AKIRA (MAY 21, 2021)

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I am pumped for a new Akira series but they are probably going to end up using that junkard 3D cel shading animation. Please can they just had animate the humans. Is it too much to ask?

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^ I read somewhere that during Japan's bubble economy you had companies with so much cash they didn't know what to do with it and ended up dumping money into things like animated films with little hope of recouping costs, and the in Akira's case the movie had an enormous budget that, despite doing fairly well, it didn't manage to recoup. If that's the case, it may be that such an elaborate hand drawn feature is and has always been an unlikely prospect and that the film was made just at the right time to be made in the way it was!

Anyway, it'll be interesting to see the new anime and also it's cool that the early Otomo comics will be released worldwide, as I had heard that he dislikes his early work and that was the reason they weren't available.

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Taika is a next-level creator and if anyone was going to make Akira into a Hollywood film it might as well be him, but in all honesty I think this is just a bad idea through and through. I'd rather it didn't happen at all, and with Otomo working on some sort of new anime that adapts the entire run of the comic (or something like that) I think that's just about the only interesting way to go forward with new Akira material.

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LOL. Warner Brothers fascination with this movie is baffling. Just give up already.

Take whatever money you were about to throw in the garbage on the live action Akira and dump it into Otomo's new Akira anime series.

I mean, it's not like they were going to make their money back...

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Thank you Disney for c*ck blocking this movie!