There is a lot crammed into this series and that might have been part of the issue for me. But all the other sites assure me it’s a drama. Like maybe Akudama was in fact an action-comedy all this time and I was just a bit slow on the uptake. The ending was unusual by virtue of not being the expected all-out gun battle but at the same time, it was so heavily contrived and inconsistent with the universe the series had built that I really thought it might have been a joke for a while. Sure there were a few good moments but it most of them seemed generally derivative. I clearly missed something or it went over my head. A bit more digging and I discovered that more than a few professional anime critiques were completely enamoured with this series, some even calling it anime of the year.Īnd I don’t get it. After finishing the series, I saw that most of the people I follow on AniList had rated it really high. Some really intriguing concepts that ended up being surface level and kind of disappointing. I guess it might have been weird to name an anime episode after another anime though.Īnd that’s sort of what my experience with Akudama Drive was. Get it? If they had been choosing more thematically we surely would have gotten Baby Driver, Oceans 11, Only God Forgives, Internal Affairs and even the obvious Danganronpa. There are no murders or mentions of murders, no biblical undertones, no exploration of psychopathy. For instance, the first episode is called Se7en and in it, the 7 main characters are brought together. Unfortunately, I immediately realized that the movies were chosen for their titles and not for the events or themes of the movies themselves. Most of the movies were American except of course for the aforementioned French Movie and Brother which is Japanese. I could see that there were some thematic similarities. I’m not gonna lie, I thought this was the coolest. I love that flick, I was so happy to be reminded of it! And all of them were thrillers, either crime, political or good old scary with the exception of the French movie La Cité des Enfants Perdus which is more of a Sci Fi – Fantasy. All the episodes were named for movies, movies I had almost all watched. The Akudama characters are much less outlandish though, which makes sense for a drama.īefore I even started the first episode something struck me. The similarities are difficult to ignore. I’m not sure if the production team of Akudama drive was involved in the Danganronpa games but I wouldn’t be surprised. They were very reminiscent of Danganronpa, especially in the eyes which is what makes those designs stand out in the first place. That’s not to say it was bad but a lot more flash than substance. There are a lot of tricks and few of them actually add to the experience or work with the cinematic language. Like a senior in school studying cinema that wants to try out all sorts of technics they just read about in their senior project. Line of sight is in fact pretty good throughout the series and the images and action are consistently clear.īut it does feel a bit frantic. At times it gave me shades of Suicide Squad editing but I’m just gonna say Akudama was better. There are also some cool camera tricks, art inlays and well, it’s a lot. Does that happen to you sometimes? When you arbitrarily decide something about an anime for absolutely no reason and then you can’t shake it even after confirming that you’re wrong? Just me?Īkudama Drive looks cool and edgy! It’s a visually interesting anime with a lot of great neon colours and some interesting designs. I can’t find anything that confirms that and yet, I still think it’s a video game. I really thought Akudama Drive was a video game. She might have started the day an ordinary girl, but now she’s the legendary swindler? And she’s stuck with a bunch of hardened criminals, called Akudama, trying to pull off some nea impossible train heist?!? How much worse can things get? There are sme questoins, you should never ask and an ordinary girl is about to get some answers she might not have wanted to hear! Who knew that trying to return a 500 yen coin and save a cat were going to get her in this much trouble. Minding her own business and trying to get some delicious, delicious takoyaki. Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Science Fiction, dystopia, kinda almost romance.
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