Review of Akira

This was an alright movie. Nothing spectacular to blow away everyone's mind away, and it's definitely not terrible enough to end up getting a dirt low rating. Now it's probably because I watched this after seeing so many other shows that I think this way, I know many people say that this show revolutionized anime as we know it, but compared to the newer shows today that are actually pretty good this one doesn't really live up to a comparison. Now if I saw this early on during my first couple of shows and first couple of movies I would have fallen in love withit. So needless to say, if you're trying to get into anime and if you're prepared for a tad bit of weirdness, this might be up your ally.

So if you've seen a lot of shows already, don't go in thinking it's going to be the most amazing thing. If you're new to anime, here's a cool movie that gets a little weird, but hey anime can get strange sometimes.

Story:
Now from the cover of the movie and by the opening scene, I was to believe this was a motorcycle racing movie. Sadly it is not about the racing, or really about motorcycles in general, it's about a sort of side character meets with another sort of side character. Their meeting is far from normal though, their meeting changes their lives pretty much for the worse. Now without spoiling much, I know that sounds good and all, but there's magic powers involved out of nowhere so it got a little strange from that. To sum up the story in one sweet sentence without ruining anything, the friend gets too involved in top secret military stuff and pays the price by going insane. There's also a cult group who prays for the end of the world, but the movie never focuses on that.

Characters:
The characters are meh, I didn't really care about any of them at all. I knew who two of them were and the rest of them were just kinda there. This movie will make characters show up and then never show them again, and then grab new characters half way through the movie and then drop them from the movie again. So basically the movie is about a few people doing things bad for everyone else.

Art:
It's just an old anime, it has that 90's vintage look, nothing too special there. Although there were really good animations for a few scenes, with a lot of moving parts and flashing lights. Also the music wasn't really all that great, there's are also a few sound effects from other sources so you might hear a few sounds you could recognize from other shows.

Overall:
Not a terrible experience, but if I knew the show wasn't going to be all that great I would have avoided watching it. It's a long movie with a shifting plot, and it wasn't ever too confusing to follow, but I just didn't really like how things ended up.

Pros: Good first movie, introduction to anime and preparation for weirdness
Cons: Not such an amazing movie, plot changes, characters get dropped