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Anime that left the biggest impression; and why
Topic Started: Mar 16 2012, 11:53 AM (143 Views)
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What anime left a deep impression on you and why?
What's an anime that you still remember very clearly?
What anime shocked you or meant something great to you?

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I have to say for me one of those anime is without a doubt the movie Akira.

I saw that one when I was very young. I'm not sure how young, I was still much into disney movies and replaying them over and over again.
We went to rent movies and Akira was in the 'animation sector for kids' (stupid Europeans, it's not cause it's an animation that it's for kids....) so my dad was curious and took it home.
I remember that we watched it in my parents bedroom on their TV with my brother.
I remember afterwards that I was play fighting with my brother and pretending to be Tetsuo cause I thought he was the most awesome being I had ever seen and I wanted to be just as cool as he was (I don't think i understood yet that he was the bad guy). I adored his hair and his cape. His over all look and attitude and abilities were kjhckjsdbcksjdbclsq PERFECT. I have no other word for it. I felt that he was perfect and I wanted to be him.

It's the reason that my favorite color is red. His cape is red and since that I've loved that specific shade of red a lot. I even forgot afterwards why my favorite color was red but none the less I stuck to it.

I even forgot all about the movie Akira.
All I had to go on was the faint memory of the nightmare I had after seeing that movie xD and the scene that inspired the nightmare. All I knew was a girl being swallowed by this growing heap of meat and being squeezed so tight the blood splattered from her bones. (Jezus christ that has haunted me haha)

I knew I had seen this awesome animated movie but I could not remember what it was and it wasn't until waaaaay years later that it occurred to me again.
Every time I asked my father about it, he had no idea what I meant but my brother always answered with 'Oh yeah, the one with the bikes' I didn't remember the bikes cause I was hung up on mind power crazed Tetsuo xD so that wasn't any help either.

Then when I was 12/13 I got into manga since I spent a lot of time on the computer while my parents were busy with my brother. I found my way to a Naruto manga downloading site and started reading that and in some chapters there would be additional notes from the author where he told us a bit about his life.
One of those notes was about why Masashi (the author) became an mangaka because that was not what he first wanted to be. He drew a lot as a kid and then stopped as he got older until he walked passed a poster for the movie Akira and was mesmerized by the drawing of Kaneda walking to his bike (I have to agree it's a strikingly poster) and that inspired him to start drawing again. So he owes that movie a lot. I decided to look that movie up and with the trailer all the memories just started to flood back in and I knew I had found a missing memory from my childhood.

I really loved that when I first found those author notes. I was sort of depressed back then and reading manga was for me a support. I know people give Naruto a lot of hate and especially if people say they love that manga a lot or they owe that manga a lot but (and I know it sounds silly and bla bal bla) to me it really meant a lot. It was an inspiration and it made me feel so incredible and alive. I don't think I'd be alive today if I had not found my way to manga through the internet.
So for me, who was at that time completely devoted to Masashi (author from Naruto) to know he had a link with Akira that guided me back to a memory from my past that I had countless of times tried to uncover myself and probably helped stimulate my love for anime, was like the most amazing in the world

One of the reasons that I loved Vegeta in dragon ball Z when I got a little older was cause his hair reminded me of Tetsuo xD haha though I could never at that time remember who he reminded me off.



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