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Three Decades of Akira Slide Homages

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  • čas přidán 18. 08. 2024
  • Akira has inspired multiple generations of animators. The "Akira slide" is one homage that is particularly well referenced. This video looks to capture professional animation homages.
    00:00 - Akira
    00:02 - Batman: The Animated Series
    00:04 - You're Under Arrest
    00:07 - Gargoyles
    00:08 - I My Me! Strawberry Eggs
    00:09 - Air Master
    00:10 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
    00:12 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003)
    00:13 - Yakitate!! Japan
    00:14 - Super Robot Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!
    00:15 - Teen Titans
    00:18 - Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann
    00:19 - Kurozuka
    00:22 - Michiko To Hatchin
    00:25 - Yu Gi Oh! 5D's
    00:26 - Clone Wars (Actually 2003)
    00:27 - Fresh Pretty Cure!
    00:29 - Lupin III vs. Detective Conan
    00:31 - Pokemon Diamond & Pearl
    00:32 - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
    00:34 - Yu-Gi-Oh! 5D's
    00:35 - Durarara!!
    00:36 - Yu-Gi-Oh! 3D: Bonds Beyond Time
    00:39 - Adventure Time
    00:40 - Nisemonogatari
    00:41 - Hyperdimension Neptunia
    00:43 - Clarence
    00:45 - Punch Line
    00:46 - AntiMagic Academy 35th Test Platoon
    00:48 - Yu-Gi-Oh! Arc-V
    00:50 - Mahoujin Guru Guru
    00:52 - Youkai Watch
    00:55 - The LEGO Ninjago Movie
    00:56 - Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012)
    00:58 - Bungou Stray Dogs - Dead Apple
    01:00 - FLCL Progressive
    01:01 - FLCL Alternative
    01:03 - Irmão do Jorel
    01:04 - Marvel's Spider-Man
    01:06 - Marvel's Spider-Man
    01:08 - Doraemon (2005)
    01:11 - Duel Masters!! (2019)
    01:13 - Holo Graffiti
    01:15 - Carmen Sandiego
    01:16 - Mao Mao: Heroes of Pure Heart
    01:17 - Steven Universe: The Movie
    01:18 - Xavier Riddle and the Secret Museum
    01:20 - Nissin Curry Meshi (Advert)
    01:21 - No More Heroes 3 (Trailer)
    01:24 - Rocket League (Rocket Pass 5)
    01:26 - Karmin Rider Zero-One
    01:28 - Akudama Drive
    01:31 - Keep Your Hands Off Eizouken!
    01:33 - Big City Greens
    01:35 - Chico Bon Bon: Monkey with a Tool Belt
    01:36 - Lego Marvel Avengers - Climate Conundrum
    01:39 - The Hollow (S2 Trailer)
    01:40 - The Casagrandes
    01:41 - The Fungies
    01:42 - Jorja Smith - Come Over (Feat. Popcaan)
    01:45 - Amphibia
    01:46 - Centaurworld
    01:47 - Craig Of The Creek
    01:49 - Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir
    01:50 - Luca
    01:51 - PAW Patrol: The Movie
    01:52 - Sherlock Holmes and the Great Escape (2021)
    01:54 - The Casagrandes
    01:56 - Maya and the Three (Teaser)
    01:57 - Palworld (Trailer)
    01:58 - Black Clover
    02:00 - Pui Pui Molcar
    02:02 - The World Ends with You The Animation
    02:04 - SD Gundam World Heroes
    02:06 - Digimon Adventure (2020)
    02:08 - Detective Conan

Komentáře • 7K

  • @wellyep790
    @wellyep790 Před rokem +1842

    Animators saw Akira (1988) and said "That slide was the sickest shit I've ever seen." And they were right.

  • @lordgrave57
    @lordgrave57 Před 2 lety +828

    Akira's slide to anime is like the matrix bullet timing to movie.

    • @mightyfist10
      @mightyfist10 Před 2 lety +40

      Especially, during the mid 2000s. The "Underworld" movies existed mostly because of the "matrix aesthetic" and the vampire craze during that time.

    • @zacksmith5963
      @zacksmith5963 Před 2 lety +6

      Fun fact . Matrix copied anime

    • @johnmartinez7440
      @johnmartinez7440 Před 2 lety +24

      @@zacksmith5963 "Copied" is harsh - they were clearly influenced by the styling, but took it an made something unique and groundbreaking. The Animatrix was excellent.

    • @deadrivers2267
      @deadrivers2267 Před 2 lety +7

      @@johnmartinez7440 Matrix took Blade's aesthetic and mashed it with Ghost in the Shell + Lain + Tron + Hong Kong films.

    • @cloudbusting_
      @cloudbusting_ Před rokem

      Akira influenced the bullet time effects in The Matrix as well

  • @ThorDude
    @ThorDude Před 9 měsíci +280

    The Akira bike slide is like Loss. Either you get it, or you live blissfully unaware that it's everywhere.

  • @TheGreatCalsby
    @TheGreatCalsby Před rokem +427

    I love how no vehicle is off limits. Hoverboards, horses, skateboards, insects, their own legs... if its this angle, with this slide, it's an homage

  • @Pepepipipopo
    @Pepepipipopo Před 2 lety +12518

    The akira Slide on a horse is so hilarious.

    • @miguel.manojaya
      @miguel.manojaya Před 2 lety +302

      Yea.. I had recently saw that and laught a lot ahauah and now i saw this coment and laugh more

    • @Kitty_Cosmic
      @Kitty_Cosmic Před 2 lety +27

      @@miguel.manojaya are you serious?

    • @ixoylion.6031
      @ixoylion.6031 Před 2 lety +30

      @@miguel.manojaya you sure he didn’t pay you to say that?

    • @miguel.manojaya
      @miguel.manojaya Před 2 lety +108

      @@ixoylion.6031 im wondering if all you asking me questions that who are "being serious?". I saw the video... laugh a lot with the horse.. after i saw the comment and remembered the scene of horse i'd laught more.
      I don't know what is more normal in the world than that. Or all you live in countries where the happyness are a privilege - i dont see in this way.. for me happyness is for everytime.

    • @ixoylion.6031
      @ixoylion.6031 Před 2 lety +13

      @@miguel.manojaya yes thanks for making me very many understand :)

  • @Monody512
    @Monody512 Před 2 lety +828

    Did the Tron franchise seriously never do this? That's kind of incredible.

    • @utkarsh2746
      @utkarsh2746 Před 2 lety +172

      Might be because the light bikes had a very specific kind of movement. Also, wasn't there a similar shot in the Dark Knight?

    • @Monody512
      @Monody512 Před 2 lety +56

      @@utkarsh2746 The free-moving lightcycles in TRON Legacy and Uprising could've done it. I would have to rewatch them to check.

    • @asimovoftrantor6838
      @asimovoftrantor6838 Před rokem +3

      Wouldn't they hit their own wall if they did this?

    • @Monody512
      @Monody512 Před rokem +10

      @@asimovoftrantor6838 The oldschool light cycles can only freely drift like this when they're not making a wall, and the new grid ones automatically shut the wall off when they spin around.

    • @zeyyadfarooq6235
      @zeyyadfarooq6235 Před rokem +3

      But, like, it's probably just for animations, as akira is an animation pioneer, so a live action piece of media doesnt really have to pay homage, and it probably wouldn't work

  • @MrN00dle51
    @MrN00dle51 Před 6 měsíci +132

    In Japan you're legally required to do the Akira slide to get your license

  • @justjulia1720
    @justjulia1720 Před 5 měsíci +81

    I saw Akira today for the first time and I can't believe that out of everything that happens in that movie, the most iconic thing is a 2-3 sec bike slide. Tbf it's epic as hell and the entire movie is very well animated so even simple things are visually memorable.

    • @ShardDeVir
      @ShardDeVir Před 5 měsíci +4

      Just to clarify: it was animated by team of 64 people working day and night for that result and they didn't slack on smallest details, even if it a small bright point (1 mm in diameter).

    • @ajasilikonreffkmimmon
      @ajasilikonreffkmimmon Před 2 měsíci +1

      Katsuhiro Ōtomo Distinctive, Atmospheric, and Grandiose Director

  • @maggiem6209
    @maggiem6209 Před 2 lety +324

    This scene became so iconic it's basically just a "cool character" feature.
    Are you a determined badass? Yes.
    Motorcycle slide.

  • @icyjon923
    @icyjon923 Před 2 lety +605

    I just saw Nope and the Akira slide at the end is incredible

    • @SinOfPride
      @SinOfPride Před 2 lety +7

      That's what I'm saying!!

    • @venomase5572
      @venomase5572 Před 2 lety +37

      Was the first time I saw it in live action. Loved it

    • @seen.3
      @seen.3 Před rokem +1

      LOVE KEKE ❤️. I believe Jordan referenced Akira because he was approached to direct the live action version of it but turned it down because he didn’t think he was the right fit.

    • @jacksonscott690
      @jacksonscott690 Před rokem +5

      @@seen.3 Which is fair, I can’t name a director who could do Akira justice in live action.

    • @asimovoftrantor6838
      @asimovoftrantor6838 Před rokem +4

      @@jacksonscott690 Denis Villeneuve? Though he's likely got his hands full with Dune for a while, especially if he plans to adapt Dune Messiah.

  • @ajzeg01
    @ajzeg01 Před měsícem +34

    It’s so common in popular culture, I wonder how many people don’t even realize it’s a reference.

    • @jwanha665
      @jwanha665 Před měsícem +3

      A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NOT SEEN AKIRA

    • @OKAND69420
      @OKAND69420 Před měsícem

      ​@@jwanha665either they havent seen the movie or they knly know the leave me alone scene

  • @Space_Prince
    @Space_Prince Před 24 dny +26

    It’s cool because it doesn’t kill tone for the sake of a reference it’s already a really awesome shot even if you don’t get the reference, it’s only an added bonus if you do.

  • @jampie66
    @jampie66 Před rokem +270

    I love that it's so iconic that it's extended past motorcycles and bikes. Cars, horses, wolves, a roach, even people. It's so cool

  • @TimboTheWizard
    @TimboTheWizard Před 2 lety +211

    This is starting to feel almost like the Wilhelm scream: once you know what it is, you start seeing it everywhere lol

  • @Kola25_97
    @Kola25_97 Před měsícem +34

    You know the Akira slide is iconic when even four wheeled vehicles are getting in on it.

  • @TheLegend1800
    @TheLegend1800 Před měsícem +29

    I love how all of these are professionally done movies and shows and video game trailers, and then there's just Shirakami Fubuki in their crack-fueled youtube animation series.

  • @tukkek
    @tukkek Před 2 lety +1861

    I adore how so many of those go out of their way to make everything in the shot as obvious as possible to the original, unapologetically. If imitation is the highest form of flattery, this just shows how much unbridled love all these amazing creators, decades later, have for the influential pioneer film in the genre of animation - and still to this day one of the best ever made!

    • @simonchasnovsky1835
      @simonchasnovsky1835 Před 2 lety +52

      Yup, these range wildly from inspiration, to probably some straight up copies, to parodies once it became known within the animation industry that everyone took something out of Akira, and for sure now there are people who don't do it because they liked the original scene, copied it, or parodied it, but just because it's an insider meme.

    • @fiveoctaves
      @fiveoctaves Před 2 lety +11

      Those are the ones that are truly an homage. The rest, perhaps not so much.

    • @justadude1477
      @justadude1477 Před 2 lety

      The movie “nope” also had a motorcycle scene

    • @justadude1477
      @justadude1477 Před 2 lety +1

      The movie “nope” also has a motorcycle scene!

    • @xLordOfNothingx
      @xLordOfNothingx Před 2 lety +1

      I hate it, so on the nose 🙄 so fucking lame and unimaginative

  • @mistamemewide
    @mistamemewide Před 2 lety +96

    I gotta say, Obi Wan on a Speeder doing the Akira Slide with his saber out is pretty badass.

    • @adonailr9667
      @adonailr9667 Před 2 lety +7

      Tbh is the best one

    • @piscessoedroen
      @piscessoedroen Před 2 lety +1

      probably the easiest one to do an akira slide yet it goes so hard i don't think a screenshot would be enough

    • @Obi-Wan_Kenobi
      @Obi-Wan_Kenobi Před 2 lety +4

      Thank you.

    • @azekia
      @azekia Před 2 lety

      It would be the easiest to pull an Akira slide on but also i think it was the most badass

  • @londonjackson8986
    @londonjackson8986 Před 2 měsíci +30

    I like how in the 90s - 2000s, you can tell the "Akira Slide" was just a neat reference that rarely to occasionally appeared here & there! And then in the 2010s to Now, Everyone (& I mean, EVERYONE) was basically just, "Hey if they can do it, then I MUST do it!" & now it's almost no longer even an occasional reference, it's an animation trope that just normally appears! Not that, that's a bad thing mind you, it's just pretty funny looking back in retrospect...

  • @JoutaiSasuLover
    @JoutaiSasuLover Před rokem +54

    After watching Hwoarang's reveal trailer for Tekken 8 which he does Akira Slide, this video suddenly appears in my feed 😅

  • @mauriceisaac3646
    @mauriceisaac3646 Před 2 lety +8830

    I can't believe even freakin' Paw Patrol made an Akira reference.

    • @vegamonado7562
      @vegamonado7562 Před 2 lety +1097

      Well even Paw Patrol made a Jojo reference.
      Those creators are really interesting

    • @takyON207
      @takyON207 Před 2 lety +29

      @@shushukzh czcams.com/video/eEPXdtGw2kE/video.html

    • @shroomer8294
      @shroomer8294 Před 2 lety +304

      Pretty sure the Paw Patrol people are weebs

    • @matteodandreta161
      @matteodandreta161 Před 2 lety +178

      @@shushukzh the episode with the armor knight, idk, they just did some jojo pose... 😁

    • @the3littlefairys
      @the3littlefairys Před 2 lety +2

      Iykyk

  • @lucaswilliams2292
    @lucaswilliams2292 Před rokem +204

    1:05 one of the most creative slides imo

  • @SuperRookie117
    @SuperRookie117 Před 9 měsíci +51

    There is also a real life Akira Slide in the 2022 movie called "Nope" :)

    • @The_Isaiahnator
      @The_Isaiahnator Před 9 měsíci

      Just came here to see if it was included. 😂

  • @lofihour2506
    @lofihour2506 Před 10 měsíci +31

    Akira is a timeless classic, way ahead of it’s time

  • @IJNAoba9-25-26
    @IJNAoba9-25-26 Před 2 lety +178

    The Akira Slide is basically the Wilhelm scream for TV shows and Anime.

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube Před 2 lety +1

      The difference is the Wilhelm scream is a very specific sound clip, these people are literally calling every clip of a motorcycle sliding same thing

    • @bigredjanie
      @bigredjanie Před rokem +11

      @@jacquestube Dude, the vast majority of these are an Akira reference.

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube Před rokem

      @@bigredjanie many of them are no doubt, but you can't just start throwing in every fucking motorcycle thing to build your case. That's the issue I'm having some of these are blatantly not in a cure reference and that's what bugs me

    • @bigredjanie
      @bigredjanie Před rokem

      @@jacquestube Which do you think are ones that aren't a reference?

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube Před rokem

      @@bigredjanie we've already had this discussion just because of motorcycle slides doesn't mean it's a reference as simple as that

  • @ZeroStrife45
    @ZeroStrife45 Před 2 lety +555

    Clarence is literally the only show that surprised me with that reference.

    • @Oscar4u69
      @Oscar4u69 Před 2 lety +33

      the last show I expected to see this

    • @ZeroStrife45
      @ZeroStrife45 Před 2 lety +13

      @@Oscar4u69 right

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube Před 2 lety +7

      As terrible as Clarence is artwork is it makes total sense to me. You got to remember that bad generation of Cal Arts graduates all grew up watching anime and instead of learning how to draw they just tried to recreate anime moments

    • @piccolo54trunks2
      @piccolo54trunks2 Před 2 lety +2

      I was more surprised by Casagrande's. I thought I was the only one who watched that show :/

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube Před 2 lety +1

      @@piccolo54trunks2 it's not true you dingleberry

  • @HappyGingerWolf
    @HappyGingerWolf Před měsícem +24

    I love the ones where they're riding something that has no business sliding like that, like horses

  • @fwsimon110
    @fwsimon110 Před rokem +55

    I wonder at what point did these stop being homages of Akira and just homages of the slide itself

    • @durpcity7420
      @durpcity7420 Před rokem +1

      same thing, different words used to describe the moment being referenced

  • @flukefantasy
    @flukefantasy Před 2 lety +85

    The Akira slide is the Wilhelm scream of animation

  • @kadeshaderow
    @kadeshaderow Před rokem +519

    Can't believe Batman did the first Akira homage

    • @SaadNabil
      @SaadNabil Před rokem +5

      So cool!

    • @SuperMilhinho
      @SuperMilhinho Před rokem +41

      And the only with the shock

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +15

      did it really? Or was anything else made earlier?

    • @hifurcatfood
      @hifurcatfood Před rokem +19

      ​@@Gadget-Walkmen probably and we just don't know about it

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +9

      @@hifurcatfood for now, let's just say batman was the first one.

  • @Airahar
    @Airahar Před měsícem +14

    Some stunt driver out there is perfecting this for live action and I for one can't wait

  • @ZachX888
    @ZachX888 Před 7 měsíci +52

    Surprising to see how something so small was referenced so many times across so many different forms of media.

  • @SimpleSlave
    @SimpleSlave Před 2 lety +191

    And not only does AKIRA still looks better than all the homages but still, 34 years later, has the greatest motorcycle design ever.
    Good stuff. 👍🏼

    • @purpledefaultpfp6233
      @purpledefaultpfp6233 Před 2 lety +23

      Subjective

    • @allloren7277
      @allloren7277 Před 2 lety +3

      @Purple default pfp Nahh

    • @spicyramengaming8465
      @spicyramengaming8465 Před 2 lety +19

      If I ever won the lottery, I would have someone custom build a working replica of the Akira bike....and I don't even know how to ride a motorcycle.

    • @RtistiqSkubie
      @RtistiqSkubie Před 2 lety +3

      @@spicyramengaming8465 you can actually make the replica yourself buying a specific Honda scooter then the bodykit

    • @SimpleSlave
      @SimpleSlave Před 2 lety +1

      @@allloren7277 Yahh

  • @jakejohnson718
    @jakejohnson718 Před 2 lety +61

    It's basically a law at this point, "if there's a scene with a motorcycle, Akira must be referenced"

  • @shortyyazzie
    @shortyyazzie Před 11 měsíci +36

    There is a live action from "Nope" that deserves to be in this!

  • @Shadowpill1
    @Shadowpill1 Před 7 měsíci +37

    This is the Wilhelm scream for the animation genre

  • @0knothing443
    @0knothing443 Před 2 lety +1920

    And after 34 years Akira still being the smoothest one

    • @riffrucar6416
      @riffrucar6416 Před 2 lety +169

      Can't improve upon perfection

    • @atomic_bomba
      @atomic_bomba Před 2 lety +94

      That's because cel-animation, and that they used much more frames per second back then.

    • @snowhunter7536
      @snowhunter7536 Před rokem +35

      @@atomic_bomba and because of that, the Japanese animation industry’s reputation and its popularity have skyrocketed and expanded towards Western audiences.

    • @Anonymous-73
      @Anonymous-73 Před rokem +11

      Idk I think NMH 3 was pretty close

    • @hhoop3876
      @hhoop3876 Před rokem +8

      @@atomic_bomba Not to add a movie budget too

  • @GreyWolfLeaderTW
    @GreyWolfLeaderTW Před 2 lety +68

    Yu-GI-Oh! wins the title of "most homages to Akira Bike Slide in a single franchise/series".

  • @fishii8237
    @fishii8237 Před 7 měsíci +37

    1:20 damn that transition was clean

  • @Simian-bz7zo
    @Simian-bz7zo Před 9 měsíci +32

    35 years (and counting) and the original is still the coolest.

  • @Niiwastaken
    @Niiwastaken Před 2 lety +206

    The reason why the number of times this animation has been referenced is because the newer clips are being influenced by the creators who were influenced by creators who were influenced by Akira. Some of these creators may not even know what Akira is (but I highly doubt it)

    • @RafitoOoO
      @RafitoOoO Před 2 lety +42

      Akira is one of the most influential pieces of media ever. I bet this is conscious.

    • @ekkys04
      @ekkys04 Před 2 lety +9

      Anyone that animates as their career has definitely seen Akira, it's not slipping through any cracks or sitting under a rock; shoot its on hulu rn.
      34 years later and it's still a legit great film

    • @ShanyShannon
      @ShanyShannon Před rokem

      @@TheRitzierComic Thank you, I keep seeing in the comment section that regular everyday people keep on confusing and underestimating the knowledge that these animators & storyboard artists have. It's not even funny! I never thought to see so many people project their own mindset onto these animators & storyboard artists that put their blood, sweat, energy, and tears into creating these works and going to school for this. They all know of Akira...they are artists, they study others works. They do grunt work, apprenticeships, a lot of studying. A homage is just that to them, take it at face value, people.
      Edited: to mention storyboard artists as well! :)

  • @kasuraga
    @kasuraga Před 2 lety +42

    I like to think that in the storyboard notes/animation notes it says "Insert Akira Slide here"

  • @RoxaIf
    @RoxaIf Před 7 měsíci +62

    Crazy how the movement in this scene is hardly ever better animated than in the original

    • @marcofiume3921
      @marcofiume3921 Před 7 měsíci +9

      The original is absolutely crazy, even today

    • @mechadeka
      @mechadeka Před 7 měsíci +11

      Wow one would hope a multi million dollar movie built around the idea of pretty animation would look better than a bunch of TV shows.

    • @PeasMinister
      @PeasMinister Před 6 měsíci

      Probably because it’s a movie would have a higher budget and the parodies are from TV shows which typically have lower budget animation

  • @ocean.m5642
    @ocean.m5642 Před 7 měsíci +23

    The Akira slide is literally the most bad ass thing to ever happen

  • @aidankilleen7372
    @aidankilleen7372 Před 2 lety +917

    Fun fact, the akira slide is physically impossible to do on a bike without flipping on your side or rolling forwards due to conservation of momentum.

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real Před 2 lety +12

      Is there a way to design the wheels with enough grip for it to work?

    • @aidankilleen7372
      @aidankilleen7372 Před 2 lety +131

      @@airplanes_aren.t_real thats not how grip works. The problem here is that to do the akira slide you need to do an exact 90 degree turn. However, if you did that on a bike you wouldnt slide, youd just keep going forward in relation to the bike because the wheels will keep wanting to roll forward.

    • @airplanes_aren.t_real
      @airplanes_aren.t_real Před 2 lety +5

      @@aidankilleen7372 so you keep going at an angle and not at a straight line?

    • @aidankilleen7372
      @aidankilleen7372 Před 2 lety +64

      @@airplanes_aren.t_real pretty much, yeah. You'd just be turning and not really sliding.

    • @BurnZKc
      @BurnZKc Před 2 lety +5

      @@aidankilleen7372 so like drifting?

  • @GhostandChromis
    @GhostandChromis Před 2 lety +37

    You know your work is iconic when animators across the globe pay tribute to you.

  • @Werewolf_Swordsman.Nickel

    Tire shop owner : 🙂
    Road officials : ☹️
    feet : 🦶🔥😂

  • @thijsdeboer389
    @thijsdeboer389 Před 2 lety +63

    some people are wondering why everyone in 2019 referenced Akira
    Akira took place in Neo-Tokyo in the distopian version of 2019 so that's probably why

  • @AWormsPurpose
    @AWormsPurpose Před 2 lety +35

    It's so common I never even realized Akira was the first to do it

  • @Jor-On
    @Jor-On Před rokem +70

    And Akira still has the best one lol

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +24

      That’s because their just homages, not actually trying to surpass the original at all.

    • @rd101
      @rd101 Před rokem

      You can’t beat the original

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +5

      @@rd101 As I said, they’re not actually trying to surpass the original at all, their just homages.

  • @Shouyin
    @Shouyin Před rokem +27

    I like how this video just gave me a list of shows to watch

  • @ConMag-Fhionnghaile
    @ConMag-Fhionnghaile Před 2 lety +218

    I'm sure Cowboy Bebop had a similar homage somewhere just not with bikes. And I think some of the homages aren't to Akira, but inspired by homages to it.

    • @coleszero-one4750
      @coleszero-one4750 Před 2 lety +61

      It's a chain effect
      Akira does it
      Some anime/cartoon reference it
      Some anime/cartoon reference the anime/cartoon that referenced Akira
      And so on, the chain never ends, and farther we forget who did it first. Not only Akira, but other things in the world made the same chain effect. Still, it's good for people to search for the original material and understand more about our culture

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před 2 lety +12

      Akira is pretty massively famous as a piece of animation and so is this bike slide is hard to believe that any animators wouldn’t have recognized where this slide was originating from.

    • @leaffinite2001
      @leaffinite2001 Před 2 lety +4

      I mean its not that strange a thing anyway, so its definitely the sort of thing you might copy from somewhere else not even as a reference but just bcuz its cool

  • @nateborie6329
    @nateborie6329 Před 2 lety +164

    How much spare time do you have to be able to track thirty years of influence from one single moment in on single anime film? That’s fucking insane!

    • @mare5786
      @mare5786 Před 2 lety +2

      exactly LOL

    • @feIon
      @feIon Před 2 lety +2

      social media

    • @chrometheus1789
      @chrometheus1789 Před 2 lety +2

      Gotta be some weirdo obsession, with all due respect of course

    • @bathroomshy
      @bathroomshy Před 2 lety +8

      @@chrometheus1789 I'm sure there are lists online compiled by several people, he probably just used one of those

    • @Boufonamong
      @Boufonamong Před 2 lety +3

      You heard of the internet?

  • @xaf15001
    @xaf15001 Před měsícem +21

    The spiderman was funny as hell. The riders just gone, it threw me for a loop

  • @JP-1990
    @JP-1990 Před 7 měsíci +27

    Animators around the world be like,
    "Include me in the screencap!"

  • @ipnade
    @ipnade Před 2 lety +25

    Watching so many of these in a row without context starts to get surreal

  • @christianjuarez9179
    @christianjuarez9179 Před rokem +193

    Jordan Peale’s “Nope” had an Akira slide in it

    • @Kotake10
      @Kotake10 Před rokem +3

      Yeah. Came here right after watching it

  • @monsterfanatic5344
    @monsterfanatic5344 Před 13 dny +29

    Somebody should do a version of this where it's a single frame from every clip.

  • @YouthfulCrusader
    @YouthfulCrusader Před 10 měsíci +23

    I dont know about yall, but hats off to the dudes who performed that on a regular bicycle ! 👏👏👏👏

  • @spityergumout
    @spityergumout Před 2 lety +59

    Anyone else watch NOPE and hyped to see them reference this?

    • @thegugster
      @thegugster Před 2 lety +14

      just saw it last night haha. last thing i expected to see in that movie

    • @Shockhalo887
      @Shockhalo887 Před 2 lety +3

      Favorite part of the movie fr

    • @holyhandgrenade3
      @holyhandgrenade3 Před 2 lety +3

      Didn't expect it at all.

    • @Ironbat92
      @Ironbat92 Před 2 lety +3

      Oh, now I’m going to go see it Tuesday.

  • @The_Ronster_Drawz
    @The_Ronster_Drawz Před 2 lety +38

    Who would’ve thought a simple bike slide would be so iconic

  • @ethanhobbs7278
    @ethanhobbs7278 Před rokem +50

    At some point this stops being a homage to akira and just becomes it’s own thing

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +7

      maybe, but I'm sure MOST people working in the animation industry KNOW it's from akira as it's not something hard to look up at all and Akira is a massively popular movie worldwide and especially towards the animation industry.

  • @ProfessorHeavy1
    @ProfessorHeavy1 Před rokem +11

    You can tell its a faithful reference when they immediately right themselves from the sliding position.

  • @tomatooverlord2764
    @tomatooverlord2764 Před 2 lety +52

    And yet somehow Ready Player One, despite *HAVING* the bike from Akira in the race scene, didn't do it.

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 Před 2 lety +11

      That is the equivalent of having the holy hand grande in hand and NOT shouting 1, 2, 5 before shooting it
      Which they also did

    • @kjj26k
      @kjj26k Před 2 lety +9

      @@matheussanthiago9685
      It's almost like that film just used nostalgic iconography to lure people in and didn't actually have any real love for the stories depicted.

    • @henrynelson9301
      @henrynelson9301 Před 2 lety +2

      @@kjj26k and also it was just a lame film

  • @TheGililgi
    @TheGililgi Před 2 lety +42

    I almost lost it when I was watching NOPE. Only because Jordan Peele was offered the chance to adapt the legendary Anime and turned it down to focus on OG content…atleast we know he can probably pull it off.

  • @darbythegamer5152
    @darbythegamer5152 Před 6 měsíci +15

    I don't understand how a 3 second clip became so iconic. But its absolutely amazing

  • @InTheEnd75
    @InTheEnd75 Před měsícem +37

    It’s not animated, but Jordan Peele’s NOPE did it as well

  • @MarkusAxunIllianus
    @MarkusAxunIllianus Před 2 lety +54

    Many homages, yes. But I wont let all of them slide.

    • @lyr1kn156
      @lyr1kn156 Před 2 lety +11

      This is both a nice pun and a good observation, some of these are just not an homage.

    • @femto7579
      @femto7579 Před 2 lety

      @@lyr1kn156 which ones aren’t an homage. and if they aren’t why would they use the same perspective? but weird to use a slide and the same perspective and the same dust from the slide.

    • @lyr1kn156
      @lyr1kn156 Před 2 lety +4

      @@femto7579 Bungou Stray Dogs seems more like a standard motorbike action skid, not even same perspective. Lego Marvel one is a stretch. Luca as well just strikes me as a normal skid, not the right perspective either. I could be completely wrong on all of these, but just my opinion.

  • @zicon4
    @zicon4 Před 2 lety +31

    Absolutely nuts that I watched this and then went and watched NOPE, which literally has this

  • @mhead1117
    @mhead1117 Před 11 měsíci +21

    I like to imagine yugioh introduced the motorcycles just for this reason.

  • @musstakrakish
    @musstakrakish Před měsícem +27

    The horse slide 😭

    • @sophiezhang2485
      @sophiezhang2485 Před měsícem +1

      If I had a penny for every time I saw a horse slide...

  • @cantirk3146
    @cantirk3146 Před rokem +42

    So many shows reference it that every time I see a motorcycle I go "Alright where's the mandatory Akira reference" and 9 outta 10 times it happens

  • @underwater1997
    @underwater1997 Před 2 lety +65

    There was also one in The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy in the episode where Billy turns into a Kaiju and Mandy comes sliding in on her bike to stop him

  • @luxythefool9401
    @luxythefool9401 Před rokem +47

    Honestly with how often it's been referenced, I wonder how many people even know it from akira. Like, how many people have seen this referenced, then referenced that reference themselves, without seeing the movie.

    • @patriciofigueroa7159
      @patriciofigueroa7159 Před rokem +7

      Son animadores profesionales, deben saber de Akira. Es hasta referencia para muchos.

    • @gamingelementalist6725
      @gamingelementalist6725 Před rokem +7

      Regular people, probably a lot. Industry professionals, almost certainly know the origins.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +6

      I'm sure MOST people working in the animation industry KNOW it's from akira as it's not something hard to look up at all and Akira is a massively popular movie worldwide and especially towards the animation industry.

  • @syaieya
    @syaieya Před měsícem +23

    +1 if there's sparks, -1 if you dont have atleast 3 points of contact hitting the ground

  • @jcgongavoe337
    @jcgongavoe337 Před 2 lety +35

    I found that Akria's camera focus is actually on the road after the first few frames, showing performance of the bike; the others are constantly on face expressions, interesting

  • @sillyfella2009
    @sillyfella2009 Před rokem +63

    Akira is probably the most referenced and homaged anime of all time

  • @chrismaystar3014
    @chrismaystar3014 Před rokem +27

    It's kinda funny that the first Akira Slide reference was Batman.
    I dunno, just feels like the weirdest start to this trend.

    • @vaultmiku1535
      @vaultmiku1535 Před rokem +1

      BTAS is one of the most influential cartoons out there

    • @bigtstyle123
      @bigtstyle123 Před rokem

      They used it a year Later in Angel Cop another anime. The first episode

    • @atreyuhibiki8638
      @atreyuhibiki8638 Před rokem +3

      That's because that episode of B:TAS was animated by Spectrum Animation, made of animators who previously worked at TMS - the studio that made Akira!

  • @Bedinsis
    @Bedinsis Před měsícem +11

    Thinking about what makes the slide cool, I think it's a matter of how much in control the protagonist appears in a dangerous situation. The screeching wheels and amount of dust kicked up illustrates that there is a lot of power in the motorcycle, meanwhile the rider is able to ignore that and instead perform a break that I have never seen done in real life (I don't know if it is even possible), commanding the motorcycle with the sole of his foot and paying direct attention to the viewer.
    It's the equivalent to a hero in an action movie looking at the camera while an explosion happens behind him.

    • @violetvalentine999
      @violetvalentine999 Před měsícem

      this is such an insightful analysis! the slide is a very powerful visual image that commands reverence for the rider, & it's very interesting to think about how that works. thank you so much for this comment!

  • @mariomonnnn
    @mariomonnnn Před 2 lety +34

    The fact that in one year all those movies and TV shows referenced the same clip is so fascinating...

    • @thijsdeboer389
      @thijsdeboer389 Před 2 lety +6

      Akira took place in 2019 so that's probably why

  • @peytonalexander5300
    @peytonalexander5300 Před 2 lety +80

    I love how the first to popularize copying the Akira slide was Batman: The Animated Series of all things.

    • @CarbyGuuGuu
      @CarbyGuuGuu Před rokem

      The studio behind Akira, TMS Entertainment, co-animated Batman TAS.

  • @gc3k
    @gc3k Před 4 měsíci +20

    Everybody was Akira Sliding
    Reflexes were fast as lightning

    • @calicobagels
      @calicobagels Před měsícem

      I'm fcking dying, this is genius 😭

  • @connerhastings7006
    @connerhastings7006 Před 4 měsíci +32

    Akira bike drifts is easily my favorite gender

  • @fascinationproductions5973

    There's a new Akira slide reference on the movie NOPE 2022 and that was also super cool too!

  • @22doubleU
    @22doubleU Před 2 lety +61

    0:25 that was a smooth transition

  • @nsiderultimaseth
    @nsiderultimaseth Před rokem +18

    I love that some of these clips are from shows for very young children. "You know what this show for six year-olds needs? A reference to an R-rated film full of blood, gore, sexual violence and drugs."

    • @wickederebus
      @wickederebus Před rokem +8

      That's for the bored parents to remember their youth.

    • @MythicFox
      @MythicFox Před rokem +3

      There's an episode of iCarly where they use paintball guns to recreate a scene from The Wire where a character gets executed.

    • @Horsey45
      @Horsey45 Před 6 měsíci

      @@MythicFox💀

  • @saintdane7336
    @saintdane7336 Před rokem +93

    NOPE having an IRL Akira slide scene was amazing 😂

  • @nightmarishcompositions4536

    Akira inspired badass bike slides like Berserk inspired awesome edgy dudes with giant swords.

    • @Easy420skate
      @Easy420skate Před 2 lety +1

      yeah because knights with giant swords werent already badass from the years upon years of literature you havent read

    • @Steven-xz5xt
      @Steven-xz5xt Před 2 lety +13

      @@Easy420skate probably meant like, the guys with ridiculously sized swords and Issues that are even worse.

    • @alexandergonzalez3740
      @alexandergonzalez3740 Před 2 lety +11

      @@Easy420skateHe’s talking about massively oversized swords that would be impossible to use realistically 🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️🤦🏿‍♂️

    • @JonesCrimson
      @JonesCrimson Před 2 lety +3

      @@Easy420skate I think you're missing the point: they didn't inspire those things at all. It's just one of many.

    • @apzn1170
      @apzn1170 Před 2 lety +3

      @@Easy420skate gimme an example of one of those characters that is as influential as Berserk's Guts in the last few decades.

  • @lilstjimmy
    @lilstjimmy Před 2 lety +47

    The wilhelm scream of animation

    • @shrimpkraken
      @shrimpkraken Před 2 lety +4

      Why would you say something so controversial yet so brave?

  • @harry.t9523
    @harry.t9523 Před 7 měsíci +17

    It’s the lost 3D Render Challenge. The “Akira Slide” challenge. 30 years worth of hard work.

  • @wehttam_1
    @wehttam_1 Před rokem +11

    I’m just imagining there was one guy in the studios of all these movies who just said “hey we should do the Akira thing”

  • @Brndnerickson
    @Brndnerickson Před 2 lety +77

    Its crazy that even after all these years the best looking one is still from Akira.

  • @GoblinSlayer123
    @GoblinSlayer123 Před 2 lety +112

    I think at some point it stops becoming an homage and it's just a trope to do with bikes. Like we're at the point where half of the animators who showed up here didn't know what the Akira slide was when they made their scene, they just knew it was a bike slide trope

    • @jordanlaquey5325
      @jordanlaquey5325 Před 2 lety +21

      no, the framing of the camera is incredibly intentional

    • @Native_Creation
      @Native_Creation Před 2 lety +33

      If animators nowadays know about 1920s Mickey Mouse animation, they probably know the impact Akira had. It's not some obscure anime, it literally introduced the U.S. to Japanimation (anime) in the 90s. There are plenty of copycat artists out there, but that still makes it an homage whether it's conscious or not.

    • @GoblinSlayer123
      @GoblinSlayer123 Před 2 lety +8

      @@Native_Creation not a good example. Disney pioneered animation, and is still the head of animation. Of course animators know about what they do. Akira wasn't iconic for its animation, and that's not what it's creatirs were known for. The bike slide is an iconic yeah but super simple idea to do with a bike scene. And when some of these animators might not have even been born for it, they could have done it simply because they've seen it used before or even came up with the ideas themselves, because again it's not too hard to think up

    • @neolink8197
      @neolink8197 Před 2 lety +3

      I agree, at this point it's become so uniquitous people dont even know where it came from originallynprobably

    • @julillmendoza6760
      @julillmendoza6760 Před 2 lety +10

      Bruh
      It's totally on purpose
      Idk if you study animation but i guess not
      Because if you did you should've known how IMMENSELY popular Akira is in the animator's community

  • @michaelsarmento3933
    @michaelsarmento3933 Před 2 měsíci +11

    I never realized that Clone Wars 2003 did the Akira Slide until i saw this video

  • @silverchariot1579
    @silverchariot1579 Před rokem +50

    LEAVE ME ALONE
    *DING* "AKIRA"
    AHHHHHHHHHHH

  • @floridaman7243
    @floridaman7243 Před 2 lety +48

    “If I had a nickel every time someone did the Akira slide on a horse I’d have two nickels. Which isn’t a lot but it’s weird that it happened twice”

    • @unicornsrdabest
      @unicornsrdabest Před 2 lety

      If I had a nickel for every single time this shitty overused quote had been used, I'd use it then to end all life on earth.

    • @BirdRaiserE
      @BirdRaiserE Před 2 lety +11

      That's still somehow equal to the amount of times somebody has done it but with a wolf, which is even weirder because humans don't actually ride those.

  • @Asexual_Individual
    @Asexual_Individual Před rokem +59

    This had basically become the animated version of the Wilhelm Scream for me, so instantly recognisable that it takes me out of the scene to point and say "hey, that's the thing".

  • @alexios4512
    @alexios4512 Před rokem +27

    Bro, the slide from NOPE is sick

  • @Solgob
    @Solgob Před rokem +46

    and Akira’s is still the best one. Damn.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Před rokem +2

      Of course, there are just meant to be homages/references to the original scene, not trying to surpass but just make a callout.

  • @lordpoob
    @lordpoob Před 2 lety +44

    it's like the wilhelm scream of vehicle skids