psa for those in the US - provided your state allows it, have you requested your absentee ballots yet?
here is minnesota's form, just did mine
httpareacodes https://dougsillars.github.io/httpareacodes/
Someone mapped 3-digit web server error codes to phone number area codes. I grew up in Expectation Failed. Why they gotta call me out like that?
It's hard to put into words the impact this film had on USian viewers. Like Ghost in the Shell -- which came *after* this one -- it helped create the demand for animation directed to an adult audience.
It's overt violence, style, and gore made it clear from the start that "This is not for kids". No doubt USian conservatives latched onto those same qualities for their own moralizing and proselytizing. It was often included as a bullet point in the Satanic Panic.
Even so, Akira helped to establish animation as a *medium*, not just a target audience. And who could deny it? The animation is a technical achievement.
Artist for Closetspace and A Wish for Wings
Writer for Sea of Legends
5th Place Winner of the Jenn Dolari Lookalike Contest
One enchilada short of a Mexican Platter