quote:Originally posted by Thorn Davis: The only anime film I've ever seen was Akira. It was pretty much incomprehensible and completely eradicated any desire I had to watch anything else in this so-called art-form.
This might not have been your fault. Early versions of the film were dubbed terribly and there were a lot of subtitle versions that again didn't really say much. The basic premise is that some kids were tested on for latent supernatural powers. One of the children, Akira brings about the destruction of Neo Tokyo which is covered up as a nuclear attack bringing about the start of World War 3. After that, Japan rebuild the city but because of the fallout from the war (possibly, they hint at) caused by Akira's destruction of Neo Tokyo, the city is in political turmoil. As a result, the kids of the modern society are unruly and anarchic. Their behaviour causes one of them to come into contact with the 'children' (who do not age due to the drugs they take to keep their powers in check) and his latent powers are awakened. History begins to repeat itself.
It's pretty impossible to dub anime as being a 'so-called' art form without sounding like something Samuel Norton would say. If I recall, Akira was an animation that broke the boundaries of quality that made anime marketable to a western audience. It influenced hundreds of films to mimic its animation style so that anyone who enjoys a Studio Ghibli film would be watching animation pioneered by the Akira Team.
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Manga also released legend of the overfiend in a completely incomprehensible version. In fact, between their terrible mashups of classic anime movies and confusing everybody by calling themselves 'Manga', those dudes managed to pretty much ruin the chances of anime taking off in the UK for a good ten years.
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quote:Originally posted by New Way Of Decay: This might not have been your fault.
No, I don't think it was.
So then it's agreed, you must have watched an earlier dubbed version of the film that failed to convey the basic plot that even a pig ignorant thickazoid could understand.
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But you know because it's a film that I watched that I quite enjoyed, it's like a personal attack on me. It's like, if you call Akira a load of old bollocks it's the literal translation of rubbing your bollocks on me. You don't want to rub your bollocks on me martin. Not even if I ask.
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