Akira vs GANTZ:O
Akira has the higher audience score (7.9/10 against 7.3/10 for GANTZ:O). GANTZ:O is the shorter watch at 1h 35m compared with 2h 4m. Akira is the older of the two (1988 against 2016). Both are action, animation, science fiction movies, so they suit a similar mood.
Akira
GANTZ:O| Akira | GANTZ:O | |
|---|---|---|
| Audience score | ★ 7.9/10 | ★ 7.3/10 |
| Year | 1988 | 2016 |
| Length | 2h 4m | 1h 35m |
| Genres | Action, Animation, Science Fiction | Action, Animation, Science Fiction |
| Country | – | – |
| Director | Katsuhiro Otomo | Keiichi Sato, Yasushi Kawamura |
| Main cast | Takeshi Kusao, Nozomu Sasaki, Yuriko Fuchizaki, Tessyo Genda, Mitsuo Iwata | Yuki Kaji, Daisuke Ono, Kaku Tomohiro, Masaya Onosaka, Saori Hayami |
Synopsis
Akira
A secret military project endangers Neo-Tokyo when it turns a biker gang member into a rampaging psychic psychopath that only two teenagers and a group of psychics can stop.
GANTZ:O
After being brutally murdered in a subway station, a teen boy awakens to find himself resurrected by a strange computer named Gantz, and forced to fight a large force of invading aliens in Osaka.