Hey Sup Forums I want to see Akira but I have a few questions first.
Should I seek out an English dubbed version or one with English subtitles?
I understand it's based on a manga. Should I read that first or just jump in?
Will my roommate think I'm a weeb for watching anime?
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It was one of the most fuckes up anime's I have ever seen.
The monster at the end just scared me. Man so much evil.
One thing I hate is that they made the main characters school kids that are 13-16.
Like come on they could have at least been 18+.
Never watch a movie dubbed.
Always with subtitles on, even if it's animated/a cartoon/an anime.
assuming you are not a troll
dubbed is best
the comics are FAR to long to read and dont ad hugely to the story
I does lag a little in the middle but power though as it has one of the best finales in movie history
also its one of the very few mangas to be accepted as non-weebo
Fuck off faggot. Actually want to relax and enjoy the movie not sit beside the TV and read the subtitles
then why did you even ask you fuckwit
0/10 apply yourself
we just hit troll status, evacuate thread fagwads
The manga is a very long-running series spanning dozens of volumes. It takes some investment to read. It's also a very different story than the one of the movie.
As for the dub/sub, that's a personal decision. Original Japanese is better, but some people don't like reading everything while watching a movie. If you go for the dub, get the newest version and not the terrible one from the early 90s.
>reading is hard
What if I told you you're reading right now? Not that hard is it? The more you know
There are 2 English dubs and both are cringeworthy. Watch it in original audio for the original soundtrack mix.
Watch it dubbed, but make sure it's the 2001 dub. The original isn't very good, but the 2001 is great
Dub
The only reason to watch this garbage is because of its visuals. If you care about the story then read the cartoon book
Watch the dub to piss off Sup Forumsutists.
>very long-running series spanning dozens of volumes
What. It's just 6 volumes and it's pretty much exactly the same story, just a bit more fleshed out.
Seen it three times, all three times wih the new english dub. I enjoyed, its a good dub.
Who the fuck cares about dubbing when its an animated film anyway?
The whole series is thousands of pages. And no, the manga series is fundamentally different than the movie with only some similarities to some of the characters.
Animu VAs are literally the worst actors in US. Just watch the original version.
Are you retarded perchance?
en.wikipedia.org
I'm not that big of a fan and honestly I cant think of a language thats more annoying to listen to than japanese.
Those 6 "volumes" are numerous chapters combined into one. Take a little closer look at your own link and you'll see the series ran for 8 years, several years past even the movie's release.
Watch it in English you'll be fine.
>Neo-Tokyo gets destroyed three or more times in the manga
Word, I always have to watch non dubbed movies twice, once at 0.75x to read the subtitles exclusively and once at 1.25x to appreciate the kinographs and compensate the for the first watch.
Fuck subs.
Anime heroes are always teenagers.
>tfw Miyazaki himself says that viewers of his movies should watch the film dubbed in their native language so that they can focus on the story and visuals more
You seriously have to slow the movie down to read the subtitles?
Miyazaki had a huge budget for getting actors
You got a problem with that fucko?
Japanese directors don't oversee the dub production. Its the foreign distributor.
>Should I seek out an English dubbed version or one with English subtitles?
I'd generally go with English subs on the Japanese audio track, but I first saw it dubbed and that was the way most Western audiences will have experienced it in that past. If you go with a dub, I prefer the older one - it's cheesier but I feel that's part of the experience.
>I understand it's based on a manga. Should I read that first or just jump in?
I read the manga earlier this year, It's really good but I'd seen the movie years ago.
Watch the movie. If you like it, find its themes interesting, and want more, then read the manga.
The movie is basically the first third of the manga, and then the ending from the manga - there's a bunch of stuff in the middle that doesn't make it into the movie.
>Will my roommate think I'm a weeb for watching anime?
Akira is exempt from accusations of weebery, you're fine.