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"Akira" mentioned in "Heart of the City"

PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 12:58 pm
by JediSonic
I don't know who akira is -- could someone clear that up?

Anyway, I was pretty sure I'd heard the name used as having to do with a manga or something on this site, so the word caught my eye when I was reading yesterday's comics in the newspaper! In the strip "Heart of the City", it shows Dean holding a comic book (or in the case, manga :grin: ) titled "AKIRA".

You can hardly see it in this pic, but in the first frame you can almost make out the letters on the manga Dean's holding ;)

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PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:02 pm
by Siren of Lyrics
I thought Akira was a character in the online comic "Path of a Fallen Angel".

PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 1:34 pm
by JediSonic
Oh. So he is.
* :forehead: :forehead: :forehead: smacks forhead :forehead: :forehead: :forehead: *

Is that all? Funny that HotC would mention it if it was only in PoaFa. Is it really THAT popular?

PostPosted: Tue Nov 04, 2003 2:00 pm
by madphilb
More than likely it's the Manga of the Anime movie Akira... there is a review thread around here somewhere of the movie, I think.

The movie had an R rating, and it earned it as I remember, but the review can give you more info.

I know I've seen large-format books of Akira in the bookstores, but I never looked at it.

PHIL

PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 1:47 pm
by Gypsy
Yeah, I assume it's the manga based on the Akria anime (and yes, it does have an R rating). Akria mangas are complete graphic novels and pretty thick.

PostPosted: Thu Nov 06, 2003 5:30 pm
by Bobtheduck
The manga is more graphic than the anime, believe it or not, plus the american translators fudged on the dialogue a lot... It's the "f" word every few panels... And, it's like 2000-3000 pages in total, I think...

Oh, wait, there is an "anime manga" on akira? I don't like when they do that... I dont' see the point...

PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 5:18 am
by Mr. SmartyPants
i read the entire manga series of akira, well it was okay. I mean i enjoyed it, some parts were a bit profane, like the cussing. The violence wasn't too much for me to be honest. Haven't seen the movie though

PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 9:16 am
by shooraijin
This thread is over nine months old. May I ask why you dug it up out of the archives?

PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 4:05 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
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im so stupid.... :lol:
i should of read the date

PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:19 pm
by JediSonic
What always makes me wonder is... how do people find threads like this if they werent looking for through old threads in the first place? :lol:

It kinda freaked me out when I saw my name under the title of this thread... I'd totally forgotten about it!

PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 6:23 pm
by Kenchii
Ah my precious Akira how I love you so.

Great, great manga series (read all) and movie.

PostPosted: Sat Sep 04, 2004 8:02 pm
by Mr. SmartyPants
JediSonic wrote:What always makes me wonder is... how do people find threads like this if they werent looking for through old threads in the first place? :lol:

It kinda freaked me out when I saw my name under the title of this thread... I'd totally forgotten about it!


ya knwo when ya post a reply, then at the bottom it shows other topics related to em, well i use that feature sometimes, maybe i should though :lol:

PostPosted: Sun Sep 05, 2004 10:20 am
by JediSonic
oh :lol:

I dont usually pay much attention to it :)