The Tip of the Iceberg

Rating: Null/10 (11 October 2003)

Thank You Katsuhiro Otomo for opening my eyes to the wonderful world of Anime. Akira was the first anime I ever watched, though I was young at the time. The spectacular animation blew me away.
Akira is what I now call an Onion film. Not because it makes you cry but every time you watch it you understand more of the complex storyline and characters. Now to address the DVD problem Only in Australia do you get the original dubbed English dialogue which if you have watched Akira you know the classic lines. But in the US that DVD has more features. I was disappointed in the way the "new americian" dialogue over simplified the old dialogue. The mysterious and deep dialogue died. I shall give you an example. Here is a line that is not in the movie but demostrates how the new US dialogue is bad Old US dialogue dub "Akira is a highly powerful entinty" New US dialogue Dub "Akira is a very powerful guy"
Now back to Akira" The old US dialogue version" , after the first viewing of the movie you understand a little bit of Akira then I advise you to watch it several times over a year or two and delve deeper into the story. But if you find it confusing then walk away and pick up the Manga graphic novel of Akira and it will explain all.