Probably one of the most famous anime movies of all time is Akira. I've read volume 1-2 of the manga awhile back and decided to give it a re-read. Do I still enjoy it? Short answer? Yes.

The story of Akira is interesting. It starts out as a bunch of high school delinquents being pretty shitty and one of them gets injured. This somebody gets experimented on and becomes, well, Akira, or so we're learning. A super powered human who can kill people just by thinking of it. If ever see Chronicle the movie this takes a lot from it.

And Akira still holds up pretty well to this day. The art is really strong with gigantic splash pages of action that you can easily follow. The expressions and environmental detail is all fantastic. The dialogue is solid and though semi-dated it still works for the most part.

Akira is known to be one of the great movies ever. And the movie's actual animation is insanely good still. But the story itself felt very repetitive at points. It seems like we just repeat the "Run, get away, run, wait they're chasing up, run!" over and over again. It felt a little too similar by the end. But still I will read on for everything else.