Akira

Synopsis

Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, which was created on the ruins of a Tokyo that was destroyed by an unexplained bomb that started World War III. Tetsuo’s paranormal skills start to awaken, making him a target for a mysterious agency that would stop at nothing to avert another disaster like the one that levelled Tokyo, and the lives of two streetwise adolescent friends, Kaneda and Tetsuo, are permanently changed. A visceral, all-consuming fear of an unfathomable, terrifying power known only as Akira lies at the agency’s heart of purpose.

Background
Akira won the 8th Kodansha Manga Award in general category in 1984, the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material in 1993, and was nominated for the Harvey Award for Best Graphic Album of Previously Published Work in 2002.

The series was first published in English by Marvel Comics under the Epic Comics imprint and was one of the first manga to be translated in its entirety. Marvel’s version was fully colorized and released in 38 trade paperback volumes from 1988 to 1996 (and later incompletely collected into 10 volumes). Dark Horse Comics republished Akira in its original 6-volume format from December 13, 2000 to March 27, 2002. Kodansha Comics USA currently holds the license and republished the series from October 13, 2009 to April 12, 2011. They rereleased the series in a 35th anniversary box set on October 31, 2017. The set contained 6 hardcover volumes in the original right-to-left reading format for the first time, as well as the artbook Akira Club. The manga has also been published in Brazilian Portuguese by JBC since 2016.

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