Lions Led By Robots Presents: Akira ft. Hussein Kesvani

If Akira counts as a robot anime y’all need to watch the Revolutionary Girl Utena movie

Also, I had the original black and white issue of TMNT and yeah, it was REAL violent and bloody

Random turtle fact...their penis is stored internally in the cloaca which everts during copulation. Hence, the TMNTs did not wear pants.

As someone who grew up going to Japanese school on the weekends (which teaches you the same curriculum you'd get in Japan for math and language class), stories and poems about how people died and suffered from the atom bomb drops are just part of core curriculum, starting in like grade school. And they are haunting stories.

Nate I hate to the bearer of bad news but the dutch is starting to seep into your accent

Would be very open to seeing you tackle what's happened in Myanmar with Hussein + Phoebe. Might still be too recent/ongoing, but it seems like a synthesis of LLBD + 10k Posts' areas of expertise

Being reminded I probably still have a leather bound hard cover copy of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.

2:25 The latest Magic: the Gathering set has an image of one of the characters standing in front of a red motorcycle similar to the poster I've seen in every other weeb's dorm room/ office cube.

There are some great documentaries about the Bōsōzoku which literally translates to "reckless driving group"...so....is bike hooning a thing?

On the topic of biker gang movies I 1000% reccomend Quadrophenia. 60s UK Mod subculture Rock Opera by The Who. One of my favorite movies and albums.

Nate. If you like the incredible body horror of Akira, go read some Junji Ito. Christ, that man is good at what he does.

I'm so glad Kentaro Miura's homey and his production company are carrying on with Berserk

I was about to come here to talk about Bartkira and Joe already knew about it, incredible. I hung out with someone who was friends with Ryan Humphrey and had a pile of these panels started in ~2013. Her panel is 116 in volume 3

Lost audio for a bit in the early podcast maybe 3 to 9 minutes?

ICP and anime lead to each other.

"Used Future" was the description I heard about Star Wars and Alien and the other 'dirty' sci-fi settings.

I remember reading a big, and I mean, to like 13 year old me, this book was huge, version of Akira, cover to cover, twice. No idea what happened to it. But because of it, I have developed some sort of word association between Akira and Aguirre: Wrath of God, which results in me thinking the name of the movie Akira is Akira: Wrath of God.

Final Fantasy Spirits Within is my only experience with the series besides watching my cousins play IX

Did not expect the super eyepatch wolf reference

As a turtles fan. Yes. Michaelangelo gets an alien pregnant. But as for the violence. The first book imagine Leonardo missing an eye, bleeding. Looking dead at shredder and asks him "Do you fear us now, shredder?" Then decapitates him. My favorite run is their image comics run. Donnie becomes half turtle half robot, splinter is dying, raph is missing because he and Leo got into it. Splinter then gets kidnapped. Turtles track splinter down to shredders hideout. They get ready to fight shredder. It's raph. Raph killed shredder and took over his mantle with the foot. In which he now uses the foot to help patrol the streets. Okay. Sorry. I have taken up enough of everyone's time.

I remember encountering that TMNT porno (parody?) thing and I believe it was Michelangelo telling April, "Don't cut me no slack" before sex bobsledding him down several flights of stairs to Krang. It's just another one of those odd early to mid 2000s Internet culture things that will forever infest my memory until the sweet release of death. Oh no! Porkchop sandwiches!

Something very similar to Akira I feel obligated to recommend is “Royal Space Force” the movie that bankrupted Gainax so they had to produce Gunbuster and Evagelion to make up for the loss. Royal Space Force was made one year before Akira and it is THE ULTIMATE ANIME (both in its strength and its flaw). It would make either a perfect lions led by robot episode (a rocket is also a robot, right?) or a perfect joint episode with failure to launch.

The movie is absolutely classic. For a year or more, when you went to Hulu's classic movie section it was only Akira. Also the manga is so incredible, I have a full size tattoo of one panel.

TIL they did a redub. And thank you all for telling me that Leonardo was Kaneda in the old dub! I knew that voice was familiar!

I wished they would have adapted the rest of the Akira manga in animation. Simialr to ralph bakshi's adapation lord of the rings where he adapted 2/3 of the novels, but not the rest. Like sure it might not be as great as you think, but it feel incomplete

I’m a farmer, rancher, and trucker from South Dakota, so I feel the bit about having to explain that “im not a weeb, im not a pedophile, and I bathe”(also it’s not all porn) whenever I talk about how good Evangelion is lol

On the matter of AMVs, I used to judge for various anime conventions. The years after FF Advent Children came out were dreadful. The same slop over and over again until you just hate by default until there was a charmingly homoerotic one; well edited, decent song, and actually tried to tell a story, and did not just use the same fight scenes - it scored well.

Akira aka manga/anime that gave us the look that megmai tensei's apocalypse will look. Also fitting as I recently completed getting all volume of the Akira manga.

I worked with a dude who worked on Bartkira. The coolest thing is the artist swaps out every 5 pages or so, so you get tons of different styles recreating this comic. It’s like a living pastiche archive.

Nate: je suis un ouib

Any thoughts about the manga? What about Otomo's other work? Big fan of Roujin Z.

Guess I need to finally watch the movie before I listen.