Reefer Fez      My gateway drug, close to 20 years ago. Picked it up on VHS at a comic book shop in Duluth, Minnesota for around $50.00.
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mouser      Got it on DVD! Nanana! it's easy to find nowadays. I wish my kids were old enough to watch that.
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freedoom      Akira is one of the best anime movies that doesn't make any damned sense.
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Jeff Fries It makes perfect sense, it's about a teenager who becomes so angry he turns into a universe.
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TeflonDoc      Five stars for description.
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Gerhard      Saw this in the Regina public library theater, 1990-91? Didn't make a lick of sense but it stuck with me.
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Gerhard I never noticed the Mad Max references till this viewing, nice!
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phalsebob    I'll just come right out and say this. As the best anime movie ever, Akira is merely watchable. Congrats on mediocrity.
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Harveyjames The best anime movie ever is probably something by Hayao Miyazaki. That this is the best one is the kind of thing people said fifteen years ago when there were only like six to choose from in the US VHS market.
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StanleyPain      Akira is definitely one of the better anime movies, no doubt. There is always a space in my heart for the old Steamline Pictures dub, though.
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Caminante Nocturno      This was the fuel, and Sailor Moon was the fire.
Or maybe Sailor Moon was the fuel, and Devil Hunter Yohko was the fire.
No, this was definitely the fuel.
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dr_rock      First time I watched this it was about 1992 and I was trippin balls on microdots. Good times.
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leifthorrsman      I never really knew of anime much until I seen this movie. It was then I realized there was much more to anime than monsters that come out of balls and big long scenes of men grunting as they prepared to unleash streams of energy out of their hands.
Akira was one of the greats. Altho I also prefer the original dub.
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oogaBooga      This and Key the Metal Idol were the first 2 movies to get me into anime.
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