Review of Akira

Akira is the anime that inspired an entire genre of anime. Where Dragon Ball Z is what a lot of people state to being the most inspirational, Akira Toriyama stated himself that Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z were inspired to a massive amount by the original Manga for Akira. I don't know how close the anime is to the movie but I can tell you a few things that I liked about it, because there wasn't much if anything, that I disliked about this animated film. 1. The action scenes aren't overly long The action scenes are short and the film isn't completely made up ofthem. I can more so relate this to Neon Genesis Evangelion as the film takes more of a chance to develop the characters, no matter how subtle the development is.

2. There is no definitive bad guy
Where as a lot of people would look at this as a bad thing I'm not a firm believer in a fight between good and evil. There are a lot of scenes where the character being portrayed as an antagonist does something good, and the character being portrayed as the protagonist is doing something bad. They take a good look at human psychology and take us on a right through one of the main character's delve into insanity caused by an over abundance of power.

3. The message we get from the movie is debatable
This film is what would happen if the entirety of Neon Genesis Evangelion were to be a movie rather than a series. They could have just as easily dragged the entire film out into a 20 episode long series, but they didn't. And the ending of the movie leaves a lot of debatability and theories that could be made up from the film.

And the animation is amazing as well as the completely acoustic soundtrack.

9.5/10