Review of Akira

Akira - 7/10 First, let me talk to you about the setting: It's a futuristic dystopian world after the world war 3 where everything is solved through violence and unrest spread through the commonwealth as the country is breaking down through revolutionary protests with biker gangs and secret organisations struggle to co-exist and the army is working with the police to hunt down anti-goverment groups. There are people trying to control the power of god all for their self-interests but none of them know if they can control it. They all want to be strong and want to be leaders, even if they can't. The Art is awesome, reallyreally good on that, the animation is all 24 fps smooth, which is better than any anime out there now.
The action is pretty damn great, probably the best part of the movie, has everything ya ever need to it.

Overall Akira is more of a visual action experience rather than something really serious. Though most of the scenes do carry a deeper meaning, none of them are in proper context or are connected by a serious plot.

Then there's also the symbolism
The city is corrupt, the politics are corrupt so bad no one even trusts each other anymore everyone is so consumed into their own interests that everyone becomes a black hole, the whole city collapses into itself, just like the antagonist's power consumes things, his ego consumes energy from being powerful, being a god-like being and above all else not being on the recieving end and not needing help, however not realising that it's not something bad, and losing control at the end.