One of the greatest animated films ever.

Rating: 8/10 (18 February 2019)

Akira is one of the most important animated films ever made and remains shockingly visual even in 2019.
Akira was released in 1988 and at the time was the most expensive anime film ever made. When adjusted for inflation it is still one of the most expensive animated films to ever come out of Japan. Akira revolutionized the film industry in a way few films have before. Akira was one of the first adult animated films to ever breakthrough into the west. Akira helped to popularize anime in America and in that sense, it still continues to influence us to this day. At the time, when Akira was made, Japanese anime films were cheap and often would settle for bad production in return for more profits. Akira was a revolution in this sense. Every penny was spent to craft what is possibly the most beautiful animated film of all time. Akira was one of the first animated films to animate characters around the voice dialogue and incorporate 3D CGI into its animation. It also was not afraid to have tons of dialogue and extremely bloody scenes. The results are stunning to say the least. But why has Akira remained so popular through the years?