Man, Akira....watched it for the first time since like 2001/2002

[bork]

Was the original dub that much better than the JP voices? I found the latter pretty damn good.

A lot of it (or maybe all of it) is just due to nostalgia.  The Streamline dub is the first version of Akira I saw back in '89-'90 and had a big influence on me as a kid, leading me to get into all that manga/anime stuff (which back then was just awesome; quality has a taken a nosedive this decade) in the first place.

Also since this dub was done loooooong before the whole anime craze came about, none of the cliche stupid voice acting crap is there.

[Fresh Prince]

youse just all jealous.

Jealous of a former editor for a PC magazine who stole Fallout's story and just threw in a black man with a sword? Yep, totally jealous.

I bet he goes to work with a chubby. So much power to destroy what people hold dear must be amazing.

[chronovore]

Oddly enough, after eons of no playback on random shuffle, the AKIRA soundtrack has been on heavy rotation, coincidentally.

[Great Rumbler]

Apparently the live-action Akira is now dead:

Good news or bad? That's up to you. It was only a year ago when it was officially announced that Warner Brothers and Leonardo DiCaprio's Appian Way were developing a live-action version of the anime Akira with first-time Irish director Ruairi Robinson. So now its been 15 months and we haven't heard much - but that's because its been struggling internally at the studio. Bloody Disgusting now confirms via "two separate sources" that the project is "dead as a doornail." Robinson is apparently also off of the project. When it was announced last year, the plan was to actually have shot and ready to debut in theaters this summer.

The studio fought for the rights in a bidding war in early 2008, as they had let go of them a few years earlier. The project was being spearheaded by Warner Bros. exec Greg Silverman, who previously brought 300 and Batman Begins to the studio. It was described as "Blade Runner meets City of God" which was more than enough to make me excited. Fans were in an uproar, however, because they were going to move the setting from Tokyo to what was being called "New Manhattan," a new metropolis that was rebuilt after being destroyed 31 years ago. I even heard that Zack Snyder was approached to direct (after 300) but declined.

http://www.firstshowing.net/2009/06/14/warner-bros-live-action-akira-movie-is-dead-as-a-doornail/

[Joe Molotov]

I bet when The Watchmen tanked, it put the kibosh on Akira. Thanks Zack Snyder.

[Great Rumbler]

Akira, couldn't suffer through it. Ugly, ancient, boring.

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[Great Rumbler]

Yeah...I don't really see the connection.

[ch1nchilla]

Yeah...I don't really see the connection.

Well I don't like it. I don't like GITS2 as well. It was overdone.

That movie has the most fucking unbelievable amount of quoting ever. It seems like every two sentences somebody quotes someone else and it's fucking unbearable. It looks awesome though, at least.

[MyNameIsMethodis]

The real rumor in hollywood is that Gary Whittas script was just absolute tripe and the producers didn't want to pay someone else to do another draft. 

[Reb]

Yeah, laugh it up sweater-boy.

[Guybrush Threepwood]

Why does there have to be a new script anyway?

Isn't there already a script?

[MyNameIsMethodis]

No, they were moving the city to New York. 

[Great Rumbler]

Yeah...I don't really see the connection.

Well I don't like it. I don't like GITS2 as well. It was overdone.

That movie has the most fucking unbelievable amount of quoting ever. It seems like every two sentences somebody quotes someone else and it's fucking unbearable.

I liked that part of it because I feel like that's how people would interact with each other if their brains were directly connected to the sum total of human knowledge 24/7.

[ch1nchilla]

Yeah...I don't really see the connection.

Well I don't like it. I don't like GITS2 as well. It was overdone.

That movie has the most fucking unbelievable amount of quoting ever. It seems like every two sentences somebody quotes someone else and it's fucking unbearable.

I liked that part of it because I feel like that's how people would interact with each other if their brains were directly connected to the sum total of human knowledge 24/7.

If they were directly connected, they wouldn't have stupid fucking conversations involving quotations 24/7, they would just get it. It's like if we all had a philosophical conversation and then constantly googled quotations and shit to support our arguments.

[bork]

No, they were moving the city to New York. 

They're changing the setting of Akira to New York?  So does this mean it's going to be a bunch of caucasian actors filling the roles (and maybe like one rapper, you know, for the street cred)?  It's not like I was expecting Asian actors anyway, since there's like three of them in Hollywood and none of them are Japanese (lol), but damn!  I hope they're not using names like "Kaneda" and "Tetsuo" then.  :P

[Great Rumbler]

I think they were going to change Tetsuo to Travis.

TRAAAAAVIIIIIIISSS!

 

[MyNameIsMethodis]

And Kaneda to Kenny KENNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY

[Rman]

Saw it in the theatre back in the day.  Absolutely stunning

[Great Rumbler]

Saw it in the theatre back in the day.  Absolutely stunning

As awesome as Akira still is today, I could only imagine how awesome it would be to have seen in the theater as kid.

[Diunx]

Akira sucks, most overhype shit ever by the animefags.