The ‘akira slide’ referenced across three decades of shows & movies
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This and the walk poster where Kaneda is walking towards the bike have to be the most copied shyt ever.
Is a very dope maneuver
storyteller
Superstar
Whole damn movie is iconic but it’s easy to take for granted just how much some times.
ABlackMan
Superstar
It’s a new Case Closed aka Detective Conan?!?!?
PoorAndDangerous
Superstar
Amazing film 
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Iconic
The thing I took away from that, is AKIRA came out in 1988. So by the Late 90's - Early 00's, you had future animators from North America, who were in Anime clubs with anime still being a 'niche' during High School, but then getting jobs, and using that one scene in Disney/Nick/Dreamworks/Etc works.
It just shows how AKIRA, while still being a timeless classic, is no longer a timeless classic of a niche but rather a large, larger portion of animation that is respected and has a foothold in pop culture. Just like how South Korea is starting to make inroads with it's pop culture.
It just shows how AKIRA, while still being a timeless classic, is no longer a timeless classic of a niche but rather a large, larger portion of animation that is respected and has a foothold in pop culture. Just like how South Korea is starting to make inroads with it's pop culture.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
Not just animation, cinema in general. so much western cinema is inspired by that era of anime
Precisely. Plus, just in terms of Animation, AKIRA was done painstakingly with it's "camera angles". All of that shyt was hand drawn, just obscene of what it pulled off and provided a legacy of culture that is entrenched permanently; like Star Wars.
Gizmo_Duck
blathering blatherskite!
I hope that shyt never get that live action remake they been trying to do for like 20 years