Lions Led By Robots Presents: Akira ft. Hussein Kesvani
Added 2025-02-19 09:41:00 +0000 UTCJoe and Nate are joined by Hussein Kesvani of Trashfuture and 10k Posts to talk about the legendary film Akira.
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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.
Dario Nanbu
2025-03-06 06:53:11 +0000 UTCNate I hate to the bearer of bad news but the dutch is starting to seep into your accent
zahracusdottir
2025-03-05 12:30:22 +0000 UTCWould 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
Csd2016
2025-02-21 23:29:16 +0000 UTCBeing reminded I probably still have a leather bound hard cover copy of Johnny the Homicidal Maniac.
James CΓ©zanne-Taipale
2025-02-21 09:16:04 +0000 UTCI love Junji Ito. Every interview with him makes him seem like the most precious cinnamon roll who gives us all new phobias and nightmares.
Page Chase
2025-02-21 00:25:54 +0000 UTC2:25 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.
Page Chase
2025-02-21 00:24:46 +0000 UTCThere are some great documentaries about the BΕsΕzoku which literally translates to "reckless driving group"...so....is bike hooning a thing?
Jonathan Sutter
2025-02-21 00:06:21 +0000 UTCGod fucking dammit i thought i had repress those memories...lol
Jonathan Sutter
2025-02-20 23:57:44 +0000 UTCHe throws those out there just often enough that you almost forget the last time lol
Jonathan Sutter
2025-02-20 23:56:22 +0000 UTCOn 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.
Jsuman
2025-02-20 22:17:06 +0000 UTCAlso please cover Pluto for Lions Led By Robots. It's so fucking good. Astro boy and friends explore the ramifications of the Gulf Wars.
Rhaethyn
2025-02-20 15:51:57 +0000 UTCNate. If you like the incredible body horror of Akira, go read some Junji Ito. Christ, that man is good at what he does.
Rhaethyn
2025-02-20 15:48:35 +0000 UTCI'm so glad Kentaro Miura's homey and his production company are carrying on with Berserk
Kvvvy
2025-02-20 12:33:15 +0000 UTCI 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
n4n4k1
2025-02-20 05:57:50 +0000 UTCLost audio for a bit in the early podcast maybe 3 to 9 minutes?
Matthew Nugent
2025-02-20 01:59:40 +0000 UTCICP and anime lead to each other.
Jonathan Grafton
2025-02-20 01:40:32 +0000 UTC"Used Future" was the description I heard about Star Wars and Alien and the other 'dirty' sci-fi settings.
Jonathan Bastow
2025-02-20 01:21:47 +0000 UTCI 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.
Ariane Signalis is the Elster Signalis Fan Club and challenges you to play SIGNALIS without pointing at any of the characters an
2025-02-20 01:10:10 +0000 UTCFinal Fantasy Spirits Within is my only experience with the series besides watching my cousins play IX
John Her
2025-02-20 01:06:54 +0000 UTCDid not expect the super eyepatch wolf reference
kelp kelpsters
2025-02-20 00:38:23 +0000 UTCThat is totally fair. It's a silly premise even for a cartoon let alone a violent comic book.
david reid
2025-02-20 00:24:45 +0000 UTCHooooly crap that's epic! Okay, I gotta read some of these. I was 9yo back in '89, with all of us playing Ninja Turtles in the school yard, watching all the episodes. I saw the original live action film in the cinema, and still have the soundtrack on cassette π€£ I heard of the comics as an adult, but I never knew what they were like.
heffa
2025-02-20 00:19:31 +0000 UTCAs 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.
david reid
2025-02-19 23:30:52 +0000 UTCI 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!
Brian Glynn
2025-02-19 22:12:55 +0000 UTCGunbuster is incredible, always a top recommendation from me. It's nuts that there's such memery around Gainax endings when Gunbuster's is absolutely pristine.
Jonathan Reiter
2025-02-19 21:13:45 +0000 UTCSteamboy is the wet dream of steampunks, problem is it only caters steampunks. In some sense Otomo is the ultimate fan service director.
Umimoto Ou
2025-02-19 21:11:04 +0000 UTCSomething very similar to Akira I feel obligated to recommend is βRoyal Space Forceβ 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.
Umimoto Ou
2025-02-19 21:05:41 +0000 UTCThe 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.
Anastasia Turley
2025-02-19 19:06:08 +0000 UTCTIL 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!
Chris Morse
2025-02-19 18:41:20 +0000 UTCc'est correct
What a Hell of a Way to Die
2025-02-19 18:10:32 +0000 UTCI 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
Star maker 75
2025-02-19 17:57:17 +0000 UTCIβm a farmer, rancher, and trucker from South Dakota, so I feel the bit about having to explain that βim not a weeb, im not a pedophile, and I batheβ(also itβs not all porn) whenever I talk about how good Evangelion is lol
WoopChicken
2025-02-19 17:47:47 +0000 UTCOn 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.
Marc Bosse
2025-02-19 16:54:58 +0000 UTCAlso it cool to see different art style. It like those re-animation video where every few seconds we another artist do a scence. It a cool patch up
Star maker 75
2025-02-19 16:09:35 +0000 UTCAkira 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.
Star maker 75
2025-02-19 16:08:01 +0000 UTCI 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. Itβs like a living pastiche archive.
David Schuller
2025-02-19 15:21:33 +0000 UTCNate: je suis un ouib
James Taylor
2025-02-19 11:27:22 +0000 UTCAny thoughts about the manga? What about Otomo's other work? Big fan of Roujin Z.
Jonathan Reiter
2025-02-19 11:00:51 +0000 UTCGuess I need to finally watch the movie before I listen.
Spaghetti
2025-02-19 10:09:48 +0000 UTC
