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or ghost in the shell

No clue what that is but it sounds good

yep

its gory and brutal

Akira is a classic

i managed to get @Novayon to watch it

Really?

yes

Yep

It is very good

the most brutal and firetrucked up anime movie but a good starter for getting you into anime

What’s the plot?

akira's a titluar character whose not in the movie at all but the remake will have him since the manga's longer than that

ill get the plot deets for you

Okay!

By the way, anyone here has read the KH2 manga?

It's definitely brutal, I like that sort of thing so as long as you're fine with it too

> In 1988 the Japanese government drops an atomic bomb on Tokyo after ESP experiments on children go awry. In 2019, 31 years after the nuking of the city, Kaneda, a bike gang leader, tries to save his friend Tetsuo from a secret government project. He battles anti-government activists, greedy politicians, irresponsible scientists and a powerful military leader until Tetsuo's supernatural powers suddenly manifest. A final battle is fought in Tokyo Olympiad exposing the experiment's secrets.

Wooo that’s dark

lmao it sounds like I’m excited but it’s not like that

its a good start to getting you into anime

many like me give thanks to it for being our first footing into the world of anime when we first started with it

Yeah because it's not super "Anime" if you catch my drift

It doesn't have those famous tropes

i was 6 when my father introduced me to this movie

thus my taste for anime begun

yeah that was before those tropes exist nova

SAO is so middle of the road anime it'd be fined for occupying the two lanes @Firaga13

Hmm it’s still pretty weird haha