After reading it, I deeply doubted what I was watching.
This is the classic among the classics in sci-fi animation?
I suspected that it was my own problem, so I carefully studied the long articles with more than four stars. The ideas surrounding these positive reviews are very simple and can be summed up in one sentence, a real postwar context.
I know, I know this kind of grand narrative after the war seems to be naturally relatively high-end. The world view in Akira is indeed in place, anti-war movement, corrupt bureaucracy, nuclear explosion trauma, but the problem is, the biggest problem is that this play only has The world view is over, the whole story is simple and tacky, full of inexplicable plots and logic, the characters are extremely flat, and each character plays a face-to-face role according to Otomo Keyang's positioning of the story.
Some praises believe that Otomo Keyang's violence is a kind of contemplation, not just violence itself, but I'm sorry, Akilari's violence has nothing to do with meaning, it just exists as a curious spectacle. After the whole film, you have no idea what role various explosions and bloody scenes have in promoting the development of the plot. It is meaningless to follow the main characters, bombing everywhere, and fighting everywhere.
A mediocre novel whose high score depends entirely on its worldview.
It can also be said that its status lies in the fact that the animations that borrowed its worldview have won super god evaluations, and the Kang Youwei-level works that have received more positive evaluations.
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