English Dubbed. Based on the novel by Hideyuki Kikuchi. From the creator of Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust ! (For more detailed info, read rest of the description) Story line: “The future belongs to one company: the “family” business of the Persona Corporation. Only a few places on Earth hold out against its dominion; one is in Kabuki Town, a ramshackle part of Shinjuku known as the Tokyo Darkside. Tatsuya is a terrorist on the run, aided by a sorcerous stranger (also called Darkside). Tatsuya is a revolutionary, but Darkside is revolution personified, a messianic figure born of oppression.” Details: Country: Japan Language: Japanese / English Genres: Animation | Sci-Fi Subtitles: English Release Date: 8 October 1994 (Japan) Also Known As: Dâkusaido burûsu Rating: 5.3/10 Imdb: www.imdb.com Notes concerning the film: Replaying Akira with supernatural elements, DB is a beautifully designed but confused Gothic tale with a slow pace and nonexistent ending, based on the 1985 novel by Demon City Shinjuku’s Hideyuki Kikuchi and filtered through a 1993 manga adaptation by Bride of Deimos’s Yuho Ashibe. Concerned with the soul rather than the body, it takes many liberties with place and time, such as doors that don’t necessarily lead to the same room twice. This is a film loaded with symbolism-flowers shedding petals, people turning into statues, spiders spinning red webs-but like its rebels without a cause, it says a lot but doesn’t really mean anything. Its best creation is …