I would say the movie version of Akira might seem confusing because the story keeps changing and changing. However, if you read the manga, which are very large, and there are six of them, you will probably like Akira better. Since it was only two hours to fit maybe 3000 pages of story into?

What you need to understand is that even in the '80s, no one wanted to stay in the theater for more than 2 hours. So Otomo had to cut some parts of the manga out and make the main threads of the story visible in the movie.

I liked the movie alright, but I loved the manga even more.

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