One of the best animated movies ever!

Rating: 10/10 (5 August 2015)

Calling Akira a great movie would be and understatement. It is a technical marvel that still holds up even after nearly 30 years of a half baked medium. Animation has gone downhill in some aspects. Gone are the techniques of traditional animation, now replaced by cheap and unimpressive flash animation. Kids shows are now a pointless mush mash of random dance parties, butt shaking and gross out humor (Nickelodeon in a nutshell). It's all backwash and pig vomit...and kids are eating it up...for the most part. You see, kids aren't that stupid as we initially thought. Their comes a time in their age where they realize that animation before the New Millennium was actually pretty amazing. I myself came to that age and stumbled across Akira. Brief synopsis: Akira follows two members of a biker gang: Tetsuo and Kaneda. Both have distinctive personalities. Kaneda is the cocky and enthusiastic gang leader, while Tetsuo is a bit of an underdog that is trying to prove his worth to his fellow bikers. When Tetsuo is caught in a serious accident, he is sent to a government hospital without his friends knowledge. Without spoiling much lets just say that Tetsuo gains immense psychic power and wreaks havoc on Neo Tokyo. Please be sure to watch this marvel of a movie. I give it a perfect score.