I kinda liked Akira, but not for the dub because I never watched the dub. I guess it was the mindless violence and exploding people. Mmm... exploding people.
I saw
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time. It was a pretty good movie, kinda a more dramatic and tender and less violent version of The Butterfly Effect. Girl flies down hill on a bike, brakes fail and she gets hit by a train, then finds herself pushed back through time before the accident. Thus discovers she can travel through time. She tries to use it to get her way, like retaking tests and the like. Then she tries to use it to hook up a friend with a girl. Finally, well... I never really saw any chemistry between the two, but somehow she falls in love with someone and he leaves her, and for some bizzare reason she doesn't try to change it using time travel, or for fuck's sake, just telling him how she feels about him, and instead just cries like a baby when he's gone. He says he'll meet her in the future but that could be 300 years from then, and she'd be dead. I'll never understand Japanese females.
I'm starting to like
Code Geass more and more I see it. I already mentioned it's about this guy, LeLouche (LuLu), who lives in Japan, and the British have taken over Japan and treat the population like Jews, and Lulu was the bastard son of the Emperor who's mother was assasinated by rival nobles, and his sister paralized in the attack, and now he hates the empire. And so he's so fucking smart he's taken over the rebellion under the code name Zero and is openly attacking the empire. And some wierd witch gave him Jedi Mind Trick Abilities.
What I love about this, besides the mecha action, is the fact that Lulu is almost evil himself. He's a tactical genius but he's also a madman. He has no problem killing anyone who gets in his way. In one attack he crushes the enemy troops with a landslide, but the landslide also buries most of the rebel troops as well. In another attack, he blows up a rebel ship to win a battle. This guy's motto seems to be "The end justifies the means" and his methods rank up there with the great military madmen of history. Lulu slowly becomes just as evil as the Empire he's fighting as the series progresses. Add to that that his best friend pilots the Empire's best mech, and believes in stopping Zero because he thinks the Empire can be changed within peacefully, and it gets very very interesting after a while.
