Tetsuo himself is not a mysterious or intricate character by any stretch of the imagination heвЂ™s introduced to us as the sympathetic вЂsidekickвЂ™ underdog who suppresses a deep-seated inferiority complex. So just sit back and enjoy it like you would an Expendables movie.Д«ut of course, if you want to elucidate something вЂbiggerвЂ™ that Akira is trying to say, then I think youвЂ™d best be focusing on the character of Tetsuo, the rebellious adolescent punk. The two things run on almost disparate planes. ThereвЂ™s no obvious causal link between the X-Men experimentation, and the fact that this is all taking place in a society where citizens are disgruntled about taxes. ItвЂ™s not complicated to get your head around (although I apologise for the convoluted summary above), and in fact, you donвЂ™t really have to switch your mind on or poke too deeply into the possible themes and issues within the showвЂ¦though sure, you can try to draw parallels between the world of Neo-Tokyo and modern (or future) society, and feel creeped-out at just how raw and disconcerting it all isвЂ¦I mean, rioting students? How could they have even known? But at the end of the day, no matter how the explicit, dog-eat-dog world of Neo-Tokyo immerses you into the story, I feel that none of that has anything to do with the plot itself.

With motorcycles, drugs, and civil unrest as the backdrop. Now, AkiraвЂ™s plot is nothing mindblowing or novel in our day and age вЂ“ at its heart, itвЂ™s a story about superhumans who ultimately go berserk and turn against their creators. While Tetsuo loses his sanity over his newfound telekinetic abilities, his gung-ho brother Kaneda plays the hero in chasing after his best friend (and skirts whilst heвЂ™s at it), and the government and revolutionaries continue to clashвЂ¦with the only certain thing in this kaleidoscope of chaos being that thereвЂ™s a supernatural identity behind all this, known as Akira. Thereupon, police and government officials swarm over Tetsuo and his unconscious body, and finding him a suitable candidate, subject him to the same medical procedures that ultimately awaken dangerous powers in the young lad. One fateful night, while the gang is out on the streets having a motorcycle chase showdown with a rival biker group known as the Clowns, Tetsuo crashes into a strange young boy with a disturbingly wizened appearance вЂ“ who turns out to be an Esper created by government ESP experiments. Teenage delinquent Tetsuo Shima is a member of the biker gang Capsules, which his fearless and confident best friend Shotaro Kaneda leads. The story takes place in 2019, in a decrepit city called Neo-Tokyo, where rioting, vice and hooliganism is rampant in the wake of World War III and corrupted reform politics. If I had to describe Akira, IвЂ™d call it an amalgamation of a few things вЂ“ it has the style of an older version of Redline, the energy of a Fast and Furious movie, and the tumultuous angst of the classic Catcher in the Rye. And if you understand what I mean by this, then youвЂ™ll come to understand why I feel the 1988 cult-hit Akira deserves every last bit of the enduring reputation it has.

Basically, I mean that with the advent of superior animation techniques and computer generated imaging, no 20 th century anime is safe from decay unless it can buffer its pretty sequences with a semi-solid plot and fairly engaging characters.

However, in the same review, I also made a less loose generalisation, that there are precious few pre-2000 shows which you can watch for visuals alone. In essence, itвЂ™s perfectly possible to appreciate a good story without fussing too much about how it looks вЂ“ not that everyone can stomach this. ThatвЂ™s a loose generalisation, because I can think of so many titles which defy the norm вЂ“ and it really shouldnвЂ™t matter if youвЂ™re not a moe-holic in the first place. Barely a month back, in my Trigun review (or some might call it an annoyingly repetitive recommendation), I made a loose generalisation that anime from the 20 th century donвЂ™t usually stand the test of time with regard to visuals.

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