i need to add that it was too a 35mm film at film forum in the USA.
the first screening ever in the USA
but no matter any 35mm screening of it is great, they were showing it last week at midnight shows, but it was 9pm when i found out on the last day,
i wasn't able to make it

so next best thing, watching it on my projector in a few days with the keeper R7G
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Pre-90s anime in general (except for Ghibli) are very rarely shown in movie theaters here in Sweden and especially rare on 35mm. Akira was shown in three cities in a week (Stockholm, Gothenburg and Malmö) in 2012 and I can't seem to find any other time it has been shown here.

I've always put back owning this anime title for years.
Rented it one day to show my brother, I've only seen it once from a movie channel.
I have a cousin who has it on DVD, he made laughed at one of his classmates who paid $100 for the same DVD he got for $20...
He'll probably laugh at me too, though wouldn't mind that its in a format he's not used to.

I just got a LDP, got Star Wars (I'll get the definitive collection later) and I have to say these are very cool.
DVDs you just put on a cabinet, but LDs like LPs, you can frame them or put them up on a display rack.

I'll try to source a dubbed LD of Akira, but if worst comes to worst, I'll just get the BD version and keep the LD.
I'm not into that much into subs, but I couldn't stand the dub version of Excel Saga, the main character was just annoying to hear in english but OK in japanese.
She's probably annoying if I knew japanese, but since a friend of mine joked that you can't tell bad voice acting when its in another language...

edit: I just read (and I'm sure that all you maestros know) that Critteron releases all their titles with English subtitles.
So if anything I'll nab that one on LD if I get a japanese audio only one.

The Criterion LD of Akira has no english subtitles.
It's dual audio though. The english dub being the old Streamline dub version.
If you buy the BD, you'll get a newly made dub which I personally think is horrible.
But as I generally tend to not like dubs, I might not be the person to ask

About Excel... the japanese voice actress of Excel is Mitsuishi Kotono,
which probably is my favorite voice actress of all time.
Amongst the ton of works she did were the voices of Misato Katsuragi
in Evangelion, and of EBICHU (!!!) the housekeeping hamster.
Here is a link if someone is interested:
http://anidb.net/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=creator&creatorid=197

I first saw Akira when it came on Toonami, and that used the newer English Dub. I found it to be pretty decent, but now that I've seen the original Japanese version, I like the Japanese voices much better.

Also, sorry if this is a bit random, but I'm just wondering, does a VCD of Akira exist? Thanks.

It is on VCD with Dutch subtiltles for sure....
Disc came on the market in 1994
label: Manga Video
number: 27 00 563

I really want it, now. I want to say that I've watched Akira on my Philips CD-i.

Thanks for your input Vex. Looks like I'll get the critteron LD

That seems strange since i thought Europe VCDs didn't take off like the US but in Asia is popular. Would that be rare?

Not really. I have a PAL UK VCD of Top Gun (Philips CD-i Branded) and it cost me 5 dollars.

I know the CD-i discs are vcd but I was meaning just regular VCD discs that does not have anything to do with CD-i.

I have several of this discs....
I know about Akira because it is listed on one of my discs as "also available"
My discs have the Video CD logo on it, some of them have a sticker that says: "plays on CDI"

So in my opinion, they are normal VCD's

I thought that VCDs without any connection to CD-i so ones without the logo would be rare in europe. CD-i is still pretty rare here in the US but that seemed to be the only way to get VCDs though I know the Japanese market for Sega Saturn also had titles that utilize a VCD card since I got a title before actually getting a card and it played on a DVD player I had.

I have the CAV release in Near Mint. I believe I paid $20 for my copy.

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