Akira is a Japanese themed movie. How can you just botch that up? Even if it’s in being filmed in the United States, it still look like they would have some Japanese-Americans in this movie. The book doesn’t read like that.No matter how Americanized this movie, there is no away around taking away the cultural aspects of it. You just cannot do that.With Akira, Hollywood should have let well enough alone.

Race obviously DOES matter when 99% of the all-American, good-guy protagonist roles are played by white people. Large production movie roles are not given to the best actors, but to actors Hollywood executives believe are marketable (read: white).

Hollywood racism is defined by exclusion. If race didn’t matter why doesn’t Hollywood cast white people to play stereotypical Asian roles like the Korean grocery store owners, Chinese gangsters, and no speaky English nerds?

And 89% of people make up percentages to sound smarter.

my bets on slim 2 nil.

You assume much.

I’m not sure if you are aware of the hypocracy of complaining about the adaptation of a animated movie that was adapted poorly from a manga. For people read the series first and were dissapointed by the movie, this is the last chance to see it become something that the original movie didn’t aproach.

Another thing, does the race of the actors really matter? what does that have to do with character developement and relationships? I didn’t hear anyone complaining about the actors race in the Hollywood adaptation of Godzilla. Just sit back, let this movie be its own movie without having to fulfill nostalgic purposes for those of us who enjoyed the original.

It’s funny to see how Anime loyalists get all indignant, now you know how it feels to read the original series and then see the animated movie. The didn’t even get in the part with the moon, it wasn’t just dissapointing, it was sad. Good movie otherwise.

I think they should leave the anime alone, and pursue a more accurate portrayal of the comic book, because for my praise it can’t just be a rehash of something already close to perfection. But, you know it wouldn’t shock me if it were pg-13 and glossed over violence like I Am Legend.

Even then I have a feeling it wouldn’t compare to the original. The anime had a particular aesthetic that couldn’t be replicated in live-action: somehow real life isn’t that colourful.