dougal55
War Child
Hi!
Some years ago, I discovered a film in a listings magazine from Japan which intrigued me with the title alone, "AKIRA". I read through the article in that mag and it was highly praised so, out of curiousity, I went along to the local cinema in London to see it!
My jaw dropped in the first few mins at the sheer beauty of the film and its in animation too which is a far far far cry from the usual sh*t from Disney et al! Heres a brief plot summary:
"Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project knowned as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activist, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago."
Throughout the whole film, I was entranced and amazed at the brilliant storyline and utterly fantastic animation which I have not seen before (it had some amazing scenes of the city, Tokyo too).
So anyone here seen the film or has seen any manga films at all? If you did, let me know your favourites or your thoughts on Akira. I became a bit of a convert to manga art since watching Akira and only now I came across a new kind of cartoon at this website. www.brokensaints.com which takes reading comics out of the bookshop and onto the net! While they may not be anything new there but the difference is that the designers have cleverly used Flash Macromedia software to the tilt! When you get to the website by the way, you can catch up on the storyline so far by clicking on the Classic Site button on right hand side of screen
cheers
dougal
Some years ago, I discovered a film in a listings magazine from Japan which intrigued me with the title alone, "AKIRA". I read through the article in that mag and it was highly praised so, out of curiousity, I went along to the local cinema in London to see it!
My jaw dropped in the first few mins at the sheer beauty of the film and its in animation too which is a far far far cry from the usual sh*t from Disney et al! Heres a brief plot summary:
"Kaneda is a bike gang leader whose close friend Tetsuo gets involved in a government secret project knowned as Akira. On his way to save Tetsuo, Kaneda runs into a group of anti-government activist, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader. The confrontation sparks off Tetsuo's supernatural power leading to bloody death, a coup attempt and the final battle in Tokyo Olympiad where Akira's secrets were buried 30 years ago."
Throughout the whole film, I was entranced and amazed at the brilliant storyline and utterly fantastic animation which I have not seen before (it had some amazing scenes of the city, Tokyo too).
So anyone here seen the film or has seen any manga films at all? If you did, let me know your favourites or your thoughts on Akira. I became a bit of a convert to manga art since watching Akira and only now I came across a new kind of cartoon at this website. www.brokensaints.com which takes reading comics out of the bookshop and onto the net! While they may not be anything new there but the difference is that the designers have cleverly used Flash Macromedia software to the tilt! When you get to the website by the way, you can catch up on the storyline so far by clicking on the Classic Site button on right hand side of screen
cheers
dougal
Is the SpacePope a Reptillian.
Akira 
. Maybe i should have done my dissertation about Manga instead of Bertolt Brecht and his influence on contemporary british theatre 
etc...
