Did you watch it dubbed or subbed? The Dub is absolutely horrid for the way they translated Nanashi's name. It means "no name," so they should've just kept it Nanashi. :/

And the fight is easily the best fight in all of anime. It was just lengthy enough and they did it without dragging out the dialogue, a real shocker for anime. They exchange a few words at the beginning and then it's just nonstop action until Nanashi wins. It was cool how they ended up exchanging swords too.

Akira was good. I watched it when I was like 12 though and it creeped me out. Primarily when what's-her-name got squished and you could see the pool of blood... >_>

Oh, and X was a great anime movie.