Akira; Not to be missed

Rating: 9/10 (24 November 2016)

If you are a fan of animation, not seeing Akira is equivalent to not seeing a Pixar film or a Miyazaki film. Obviously Pixar and Miyazaki films are much more family friendly than Akira is. I would not recommend showing this to a younger audience at all, but I will argue that Akira is on the same technical level. The animation is truly groundbreaking, using cell animation to it's advantages rather than allowing it to hinder the incredible amount of detail put into this film. Any fan of animated works will no doubt be delighted to see the incredibly stylized steam-punk Tokyo lit up by neon lights. I don't want to get too much into the story, mainly because of how easy it is to spoil this movie, but I will say that the screenplay works to play on how we tell stories, and how we write/view protagonists.