Today, Kodansha Comics has published it into what is more commonly seen in stores: the six gargantuan volumes with Otomo’s original black-and-white inked art. It was the right place and time for everything with this series, and it’s amazing how it all worked out. Akira was also one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety, first being published by Epic Comics (a Marvel Comics imprint) as thirty-eight full-color issues (if I am not mistaken, it was the first series to be digitally colored), all released from 1988 to 1996. This series took eight years to complete and it is the work Otomo is best known for. Two years later, the series received the Kodansha Manga Award. Akira was Otomo’s first long serialized manga series and it was serialized in “Weekly Young Magazine,” a seinen manga magazine, in 1982 – and it was an immediate success. My copy of this incredible series’ first volume.īefore I give a summary, I’d like to give some brief background info on publication and whatnot.
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