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Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA) is a Japanese cyberpunk manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. It was serialized biweekly in Kodansha’s seinen manga magazine Young Magazine from December 20, 1982, to June 25, 1990, with its 120 chapters collected into six tankōbon volumes.
Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA) is a Japanese cyberpunk post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. It was serialized biweekly in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine from December 20, 1982, to June 25, 1990, with its 120 chapters collected into six tankōbon volumes.
Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2030, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III.
Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III.
Dec 31, 2014 · Akira Volume 1-6 : Katsuhiro Otomo : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive. (1 of 353)
Dec 6, 1982 · Looking for information on the manga Akira? Find out more with MyAnimeList, the world's most active online anime and manga community and database. 1988: It is World War III. Tokyo is decimated by a mysterious black explosion, unmatched in magnitude. 2019: Fast forward 31 years.
AKIRA (アキラ) is a seinen science-fiction manga series, written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. Initially serialized in the pages of Weekly Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was then collected into six volumes ranging from 300-500 pages by its current publisher Kodansha.
“One of the most important manga of the 1980s, Akira influenced thousands of science fiction manga and anime with its dark urban future.”—Manga: The Complete Guide
- Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira is a psychic tale, a cyberpunk story, a gritty urban drama, glorious disaster porn, the fraught tale of two teenage boys and their friendship/rivalry, and, at the end of the day, one of the most influential manga of all time.
Oct 13, 2009 · In 1982, Kodansha published the first chapter of Akira, a dystopian saga set in Neo-Tokyo, a city recovering from thermonuclear attack where the streets have been ceded to motorcycle gangs and the rich and powerful run dangerous experiments on destructive, supernatural powers that they cannot control.
