{"id":654056,"date":"2018-08-08T23:44:27","date_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/654056\/"},"modified":"2018-08-08T23:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-08-08T23:44:27","slug":"akira-the-masochism-of-katsuhiro-otomo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/654056\/","title":{"rendered":"AKIRA &amp; the Masochism of Katsuhiro Otomo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\"  width=\"580\" height=\"385\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ej9q8Oc4dd0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\n<br \/>\n30 years ago Akira debuted to a world that wasn&#8217;t ready for it. Three decades later and it&#8217;s still as important &#8211; and as fun &#8211; as it ever was. In this video I take a look at the creation of Akira, the legacy it left behind, and the madman responsible for it all: Katsuhiro Otomo.<\/p>\n<p>SUPPORT ME ON PATREON: http:\/\/patreon.com\/BeyondGhibli<br \/>\nFOLLOW ME ON TWITTER: http:\/\/twitter.com\/BeyondGhibli<\/p>\n<p>Featuring the work of:<\/p>\n<p>Awaken Akira: https:\/\/www.awakenakira.com\/<br \/>\nAsh Thorp: http:\/\/altcinc.com\/<br \/>\nZaoeyo: https:\/\/zaoeyo.com\/<\/p>\n<p>Synthspiria: https:\/\/synthspiria.bandcamp.com\/<br \/>\nMechanized Dystopia by Speed Machine: https:\/\/speedmachine83.bandcamp.com\/<br \/>\nI Am Tetsuo by neon shudder: https:\/\/neonshudder.bandcamp.com\/<br \/>\nSeigyo no Sakkaku by Gregorio Franco: https:\/\/gregoriofranco.bandcamp.com\/<br \/>\nDark Side of the Road by Carbon Killer: https:\/\/carbonkiller.bandcamp.com\/<br \/>\nFlycruisor by Aerds: https:\/\/aerds.bandcamp.com\/<br \/>\nNeo Tokyo&#8217;s Theme by ACIDUL\u00c9: https:\/\/acidule.bandcamp.com\/<\/p>\n<p>K&#038;K (Lovers in the Light) by Bwana: https:\/\/www.residentadvisor.net\/dj\/bwana<\/p>\n<p>Self Driving by Patrick Henaghan: https:\/\/discobible.com<\/p>\n<p>Akira VHS Remix by Tachyons+ : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=TXLZaaCNTtc<\/p>\n<p>Special Thanks:<br \/>\nJoe Yang &#8211; Pause &#038; Select : https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/channel\/UCfpDNSkMPnmMwZHhUyplbZg<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>30 years ago Akira debuted to a world that wasn&#8217;t ready for it. Three decades later and it&#8217;s still<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":654057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[32439,1488,464957,135,33117,47056,93287,464955,464956,93286,15027,21121,108251,5783,464954,15026,32138],"class_list":{"0":"post-654056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-japanese-anime","8":"tag-30th","9":"tag-akira","10":"tag-akira-awaken","11":"tag-anime","12":"tag-anniversary","13":"tag-best-anime-of-all-time","14":"tag-beyond-ghibli","15":"tag-bwana","16":"tag-dark-synth","17":"tag-joe-oconnell","18":"tag-kaneda","19":"tag-katsuhiro-otomo","20":"tag-recommendation","21":"tag-review","22":"tag-synthspiria","23":"tag-tetsuo","24":"tag-video-essay"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/654057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/anime\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}