So, when people think of animated films, a few flicks that come to mind are "Finding Nemo," "Toy Story," "Spirited Away," "Persepolis," "Ghost in the Shell" and "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs." These films have quite a bit in common: great animation, groundbreaking CGI, and excellent characters that audience members can relate to on a personal level. However, another movie that a lot of people aren't aware of, especially this generation, that exists is the 1988 cult-classic, "Akira."

Directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, this Japanese animated, sci-fi thriller took on cyberpunk tones, mixed in manga-style animation, and plopped it all in a dystopian society in Neo-Tokyo, with the former city of Tokyo being destroyed in the wake of World War III. Centering around the youth-centered biker gang, the runt of the litter Testsuo Shima gets involved in an accident, and discovers he has psychic powers. Based on Otomo's manga of the same name, Akira is an epic, cyber-infused movie with excellent animation.

Then, it's up to his friend and gang leader, Shotaro Kaneda, and revolutionary terrorist, Kei, to stop Tetsuo and his evergrowing psychic powers from releasing the imprisoned psychic child, Akira. Spoiler alert, Akira was the one who caused the explosion of Tokyo.

Honestly, Akira is an amazing movie. It's truly an amazing film. All of the colors, sounds, textures, animations and characters made this movie receive an A+ in my book.

One of the major scenes that got me in love with the animation of this movie was during the earlier part of the movie. A badly wounded revolutionary and an esper named Takashi, were both running away from the police. With police dogs hot on their tail, the revolutionary pulls out his gun, and with no time to spare, aims his gun at the dogs who are about to subdue him.

Shooting them both clear in their heads, both dogs are killed, all the while in a congested street intersection. What makes this scene so good and unique, despite two dogs getting killed, is the graphics that are implemented in this scene, having blood being splattered among windows and car doors in the traffic. This scene literally took everything into account, all of the textures and objects that occurred in this scene, such as the blood and dogs.

Yes, kind of wrong to say this was a good scene, but taking into account all the sights, sounds, scents and textures is what made that particular scene so good.

Plus, the scene where Kaneda slides with his signature, red motorcycle with streams of electric currents flowing out of it is extremely badass. Kaneda is essentially the John Wayne of the anime world.

This movie was way ahead of its time, and had themes and concepts before, and took on existing themes to the extreme, such as friendship, power and loss of humanity. This film essentially coined the term "psionic" and "esper," and made both mainstream.

This is not to say that Akira isn't well known, but today's generation needs to know that "Akira" paved the way for a majority of animated feature films. Musician Kanye West said "Akira" is one of the best animated films of all time hands down. He even used a lot of the features and scenes from Akira in the music video for his song, "Stronger."

Akira became such a massive hit, movies such as "The Matrix" and "Looper" site "Akira" as an influence. This film has been consistently ranked in lists for greatest animated films of all time, such as RollingStone and WatchMojo.

Honestly, "Akira" is on par with animated films like "Finding Nemo" and "Persepolis," it really is an amazing film. If you are curious about this movie, go and see it. You will not regret it.