This week we live-tweeted to the Anime ‘Akira‘! I was thankfully able to attend class this time and therefore able to join in on the tweeting as a class, favouriting or retweeting every other post by class members, while they were doing the same to my tweets about the film.
My first thoughts on this film were definitely apparent in a few of my tweets, the colours and overall art within this film was incredible. Scrolling through tweets during that lesson, in can be noted that many of my peers were thinking the same thing, each of us somewhat in awe of the artistic qualities the film holds.
Looking deeper into this film, which is based around World War II, it is honestly somewhat unsettling. They use their animations to generate some very uncomfortable images such as simply the characters and how they are depicted.
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