...No. In fact, that ending is where Akira lost me a little bit.

Up until that point, I was loving the characters and the world that was being built up. All the themes about estranged youth and government run amok, apparently amounting to a blob of flesh because... Akira is Jesus? I don't know.

Also, it's kind of ridiculous to deny the impact Akira and Evangelion have had, regardless of your opinion of them. I personally think that A New Hope is the weakest out of the original Star Wars trilogy, but I can't sit here and deny that it was a landmark in genre filmmaking. The influence is self-evident.

I freaking hated Akira. Granted, I did watch the original dub and I was told that they did redub it to make it...Tolerable (As well as the subbed version probably being available now, too).

It is. I watched it subbed from my local library.

I don't think I could agree more. They've just never interested me.

Anime didn't handle the transition from hand drawn well.

With you dude. We disagree on many things but Akira is just plain boring and awful. I don't deny it's impact but it is terrible.

Glad I'm not alone. Again, the Miyazaki films have had a huge impact on anime. I fully recognize this. But it doesn't make them any less terrible to me.

As for the topic of cooky crazy off the wall anime, i actually really like the fan service stuff like Burn Up Excess. That show was hilarious and awesome and weird all at the same time. I'm probably alone in saying that I enjoyed it but I also thought I was alone when I said I hated Miyazaki :lol

I like anime, I just don't watch a lot of them. Like everything else there are good anime and there's bad anime.

Den, I found something for you :lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kFhPVAhV_o

Nonononono...not the theme song! The ONE good thing about that show!

...damn, it's in my head again now. >_<

I always thought that song sounded like it belonged in an early Japanese Transformers show. :p