Favourite film

Rating: Null/10 (22 February 2004)

The first ever anime I ever hired out and watched..and it blew my mind in a way I can't describe. I have since read the Manga of Akira (and most of Otomo's other work) and am still amazed at the awe inspiring effort that went into his masterpiece.(especialy since he hadn't drawn more than fifty pages of sequential work in his career beforehand) The film, despite being the highest budget animated film of the eighties was just mindboggling, and also one of the pioneers of digital elements incorporated into traditional animation.. Unfortunately for my apreciation of anime, I saw the best first, and everything else pales in comparison. ...sigh.. Also, the soundtrack is Magnificent, with a subtle but noticable influence from the BladeRunner soundtrack(Which also rocks).. This equals about one hundredth of my total rant about Akira, My favourite Anime ever. KANEDAAAAA!!!!!