I remember watching the Akira anime on Toonami's movie month and I really enjoyed it, albeit with some taint from everything filed under the movie's [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/NightmareFuel/Akira]Nightmare Fuel page on TV Tropes[/url]. I know it's all in vain but I hope it's better than most of the other crappy live-action anime films.