Three Decades of Akira Slide Homages

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  • @wellyep790
    @wellyep790 2 роки тому +2226

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

  • @Pepepipipopo
    @Pepepipipopo 3 роки тому +13637

    The akira Slide on a horse is so hilarious.

    • @miguel.manojaya
      @miguel.manojaya 3 роки тому +337

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

    • @Kitty_Cosmic
      @Kitty_Cosmic 2 роки тому +33

      @@miguel.manojaya are you serious?

    • @ixoylion.6031
      @ixoylion.6031 2 роки тому +35

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

    • @miguel.manojaya
      @miguel.manojaya 2 роки тому +113

      @@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 2 роки тому +14

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

  • @lordgrave57
    @lordgrave57 2 роки тому +1066

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

    • @mightyfist10
      @mightyfist10 2 роки тому +49

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

    • @zacksmith5963
      @zacksmith5963 2 роки тому +7

      Fun fact . Matrix copied anime

    • @johnmartinez7440
      @johnmartinez7440 2 роки тому +27

      @@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 2 роки тому +11

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

    • @cloudbusting_
      @cloudbusting_ Рік тому

      Akira influenced the bullet time effects in The Matrix as well

  • @ThorDude
    @ThorDude Рік тому +433

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

  • @TheGreatCalsby
    @TheGreatCalsby Рік тому +538

    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

  • @tukkek
    @tukkek 3 роки тому +2023

    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!

    • @heat.death_999
      @heat.death_999 3 роки тому +59

      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 2 роки тому +11

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

    • @justadude1477
      @justadude1477 2 роки тому

      The movie “nope” also had a motorcycle scene

    • @justadude1477
      @justadude1477 2 роки тому +1

      The movie “nope” also has a motorcycle scene!

    • @xLordOfNothingx
      @xLordOfNothingx 2 роки тому +1

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

  • @Monody512
    @Monody512 2 роки тому +960

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

    • @utkarsh2746
      @utkarsh2746 2 роки тому +192

      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 2 роки тому +67

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

    • @asimovoftrantor6838
      @asimovoftrantor6838 2 роки тому +4

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

    • @Monody512
      @Monody512 2 роки тому +13

      @@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 2 роки тому +4

      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

  • @deoxys3869
    @deoxys3869 2 місяці тому +67

    It’s amazing how a 2 second scene can become one of the most referenced bits in the animation medium

    • @aced3657
      @aced3657 2 місяці тому +5

      its not everyday u see a bike brake drifting on its side while the protagonist using his stern left leg to balance such a heavy thing, on praticality its dangerous, on fiction its epic af

    • @SupremeSR
      @SupremeSR 2 місяці тому +3

      Anyone here from the Sonic Movie 3 trailer?

    • @danalynch118
      @danalynch118 2 місяці тому +1

      @@SupremeSR Me frfr

    • @Skeletal-Dude
      @Skeletal-Dude Місяць тому

      @@danalynch118fr fr

  • @mauriceisaac3646
    @mauriceisaac3646 3 роки тому +9146

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

    • @vegamonado7562
      @vegamonado7562 2 роки тому +1135

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

    • @takyON207
      @takyON207 2 роки тому +29

      @@shushukzh ua-cam.com/video/eEPXdtGw2kE/v-deo.html

    • @shroomer8294
      @shroomer8294 2 роки тому +317

      Pretty sure the Paw Patrol people are weebs

    • @matteodandreta161
      @matteodandreta161 2 роки тому +184

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

    • @the3littlefairys
      @the3littlefairys 2 роки тому +3

      Iykyk

  • @jampie66
    @jampie66 2 роки тому +310

    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

  • @maggiem6209
    @maggiem6209 2 роки тому +384

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

  • @MrN00dle51
    @MrN00dle51 9 місяців тому +204

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

    • @Ummmmm12712
      @Ummmmm12712 2 місяці тому

      Is that true?

    • @Beemiix
      @Beemiix 2 місяці тому +3

      @@Ummmmm12712 100%

  • @kadeshaderow
    @kadeshaderow 2 роки тому +600

    Can't believe Batman did the first Akira homage

    • @SaadNabil
      @SaadNabil 2 роки тому +7

      So cool!

    • @SuperMilhinho
      @SuperMilhinho Рік тому +52

      And the only with the shock

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Рік тому +17

      did it really? Or was anything else made earlier?

    • @hifurcatfood
      @hifurcatfood Рік тому +23

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

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Рік тому +9

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

  • @0knothing443
    @0knothing443 2 роки тому +1974

    And after 34 years Akira still being the smoothest one

    • @riffrucar6416
      @riffrucar6416 2 роки тому +170

      Can't improve upon perfection

    • @atomic_bomba
      @atomic_bomba 2 роки тому +93

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

    • @snowhunter7536
      @snowhunter7536 2 роки тому +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 Рік тому +11

      Idk I think NMH 3 was pretty close

    • @hhoop3876
      @hhoop3876 Рік тому +8

      @@atomic_bomba Not to add a movie budget too

  • @icyjon923
    @icyjon923 2 роки тому +652

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

    • @SinOfPride
      @SinOfPride 2 роки тому +7

      That's what I'm saying!!

    • @venomase5572
      @venomase5572 2 роки тому +38

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

    • @seen.3
      @seen.3 2 роки тому +2

      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.

    • @JazziG59
      @JazziG59 2 роки тому +7

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

    • @asimovoftrantor6838
      @asimovoftrantor6838 2 роки тому +4

      @@JazziG59 Denis Villeneuve? Though he's likely got his hands full with Dune for a while, especially if he plans to adapt Dune Messiah.

  • @justjulia1720
    @justjulia1720 8 місяців тому +108

    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 8 місяців тому +5

      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 5 місяців тому +1

      Katsuhiro Ōtomo Distinctive, Atmospheric, and Grandiose Director

  • @TimboTheWizard
    @TimboTheWizard 2 роки тому +239

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

  • @ZeroStrife45
    @ZeroStrife45 2 роки тому +603

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

    • @Oscar4u69
      @Oscar4u69 2 роки тому +35

      the last show I expected to see this

    • @ZeroStrife45
      @ZeroStrife45 2 роки тому +14

      @@Oscar4u69 right

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube 2 роки тому +1

      @@piccolo54trunks2 it's not true you dingleberry

  • @aidankilleen7372
    @aidankilleen7372 2 роки тому +1090

    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 2 роки тому +18

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

    • @aidankilleen7372
      @aidankilleen7372 2 роки тому +160

      @@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 2 роки тому +7

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

    • @aidankilleen7372
      @aidankilleen7372 2 роки тому +69

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

    • @BurnZKc
      @BurnZKc 2 роки тому +8

      @@aidankilleen7372 so like drifting?

  • @ajzeg01
    @ajzeg01 4 місяці тому +48

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

    • @jwanha665
      @jwanha665 4 місяці тому +3

      A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE NOT SEEN AKIRA

    • @OKAND69420
      @OKAND69420 4 місяці тому

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

  • @IJNAoba9-25-26
    @IJNAoba9-25-26 2 роки тому +203

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

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +13

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

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube 2 роки тому

      @@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 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube 2 роки тому

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

  • @lucaswilliams2292
    @lucaswilliams2292 2 роки тому +215

    1:05 one of the most creative slides imo

  • @mistamemewide
    @mistamemewide 2 роки тому +107

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

    • @adonailr9667
      @adonailr9667 2 роки тому +7

      Tbh is the best one

    • @piscessoedroen
      @piscessoedroen 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +6

      Thank you.

    • @azekia
      @azekia 2 роки тому

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

  • @jwood9798
    @jwood9798 Місяць тому +39

    I had no idea this was a thing until now. It's really cool to see the same move across so many different genres and shows.

  • @flukefantasy
    @flukefantasy 2 роки тому +89

    The Akira slide is the Wilhelm scream of animation

  • @Niiwastaken
    @Niiwastaken 2 роки тому +210

    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 2 роки тому +44

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

    • @ekkys04
      @ekkys04 2 роки тому +11

      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 2 роки тому

      @@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 2 роки тому +44

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

  • @multiverse_media2023
    @multiverse_media2023 2 місяці тому +24

    And now Shadow did it. It’s official, this slide is a canon event.

  • @jakejohnson718
    @jakejohnson718 2 роки тому +66

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

  • @SimpleSlave
    @SimpleSlave 2 роки тому +198

    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 2 роки тому +22

      Subjective

    • @allloren7277
      @allloren7277 2 роки тому +3

      @Purple default pfp Nahh

    • @spicyramengaming8465
      @spicyramengaming8465 2 роки тому +20

      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 2 роки тому +3

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

    • @SimpleSlave
      @SimpleSlave 2 роки тому +1

      @@allloren7277 Yahh

  • @nateborie6329
    @nateborie6329 2 роки тому +167

    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 2 роки тому +2

      exactly LOL

    • @feIon
      @feIon 2 роки тому +2

      social media

    • @Kissqueenx
      @Kissqueenx 2 роки тому +2

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

    • @bathroomshy
      @bathroomshy 2 роки тому +8

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

    • @Boufonamong
      @Boufonamong 2 роки тому +3

      You heard of the internet?

  • @Kola25_97
    @Kola25_97 4 місяці тому +36

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

  • @ConMag-Fhionnghaile
    @ConMag-Fhionnghaile 2 роки тому +220

    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 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +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

  • @christianjuarez9179
    @christianjuarez9179 2 роки тому +193

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

    • @Kotake10
      @Kotake10 2 роки тому +3

      Yeah. Came here right after watching it

  • @GhostandChromis
    @GhostandChromis 2 роки тому +38

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

  • @ZachX888
    @ZachX888 10 місяців тому +53

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

  • @GreyWolfLeaderTW
    @GreyWolfLeaderTW 2 роки тому +70

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

  • @peytonalexander5300
    @peytonalexander5300 2 роки тому +85

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

    • @CarbyGuuGuu
      @CarbyGuuGuu 2 роки тому +2

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

  • @AWormsPurpose
    @AWormsPurpose 2 роки тому +37

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

  • @SuperRookie117
    @SuperRookie117 Рік тому +54

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

    • @The_Isaiahnator
      @The_Isaiahnator Рік тому

      Just came here to see if it was included. 😂

  • @thijsdeboer389
    @thijsdeboer389 2 роки тому +66

    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

  • @The_Ronster_Drawz
    @The_Ronster_Drawz 2 роки тому +40

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

  • @ipnade
    @ipnade 2 роки тому +27

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

  • @GodOfTables
    @GodOfTables 2 місяці тому +15

    The single most iconic and coolest thing you can do with a motorcycle

  • @leoaso6984
    @leoaso6984 2 роки тому +121

    0:56 lmao how do you drift a HORSE??!!

    • @user-uu9ru3de1y
      @user-uu9ru3de1y 2 роки тому +5

      Centaurworld is how!

    • @AnekoF90
      @AnekoF90 2 місяці тому +1

      You know that's not a drift, right?

  • @jcgongavoe337
    @jcgongavoe337 2 роки тому +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

  • @Brndnerickson
    @Brndnerickson 2 роки тому +77

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

    • @TheCaliforniaHP
      @TheCaliforniaHP 2 роки тому +3

      That part. It's truly the best

    • @cherno8336
      @cherno8336 2 роки тому +6

      not really

    • @chidaluokoro9104
      @chidaluokoro9104 2 роки тому +2

      Lol no

    • @yvngyagami
      @yvngyagami 2 роки тому +6

      @@cherno8336 The animation on Akira still shits on most today. Don't say bs if you aint gonna give examples..

    • @WindyWooshes
      @WindyWooshes 2 роки тому +4

      yes, the fluidity is awesome

  • @Space_Prince
    @Space_Prince 3 місяці тому +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.

  • @mariomonnnn
    @mariomonnnn 2 роки тому +34

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

    • @thijsdeboer389
      @thijsdeboer389 2 роки тому +6

      Akira took place in 2019 so that's probably why

  • @underwater1997
    @underwater1997 2 роки тому +64

    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

    • @AsbestosMuffins
      @AsbestosMuffins 2 роки тому +7

      basically the entire episode about akira

  • @grayweaseltink
    @grayweaseltink 2 роки тому +56

    it's crazy to think that Akira Slide was the best animated one considering how old it was

    • @Lugbzurg
      @Lugbzurg 2 роки тому +5

      Well, it was a movie. Most of these are shows.

    • @kjj26k
      @kjj26k 2 роки тому +1

      People are so quick to forget just how much money and time and talent _Akira_ behind it.

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen 2 роки тому

      Well all the other ones aren't trying to out do it, they're JUST trying to pay homage and that's it.

  • @TheLegend1800
    @TheLegend1800 4 місяці тому +32

    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.

  • @cantirk3146
    @cantirk3146 2 роки тому +43

    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

  • @sillyfella2009
    @sillyfella2009 Рік тому +64

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

    • @meee_5155
      @meee_5155 4 місяці тому +1

      Sailor moon.

  • @spityergumout
    @spityergumout 2 роки тому +60

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

    • @thegugster
      @thegugster 2 роки тому +14

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

    • @twigs10000
      @twigs10000 2 роки тому +3

      Favorite part of the movie fr

    • @holyhandgrenade3
      @holyhandgrenade3 2 роки тому +3

      Didn't expect it at all.

    • @Ironbat92
      @Ironbat92 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @HappyGingerWolf
    @HappyGingerWolf 4 місяці тому +24

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

  • @logonontrily4161
    @logonontrily4161 2 роки тому +54

    I can't believe Akira invented sliding sideways away from the screen unreasonable distance while looking towards the camera.

    • @chidaluokoro9104
      @chidaluokoro9104 2 роки тому +9

      It didn't it made it popular

    • @femto7579
      @femto7579 2 роки тому +18

      find a animation that did that exact same slide before Akira

    • @SuperDuperSigmaMale
      @SuperDuperSigmaMale 2 роки тому +1

      I can.

    • @jacquestube
      @jacquestube 2 роки тому +1

      @@femto7579 so you think that somebody does something first everyone who ever does it then on is copying it

    • @LuigiGamesful
      @LuigiGamesful 2 роки тому

      @@jacquestube What? He didn't say that at all

  • @MarkusAxunIllianus
    @MarkusAxunIllianus 2 роки тому +54

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

    • @lyr1kn156
      @lyr1kn156 2 роки тому +11

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

    • @femto7579
      @femto7579 2 роки тому

      @@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 2 роки тому +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.

  • @TheGililgi
    @TheGililgi 2 роки тому +43

    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.

  • @najmilfaizalnoorifaiz5689
    @najmilfaizalnoorifaiz5689 2 місяці тому +22

    And now shadow from sonic movie 3 is joining the reference.

  • @theoreticalphysics3644
    @theoreticalphysics3644 3 роки тому +44

    I'm getting the vibe that this is to the drawing and animation community as "the lick" is to the music community.

  • @Dramarys-k1e
    @Dramarys-k1e 2 роки тому +81

    Seeing the Akira slide in Nope made me so happy. I literally yelled it out when I saw it in theaters.

    • @06823834italia
      @06823834italia 2 роки тому +3

      Lol. I let out chuckled and the person I was with had to ask what I thought was so funny.

    • @loregasm99
      @loregasm99 2 роки тому +2

      Y’all r so lame lmao

    • @loregasm99
      @loregasm99 2 роки тому +2

      90% of the creators of this prob had no idea what Akira was

    • @Dramarys-k1e
      @Dramarys-k1e 2 роки тому +4

      @@loregasm99 (Unfortunately) true, but Jordan did when he made Nope

    • @yvngyagami
      @yvngyagami 2 роки тому

      @@loregasm99 Nigga you is the lame one, who asked? How tf you know, you friends with Jordan Peele 💀

  • @eliotharrell6061
    @eliotharrell6061 2 роки тому +28

    Love that while most of these are on motorcycles, there’s the occasional one on like a horse or a cat or some shit

  • @SonicFanHedgehog_YT
    @SonicFanHedgehog_YT 2 місяці тому +32

    Now it’s Shadow’s turn.

  • @zicon4
    @zicon4 2 роки тому +31

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

  • @GoblinSlayer123
    @GoblinSlayer123 2 роки тому +113

    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 2 роки тому +21

      no, the framing of the camera is incredibly intentional

    • @Native_Creation
      @Native_Creation 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +3

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

    • @julillmendoza6760
      @julillmendoza6760 2 роки тому +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

  • @fascinationproductions5973
    @fascinationproductions5973 2 роки тому +49

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

  • @RoxaIf
    @RoxaIf 10 місяців тому +62

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

    • @marcofiume3921
      @marcofiume3921 10 місяців тому +9

      The original is absolutely crazy, even today

    • @mechadeka
      @mechadeka 10 місяців тому +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 9 місяців тому

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

  • @nightmarishcompositions4536
    @nightmarishcompositions4536 2 роки тому +58

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

    • @Easy420skate
      @Easy420skate 2 роки тому +1

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

    • @Steven-xz5xt
      @Steven-xz5xt 2 роки тому +13

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

    • @alexandergonzalez3740
      @alexandergonzalez3740 2 роки тому +11

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

    • @JonesCrimson
      @JonesCrimson 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому +3

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

  • @LeoZhao01
    @LeoZhao01 2 роки тому +29

    At this point, you could put the entirety of the Yu-Gi-Oh 5D's anime as a homage, it's card games on motorcycles

  • @jeffm7007
    @jeffm7007 2 роки тому +34

    Yu-Gi-Oh legit just did this every time they had a character with a motorcycle.

  • @lofihour2506
    @lofihour2506 Рік тому +31

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

  • @ESunshine24
    @ESunshine24 2 роки тому +36

    And Jordan Peele also put a slide in his NOPE movie

  • @fwsimon110
    @fwsimon110 Рік тому +55

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

    • @durpcity7420
      @durpcity7420 Рік тому +1

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

  • @Nk3ATR
    @Nk3ATR 2 роки тому +44

    Funny how the Akira Slide basically became the Wilhem Scream of animation

  • @SomeYouTubeTraveler
    @SomeYouTubeTraveler Місяць тому +12

    Me: "It'll prolly just be a bunch of animes I've never heard of."
    _immediately starts with my favorite show as a kid_

  • @22doubleU
    @22doubleU 2 роки тому +70

    0:25 that was a smooth transition

  • @tomatooverlord2764
    @tomatooverlord2764 2 роки тому +54

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

    • @matheussanthiago9685
      @matheussanthiago9685 2 роки тому +12

      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 2 роки тому +11

      @@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 2 роки тому +3

      @@kjj26k and also it was just a lame film

  • @silvesta5027
    @silvesta5027 2 роки тому +24

    It’s crazy like a 1/3 of this video is just 2019-21

    • @channelwithout
      @channelwithout 2 роки тому +3

      Nostalgia bait has become pretty big as of late.

  • @Simian-bz7zo
    @Simian-bz7zo Рік тому +32

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

  • @JoutaiSasuLover
    @JoutaiSasuLover Рік тому +54

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

  • @ReconnaissanceLime
    @ReconnaissanceLime 2 роки тому +66

    They did this slide in the new “Nope” movie
    Glad to see it’s still going strong

  • @floridaman7243
    @floridaman7243 2 роки тому +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 2 роки тому

      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 2 роки тому +10

      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.

  • @Shadowpill1
    @Shadowpill1 10 місяців тому +37

    This is the Wilhelm scream for the animation genre

  • @NeonTiff
    @NeonTiff 2 роки тому +29

    Now Nope can be added to this list. Keke Palmer did it so cool

  • @londonjackson8986
    @londonjackson8986 5 місяців тому +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...

  • @shortyyazzie
    @shortyyazzie Рік тому +36

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

  • @denimpowell
    @denimpowell Місяць тому +11

    It's very satisfying how they're almost universally facing left

  • @ItsPitz_
    @ItsPitz_ 28 днів тому +30

    0:01 I didn't know there was an akira reference in akira

  • @Kalebfenoir
    @Kalebfenoir 2 роки тому +23

    I love how for TTGL, its literally just Yoko. No bike, no scooter, no horse, no vehicle... just her.

    • @brucebanner52
      @brucebanner52 2 роки тому

      That's what makes it shit: no vehicle, no justification for the movement. Humans don't slide like that. Great anime, bad homage.

    • @Kalebfenoir
      @Kalebfenoir 2 роки тому +1

      @@brucebanner52 to be honest I don't think that one in particular was an homage to Akira slide. I think that was just a generic Superhero Entrance Slide like you'd see in other Shonen anime or something like a Marvel movie.

  • @ajdz1840
    @ajdz1840 2 роки тому +32

    It’s definitely an animator in-joke. Look at how many times the foot does a burnout. And the frequency is showing exponential growth as if they’re all knowingly winking to each other 😉

  • @InTheEnd75
    @InTheEnd75 4 місяці тому +36

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

    • @InTheEnd75
      @InTheEnd75 4 місяці тому +1

      @PAPicturesOfficial that he did

  • @Hobbs783
    @Hobbs783 Рік тому +50

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

    • @Gadget-Walkmen
      @Gadget-Walkmen Рік тому +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.

  • @TB-1927
    @TB-1927 2 місяці тому +37

    And just recently Shadow in Sonic 3

  • @pyit.876
    @pyit.876 2 роки тому +74

    N.O.P.E had a very cool akira slide shot. First live-action one I've ever seen

    • @Knifykat
      @Knifykat 2 роки тому +9

      Just watched that movie, was awesome overall, went straight from the movie to this compilation cause of that scene lmao

  • @sai-tc7wv
    @sai-tc7wv 2 місяці тому +11

    i love how many people are coming back to this thanks to shadow

  • @JetSetWave
    @JetSetWave 2 роки тому +26

    How to do a Akira Slide :
    Step 1 : Mode of Transportation (Cycle, Bike, Legs, Etc.)
    Step 2 : Camera Shot showing the side of the vehicle and/or person
    Step 3 : At least 3 Smoke/Streaks of rubble
    Step 4 :

  • @beefboy8812
    @beefboy8812 2 роки тому +26

    I love how a lot of these are actually western animation, just goes to show how iconic Akira is all around the globe

  • @GabeWilliams
    @GabeWilliams 2 роки тому +28

    It’s like the animated version of the Wilhelm scream

  • @fragglyone7607
    @fragglyone7607 Місяць тому +22

    After the Sonic the Hedgehog 3 trailer, you're going to have to update this for Shadow!