Posted by Mush on 10.06.2012, 09:37 AM: Akira So, I had the opportunity to read the Akira manga series recently. I'm 5 out of 6 books in, and enjoying it quite a lot. While waiting for the last in the series to arrive in the mail, I decided to watch the anime, which I understand is hailed as groundbreaking and amazing and what not.
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Posted by husky51 on 10.06.2012, 01:03 PM: Bloody and gory and a lot of violence, but it seemed to make more sense, like a number of animes the second time I watched it. I'll have to see it again and see if it gets any better. I'll have to get the manga, I think they have it at the library.
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Posted by Saddletank on 10.06.2012, 03:21 PM: Maybe I'm more easily pleased as I enjoyed it very much.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.06.2012, 07:24 PM: I do not know about akira but The Matrix was almost a copy of ghost in the shell.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.06.2012, 07:26 PM: I do not know about akira but The Matrix was almost a copy of ghost in the shell.
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Posted by husky51 on 10.06.2012, 11:15 PM:
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Posted by Roarkiller on 10.08.2012, 05:25 AM: Didn't read the manga.
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Posted by Saddletank on 10.08.2012, 08:38 AM: The parts that I think inspired the Wachowski's were some of the camera angles and cuts and I think there's some slo-mo action in there which they used as their 'bullet time'.
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Posted by arren18 on 10.08.2012, 10:43 AM: I've seen it I think three times and I think it's great! I love the way everything is put together, with the visuals and the music and so on, and even though I guess it is a bit confusing, the important plot points are clear enough that you can follow it. I haven't read the manga, but I would like to get round to it some day.
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Posted by Nausicaa_Cat on 10.09.2012, 01:25 PM: Personally I was blown away by Akira when I saw it, and I continue to be a big fan of the movie. The visuals are so slick and the opening scenes in particular are awesome. I remember it also being one of the first non-Ghibli anime I saw and finding the violence unnerving, but also fantastic - in that it (literally) packed a punch. I feel it's a movie that can't help but leave a big impression.
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Posted by saviour2012 on 10.09.2012, 08:34 PM: So it looks like science people( here me mush and roarkiller ) do not think Akira ground breaking but others do.
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Posted by Saddletank on 10.10.2012, 02:22 AM: I think Saviour, that is what "different styles" is. How two people draw the same face or building different ways. Anime has a huge raft of conventions and symbols (such as the sweatdrop, the # mark for anger, and many stylized eye shapes, the simple lozenge slice of shadow on a woman's front to indicate a bust shape), really fundamental things you'll see repeated everywhere, but the other elements are all individual. You can't possibly say that "My Neighbours the Yamadas", "Porco Rosso" and "Ghost in the Shell" are remotely similar in style.
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Posted by Orphic Okapi on 10.10.2012, 02:53 PM: I haven't read the manga, but I'd like to. I also found the movie a disappointment (I have no science background, by the way). The soundtrack is amazing, and the first half holds up pretty well, but the second half totally falls apart. It's just a barrage of chaos and death without any tension or sense of pacing, probably the result of trying to cram too much plot into two hours. If only they'd done a short anime series, the plot could have had a little more room to breath.
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