AKIRA Limited Edition 4K Ultra-HD + Blu-ray

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Many characters who showed up only briefly in the film are major players, and there are characters in the manga who aren't in the movie at all. Esper Kiyoko forewarns Shikishima of Neo-Tokyo's impending destruction, but the city's parliament dismisses Shikishima's concerns, leading him to consider killing Tetsuo to prevent another cataclysm. Shikishima stages a coup d'état against Neo-Tokyo's government and directs its military forces to destroy Tetsuo at any cost. In the 4K UHD edition, the colors are deep and rich and the textures are more visibly layered, so that the city appeared alive and moving as Kaneda’s crew zoomed around Neo-Tokyo. Akira starts with rival biker gangs speeding through the city's neon-filled nights, only to come across government experiments gone awry.

As a result, his naming conventions match the characters featured in Tetsujin 28-go: Kaneda shares his name with the protagonist of Tetsujin 28-go; Colonel Shikishima shares his name with Professor Shikishima of Tetsujin 28-go, while Tetsuo is named after Shikishima's son Tetsuo Shikishima; Akira 's Ryūsaku is named after Ryūsaku Murasame.Puss in Boots: The Last Wish' Director Joel Crawford Talks Breaking New Ground in the Shrek Franchise – Exclusive Interview".

The two events collide when the mysterious child appears before Tetsuo (voiced by Nozomu Sasaki), forcing him to crash his motorbike traveling at a deadly speed. Both versions used the Japanese audio with English subtitles, so you’d expect some aspects of the experience to be the same. From some of the conversation, it seems that they haven’t been in the same room for nearly 30 years, so it leads to quite a few fun tidbits. This figure has caused some sources to claim it was the most expensive anime film at the time of release, [22] [23] however, this claim has been disputed by the film's producer Shigeru Watanabe. Akira's4K Blu-ray poses some problems for fans on the aural front too, but let's start with the technical specs and performance which is tremendous, even without an immersive 3D object-based audio track in the form of something like Atmos.The Akira Sound Clip on Disc One is seven different musical cues accompanied by film clips and background information. A Blu-ray edition of Akira was subsequently released in Australia by Madman Entertainment under exclusive license from Manga and Kodansha. The Pioneer dub of the film has aired twice on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block, once on December 7, 2013, [81] with a rating of TV-MA-V, and again on December 20, 2014, both times with explicit language and nudity censored. A Blu-ray disc edition of the film was released on February 24, 2009, in North America by Bandai Entertainment under the Honneamise label.

The movie itself looks great in 4K, with HDR, I wondered what improvements could be seen in older animations like these but I can report the images are bright and colourful with some impactful highlights. On July 16, 1988, Tokyo was destroyed by what was believed to be a new type of bomb, triggering World War III.The resistance group infiltrates the hospital, and Kiyoko draws Kei and Kaneda into Shikishima and the espers' futile attempts to stop Tetsuo. When selecting this option, you’ll get a split screen with two versions of the same message: one in Japanese (left) and one in English (right). The soundstage positively explodes with intensity, further embellished by an awesome, iconic score which permeates the surrounds and further enhances the surprisingly immersive mix.