I didn't even have to read the damn thing to tell you it was fake... if you checked the news page with the kiosk pic it says that the 360 in the kiosks were just shells but the controllers were real and no games were playable....
As for Anime... I'll be honest I'm quite the anime fan, Akira is however very old an boring
It's a "Classic" in anime terms meaning that it was the first semi-popular anime in the US and probably the only reason we're able to get any of it over hear at all... The move was made in the early 80s if I remember correctly. Now most anime is done on computers and look far and wide better, Akira was amazing for it's time but it was all hand drawn and by the time it made it to DVD the masters were all grainy (so unless you have the remastered version it looks like those pictures: total ass).
Honestly just watch Cowboy Bebop, IMO it's easily one of the best anime series ever made. Either watch the movie or the first few episodes of the series if you still don't like what you see then you have my permission to not like anime
Ghost in the Shell (both the movies and the TV Series) is another good one.
Outlaw Star, Evangelion, Lain, Big O
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Initial D too even though the animation in the first season is really crappy
I'm just an animation whore in general, I mean I have the complete collections of: Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Clerks, The Critic, Family Guy, Futurama, Invader Zim, Sealab 2021, South Park, etc. etc. etc.
Honestly I used to HATE anime, I thought it was the dumbest forum of entertainment. Then in college my roommate and a few of my friends were really big into it. Even after watching a bunch I didn't get into that much. The thing is they were all purists. They refused to watch it in anything but but the original Japanese voices with english sub-titles and they'd watch the older Animes almost exclusively. My Junior year I got an apartment and my new roommates weren't into anime. I was buying some DVDs online and the first disc of the Cowboy Bebop series caught my eye, I remembered seeing part of an episode at one of my anime loving friend's houses and liked what little I saw. So I bought it watched the first disc IN ENGLISH and liked it... so I bought the second disc... and then I bought the rest of the set, and then I did some searching online to find some similar titles and did the same thing with those series/movies.
The biggest problem with anime are the looser fan-boys who only watch the old hand drawn (read: crappily animated) series and refuse to watch it anything but Japanese audio (usually because they have this deranged impression that the english dubs are bad, which was true back in the 80s when no one in the US gave a shit, but it definitely doesn't apply now). Not to mention they're usually the same group who cos-play
There's a lot of really cool stuff in anime and a lot of it just wouldn't work/be as cool if it was done live action. Also unlike most american TV shows Anime series are done like a really long movie, so you need to watch it in order or it wont make sense, not to mention most last only a season or two, they tell a story beginning to end and once it ends thats it... no 8th season where every episode stands on it's own. It makes for much more interesting stories and much more developed characters.
All I'm saying is don't knock it till you experience it on your own terms.
