I'm not a *big* fan of anime and perhaps 
maybe "Akira" is partly responsible.  As a 
schooling-animator in Los Angeles, I am attracted 
mostly to Western and European animation.  Too 
bad the first Anime I ever saw was "Akira".  It 
turned me off completely to anime for several 
years.

But I'm slowly getting accquainted with series I 
*do* like, like the Eat-Man series of 
course, "Mononoke Hime", "Cowboy Bebop", "Kiki", 
and a few others.  But LOL, I agree with your 
opinion ( sorries to anyone who is a rabid Akira 
fan ). 

I remember watching it the first time with a 
friend ( back in them old days when Anime was 
looked upon as a geeky fetish in the states ) and 
was thinking, "What the hell is this crap I'm 
allowing my friend to force me to sit through...?"