Akira (1988)

Director: Katsuhiro Otomo (some Japanese anime shit I've never heard of)
Stars: No One (There are multiple different versions with different voices, none of which I've heard of)
YesNoSoso: 0

Akira is the Citizen Kane of Anime in that it fundamentally changed the artform. Before Akira, Japanese animation generally cut costs on the visual effects, animated just the moving mouths and not to the words they were saying (think the cartoon on the TV that Butch falls asleep to in Pulp Fiction). Then Akira came along and painted, for the time, illustrious visuals with complex moving parts. But by today's standards, the animation is crappy and combined with the rough translation, makes for an unenjoyable movie experience. Although reading the wikipedia synopsis of the plot made me want view it a second time (the plot sounds pretty cool), all I had to do was remember how I struggled through it the first time to curb that desire. If you are a movie buff and would like the cross "seeing the movie that made Anime" then see it, if not, don't.
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