THE stupidest anime I have ever seen.

[whereami]

I'm not a super anime obsessed like some people are, but I enjoy shows like Naruto, Initial-D, etc from time to time...

A friend let me borrow some anime movie called "Akira" one day. I've heard from people who are crazy about anime how "Akira" was the bomb.

So i thought, ill give it a try.

Little did i know that i was going to waste 2 hours of my precious time.

By the time the movie was over i was on the verge of breaking my friends cd in retaliation for wasting my time....

Let me tell you, this is one of the most STUPIDEST, TIME CONSUMING, anime ever.. (in my opinion)...
ARGHAGRHg,.. just by thinking about it pisses me off....

I didnt get 100% of the storyline, but what i got from it (like 85%) , the entire storyline sucks....

The story really tends to wander off..... REALLY wander off..... From a life of a biker, to the life of the crazy powerfull boy, to those 3 ugly wierdos, to that powerfull boy blowing up, to the destruction of the world......

I mean.. the entire story is just friggin RANDOM....

Anyways... i wanna hear what other peeps thought about this stupid movie...

[Xollence]

Well the movie was made a really long time ago, maybe that's why it isn't as good as the ones these days.

[Stoopider]

How old was Akira?? 1980's issit? Somewhere therelah.

People talked so greatly about Akira becasue it was 'Groundbreaking' for it's moment. The hugh explosions and all.

[Uzumaki Naruto]

yea, akira was one of those animes that pissed me off, i mean ur right about the whole story line shit, it just keeps changing and changing and changing, but an anime that pissed me off more was neon genesis evangaleon, some ppl seem to like it but to me, it was the most anoying shit ive ever seen and ive never been so confused before when it came to watching anime

[Lego]

If you want a stupid anime, neeeeeeeever, and i mean eeeeeeeeeever watch MD geist. When i first got into anime i was curious, thought "Ooo big skeleton guy!" and watched it.

I don't think ive seen anything that shitty in my life.

Heres a review of it:

http://www.animeacademy.com/library/...t/mdgeist.html

[Koyuki]

I don't like old school anime, they suck. Not all but it's very rare to find some good anime.

Question: Why are the quality better now? They really suck drawing anime in the 80's.
Maybe they were a bit high?

[hybridchild]

No matter how good or bad you think Akira is, im not a big fan myself but i do like the manga, it was exrtremly important because it inrtoduced millions of people to anime and lead to the curent anime scene being what it is today if it didnt have the sucess it had alot of the members of this board wouldnt have seen any anime

Hybridchild

[JTD121]

I would say the movie version of Akira might seem confusing because the story keeps changing and changing. However, if you read the manga, which are very large, and there are six of them, you will probably like Akira better. Since it was only two hours to fit maybe 3000 pages of story into?

What you need to understand is that even in the '80s, no one wanted to stay in the theater for more than 2 hours. So Otomo had to cut some parts of the manga out and make the main threads of the story visible in the movie.

I liked the movie alright, but I loved the manga even more.

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[Terracosmo]

Akira rules, you guys just don't understand the point of it.
If you're looking for DBZ/Naruto type of anime then you've come really wrong.
It's for more mature audiences who are looking for something beyond the normal, while exploring the hearts of distorted minds.

[JTD121]

Originally posted by: Terracosmo
Akira rules, you guys just don't understand the point of it.
If you're looking for DBZ/Naruto type of anime then you've come really wrong.
It's for more mature audiences who are looking for something beyond the normal, while exploring the hearts of distorted minds.

Hey, I never said I didn't like it. I just said that I like the manga more, as it has the whole story Otomo wanted to flesh out. I think he should've made Akira an OVA, instead of a movie but...

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[Gods_Son]

The ending seemed a bit clustered, because there was so much manga that need to be covered. Despite some confusion that came from this, Akira is still a classic.

[Swallow Your Soul]

Whether you think it is stupid or not, Akira is one of the biggest reasons for anime and manga gaining an initial following in the west...no-one gave anime any respect (and thats just those who had actually heard of it) because people just assumed they were cartoons for kids (as pretty much all animation in the west was at that time)...when people saw this at the cannes film festival (or at one of these film festivals) it changed the way people considered animation...as this film was clearly not for kids and had a complex plot and adult themes...

If you were looking for something of the ilk of Naruto then yes you were definitely watching the wrong film (I'm one of the few people on this forum who actually didn't like Naruto - I generally like stuff that is more sci fi and dark like akira)...but it is still considered by many (including me) to be the most important anime movie ever...anime is a very broad medium so it isn't all going to be like the series you have seen...but akira is definitely for an older audience who like something a little complex and dark...

I thought the movie was very good...if a little confusing first time around, and I felt there wasn't enough characterisation...but I still really liked it, and I'm probably about half way through the manga and that is just brilliant so far...I still think the movie is one of the best ever in terms of sci fi, even better than ghost in the shell and I really like the artwork in it as well...especially the parts where reality becomes distorted (in the room of the psychic kids)

As for the story wandering off...I find that to be one of the big pull factors of anime in general...a lot of stuff in the west follows a pattern and involves no thought, its intriguing for me that the story just keeps on going further rather than just being predictable...when a western film is like that its made out to be a huge break in tradition as if it is breaking new grounds...but there is quite a lot of anime and japanese cinema that does that (Akira, Perfect Blue etc)

The manga makes much more sense as it has time to go into stuff further and you really get to understand the personalities of the characters...and I'm still amazed I got the entire manga for £7 (about $15)! Its more than £100 to get all of the full volumes at my local comic shop...but then manga is more expensive here than in the US...

[JTD121]

Originally posted by: Swallow Your Soul
The manga makes much more sense as it has time to go into stuff further and you really get to understand the personalities of the characters...and I'm still amazed I got the entire manga for £7 (about $15)! Its more than £100 to get all of the full volumes at my local comic shop...but then manga is more expensive here than in the US...

Wait, you got all six $15 volumes for only $15 in total? How the hell?

mainva | aptigo | JTD out

[Death BOO Z]

If we're talking about Trash.... then listen to this one

Kidou Shinsengumi moubo ken OVA

first look, it has shinsengumi in it, so it has to be good, right?

wrong!

I don't even need to go into the plot, by merely statin a few facts about the anime i could probably make you understand what i feel about it.

- it takes place after the revoulotion, while the meiji goverment is in charge.
- the main charecters are the daughter of Kondu, Hijikata and Okita, all of them are females without a hint of charecter in them. (note; as a kenshinest, i think that shinsengumi = Saitou, the lack of his counterpart was annoying).
- they have super vechiles, wooden computers and magic armor...
- the anime had less than 30 seconds each episode that i enjoyed, even Lain and Hack sign had more than that...
- there's only one person who wears the shinsenumi uniform, the others wear normal cloths or girlish versions of the uniform.
- they fight demons with thier own magic powers and sword ki...


on the brighter side, i finished it, and all four episodes fit nicely on one cd...


note: man, i started writing this reply ages ago... i stopped to let my brother on the computer, we watched the news and even ate dinner, and only now i'm finishing this! i'm fully aware that it has no connection to the thread, but other people replied about shitty animes, so i'll too.

[kajic]

Ive seen the movie and it didnt blew me away or anything but the kind of criticism whereami is throwing around him is totally unmotivated if you ask me.

[Knives122]

you couldnt really follow the movie, and it had a lack in overall plot, even though it did what you said soul it wasnt that great. on a scale of 1-10 10 being the highest/best its a 4. and i couldnt follow the end at all, i had no idea what they were talking about.

THE MOVIE SUCKED, CASED CLOSED

[yenlowang]

people hate what they cant understand

granted that Akira was butchered badly and is not a prime example of good anime, i didnt find it all that hard to understand.

I worked Evangelion out after the second go thru it, and found the storyline excellent and a cut above the conventional anime storylines of its time.

some ppl like their anime clean cut with all the bells and whistles they come to associate with anime over the years. which is why brain dead anime like Dragonball and naruto are (still =P) popular.

however alot of ppl (including me if it isnt already obvious) like our anime to have abit more substance. so we applaud efforts like the aforementioned AKira, NGE, Lain , Jin Roh etc etc.

which is better? i dont know.

the point?

if you dont like an anime then its completely up to you. but if you come to a public forum screaming "OMG this is TEH SUX bcoz I AM NOT UNDERSTANDING TEH WORDS!~!!~!~" or some reasonable facsimile, then you just look stupid.

PS MD Geist needs to be forever interned in the anime hall of shame.

[Poiple Weezard]

I place Akira as one of the greatest anime's that I've ever seen, about the same level as the original Ghost in the Shell. It doesn't matter that its 15 years old, I still think the artwork is amazing. I noticed another anime due out this year by the same animation team (Steamboy? Something along those lines. The exact name escapes me) and I can't wait for a chance to see it.

Kaneda is the original street tough anime hero. He doesn't have any superpowers or magic spells or alien abilities or cyborg body parts. All that he has is a really sweet bike and a wicked gang. Of course it doesn't hurt that he picks up a cool laser gun near the end.

[Swallow Your Soul]

Originally posted by: Knives122
you couldnt really follow the movie, and it had a lack in overall plot, even though it did what you said soul it wasnt that great. on a scale of 1-10 10 being the highest/best its a 4. and i couldnt follow the end at all, i had no idea what they were talking about.

THE MOVIE SUCKED, CASED CLOSED

No matter what anyone who doesn't like it says, there is quite a high chance a lot of people here wouldn't even know about anime in the first place if it wasn't for the early movies (the most influential of which being akira, later ones including Ghost In The Shell)...

Granted the movie has a lot of holes in (considering the amount of story there was in a manga they'd need a whole series to get it all in) it but that couldn't really be helped...

I don't think the film lacked plot at all (and to read any of the manga proves that beyond doubt)...it might have been hard to follow towards the end but then it was cut to pieces from the original manga (much in the same way as the movie of the shining was cut to pieces from the original novel...and therefore wasn't as good as the book...and Akira had a lot more story than the Shining novel!)...

You are right in one way though, the movie did indeed do what I say (and more, it was a revolution in Japan as well as the west) and whether you like it or not a hell of a lot of modern anime and manga owes a pretty big debt to the likes of Akira...you don't have to like it but that is simply the case...the medium has evolved and Akira is one of the biggest movies in anime's history...

anyway if it really sucks that bad...why not just condemn it to memory and watch dragonball, digimon, card captor whatever-it-is or pokemon for a little bit longer to cheer yourself up [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-wink.gif[/img]

[Lego]

anyway if it really sucks that bad...why not just condemn it to memory and watch dragonball, digimon, card captor whatever-it-is or pokemon for a little bit longer to cheer yourself up

I actually did like the first digimon movie, it was pretty good, in my opinion [img]i/expressions/face-icon-small-blush.gif[/img]

Anywho, while were on the subject of stupid anime, anyone remeber plastic little? This was one of the first full anime movies i watched.

Granted i like how it ends, but it was just a excuse for much fanservice.