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Akira, Vol. 1
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List Price: $24.95
Our Price: $69.70
Availability: N/A
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Manufacturer: Dark Horse
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Binding: Comic
Dewey Decimal Number: 741.5952
EAN: 9781569714980
ISBN: 1569714983
Label: Dark Horse
Manufacturer: Dark Horse
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 364
Publication Date: 2000-12
Publisher: Dark Horse
Release Date: 2000-12-13
Studio: Dark Horse
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Editorial Reviews:
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Dark Horse is committed to bringing the finest comics from around the world to America. Now, in association with Kodansha Ltd. and Studio Proteus, Dark Horse has again gathered one of the crown jewels of graphic fiction. Katsuhiro Otomo`s stunning science-fiction masterpiece, Akira! Regarded by many as the finest comic series ever produced, Akira is a bold and breathtaking epic of potent narrative strength and astonishing illustrative skill. Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2019, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, who becomes a target for a shadowy government operation, a group who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. And at the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear: a fear of someone -- or something -- of unthinkably monstrous power known only as...Akira. And Akira is about to rise! Collected in six massive volumes, Akira has been reproduced in its original, black-and-white majesty as never-before-seen in an English-translated edition. If you love science fiction, manga or comics, Akira is the one work that must be represented in your collection!
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Spotlight customer reviews:
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Summary: Not much to say about it...
Comment: Akira is simply amazing. The art is beautiful, the story is genius, the characters are incredibly likeable, and the themes are disturbingly cool. 'Nuff said.
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Summary: a pinnacle of graphic art madness in the service of depicting a mad world
Comment: The entire series is an essential item in the library of any aspiring graphic artist or graphic novelist. This is my most important resource concerning the modern styles that predominate manga and anime today. Taking on the complete set, I expected to be blown to pieces but instead I found myself slow cooked in a pot, sliced into thin slivers over the course of a few weeks, and put back together again. If you can stand the pain, it turns out to be quite a ride. Perhaps because of their experience of being the only nation ever to suffer the effect of nuclear war, I suspect that the Japanese have mastered the depiction of post-apocalyptic dystopia. However, Japanese graphic art has a long history dating back hundreds of years. I am not surprised that this is an excellent example of visual elements taking charge of the storytelling where words provide the common ground on which you may stand with others in the audience. I suspect that even in its original language this work would captivate just the same. Perhaps not to the taste of many avid readers of graphic novels because of the sparse dialogue. Personally, I tend towards more graphic elements so this was a treat.
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Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: Akira is awesome. Even from a time when you would have just about had to commit a crime against the person of a Japanese tourist, or pay ridiculous amounts of money to get anime and manga and things like that, Akira was available.
It is no surprise that it was, as is an example of that artform at its finest.
Neo-Tokyo is a city recovering from devastation and world war.
When a young bikie gang leader rescues a young boy named Tetsuo, after almost running him down, Kaneda soon comes to realise this is no ordinary boy, because of the government interest in him.
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Summary: Graphic SF Reader
Comment: Kaneda has confronted Tetsuo again, whether he is arrogant, crazy, cunning, or what, we don't know, but he seems to survive.
Tetsuo is having huge problems controlling his abilities and literally is turning into something monstrous.
The military types haven't got the message yet, and try and blow up Tetsuo again. He treats it as a power boost, and he and Akira decide to depart.
Kaneda and others are left to rebuild.
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Summary: Great
Comment: I have heard many people say that the books are better than the movie, I don't think this is true. The movie version of Akira is much better than the books. I'm not insulting the books but the story of Akira is better in the movie. The books contain much more detail and character development but lots of the events I thought didn't move the story along; like Tetsuo taking over the clown gang and that society Tetsuo starts in Vol. 5. The movie moves along very quickly and all of the detail's are important. It moves along faster and the ending is better. The books are still much better than most I have read and Akira is the only anime I find really interesting but the movie version is better. I would recommend this after seeing the film.
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