Tell me: Akira

[thebitterguy]

It's been a few years since I saw Akira. I do remember it being somewhat incoherent/unintelligble.

Is this inherent to the film or was that something specific to that particular English cut?

Comments

[viktor-haag.livejournal.com]

I can't speak to the issue as finely as sixteenbynine; however, my impression was that Akira was a perfectly fine and comprehensible 36-chapter manga that became incomprehensible when compressed into a 90 minute anime. I read the manga before seeing the anime, and was not very pleased. I thought the anime was still OK, but not nearly as good as the manga. (Very similar experience with Appleseed, for example, and Ghost In The Shell; although GitS:SAC v1 is very, very good as an anime.)

Oddly enough, I thought Nausicaa was pretty comprehensible as an anime, but got much less so in the manga (I believe, in this case, that the anime came first; can someone confirm/deny that?)