I didn't like Akira, particularly since I've read the manga. The story was rather butchered. I agree with you how it's really overhyped. I saw nothing special about it when I watched the original version so many years ago, and the later remastered edition really didn't do much to impress me either.
Personally, what I really liked at the time was the movie SDF Macross: Do You Remember Love?, since not only was the animation was quite nice for the time, the story it told (and how it was told), and the music really left a mark on me, even till today. It was a creative and concise way of retelling the long and occasionally winded story (even I, a Macross fanatic, can admit that) found in the SDF Macross TV series .
Personally, what I really liked at the time was the movie SDF Macross: Do You Remember Love?, since not only was the animation was quite nice for the time, the story it told (and how it was told), and the music really left a mark on me, even till today. It was a creative and concise way of retelling the long and occasionally winded story (even I, a Macross fanatic, can admit that) found in the SDF Macross TV series .