Worst Anime

[DARK OSAMU]

How do you feel about the guy in AKIRA that was shot to peices trying to protect the litlle boy? That shows how deeply he wanted the little boy to escape. It wasn't a gratuitouse gore seen and yes it was there to show "the horrors of the future" but do you honestly think because a movie with that in it is garbage for having it in there? You said above that stuff isn't necessary. Even in a war movie. (This is how I personally took that statement from the way you wrote it) If a movie about Normandy doesn't have a few gross shots in it and it's about the frontlines then why bother watching it? It becomes a great movie because they show WHY war is so terrible. Watching someone have their head taken off from a mortat shell really gets the point across to me that war SUCKS! If it was just a bunch of shots of people getting shot offscreen and edited out or whatever the case, the movie loses it's impact! In a tragic movie such as Akira, the viewers don't truly get the feeling that something terrible is happening without the gore and violence. It's ok not to like a movie because of the violence but to say the movie is garbage because of the violence in a genuinly good movie is just thoughtless and arrogant.