolism or anything thought provoking except for "wow they took forever to draw this frame by frame." Who gives a shit. It's nothing revotionary. They just took longer to do the same animation process that's been done over and over ad nauseum since people figured out. "Oh I can draw these pictures and make images appear to be moving if I change them slightly when I draw it over!"

This is not copy pasta. This is just a rant

Tl;Dr fuck this normie tier meme anime/manga.

Isn't it supposed to be a metaphor for the rising punk movement in Japan at the time, with both the legitimate establishment forces (Colonel) and the establishment-manufactured powers (Akira, Tetsuo, other psychics) destroying one another to make way for the "new era"?
It's been a long time since I read it as well, but I remember reading the overarching plot as representative of generational shift and the overtaking of establishment culture by antiestablishment counterculture.

>normie
wew, newfag.

>Thread about the manga
>Post exclusively about the animation style of the movie
So, did you have anything real to say?

Nope.

Uh

That's not an angle I really considered, but I think it makes sense as an overarching theme. With that line of reasoning, I can personally see similarities to post-WW2 Japan when Akira destroys Tokyo for a second time and society basically collapses, with everyone having to survive in the ruins of the metropolis and build new lives for themselves in that post-apocalyptic setting. With that in mind, I need to give the manga another read.

So, you're not a fan of animation I take it?

Yeah. They are just a bunch of gangs living on lawless streets trying to kill each other then suddenly they become nationalists? wtf...

Basically, Kaneda's entire reason for being involved in the story was just chasing after Kei

superpowered psychics trashing the country can shift your priorities

I also felt that it dragged after the explosion.It doesn't help that Kaneda leaves the manga for a while too.

Will we ever see the concrete jungle porn like Akira ever again?

Every time I'm reminded of the Akira manga I ask the question: "how the he'll did they train their assistants to draw that in the 80's?". And "why can't we get that anymore?"

>And "why can't we get that anymore?"
too costly, takes too long

Better than the anime.

The entire manga gave me a mood of being lost without direction. I'm not sure whether it's intentional on Otomo's part or not.

With the exception of Tetsuo, all the other main players were kept constantly busy reacting to the things happening around them. There don't appear to be a uniform spirit guiding this fictional Japan. And outside duty or urgency, we really don't see much quirky personal pursuits. And Tetsuo, when given the power and time - preoccupied himself with women and drugs yet never seemed content.

I personally enjoy it as an action-packed futuristic adventure story where Oromo draws on snapshots of Bubble Era Japan to illustrate his sceneries. Other than that I really do not perceive any explicit societal insight from this manga. I'm happy to be enlightened though

Sometimes not making sense is precisely the sense the author wants to make. When the author is frustrated because what he sees around him contradicts itself, he just presents it without covering up those contradictions; if it doesn't make sense to him, you're gonna experience it not making sense as well, unless you have the tools to interpret it in a different manner than the author.

A whole volume ffs.

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Is Otomo's other stuff any good?

I read Domu and like it way more than Akira since it is compact and filled with cool action. I have no idea what to expect from the rest.

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I read right-to-left scans.
Might not have been the highest possible quality but it was decent enough.

Is there nowadays as detailed on cityscapes?

His short stories are cool but way below Akira or Domu.

There's a manga?

KANEDAAAAA

TETSUOOOOOO