Review of Akira

Akira Akira!!! Leave me aloneeee!! Aaaahhh!! / out of 10 Felt like I was on acid. Definitely a spectacle with beautiful fluid animation that holds up even by today's standards... but what an acid trip of a story. The pacing was also pretty good, with every scene feeling like a railgun shooter with no filler... but I guess ultimately we can say that like a railgun shooter, it's hard to really pick up on the story or the motifs or the metaphors that would make us stop to think and reflect. Go into this expecting an action movie basically. The voice acting was cheesy butin a way it grows on you. I appreciate that it's a bit more mature than most anime you'll find these days.