Three Decades of Akira Slide Homages
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 29 มิ.ย. 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 - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
Animators saw Akira (1988) and said "That slide was the sickest shit I've ever seen." And they were right.
Damn they surely were
Hey watch your bad word you know the s word and i'm just saying
And yes that slide scene is awesome and a masterpiece
@@joaquinvaleri7022you must be a kid, you’ll get used to it
@@havocadvent2 i'm not a kid
The akira Slide on a horse is so hilarious.
Yea.. I had recently saw that and laught a lot ahauah and now i saw this coment and laugh more
@@miguel.manojaya are you serious?
@@miguel.manojaya you sure he didn’t pay you to say that?
@@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.
@@miguel.manojaya yes thanks for making me very many understand :)
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
The Akira bike slide is like Loss. Either you get it, or you live blissfully unaware that it's everywhere.
I can't believe even freakin' Paw Patrol made an Akira reference.
Well even Paw Patrol made a Jojo reference.
Those creators are really interesting
@@shushukzh th-cam.com/video/eEPXdtGw2kE/w-d-xo.html
Pretty sure the Paw Patrol people are weebs
@@shushukzh the episode with the armor knight, idk, they just did some jojo pose... 😁
Iykyk
Akira's slide to anime is like the matrix bullet timing to movie.
Especially, during the mid 2000s. The "Underworld" movies existed mostly because of the "matrix aesthetic" and the vampire craze during that time.
Fun fact . Matrix copied anime
@@zacksmith5963 "Copied" is harsh - they were clearly influenced by the styling, but took it an made something unique and groundbreaking. The Animatrix was excellent.
@@johnmartinez7440 Matrix took Blade's aesthetic and mashed it with Ghost in the Shell + Lain + Tron + Hong Kong films.
Akira influenced the bullet time effects in The Matrix as well
In Japan you're legally required to do the Akira slide to get your license
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.
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).
Katsuhiro Ōtomo Distinctive, Atmospheric, and Grandiose Director
Did the Tron franchise seriously never do this? That's kind of incredible.
Might be because the light bikes had a very specific kind of movement. Also, wasn't there a similar shot in the Dark Knight?
@@utkarsh2746 The free-moving lightcycles in TRON Legacy and Uprising could've done it. I would have to rewatch them to check.
Wouldn't they hit their own wall if they did this?
@@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.
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
Can't believe Batman did the first Akira homage
So cool!
And the only with the shock
did it really? Or was anything else made earlier?
@@Gadget-Walkmen probably and we just don't know about it
@@hifurcatfood for now, let's just say batman was the first one.
After watching Hwoarang's reveal trailer for Tekken 8 which he does Akira Slide, this video suddenly appears in my feed 😅
LMAO aint no way, I'm here for that too!!
Akira is probably the most referenced and homaged anime of all time
Sailor moon.
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.
Is there a way to design the wheels with enough grip for it to work?
@@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.
@@aidankilleen7372 so you keep going at an angle and not at a straight line?
@@airplanes_aren.t_real pretty much, yeah. You'd just be turning and not really sliding.
@@aidankilleen7372 so like drifting?
Clarence is literally the only show that surprised me with that reference.
the last show I expected to see this
@@Oscar4u69 right
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
I was more surprised by Casagrande's. I thought I was the only one who watched that show :/
@@piccolo54trunks2 it's not true you dingleberry
Surprising to see how something so small was referenced so many times across so many different forms of media.
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...
And after 34 years Akira still being the smoothest one
Can't improve upon perfection
That's because cel-animation, and that they used much more frames per second back then.
@@atomic_bomba and because of that, the Japanese animation industry’s reputation and its popularity have skyrocketed and expanded towards Western audiences.
Idk I think NMH 3 was pretty close
@@atomic_bomba Not to add a movie budget too
This scene became so iconic it's basically just a "cool character" feature.
Are you a determined badass? Yes.
Motorcycle slide.
+1 if there's sparks, -1 if you dont have atleast 3 points of contact hitting the ground
There is also a real life Akira Slide in the 2022 movie called "Nope" :)
Just came here to see if it was included. 😂
This is starting to feel almost like the Wilhelm scream: once you know what it is, you start seeing it everywhere lol
I just saw Nope and the Akira slide at the end is incredible
That's what I'm saying!!
Was the first time I saw it in live action. Loved it
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.
@@seen.3 Which is fair, I can’t name a director who could do Akira justice in live action.
@@jacksonscott690 Denis Villeneuve? Though he's likely got his hands full with Dune for a while, especially if he plans to adapt Dune Messiah.
Crazy how the movement in this scene is hardly ever better animated than in the original
The original is absolutely crazy, even today
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.
Probably because it’s a movie would have a higher budget and the parodies are from TV shows which typically have lower budget animation
This is the Wilhelm scream for the animation genre
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!
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.
Those are the ones that are truly an homage. The rest, perhaps not so much.
The movie “nope” also had a motorcycle scene
The movie “nope” also has a motorcycle scene!
I hate it, so on the nose 🙄 so fucking lame and unimaginative
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
Tire shop owner : 🙂
Road officials : ☹️
feet : 🦶🔥😂
1:20 damn that transition was clean
The Akira Slide is basically the Wilhelm scream for TV shows and Anime.
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
@@jacquestuber628 Dude, the vast majority of these are an Akira reference.
@@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
@@jacquestuber628 Which do you think are ones that aren't a reference?
@@bigredjanie we've already had this discussion just because of motorcycle slides doesn't mean it's a reference as simple as that
The Akira slide is the Wilhelm scream of animation
NOPE having an IRL Akira slide scene was amazing 😂
What minute?
@@zarategaraymiguelangel7083 it’s not In this video
@@nikunjshrestha7076 yes
@@Lonewulf321 Nope came out after this video.
@@Hecuba107 that’s why I said it’s not in this video.
I wonder at what point did these stop being homages of Akira and just homages of the slide itself
same thing, different words used to describe the moment being referenced
I gotta say, Obi Wan on a Speeder doing the Akira Slide with his saber out is pretty badass.
Tbh is the best one
probably the easiest one to do an akira slide yet it goes so hard i don't think a screenshot would be enough
Thank you.
It would be the easiest to pull an Akira slide on but also i think it was the most badass
1:05 one of the most creative slides imo
And Akira still has the best one lol
That’s because their just homages, not actually trying to surpass the original at all.
You can’t beat the original
@@rd101 As I said, they’re not actually trying to surpass the original at all, their just homages.
Akira is a timeless classic, way ahead of it’s time
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)
Akira is one of the most influential pieces of media ever. I bet this is conscious.
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
@@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! :)
It's basically a law at this point, "if there's a scene with a motorcycle, Akira must be referenced"
I like to imagine yugioh introduced the motorcycles just for this reason.
35 years (and counting) and the original is still the coolest.
Yu-GI-Oh! wins the title of "most homages to Akira Bike Slide in a single franchise/series".
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. 👍🏼
Subjective
@Purple default pfp Nahh
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.
@@spicyramengaming8465 you can actually make the replica yourself buying a specific Honda scooter then the bodykit
@@allloren7277 Yahh
I audibly yelled “NINJAGO?!”
LEAVE ME ALONE
*DING* "AKIRA"
AHHHHHHHHHHH
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.
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
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.
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
Jordan Peale’s “Nope” had an Akira slide in it
Yeah. Came here right after watching it
At some point this stops being a homage to akira and just becomes it’s own thing
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.
There is a live action from "Nope" that deserves to be in this!
It's so common I never even realized Akira was the first to do it
I like to think that in the storyboard notes/animation notes it says "Insert Akira Slide here"
The wilhelm scream of animation
Anyone else watch NOPE and hyped to see them reference this?
just saw it last night haha. last thing i expected to see in that movie
Favorite part of the movie fr
Didn't expect it at all.
Oh, now I’m going to go see it Tuesday.
I love how these range from "A total stretch" to "Definitely from Akira"
not really at all, the only one that looks like "a total stretch" is the Luca movie one, everything else DEFINITELY looks like it's referencing Akira.
Akira bike drifts is easily my favorite gender
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
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!
exactly LOL
social media
Gotta be some weirdo obsession, with all due respect of course
@@chrometheus1789 I'm sure there are lists online compiled by several people, he probably just used one of those
You heard of the internet?
Jordan Peele's "Nope" in 2022 had the powerslide also
at this point some of these animators dont actually know they are referencing akira
Many homages, yes. But I wont let all of them slide.
This is both a nice pun and a good observation, some of these are just not an homage.
@@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.
@@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.
You know your work is iconic when animators across the globe pay tribute to you.
There was also one in Jordan Peele’s “Nope”
I was waiting for that one 😢
The first ever live-action Akira Slide.
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.
Son animadores profesionales, deben saber de Akira. Es hasta referencia para muchos.
Regular people, probably a lot. Industry professionals, almost certainly know the origins.
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.
it's like the wilhelm scream of vehicle skids
Who would’ve thought a simple bike slide would be so iconic
Everybody was Akira Sliding
Reflexes were fast as lightning
Animators around the world be like,
"Include me in the screencap!"
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.
Absolutely nuts that I watched this and then went and watched NOPE, which literally has this
The Akira slide is literally the most bad ass thing to ever happen
I dont know about yall, but hats off to the dudes who performed that on a regular bicycle ! 👏👏👏👏
Watching so many of these in a row without context starts to get surreal
And yet somehow Ready Player One, despite *HAVING* the bike from Akira in the race scene, didn't do it.
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
@@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.
@@kjj26k and also it was just a lame film
The horse slide 😭
If I had a penny for every time I saw a horse slide...
I like how this video just gave me a list of shows to watch
You gotta watch keep your hands off eizouken my man
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
basically the entire episode about akira
And Jordan Peele also put a slide in his NOPE movie
I almost wonder if many of these are still actually references, or if some of them are just people subconsciously thinking about a shot like that and thinking it looked really cool
I was wondering that, too. In many of the later slides the bike is facing the other way, which stood out to me as a less exact homage. Impossible to say from this video alone which is which, but I think some of these are consciously “Akira slides,” while others are just “motorcycle slides.”
That being said, on a rewatch most of these include some very specific details that do seem intentional: leg down on the ground, 3 dust trails, shot starts as a close up, bike faces left. If these weren’t intentional homages, they wouldn’t be likely to nail all the characteristics.
I don't understand how a 3 second clip became so iconic. But its absolutely amazing
Its crazy that even after all these years the best looking one is still from Akira.
That part. It's truly the best
not really
Lol no
@@cherno8336 The animation on Akira still shits on most today. Don't say bs if you aint gonna give examples..
yes, the fluidity is awesome
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
no, the framing of the camera is incredibly intentional
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.
@@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
I agree, at this point it's become so uniquitous people dont even know where it came from originallynprobably
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
I never realized that Clone Wars 2003 did the Akira Slide until i saw this video
and Akira’s is still the best one. Damn.
Of course, there are just meant to be homages/references to the original scene, not trying to surpass but just make a callout.
Akira inspired badass bike slides like Berserk inspired awesome edgy dudes with giant swords.
yeah because knights with giant swords werent already badass from the years upon years of literature you havent read
@@Easy420skate probably meant like, the guys with ridiculously sized swords and Issues that are even worse.
@@Easy420skateHe’s talking about massively oversized swords that would be impossible to use realistically 🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️🤦🏿♂️
@@Easy420skate I think you're missing the point: they didn't inspire those things at all. It's just one of many.
@@Easy420skate gimme an example of one of those characters that is as influential as Berserk's Guts in the last few decades.
Keke Palmer hit that so clean
And then there’s NOPE with a live action Akira slide
I appreciate that everyone realizes the Akira slide is sick as fuck.
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".
Seeing the Akira slide in Nope made me so happy. I literally yelled it out when I saw it in theaters.
Lol. I let out chuckled and the person I was with had to ask what I thought was so funny.
Y’all r so lame lmao
90% of the creators of this prob had no idea what Akira was
@@loregasm99 (Unfortunately) true, but Jordan did when he made Nope
@@loregasm99 Nigga you is the lame one, who asked? How tf you know, you friends with Jordan Peele 💀
It's kinda funny that the first Akira Slide reference was Batman.
I dunno, just feels like the weirdest start to this trend.
BTAS is one of the most influential cartoons out there
They used it a year Later in Angel Cop another anime. The first episode
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!
Bro, the slide from NOPE is sick
Now we got Keke's version in Nope
Definitely here for Keke😂😂😂
I love how the first to popularize copying the Akira slide was Batman: The Animated Series of all things.
The studio behind Akira, TMS Entertainment, co-animated Batman TAS.
You can tell its a faithful reference when they immediately right themselves from the sliding position.
It’s the lost 3D Render Challenge. The “Akira Slide” challenge. 30 years worth of hard work.
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
Need to update with Nope
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”
Akira: exists.
Yu-Gi-Oh!: Allow us to introduce ourselves.
The fact that in one year all those movies and TV shows referenced the same clip is so fascinating...
Akira took place in 2019 so that's probably why
Funny how the Akira Slide basically became the Wilhem Scream of animation