Akira

Unspooled

Paul Scheer & Amy Nicholson

Film Reviews, Tv & Film

4.6 • 4.7K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2022

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Paul & Amy slide into 1988’s cyberpunk anime crossover hit Akira! They praise the gamelan-influenced score, learn how the film’s bike races were influenced by post-WWII Tokyo culture, and ask whether this is the “Scarface” of anime. Plus: The eternal debate of subs vs dubs. Next week we kick off a month of Ani-May-Tion month continues with Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of The Were-Rabbit! You can join the conversation for this series on the Unspooled Facebook Group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/unspooledpodcast, and on Paul’s Discord at https://discord.gg/ZwtygZGTa6. Learn more about the show at unspooledpod.com, follow us on Twitter @unspooled and Instagram @unspooledpod, and don’t forget to rate, review & subscribe to us on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher and Spotify. You can also listen to our Stitcher Premium game show Screen Test right now at https://www.stitcher.com/show/unspooled-screen-test, and apply to be a contestant at [email protected]!

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0:00.0	What the hell is this Akira thing, huh?
0:02.8	I asked Ryu one time.
0:04.8	He told me that Akira's ultimate energy.
0:08.1	Ultimate energy?
0:09.3	Hello everyone and welcome to unspooled.
0:34.7	I'm Amy Nicholson and I am Paul Sheer and this is the show where we are trying to
0:39.1	find the best films ever made and when we do we are going to send them into outer space.
0:44.1	And we are doing something we've never done on the show before.
0:46.8	It is May.
0:48.6	So Amy and I have decided to celebrate animation and something we like to call
0:55.0	Anna Macy.
0:58.6	Shen.
1:01.1	Wow, where's the smooth?
1:02.6	So smooth.
1:04.1	How did it take us years and years of doing the show and that never occurred to us in time?
1:08.1	No, well I guess we have a little bit more autonomy when we're doing the A.F.I.
1:12.1	list we couldn't just go in animation and I feel like people have been asking us to
1:16.0	explore deeper in this area and it's something that we've been enjoying talking about.
1:21.2	Obviously the Shrek episode was an episode that really got people worked up.
1:25.9	Why are you picking this?
1:27.2	And I'm really happy with that episode because we got to talk about animation as
1:32.7	an art form and not as genre and I think that what we're going to try to do here
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