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[Mista]

Just announced at Anime Expo 2019. A 4K remaster for the original film coming in Japan early 2020 and US soon after. New anime project was also announced

 

[Porcile]

And a new series too. Fuck yes.

 

[nkarafo]

I hope it has all 3 different audio tracks. Japanese, old English and new English.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

And a new anime project too by Sunrise.

 

[sol_bad]

Hell yeah, Will buy.
Where is the best place to read about anime announcements in the West? Still Anime News Network?
Site looks so damn cluttered.

 

[GV82]

And a new series too. Fuck yes.

This has been overlooked & should be added to OP, just as big news imo

 

[Mista]

Hell yeah, Will buy.
Where is the best place to read about anime announcements in the West? Still Anime News Network?
Site looks so damn cluttered.

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Honey's Anime - The Best Place for Anime Enthusiasts

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And of course ANN

 

[Mista]

Added new anime news to title and OP

 

[sol_bad]

Thanks for the recommendations, saved the sites. I have a lot of anime to catch up on. Darn it.

 

[AV]

Yes please. At first I thought remastering animation in 4K might be a sight waste of time but my girlfriend demanded we got a 4K copy of The Lion King and it's super clean looking.

 

[Javthusiast]

Please be a lavishly 2d animated series or ovas covering the whole manga and not some 3d cg type shit.

 

[Birdo]

The original English dub by Manga is soooo fucking good. My friends and I still quote it to this day. I don't care if it isn't as accurate.

Plus it had Cam Clarke.

 

[Luffytubby]

It is such a gorgeously animated film!

 

[The Snake]

A series is pretty good news; while the original film is obviously a masterpiece, it's a pretty poor adaptation of the original books.

Don't get me wrong, I adore it.

 

[Space Runaway]

I guess they can sucker me into buying the movie yet again.

 

[Gargus]

Original English dub or gtfo.

 

[nkarafo]

Yeah, there is no way the new anime will even come close to the animation quality of the movie. And that's like 50% of why the movie was great.

It is such a gorgeously animated film!

I heard it's frame by frame animation. That's 24 unique frames per second with no duplicates. I wonder if that's true.

Who frames Rogger Rabbit was also like this (and plenty of 30s cartoons as well).

 

[crowbrow]

I hope Vic Mignona is hired for the dub

 

[JareBear: Remastered]

Must. Own.

 

[HE1NZ]

I thought the movie was beautiful but somewhere in the middle it jumped the shark.

 

[Alfen Dave]

I thought the movie was beautiful but somewhere in the middle it jumped the shark.

i also love the beginning but it definitely feels rush toward the middle/end but then again, its a recap of what happens over 5+ mnaga volume.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Guys read the manga.

 

[SlaughterX]

Lol, I still haven't even watched my Blu-Ray copy that I have owned for years (3 copies of it, at that). I'll still buy the 4k disc if they do it justice.

 

[brap]

>brightened up the colors
>looks like it's been DNR'd
Lmao what a fucking joke.

 

[petran79]

Please be a lavishly 2d animated series or ovas covering the whole manga and not some 3d cg type shit.

If it looks like Freedom, I'll skip it

 

[Stitch]

i also love the beginning but it definitely feels rush toward the middle/end but then again, its a recap of what happens over 5+ mnaga volume.

The Manga wasn't even finished when the Anime was made

 

[TheShadowLord]

Akira tv series is going to look ugly or look nothing like the movie.

 

[sol_bad]

We don't know if it's a serious do we?
It could be OVAs or it could be a trilogy of movies or 4.

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Akira tv series is going to look ugly or look nothing like the movie.

Depends on who is making it. Do we have a studio name yet?

 

[nkarafo]

Depends on who is making it. Do we have a studio name yet?

Doesn't matter. Akira was a huge production and possibly the most detailed anime in terms of visuals and animation. Modern anime made for TV is cheap and animation only needs to be servicable. Its only natural that its going to look like a huge regression, visually, no matter who is making it.

 

[Tesseract]

this will prolly be the first 4k hard copy i buy, absolutely need to see this shit on a big screen

please don't fuck this up

 

[Alfen Dave]

Doesn't matter. Akira was a huge production and possibly the most detailed anime in terms of visuals and animation. Modern anime made for TV is cheap and animation only needs to be servicable. Its only natural that its going to look like a huge regression, visually, no matter who is making it.

That plus the original thing was made with cels with the 80-90's breathtaking anime aesthetic.

Modern anime re-adapatations of old work never looks as good since its all colored digtally (comapre the new sailor moon vs the old one for example).

 

[SLoWMoTIoN]

Doesn't matter. Akira was a huge production and possibly the most detailed anime in terms of visuals and animation. Modern anime made for TV is cheap and animation only needs to be servicable. Its only natural that its going to look like a huge regression, visually, no matter who is making it.

Of course it matters. The adaptation can either be good or shit depending on the studio it is assigned to.

 

[p_xavier]

Anyone got the movie? Mine's still in shipping status.

 

[kingbean]

So since animation like this is done on celluloid I assume they've re-scanned the original film to 4k and not just taken a DVD master and added shit tons of grain and slapped the words ultra hd on it.

 

[LostDonkey]

I now need a 4k BR player.

 

[LostDonkey]

Doesn't matter. Akira was a huge production and possibly the most detailed anime in terms of visuals and animation. Modern anime made for TV is cheap and animation only needs to be servicable. Its only natural that its going to look like a huge regression, visually, no matter who is making it.

I absolutely love Akira, but Steamboy surpassed it in detail, animation and pure visuals imo. That's the benchmark for me.

 

[nkarafo]

I absolutely love Akira, but Steamboy surpassed it in detail, animation and pure visuals imo. That's the benchmark for me.

Akira's animation is "frame by frame" 24 frames/sec. I haven't seen Steamboy but it looks like it's using the more traditional 12 frames or lower. Steamboy also used a lot of CG which automatically makes every anime look worse.

Art direction is subjective, but technically Akira is on a league of it's own.

 

[HoodWinked]

not really sure how its supposed to look but in my very uneducated opinion it seems like they digitally processed whatever source they had

 

[lachesis]

Some those anime from mid-late 80s, at the height of bubble economy or shortly after are just incredible - so lush with production value and all.
It's sad to see that all the cell drawn ones are thing in the past...

 

[GymWolf]

I hate to say that i still never watched akira...there is something in the character art style that rubs me in the wrong way...

It is on netflix, i have to watch this one sooner or later.