Review of Akira

I've been on a spree of classics lately, watching classics i have never watched before. These anime would be shows like the original evangelion, cowboy bebop, trigun, hell, even one show no one even knew existed, at all, samurai deeper kyo. Then i kept being told to watch the classic anime movie Akira. I gotta say, i AT first wasn't too impressed. BUT, once i started watching it I finished it and said..... THIS CAME OUT IN 1988?!?!?! That changed alot of my opinions. Story: 7/10 I'm not gonna lie, this isn't the interesting part, the story isn't the great thing about this show, it's theway it tells the story. But in terms of just what the plot is, it's nothing we haven't seen before. So basically this war torn hell hole of a city is the dog shit of cities, and there exists bike gangs. That being said the show isn't about the bike gangs at all, once an accident happens and one of the members, tetsuo shima, is badly injured, he is brought in by the army, and he gets experimented on, and he gets crazy psychic powers, and wants to show the world now that he isn't weak, he is the tall big bad buy now. Basically, this guy is tired of life treating him like crap, and now takes his vengeance on the shit hole city. simple, but good enough to make you watch.

art and animation: 9/10
Now to present day animation, yes, this animation is shit, but looking at the time, it's freaking amazing! this movie was made in 1988, and for that time it looks amazing. I mean jesus, evangelion's original 1995 release looks like crap comparatively to this seven years prior movie. It's fluid and it has so much good detail for the background in the city and any eviroment it's in, however i point out the city because the animation makes the city really look like a dark place where street bike gangs would hang out, and there's not many shows that pull that off as well as i wish they would have.

Sound: 8/10
In the first half of this movie, the sound really didn't do anything to me, so thought i shouldn't get my hopes up. But one you make it half way through, you can hear that there is actually some good music in this movie. These songs fit the action scenes of the movie very very well. I would love to poin out the names of these songs BUT..... I hdon't know the names at all, so, yeah. As for dub vs sub, i did not watch this subbed, i watched this anime dubbed, and it payed off very well. for a pre bebop series, this had a rather well acted dub in it... again, now that I've said that, remember, it's a 1988 dub. FOR 1988, IT'S A GOOD DUB.

Characters: 10/10
The characters are definitely the highlight of akira, no way in hell there not. Well, for the most part. They showed off one of the main characters very well, that would be tetsuo. Tetsuo is very flushed out, in fact so well flushed out, he is already one of my favorite anime characters of all time. He's so well done and had such good Characters development, i would say he's almost justified for what he did. now main character number two, kaneda, is very good as well, as he is a childhood friend of tetsuo's, and he is trying to stop him from all this bad stufff he's doing, and get him either A help or B kill him. The rest of the cast is a bit pointless to talk about, but it's only because there are a few more, but they really just aren't anything special, but they do serve their purpose, but you'll have to watch and find out.

enjoyment and overall: 9/10
Akira is an instant classic along with it's other 90's peirs, and in all honesty, that is why i praise the living crap out of this anime movie. This movie was so far before it's time, and in all honesty i feel it's not given enough credit, like, at all. It's flaws are minor, but they do exist, and even though it is old as holy hell, if you look at it for what it is and just look past the animation and see that it's time of release is what it is, you should have no problems watching this movie, for it is an instant classic.