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Reply #35 on: December 15, 2021, 10:49:22 PM

Uh... whats the experiment they are doing?

seeing how much weird shit psychic kids can do so they can maybe use them for a weapon or infinite energy or whatever.  This is the plot to at least 10% of science fiction movies.  Once you establish that psychic kids exist you should just assume that the government is experimenting on them to try to turn them into a superweapon.

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What happened to this "Akira" they talk about occasionally?

he got too psychic and exploded, thereby destroying Tokyo, which is why they now live in "Neotokyo".  It's a thinly veiled reference to Hiroshima.  After that they took what was left of him and put it in a big freezer under a stadium.  Kinda like canoptic jars in Egyptian tombs.  Or like the samples of smallpox in CDC labs that we keep "just in case".  Maybe all of the above.  The allusions are all over the place and I honestly think they were just throwing stuff at the wall.

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Why does Tetsuo turn into a blob?

he also got too psychic and exploded, but in more of a body horror way than a Hiroshima way.

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What the fuck is this random gibberish and random images I'm watching?

consult your physician idk

Source: I watched Akira one time in the late 90s as a high school student.
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Reply #36 on: December 15, 2021, 11:27:35 PM

Yeah, I don't know, my first reaction to it was pretty much the same as Sir T's.  But I guess I was expecting the more coherent narration of western style story telling back then.

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Reply #37 on: December 15, 2021, 11:47:17 PM

It's not a matter of the story being complicated or hard to understand, it's a matter of the storytelling being all over the place.  Most anime feels to me like the screenwriter had ADHD and no editor.
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Reply #38 on: December 22, 2021, 04:35:43 PM

Akira's simple compared to Evangelion, where a lot of the real, actual answers are hidden in a PSP game that never got released in the US. why so serious?

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Reply #39 on: December 23, 2021, 12:25:02 AM

Who needs answers. Just enjoy the ride!
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