It still does if you know where to look. :D Just like with anything else popular, the market gets over saturated with a lot of low effort, high gain stuff. You gotta dig for them gems!
I love Toonami for introducing others to Akira. It is one of the best animated films ever, in my opinion. Anyone who is a fan of anime, or even sci-fi in general should watch this film.
First time I watched this I was 12 years old in 1992-1993 at my friends house on VHS. Man going from watching tom&jerry looneytunes type stuff to this was a mindfu&^
Chayson Dam en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Akira_(manga) "Initially serialized in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990" dragonball.wikia.com/wiki/Dragon_Ball_(manga) "Dragon Ball (ドラゴンボール) is a Japanese manga by Akira Toriyama serialized in Shueisha's weekly anthology magazine, Weekly Shōnen Jump, from 1984 to 1995 " Akira is older by two years
I didn't have my cable set up the day this aired. But I refused to miss it, so I went to my grandparents house and watched it, commercials, weird censorship, and all! What a great night and a wonderful film. I am reading the manga now and suggest it to everyone due to how much it outshines the film.
Agreed. The film, while visually and technically impressive, was an extremely watered down version of the manga's story. I almost wonder if they could have better adapted it if they had broken up the story into a trilogy of films instead of just one.
I know a lot of people would say "not anymore". But it still kinda did. Don't forget, at the end of the film Neo Tokyo is destroyed so they most likely won't be having the Olympics the following year. The prediction is even more ominous now
The graffiti on the Olympic sign in the movie (when the helicopter flies overhead after the army takes Tetsuo away from the accident) reads "it's gonna be cancelled! Cancelled!!"
Never seen this movie before but I have always wanted to definitely watching it tonight on Toonami. Feels like the good ole days waiting around to watch Toonami.
I watched Akira for the first rtime when it came on toonami.... Hadn't really thought much about it and just randomly decided to watch it. I was high as hell on anti psychs and totally unprepared for what I was about to watch. It broke my mind in so many ways. It was amazing
I come back to this every now and again because ITS SUCH A WELL DONE TRAILER! It gives me more chills than even the Funimation trailer, and I really liked that one too.
Can’t believe this promo put me on to what is now one of my all time favorite movies lmao. I was like 11 or 12 when they did this month of movies event
Oh man this brings back some memories. Like when my older brother walked in during the final act, eating a bowl of ravioli, and without slowing down just said "Whoa, what's this?"
This was a superb first choices for Toonami G2's month of movies and brought back such good memories from my Toonami and anime dayz way back when. As a kid it was films and shows like this that sparked my anime interested and I know watching this film again was quiet refreshing for all my fellow ol' skool 80's & 90's anime fanz.
This is the only Akira trailer that I've ever seen that actually told us what the fucking plot was. With the exception of some fan-made trailers, all of the other trailers feel like early Star Wars VII trailers: you get very little plot. All you need to know is that everyone loves it. Ok, WHY does everyone love it? I need some details before I watch a 2 hour movie. Still an awesome movie though. Hell, it inspired Chronicle.
AKIRA is my favorite movie of all-time (for reference, I was born in 1990, first saw it in 2008, and it is one of only four or so movies that I own in any format (and one of only two that I own in a physical format). I like it how there is finally a piece of official , straightforward promotional material for the Pioneer dub of the film. I like to get a way to get a preview to demonstrate to people what's so impressive about this very well-made piece of work. I like the funny lines and the serious lines "LONG LIVE THE FREEDOM REVOLUSHAAAAAAAHN!" "You there, hands up! Now where in the hell's the friggin' Baby Room?" "You look like a damn crackhead!" and even the executive council meeting and all the "quiet dialogue" scenes with the Colonel and doctor scientist, and that girl on the phone in the laundromat and other background characters.
The lines that I am talking about are the 2001 Pioneer dub. I know because I've watched the 2001 DVD labeled Pioneer and watched the Pioneer dub multiple times in 2008 and 2010, before the year 2013, which is the year of the 25th anniversary of AKIRA being released in Japan in 1988, the year they are going off of for the 25th anniversary. The 25th anniversary package contains two English-language dubs, both produced and sold to the public way before the year 2013.
Pretty good movie. I heard about it when Toonami announced it. Before that, I saw it on iTunes and thought, "Hey! That artwork looks nice." It took me a while, but I got into it. Not to mention, having an HD copy is all the sweeter.
BADASS promo. Reminds me of when Akira premiered on the Sci-Fi (not to be confused with "Syfy") Channel back in the day. "Everyone ready? The apocalypse is about to begin." (Write that poetry, JoeStrike!) I own this movie & I'm still gonna tune in!
***** Less Niche programming and more movies from "The Asylum", along with a dash of "Ghost Hunters" to keep everyone else in check is the difference between "SyFy" and Sci-Fi.
i swear the first reaction i had after watching this movie was "I don't know what the f💗ck i just watched,all i know is that i want ro see it again xD"
1:02 This sums up the reason I enjoyed this flick. Its central theme is that power in the hands of the corrupt will lead to dire and affective consequences
Wilson The Coconut Me too. It came on so late. Toonami aired it at like1am in the morning. After I realized it missed it, I became obsessed with seeing it the more I inquired of it. I eventually bought it on BLU RAY and watched it. That was the same year as this promo five years ago, I’m still blown away.
I've seen this glorious work of art so many times, and when they announced it on Toonami...I got excited all over again, as if it was the FIRST time I was going to see it.
I have a question for everyone, which is better the movie or the manga this movie was based on because I looked up the manga online and it seems pretty interesting and I'd like to read it sometime
The Streamline dub was better in my opinion. It wasn't dumbed-down like this and had better voice acting. This just sounds like the voice actors are reading their lines for the first time for a casting call.
@Brendan Milburn I'm not sure what you mean by inaccurate character voices since the Streamline dub was decided/approved by the original studio at the time. The voice actors and line deliveries, like the movie, were very much a product of their time. They fit together perfectly. The Pioneer early 2000's style of dub feels forced and out of place in an 80's movie. The pronunciation of Japanese names sound very forced and unnatural in normal speaking. I'd rather have a Speed Racer dub (sounds nothing like that) than a dub that sounds like a RU-vidr did it. I stand by my opinion that the original dub is vastly superior.
I remember when Sci Fi channel showed it. They cut a lot of stuff out, yet they missed Tetsuo's balls. (When he first becomes the blob, they show his testicles dropping. )
soo fucking excited to see Akira. A lot of people recommended it to me but i never got around to watching it. NOW I GET TO WATCH IT ON TOONAMI = i win in the end.
