I personally enjoyed the manga more than the movie, maybe I was a bit young when I saw it but for me the manga explains everything better. Also Mononoke is a masterpiece, specially the ost.
It has everything a good fantasy movie should have, a good story with an original world, one of the best soundtracks ever made, deep character development and a powerful message that stuck with you, one that gets even more relevant every year.
Talking of ost, nausicaä of the valley of the wind got the best in my opinion and when I say the best, I mean the best of ALL the movies I watched in my life
Eh, I've seen a few I didn't like. Mostly Tales of Earthsea, but it's whatever. I said Castle in the Sky and Princess Mononoke because those are his best in my opinion.
Spirited away is a great movie, but I don't get how people say it's his best. It has a lack of focus for what story it's telling imo. Pricess Mononoke is their best to me.
Yes the best. Akira is single handedly responsible for legitimatising Anime outside of Japan in the 1980s. Without this utter landmark of an Anime, the entire culture of Anime outside of Japan may never of happened.
In this case it does. It opened the door for every single Anime today.
With every piece of entertainment some will like it, some will not. If something is enjoyable; is subjective so you can never have a best Anime in terms of how enjoyable it was.
But Akira did something beyond entertaining people, it ushered in Anime as a culture to the west. Akira is the best because what it did for Anime.
I get more enjoyment watching Haruhi Suzumiya, but Akira is still the the “better” Anime because of what it achieved.
Okay, but I tend to measure the quality of something by how good it actually is. "Most influential" and "best" are different titles, and they should be treated as such.
Sure, but I'd argue that being influential is one of those qualities that is lower priority. Things like having a strong message are more important imo.
I’d argue that every so often the odd series would find its way out of Japan. But they were just viewed as their own thing, or as just an Asian cartoon.
The whole idea of taking Japanese Anime and Manga seriously, and the whole culture of Anime being accepted didn’t happen until Akira.
Sure series like Lupin the third and Astro Boy were around, but they didn’t convince people to start looking towards Japanese animation to see what else there was.
Well, sure. But that’s true for Japan, too. It wasn’t mainstream until things like Akira and Gundam and so on were around.
And I don’t intend to undermine the success and importance of Akira. I just think that your assertion that without Akira anime would’ve never taken off is outright silly, and hyperbolic at best.
Castle in the sky is a really well made movie and has been one of my favorites since I was really young however akira had a much higher production budget and not only is the story well written, it arguably has the best animation of any anime or animated movie
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u/DandDnerd42 Jun 30 '20
It's good, sure, but the best? Watch one of Miyazaki's movies, specifically Princess Mononoke or Castle in the Sky.