Rather than disliking it more over time I've kinda gone the opposite way. I was really hoping for a clearer ending than the original series when I first saw it when it came out and was fairly disappointed in that regard. It looked incredible, had amazing content, but I wasn't savvy enough to do the ...

I had a friend in 6th, maybe 7th grade(so, around '97 or '98) who was also interested in anime. It was very difficult to get in my area(small, rural, no internet, poor, etc) and he wanted to borrow my Fist of the North Star and Akira tapes. Naturally I had to have collateral, since those were my bab...