You know how you can tell a movie is a big deal? When even a heartless corporation like Warner Bros has its executives admit they’re afraid to adapt it because they’re worried about screwing it up. Warner executives said that.

@reikun86

Ай бұрын

Whoa. It sounds like they actually care about messing up.

@hellomark1

Ай бұрын

I mean the movie goes way off the rails and almost screws itself up, the third act does lose me at points but you can't argue how good it is

@Dynaman21

Ай бұрын

@@hellomark1The result of essentially speedrunning the manga at the end.

@ArawnOfAnnwn

Ай бұрын

​@@reikun86No they're afraid of the backlash if they mess up. That said, this is more of an exception than the rule. The live action Cowboy Bebop show was still made. Rings of Power was still made. Etc.

@dnoodspodu1159

Ай бұрын

And you believed them...

The cool thing about Honest Trailers is that when they do one on a bad movie it's hilarious, but when they do one on a good movie, it becomes a celebration!

@samcyphers2902

Ай бұрын

And when a story does get criticism, it's never stupid nitpicking like Cinemasins. "Oh no, that guy ate an apple, that makes him an asshole." Seriously, what?

@Shakes-Off-Fear

Ай бұрын

They’re honest after all

@EmperorSeth

Ай бұрын

@@samcyphers2902 I like when Honest Trailers comes out and say, "This is a good film, but we're a comedy show, so here are the nitpicks!" At least they admit when that's what they're doing.

@carter_lovejoy

Ай бұрын

@@Shakes-Off-Fear **CSI Miami Theme/Won’t Get Fooled Again by The Who intensifies**

@returnoftheredeye

Ай бұрын

Similar deal with Spaceice's stuff.

I first saw Akira back in the 90's and I remember the description in the TV listing read "Be warned. Bambi, this ain't"

@IanRussell1969

Ай бұрын

It would be closer to the classic "Bambi meets Godzilla"

@キラキラくりくり頭

Ай бұрын

​@@IanRussell1969that was a classic. I tricked my step mother into watching it (around... 1988?) she was very upset.

@BrunoMaricFromZagreb

Ай бұрын

What an appropriately 90's sentence.

@makavelimusolini1036

Ай бұрын

BBC at night 92 IIRC. Stayed up late for this.

The Akira-slide is iconic for a reason.

ending with "every frame a painting" was awesome nostalgia... I remember watching that video they made, being mindblown, and sending it to every person I knew

@Izzboticus

Ай бұрын

This was an absolute top notch meta reference.

@corykahane

Ай бұрын

so glad I'm not the only one in the comments with love for Every Frame A Painting.

@slyngn7847

Ай бұрын

@@corykahane Same bro. I hope Tony Zhou is making it big out there.

@theonlymegumegu

Ай бұрын

i found out in the last year or so he helped produce some commentary videos on The Criterion Collection streaming service. if you have access, check them out, it's like watching new eps of Every Frame a Painting ^_^

@nnamdiodiaka6684

Ай бұрын

God I miss that series, probably the first KZread essay style videos I got into.

"Guys when you tell them to go to the doctor" was too real. "IT'S NOTHING!"

@gdelva

Ай бұрын

Literally THIS!

@makina323

Ай бұрын

I literally laughed out loud in the break room

@Graatand

Ай бұрын

Actually just went to the doctor for my yearly checkup today.

@tenylegnincsevem

Ай бұрын

@@Graatand yeah but you are girl

@thomasfreeman3660

Ай бұрын

TRU

It's rare to hear Honest Trailers expressing such absolute _reverence_ for a film. But AKIRA deserves it, anime and manga both.

@paulsoldner9500

22 күн бұрын

no, it fucking does not.

@RidwanGosal

20 күн бұрын

​@@paulsoldner9500ah yes, perfectly succinct counter-argument for one of the OG anime movies out there. Movies like Akira crawls so others after could fly.

@paulsoldner9500

20 күн бұрын

@@RidwanGosal Anime never flies. It always crawls in the sewers from which it came.

Back in 1991, the year I graduated high school, we had the last fews days of class, and for those of you who have been through those last few days of high school, it's pretty much just goofing off and waiting for graduation. So in my art class, I suggested we watch Akira, which I had a VHS copy of (we periodically rented VHS tapes from Japan Town in San Francisco and would make copies of them), but I explained there was no English subtitles or dubbing, and I would have to translate for the class. I also explained it had excessive violence and gore, but the teacher was fine with it (I had shown him some anime in the past so he had an idea what we were getting into, and he was cool like that. I miss you, Mr. Johnson). So the entire class sat through I think two to three full class sessions of Akira. I wonder if any of them are reading this and remember it. (Go Bearcats!)

@mentaltelepathy24

Ай бұрын

I liked this story.

@Anonymiad

Ай бұрын

nice. I didn't use Akira but around the same year I talked my teacher into showing the rocky horror picture show in 8th grade and i can safely say it blew everyones mind lol

Doing the bike slide will always be one of my favorite references when a movie or show does them.

@wesleyswafford2462

Ай бұрын

Couldn't ever do that one IRL, but I could do the "push the bike, start it, and jump on while taking off" like Tetsuo does after he crashes lol..

@michaelandreipalon359

Ай бұрын

Still would love to see mockingly realistic deconstructions of it though.

@ericdietz1795

Ай бұрын

Some other channel has them edited into a medley.

@SB0083

Ай бұрын

​@michaelandreipalon359 I mean...they did that in Marvel's Spider-Man 2 with Mary Jane wiping out trying to do the Akira Slide.

@michaelandreipalon359

Ай бұрын

@@SB0083 Good to know.

"Bike-curious dynamic." OMG.

@InMaTeofDeath

Ай бұрын

Wasn't expecting a south park reference.

@dennisjansson6239

Ай бұрын

Cartman: You call him Bike-curious.

@LuisSierra42

Ай бұрын

Certainly a representation

@robertnickerson4500

Ай бұрын

South Park did it!

@mentaltelepathy24

Ай бұрын

the humor is unparalleled

Every once in a while, the universe reminds me to rewatch Akira and I will once again oblige. Thanks!

that Kick in face on the Bike was the most badass scene in the movie

@theq86

Ай бұрын

I'd argue it's one of the coolest scenes in anime history. The electric bike turn is probably the most iconic scene though.

@nindza79

Ай бұрын

There's also a similarly good one in Street Fighter II the animated movie, when Ryu kicks a guy through the windshield. And let's also not forget Chun Li vs Vega fight :)

Tetsuo’s Ego Collapse is one of the nastiest moments ever made in animation, and I mean that in a good way.

@multiverse_media2023

Ай бұрын

Pure nightmare fuel.

@alvaroperez2349

Ай бұрын

@@multiverse_media2023what really disturbs me is the amount of detail and animation.

@mttylerdurden9

Ай бұрын

@@alvaroperez2349 you know in the manga he goes in and out of that form like 3 or 4 times?

@tttdsundow

Ай бұрын

Disturbing yet beautiful

@samcyphers2902

Ай бұрын

Another has to be the eclipse in Berserk.

Akira is iconic. Hope it doesn’t get remade by hollywood

@carter_lovejoy

Ай бұрын

Could Japan remake it into live action?

@aoshi000

Ай бұрын

I thought the Chronicle came pretty close to a live action akira adaptation. Dane Dehaan was a good tetsuro lol

@thunderpantz

Ай бұрын

A fool's errand.

@Digdigi

Ай бұрын

@@carter_lovejoy Japan can do whatever they want. They were nuked.

@multiverse_media2023

Ай бұрын

They can never make a live action of Tetsuo’s EGO DEATH.

So many just jaw-dropping moments, like Tetsuo stopping the tank cannon shell in midair.

@DistrustHumanz

Ай бұрын

Or red-misting everyone near him with an invisible expanding sphere.

@randomsimpson

Ай бұрын

And all the giant baby fingers

After over 5 years, my request has finally come true. Thanks from this Tetsuo cosplayer!

I recall reading somewhere a while back that even if they wanted to do an Akira sequal or remake in the same art style, they couldn't. Because the insane level of skill and technique the original animators used is lost. There's nobody or almost nobody around that knows how to draw or paint in that style. Akira was and is an amazing movie.

@nathanmaxtro1

Ай бұрын

LOL of course they can do it again and have it look exactly the same. It will just be really expensive.

@matheussanthiago9685

Ай бұрын

@@nathanmaxtro1 just like going back to the moon pal ''we could do it but it will cost prohibitive amounts of money'' it's just ''we can't'' with extra words

@Fei-Chan

Ай бұрын

From what I've heard, almost every anime that year either got cancelled or halted production because almost every animation staff is working on this movie

@MASTEROFEVIL

Ай бұрын

How did it get lost?

@chupasaurus

Ай бұрын

It wasn't about skill or technique, it was a sheer gazillion of butt-hours, oh sorry it's two gazillions 'cause it's actual 30 frames per second cell animation without shortcuts.

The fact that my film teacher showed this movie to my class when we were studying the topic of influential films really goes to show how good Akira was and still is to this day.

@DracoInduperator

Ай бұрын

It was a marvelous piece of animation but after reading the manga, I can't watch the film again. I was so disappointed about how they changed the end.

@GLUBNOIR

Ай бұрын

@@DracoInduperator That's why it's called an ADAPTATION

@DracoInduperator

Ай бұрын

@@GLUBNOIR true but cutting an entire third of the story out is odd. I get that they probably couldn't have fit the whole manga in a single movie and still have it look good.

@GLUBNOIR

Ай бұрын

@@DracoInduperator Time crunches probably, and also budget. If this movie was made today, they could likely pull it off

@Ghostleeee

Ай бұрын

@@GLUBNOIR24 Episode would be so dope

It makes sense no one has done a live action remake for this, there’s no way they could do it justice

@Pawwwl20

Ай бұрын

Let’s be honest, Akira is up there with dbz and Cowboy bebop and we all know how those live actions turned out…

@milesharbord9339

Ай бұрын

No one should remake the anime, but someone needs to make a series of the manga, it's almost an entirely different story.

@adamwhitehead7289

Ай бұрын

@@milesharbord9339 Sunrise Studios announced they were working on one five years ago and have literally not said a single word about it since, so maximum scepticism that is still happening. The original creator was involved though, and their plan was to adapt the whole manga in a less hurried fashion.

This anime was so beautiful. It's lived in my soul for like 35 years now. I still rewatch it sometimes and admire how smooth and detailed everything is, how good the ost is, the subversive characters etc.

@bingobongo1615

Ай бұрын

Same, man! I dont think the actual story is that amazing by modern standards(but probably put of this world insane by 80s standards…) but the pure art of this movie is still breathtaking. Just like no fantasy movie will ever look better than LotR, I doubt any animation film will ever be more impressive than akira

Every frame a painting got a shout out 😂

@za192325

Ай бұрын

Exactally, I miss that channel! So many interesting video essays!

Between this and the original Ghost in the Shell. Peak animation

@DarthMohammedRules

Ай бұрын

Don't leave out Vampire Hunter D!

@nanookrubsit

Ай бұрын

Can we include Mononoke Hime?

@Koinoyokan01

Ай бұрын

@nanookrubsit you include a lot of them. I love Monoke. I just remember how beautiful GitS was. The cityscape was so incredibly done. My favorite style of anime was actually the original Trigun; it was so organic looking.

@Ethan-dw4ly

Ай бұрын

I used to watch those two and Ninja Scroll on loop.

@Native_Creation

Ай бұрын

Absolutely, they were the pioneers of global Japanime. Ninja Scroll and also the Patlabor film. Totally different era than what exists now.

omg I LOVE the Every Frame a Painting ref

Akira bike slide referenced ANYWHERE Leo pointing meme. The "bike - curious" line got me.

If you'll ever get the chance to see Akira on cinema screen - totally do it. I've watched it for the n-th time lately, but for the 1st time in cinema. And WHAT A RIDE IT WAS. It single-handedly reignited my love for the movies.

@TheCaptainbeefylog

Ай бұрын

The first time I saw it was in a cinema, Mind = blown.

@2006Whippet

Ай бұрын

Yep, I drove up to Austin to see it at a theater when it was first released. Damn I'm old. 😅

"Blame Kaneda" killed me and brilliant meta-shoutout to the channel Every Frame a Painting

Nothing will ever replace this original classic, this is was my first influence of manga art. I believe I even influenced other members in my family with their first viewing of Akira. It’s legendary.

Appreciate you appreciate their craftsmanship in making old-school anime.

"Blame Kan-eda" well now you just HAVE to do South Park Bigger Longer And Uncut for it's 25th anniversary next week.

@eltravos99

Ай бұрын

Southpark also did a nod to Akira with the Trapper Keeper episode.

@jbvader721

Ай бұрын

​@@eltravos99 "We are Trapper Keeper. We are One."

@randomsimpson

Ай бұрын

​@jbvader721 "I think that other one is Rosie O'Donnell." "Which one? It's like I'm seeing double!"

Still one of the most memorable, original and awesome soundtracks ever put to film. Not even just animation, film _in general._ And it was made by a bunch of volunteers on their days off.

@dbrowdy

Ай бұрын

It was also made before the movie was, IIRC. Something like that. They made it without seeing the movie at the very least.

@sor3999

Ай бұрын

It's soundtrack was just WEIRD, but it was better for it. The tribal drum beats, the chanting.

@theskullyhippiedude3719

Ай бұрын

Otomo was originally wanted to use an existing album of geinoh yamashorigumi, but when he contacted them about using it, they insisted on creating an original score for him. It was composed in a modular fashion to make it easier to set to the different scenes.

@GregorioGrasselli1972

Ай бұрын

Geinoh Yamashirogumi turned it down when Otomo said there were only 6 months to make it. But then Otomo said the budget was limitless, and so...

@SGBassplayer

Ай бұрын

The album they wanted for the score was called “Eocophany Rinne”, which is so similar that it could pass for a remix of the music actually created for the film. Absolutely worth tracking down if you can find it. Unfortunately not available for download in the West last I looked.

Very first R-rated movie I ever saw, and it just so happens to be one of the founding fathers of anime. Akira was an experience like none other.

Akira was indeed the first anime I ever saw. It set the bar kinda high. I've loved many an anime since, but I don't know if any of them truly measure up on all levels.

Now I have to rewatch Akira. Forgot how much I loved it

@tkps

Ай бұрын

Yeah I haven't watched my DVD in a while. This reminds me it's time.

@garethbattersby

Ай бұрын

I bought the Blu Ray when it came out watched the hell out of it... then life and time seems to have gotten in the way.

@blackdog8245

Ай бұрын

lol same same same

@mentaltelepathy24

Ай бұрын

Same I got the 4K steel book

Best motorcycle slide ever!

@carter_lovejoy

Ай бұрын

Iconic!

@reikun86

Ай бұрын

Still badass! 🏍️

AKIRA is the Citizen Kane of anime. Even to this day there is NOTHING else like it.

One of the best "friends that fall out" movies ever made. Also cool visuals. Also the anim- THIS IS FUCKING AKIRA FOR THE LOVE OF GOD OF COURSE ITS FUCKING PERFECT

"The most influential and iconic anime film ever made." ~Wikipedia Woah, one of the best anime of the 20th century and even in these times.

@dbrowdy

Ай бұрын

The 20th century hasn't made any new movies for 24 years so I'm not sure what you mean by "these times"...

@OsbornBoateng-qv9nh

Ай бұрын

​@@dbrowdyi meant these times, for the 21st century

@matthewgrove-jones3001

Ай бұрын

​@@dbrowdy... and Ninja Scroll...

@brianstamper6841

Ай бұрын

@@dbrowdy 🤣

@pstandlee

Ай бұрын

Yeah, almost none of my Japanese students knew about it.

Finally an Honest Trailer for this classic!

@RocStarr913

Ай бұрын

More like a cult classic

@matthewgrove-jones3001

Ай бұрын

​@@RocStarr913Oh my God, it's the Clowns! Red Bennies, 3 of em! What are you gonna do? Hang him?! So that's what's been beating around my head all this time!

This film blew my tiny mind when i was a teenager. I wouldn't have known about it unless I hadn't owned a super nintendo. Super Play magazine at the time had a staff of complete anime geeks, and were constantly publishing lists of best anime films, series etc. even though they had nothing to do with Nintendo in any way. Guess which film was always #1?

It’s crazy that even made for tv animation of that era is so intricate. One of the first anime’s I saw was Iria: Zeiram the animation, which was an animated prequel to a couple of low-budget live action Japanese horror-sci-fi movies. It had no business going that hard, and yet it does.

@Davidsworldtravels

Ай бұрын

That’s still one of my favorites. Such original weapons. Also one of my first anime crushes.

@PoMaQue

Ай бұрын

The Iria anime is so badass, I wondered WTH was wrong with the live action movies

Love the every frame A painting reference. You guys know your audience haha

1:27 Tetsuo's mutation was the most horrifying I've ever seen in Akira.

@reikun86

Ай бұрын

Horrifying and awesome. I remember watching it late at night when the SyFy used to be the Sci-Fi channel. They had a program called Ani-Midnight.

@ChristofferLund

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of meatcanyon

@margarethmichelina5146

Ай бұрын

Especially on the scene where his girlfriend got smashed like a pulp

@reikun86

Ай бұрын

@@margarethmichelina5146 I felt bad for Kaori. She seemed like a sweet girl who cared for Tetsuo.

I've been thinking for 10 years how amazing it would be if they did Akira, but never thought it would happen. Thank you so much!

thank you for making this trailer. many anime fans of this generation are completely unaware of The O.G. I remember renting it on laser disc - the big ones the size of LP records - multiple discs. we named our cat Akira because it was the most amazing thing we had ever seen.

@JoergWeida

Ай бұрын

I still have the Criterion Laserdisc Edition of Akira, a total of 3 big discs, each 2 sides.

Now that you made a trailer for Akira. Please make one for every Hayao Miyazaki film.

@carter_lovejoy

Ай бұрын

Or every Studio Ghibli movie!

@USSAnimeNCC-

Ай бұрын

Oh hell yeah

@jasonblalock4429

Ай бұрын

Starring... Precocious little girls! Clouds! Airplanes! Strangely adorable monstrosities! Trees! More clouds! More trees! And even more clouds!

@varric

Ай бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 And pigs! Lots of pigs!

@CX462

Ай бұрын

@@jasonblalock4429 also starring, celebrity dubbing sessions, delicious looking food, animals walking like humans.

If I had a nickel for every time Screen Junkies did an Honest Trailer for a Japanese sci-if film about a metaphor for nuclear war featuring a character called Shikishima, I’d have 2 nickels which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

@michaelandreipalon359

Ай бұрын

Helps that both guys are quite well portrayed. I actually thought Akira's Shikishima was gonna be quite a dunderhead who follows orders far too much, initially.

This movie was a prophetic documentary.

2:07 almost did a coffee spit take at work

This movie is insanely good looking. Every shot is a masterpiece of art

Please say in your epic voice: “You wanna drive through the woods and dump THAT out?”

this 1988 movie looks better than most stuff been released today. Craftsmanship at its finest

The Epic movie voice guy not yelling "Tetsuo" genuinely hurt me.

My friend Les Claypool (not the guitarist) worked on the 2001 English dub. His recording studio Magnitude 8 Post (since closed in 2015 due to his tinnitus and increasing costs) has also worked on iconic classics like Cowboy Bebop, Wolf’s Rain, Ghost In The Shell, Trigun, Code Geass, The Castle of Cagliostro ( Hayao Miyazaki’s First Movie), Perfect Blue, just to name a few. He’s actually a pretty chill dude. You can find him in conventions sometimes with his wife Mary Claypool, who was also the English script writer for most of the dubs.

@jmode_explicit

Ай бұрын

Just randomly shouts out Primus and his friendship with the lead vocal slash greatest bassist

@Ethan-dw4ly

Ай бұрын

I remember seeing his name in the credits for a movie when I was about 15 and it blew my mind that the Primus guy did animation. Of course, that was before the internet and I could look it up. I did find out many years ago that it wasn't the same guy, but I do wonder what those movies would sound like if it was. Also, I could swear I saw his name in the credits for Flight of Dragons, but he's not credited on imdb. Probably just my twisted memory!

@michaelandreipalon359

Ай бұрын

Must say, those films have fine superlative dubs. But I have to ask, which Cagliostro dub we talking here?

@HoleInTheCarpet

Ай бұрын

@@michaelandreipalon359 Probably the 2000 (David Hayter) one; the 1992 (Streamline) one would've well predated everything else he listed.

@OmegaDez

Ай бұрын

You mean Les Claypool III. ;) Back when this guy's name appeared in every North American anime release ever.

Akira having a cool metal arm and at least one hand in inspiring aesthetics and tropes that future anime would copy for years to come was like money in the sweet pocket dimension in the pocket for this groundbreaking masterpiece.

@kyubihanyou

Ай бұрын

There was a time when a fighting game character was a full-on Tetsuo reference, down to voice actor jokes with an acting Kaneda. His name was K9999, but he goes by Krohnen now in his more copyright-friendly guise.

"BLAME KANEDA" damn that south park reference was gold 🤣

Akira’s my favorite animated movie of all time. The rare occasion where everyone including Screen Junkies knows that there’s little to critique (save the “supposed pocket dimension” line 😂, but understandable granted the translation from manga to anime) for this honest trailer because how much of a masterpiece Akira is. I know it, you know it. Big fans.

Funny how Akira predicted Japan getting to host the 2020 Olympics.

@DisorderedArray

Ай бұрын

And the pandemic, lol

Keep the Bluey references coming guys, but we won’t be satisfied until you do a Bluey Honest Trailer!

I think I finally watched this movie for the first time last year. And the thing that amazed me more than the soundtrack (especially the theme song) or the story was the bloody synchronization of mouth movement in Japanese. I can't actually recall any anime I've watched where the characters mouths *sounded out* the words they're saying. You can even see it the comparison IN the honest trailer where's Faye's lips are just flapping like usual. I was staring at the movie in awe half the time because of it. I can absolutely see why this was so influential in the popularization of Japanese manga/anime in the West. It deserves all the credit.

I had this movie and its documentry on VHS back in the 90's... Wow, what a blast from the past 😇 Havn't seen a OVA movie in years... Venus wars was good too 😃

While the US had animation studios in the 70's and 80's, Latinamerica were buying animation from Japan and the US and dubbing it in Spanish. And that's how in Latinamerica we had Mazinger and Knights of the Zodiac and other anime while the US had Care Bears (and the other cool cartoons but that's not the point)

@manuelaparcedo417

Ай бұрын

I actually think most of those came through Spain and redubbed in latin america.

@masterYoshimistsu

Ай бұрын

@@manuelaparcedo417 well tomato edamame 😂

FINALLY! And well done, too!

Best one you guys ever done and my fav I’ve been waiting for you to do .

I refuse to believe there is a single dude in his late 30s who haven’t seen Akira at least once.

We need more anime honest trailers

@mentaltelepathy24

Ай бұрын

I say they make a new Channel call it HONEST ANIME and they just do all anime that be life.

When I first watched this movie I had no idea what was going on. all I knew it was that it was gorgeous

Woah you guys actually made one that’s like close to the length of real trailers for the first time in years

An Akira TV series was announced by Otomo in 2019. Sunrise was slated to develop it, but not a word has been heard since then.

Oooo, you have got to do "Your Name". Also; yes, Akira was my first exposure to Animé. Strangely it was on BBC2 is the 90s when they decided to put it on late at night.

@michaelandreipalon359

Ай бұрын

And also Mamoru Hosoda's works like Digimon: The Movie, The Girl Who Leapt Through Time, Summer Wars, and Wolf Children. Heck, maybe even Ojamajo Doremi Dokkān's Episodes 40 and 49. If anyone's a fan of that show and thought those eps were beautifully strange compared to the rest of the show, then knowing about who animated and directed them will make a whole lot sense.

@mentaltelepathy24

Ай бұрын

That be great

OMG when you guys finally do this one and you're no longer doing Honest Trailers Commentary. I miss the commentary show and everyone on it.

Saw this in the theater when it first came to America and had no idea what it was. FING blew my MIND at 18yrs old!

In my memory of Akira, the entire plot is "Two Japanese guys screaming eachother's names" and "motorcycles" KENADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!! KENADAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!! TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

Make a Knuckles Honest Trailer or I'll send you to the great battleground in the sky

Say “Spencer and Lon are NERDS for not doing honest trailer commentaries anymore” in your epic voice

The soundtrack is very underated!!! Some of these tracks are EPIC!!!

I remember how hard it was back in the day to get anything serious manga/anime, at least in Poland in the first half of 90s.

1:03 And Neo Gotham is basically Neo Tokyo, go figure. And that is most likely _not_ a coincidence by the way. Hiroyuki Aoyama worked on both Akira and Return of the Joker. The Batman Beyond show itself seems to have been outsourced to South Korea but not Japan though.

0:16 I see you Honest Trailer. I see you. 😈

Akira introduced n got me hooked on manga n anime. So much I own sooooo much Akira stuff inc anime cels signed by voice actors n all the manga n merch. Amazing film.

I forgot how absolutely fluid the animation is in this movie

Arguably the most influential movie ever made

Akira is my favorite anime movie! Let’s GOOOO!

Damn that Akira picture was clean! Red on white is such a great contrast.

Going to watch this on the big screen here in CPH on the 29th! Thanks for the trailer! 😁

A badass movie!!! Back when animators did everything by hand

There was also all the Magna Corps movies. Ninja Scroll, Vampire Hunter D, Ghost in the Shell. The SciFi Saturday Anime with Battleship Yamamoto, Galaxy Express 999 and Adieu Galaxy Express 999, Project Ako, Etc. And I didnt smell :o

@JoergWeida

Ай бұрын

Cyber City OEDO 808

"A cool metal arm fixes everything!" Cable: I have a counterargument or three...

"Every Frame a Painting" after all these years Tony, how I still miss you 😢

Peacemaker please!

@theq86

Ай бұрын

Yes! Please!

Please do every Stanley Kubrick film, or at least full metal jacket

This was great. Thank you.

I saw this movie in 1989 at the Nuart Theater on Santa Monica blvd at midnight. I had just moved to Los Angeles for college. A colorized Akira comic book was being released by Epic comics and it listed a very small amount of theaters where it was showing in the US. Honestly can't believe everything aligned to let me see it that night.

It's amazing how well the animation has held up over 30 years.

@user-hs5vb6kc9o

Ай бұрын

When he said "they literally don't make them like this anymore" he was being quite literal. The amount of effort put into this film is not something modern movies do.

@matheussanthiago9685

Ай бұрын

@@user-hs5vb6kc9o akira's production was also a product of japan's economic history right at the height of the housing bubble money seemed infinite until it didn't and that was also expressed in Akira no studio would ever pour that amount of full japanase blood and talent into a single piece of feature film anymore it just simply does not make monetary sense any longer

@MaxIronsThird

Ай бұрын

this is 2D animation made for theater, when they japan was at their peak, economically wise, while also having full mastery of everything about 2 D animation/filmmaking, it will never look dated.

I'm still waiting for Honest Trailers Idiocracy, it is about time now

My first anime was Akira. I used to do powercreeps discussions of JoJo. I feel called in af. (Also appreciated the connection between the colonel and Skinner, nice throwback at that massive opera that is Bartakira)

Akira revolutionized color in animation. One of the first movies I ever watched with that "graded" look. They invented fifty new colors for the movie, which might not sound like a big deal now that we have millions of colors to play with via digital coloring, but the 300 plus colors in the movie's palette were a big deal for hand painted films.

Never expected this honest trailer

@seanpatrickcain2

Ай бұрын

I know right

Since when is there a power creep in JoJo's?? 😂😂

Thank you for posting this. Now I know I can remove this movie from any watchlist I have it on and save my self....however long it is.

That "It's nothing!" is too real. I once woke up with a pretty big bump on my throat, and I've told nobody about it ever since. I thought it might be a tumor, but it's gone now!😅😂😂😂

@liverrrrrr

Ай бұрын

It was probably a swollen lymph node. I recently developed a bump on my throat too, went to the doctors, got an ultrasound, and that's what was diagnosed. The bump is already starting to disappear for me too