Apparently you guys want to watch Akira.

[PLEASEHELP1991]

who's hosting

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kaz-san

[bluaki]

kaz-san

No, I am

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Bluaki-san

[Mando Pandango]

oh whoops i missed it

oh well

[bluaki]

oh yeah I forgot to take attendance this time, but I remember:
david showed up very briefly at the beginning
ikanaide was there
"lol", whoever that is

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lol was felt

[Samus Aran]

maybe i understood it better than i was supposed to but i honestly didn't find it that incoherent, except a few details that i don't really get, like why the other psychic kids originally tried to kill tetsuo but then decided not to? why didn't they keep trying to kill him if they knew that he was going to raise hell and abuse akira's power?

and what were they going to do when tetsuo's power reached its "peak?"

basically, their motives are extremely unclear. i can't tell if they want this new universe/forced evolution or not and i can't tell if tetsuo is their enemy or their friend.

either way i liked the movie a lot, but i fail to see how anyone can give it a perfect 10 on MAL, because if there is one thing that is seriously wrong with this movie, it is that it is far, far too rushed and vague. what's there is mostly understandable, but things like what i pointed out above are totally unrevealed and in the end the whole thing just moved way too fast.

[Mando Pandango]

speaking of things worth a 10 rating

who wants to finish garzey's wing

[Samus Aran]

speaking of things worth a 10 rating

who wants to finish garzey's wing

not tonight. i'm having flash issues which are not really allowing me to view streams.

[Nyerp]

when i first watched akira, the very last line just killed it for me

speaking of things worth a 10 rating

who wants to finish garzey's wing

no

[Mando Pandango]

well jeez guys fine

[The Hand That Fisted Everyone]

maybe i understood it better than i was supposed to but i honestly didn't find it that incoherent, except a few details that i don't really get, like why the other psychic kids originally tried to kill tetsuo but then decided not to? why didn't they keep trying to kill him if they knew that he was going to raise hell and abuse akira's power?

and what were they going to do when tetsuo's power reached its "peak?"

basically, their motives are extremely unclear. i can't tell if they want this new universe/forced evolution or not and i can't tell if tetsuo is their enemy or their friend.

either way i liked the movie a lot, but i fail to see how anyone can give it a perfect 10 on MAL, because if there is one thing that is seriously wrong with this movie, it is that it is far, far too rushed and vague. what's there is mostly understandable, but things like what i pointed out above are totally unrevealed and in the end the whole thing just moved way too fast.

I think that the kids stopped fighting akira because they were pissed off at that colonel.

I agree with Kaz. I had to look up some stuff online to understand. It was pretty rushed and I had a little trouble figuring out some details, but for the most part the story was easy for me to follow. The animation was really well done (as if it needs repeating at this point) and was very impressed with the way it was done.

[Hiro]

After reading the plot summary on wikipedia it made a lot more sense to me. I also learned that the manga wasn't finished until 2 years after the movie was made, which explains why a lot of stuff towards the end was really unclear.

[Nyerp]

oh god they really DID shit out an ending