I am very interested in restoring the Criterion edition of Akira (#151).

Not only it has the original English dub in uncompressed 16/44.1 PCM Dolby Surround, possibly the best copy of the dub available, but the color timing is much, and I mean MUCH better than the later DVD releases, and even the new Blu-ray! I don't know if that is how Akira was meant to look like, but the colors have more life and the whites are very bright! I own the 3-disc CAV Laserdisc, with all the awesome supplements. It's definitely an LD treasure.

Months back, I've uploaded the very first 54 seconds of the LD on YouTube, to test out my LD-to-digital conversion skills. It contains the opening shot of the nuclear explosion, which, in my opinion, has more color fidelity than the DVD/BD (you can try to compare the two with yourself, if you want).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jaPtaFKZing

It is one of my top priorities to release a Criterion DVD preservation of Akira on a two-disc set, but I currently do not have the enough equipment to do a proper, deserving transfer.