Akira fanfic on my mind.

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I love Japanese anime, ever since I watched Toonami as a little kid and stayed up past my bedtime when Adult Swim actually had watchable stuff instead of glorified stoner material. One franchise has always intrigued me: Akira, the brainchild (no pun intended) of Katsuhiro Otomo. It has practically ever thing you could ever want in an anime/manga. Great action? Check. Character development? Check. Gratuitous violence? Hell yes. I have a couple of action figures from the McFarlane line, including a strange, intimidating-looking little boy resting on a throne? That boy is the titular character, Akira, and in my opinion, he's quite possibly the poster child for Underused Badass Potential. I just feel that Otomo could have done so much better things characterwise with him rather than use him as a combination Chekhov's child/dude in distress. What I'm about to propose is going to cause a lot, and I mean A LOT, of controversy. What if I wrote a reimagining, a "revisionist fanfic" of sorts, where Akira booted Kaneda out of the protagonist chair? I'd have to drastically retool the plot, but hey, wishful thinking.

Wrote a prequel fic of sorts, Hi There, Kiyoko.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7790636/1/Hi_There_Kiyoko

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJUS9a_XKA[/youtube]
This is pretty much my new interpretation of Akira in a nutshell.

Well, you got volume 1 of the manga in your avatar, but one thing I will ask anyway, have you ever read any of the manga? I thought the manga was light years better than the anime movie, the anime movie kinda moved too fast to really make sense. I only read half the manga, as it's all my library had. I don't know, I've not seen the movie in a good year and a half, and the manga in like 6 years or so, so lots of catching up to do. Everyone has to admit the bike chase scene in the movie is pure classic, disregarding the rest of the movie. Personally, I feel like just from reading the 3 mangas alone, the big problem with the movie is nothing gets fleshed out enough, so it's all just like "wtf is going on?"

For me personally, my favorite Japanese franchise thing, not related to Akira at all...20th Century Boys. There's like 20 manga volumes condensed into 3 movies, the live action movies are fantastic. It's really neat, as it explores connections between the future and the past and how little actions affect things greatly.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCFOM5mZx28
Trailer.

http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7799538/1/Akira_Rebirth
In progress.

Finished the first part of the prologue.

May consider revising the opening.

Here's the new version, Akira Revival.
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8924094/1/Akira-Revival

Any thoughts?