Comments on: Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude, AKIRA

By: Halliday

Halliday — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 22:27:12 +0000

I just like how they translated Kanada’s street tough attitude as sounding like he’s from Brooklyn. Especially the line reading where he’s all like,”He’s just a kiiiid.”

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 18:23:47 +0000

Halliday: I love the Streamline dub too, though I really shouldn’t. There’s something funny about Cam Clarke’s NASAL RAGE.

By: Halliday

Halliday — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 21:50:40 +0000

Was it the new dub or the old, awesome, Streamline dub? I fucking love that dub.

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:41:58 +0000

Jeff- Oh, I’ve got it sir. I put it on at work sometimes to freak out the normals.

Lissa- Maybe 7 or 8 years ago they re-released it with the THX sound and the digital restoration? It really is like a whole new movie, seeing the colours and the detail full-on. I remember a bunch of people being pissed that it made Kaneda’s motorcycle leathers look too pink, but how tough do you have to be to rock pink pants and fire a laser cannon, you know?

Dan- Oh, Dan.

Mike- Hoorah to shared experiences!

Jeremy- Thanks for the heads-up, but I actually grabbed one of each and every matsumoto shirt design I could find in my size last time I was in NYC. There’s one squarish Ping Pong design that was only available in women’s sizes, which pissed me off, but I got everything else…

By: jeremy

jeremy — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 15:20:57 +0000

Chris,

Long time reader, first time poster (har har)

I was at the Japanese store Uniqlo in NYC this weekend on a trip, and lo and behold they are swamped with Taiyo Matsumoto t-shirts!

Hope you have some folks in NYC you can reach out to who can buy you some, they had Black and White and Ping Pong themed stuff. I grabbed a Ping Pong shirt, so awesome.

Also sorry if this is a repeat.

Jeremy

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 13:13:42 +0000

TETSUO!!!!

Best part of playing Moral Decay…. people randomly screaming character names from Akira… memories..

Brother

By: Pedro Tejeda

Pedro Tejeda — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 11:52:55 +0000

I hate to be that guy, but since I read the manga after I saw the anime, and I can’t bear to sit through Akira at all. I actually get mad during Nausicaa.

By: Dan Coyle

Dan Coyle — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:45:22 +0000

When I was 14, imagining a nuke going off in Philadelphia and then giving rise to techno biker gangs- well, that was AWESOME.

By: Lissa

Lissa — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 04:07:50 +0000

When Teletoon first aired this version of the Akira movie, I was amazed watching it again. Like reliving the first time! It’d been years since I’d seen it and never in such high quality (my VHS version has thus been retired; loved for nostalgia but upstaged by a shiny DVD version). Happy to hear others are watching and enjoying as well!

By: Jeff

Jeff — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 03:39:48 +0000

You really ought to get the soundtrack. It’s fantastic.