AKIRA... 'Nuf said...
 

I've just finished the fourth comic and about to read the fifth and totally hooked!!
I watched the cartoon before reading the comics and was blown away by the movie, I had no idea the comics were going to expand so much on the story, I mean it goes way past all the stuff that happen in the film. I LOVE IT!!
What are your opinions on both the film and comics? Where would be a good place to go from Akira?

need to know
 

Uhm nutshell from the movie. Someone else is more than free to pick up the slack.

The japanese government did research into a god gene and eventually made a breakthrough when splicing it into humans, however this caused a catastrophy to occur and wiped out a large portion of Tokyo. The story takes place in the future, or "neo tokyo".

One of the test subjects breaks free and gets into an accident with the younger brother of a member of a bike gang. Their genes fuse for one reason or another and he begins to develop powers such as flight, telekinetic abilities, and super strength.

Eventually the power takes control of oh him and he destroys himself, and almost takes down neo tokyo with him. It's a bit of a stand off at the end and blah blah blah emotion.

ANYWAY

I haven't read the comics and have little interest in doing so. I own the DVD of the original 1988 anime film. I don't find the story that interesting, the only reason I own the DVD is because I fell in love with the animation detail. The entire thing has been rendered by hand; frame by frame.

Unless there is going to be another movie that has been hand rendered, or in the very least computer rendered to emulate the style of hand single frame rendering, then I feel the story should live as history and not present.

the movie was pretty interesting...

I really liked the manga so I bought the movie, and I didn't like it. The beginning was good and such but they changed so many things near the end that it (in my opinion) sucked.

read the manga cuz it's really good ;)

I've finished reading the books now, can anyone recommend a good/great series to check out now?
P.S. The Akira books were amazing!!!!!

Somebody needs to lower their font size when posting.

Takes up too much of the screen for so little information. It's unnecessary.