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Akira
Sept 9, 2009 3:00:40 GMT -5
Post by Oka Ace on Sept 9, 2009 3:00:40 GMT -5
Just saw the movie finally. Only watched it to see Fayrras alien in action. It was pretty good watch. Nice and gorie with cool powers, tetsuo was awesome.
Few things I didn't get, where did Akira come from? And those three wierd little kids what was the deal with them? I kinda lost it in the backstory department and got sucked itno the action.
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Akira
Sept 9, 2009 13:59:20 GMT -5
Post by DawgX on Sept 9, 2009 13:59:20 GMT -5
Yeaaa. Apparently the manga has more of a backstory and plot.
The three kids were the Espers. I think they were experiments just like Akira was.
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Akira
Sept 9, 2009 16:10:35 GMT -5
Post by Fay on Sept 9, 2009 16:10:35 GMT -5
Yeah, the manga explains more.
Basically, people with psychic powers exist, and the government in Tokyo had their own special lab where scientists would experiment on them to see if they can help them control and increase their powers (they were mostly children, too, I guess). They would give the subjects numbers for names, however, every child with the number 20's were special somehow (I forgot how, lol). But Akira and those other 3 children are included in that. And basically, Akira lost control over his power and spawned a miniature big bang, destroying Tokyo. The only 3 survivors were Akira, and those 3 other kids. Then WW3 breaks out after that (I guess Japan thought they got attacked by another country). Then they rebuild Tokyo as Neo-Tokyo, and that's when the story "Akira" starts off. The manga is definitely worth reading (you'll see how much they changed when they made the anime). And Akira was a bunch of organs in the anime, but then I guess, using their psychic powers, the 3 kids were able to summon him back, in order to suck up Tetsuo. However, Akira is not a bunch of organs in the manga, he is living, that is for sure.
Oh, and in the manga, Tetsuo is able to knock a hole in the moon with his psychic powers. lol. Talk about badass.
But yeah, I won't say anything else about the manga in the off chance that you'll actually read it. It's pretty cool. I liked it better than the anime, though I respect the anime in its own way.
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Akira
Sept 9, 2009 21:29:47 GMT -5
Post by Haloninjaman808 on Sept 9, 2009 21:29:47 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
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Akira
Sept 9, 2009 23:21:52 GMT -5
Post by Oka Ace on Sept 9, 2009 23:21:52 GMT -5
That explains a lot. Really. I had no idea how Tetsuo got the psychic powers. I figured that little kid transferred something into him. But I guess he was special. And the maturity in the movie was great.
Tetsuo was able to destroy that satalite in space so punching a hole in the moon isn't that much of a stretch in my imagination. I thought the 3 kids vs testuo was the best part.
How did that one girl get powers to fight him though? Did the kids temporarily take her over?
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Akira
Sept 10, 2009 16:12:21 GMT -5
Post by Fay on Sept 10, 2009 16:12:21 GMT -5
Her special ability was that she was a great medium. So psychics are able to transfer their psychic power over to her, and use their powers more thoroughly (though they wouldn't be able to do this with normal people, at least, not to that extent).
And yeah, that is exactly what the kids did. Their normal bodies were too weak, so they basically transferred all their power into her and used her body instead.
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Akira
Sept 10, 2009 16:27:44 GMT -5
Post by DawgX on Sept 10, 2009 16:27:44 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! KAAANNEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
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Akira
Sept 12, 2009 23:58:46 GMT -5
Post by Haloninjaman808 on Sept 12, 2009 23:58:46 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
*gets laser rifle*
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Akira
Sept 13, 2009 15:07:49 GMT -5
Post by DawgX on Sept 13, 2009 15:07:49 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!! *gets laser rifle* KANNNEDDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!! *holding bloody arm stump*
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Akira
Sept 13, 2009 16:50:08 GMT -5
Post by Haloninjaman808 on Sept 13, 2009 16:50:08 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
*Bike explodes and fires laser beams*
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Akira
Sept 13, 2009 16:58:05 GMT -5
Post by DawgX on Sept 13, 2009 16:58:05 GMT -5
KANEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
*the laser is stopped by a telekinetic shield*
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Akira
Sept 13, 2009 17:19:09 GMT -5
Post by Haloninjaman808 on Sept 13, 2009 17:19:09 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
*orbital lazer strike*
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Akira
Sept 13, 2009 17:23:11 GMT -5
Post by DawgX on Sept 13, 2009 17:23:11 GMT -5
KAAAANNEEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!
*manages to go into earths orbit, punches a hole in the satellite and it rans down on earth*
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Akira
Sept 13, 2009 19:36:16 GMT -5
Post by Haloninjaman808 on Sept 13, 2009 19:36:16 GMT -5
TETSUOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
*somehow survives that, regroups and goes to the arena where tetsuo's gf is getthing swallowed by tetsuo's new arm.*
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Akira
Sept 14, 2009 17:57:23 GMT -5
Post by DawgX on Sept 14, 2009 17:57:23 GMT -5
KAANEEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!
*is turning into a blob of flesh and metal*
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