Teletoon is showing AKIRA tonight and it’s just awesome. I mean… you sort of take it for granted that it’s as good as you remembered, but… Dude. AKIRA. DUN! DUN DUN! [bells chime]. DUN! DUN DUN DUN! [chimes].
I swear to you I am not chemically altered in any way, but I am enjoying the hell out of this film.
– Christopher
You really ought to get the soundtrack. It’s fantastic.
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!
When I was 14, imagining a nuke going off in Philadelphia and then giving rise to techno biker gangs- well, that was AWESOME.
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.
TETSUO!!!!
Best part of playing Moral Decay…. people randomly screaming character names from Akira… memories..
Brother
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
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…
Was it the new dub or the old, awesome, Streamline dub? I fucking love that dub.
Halliday: I love the Streamline dub too, though I really shouldn’t. There’s something funny about Cam Clarke’s NASAL RAGE.
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.”