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AD 2019: The year the world caught up to AKIRA. Two years before this milestone, author Katsuhiro Otomo worked with artist Kosuke Kawamura to enrobe a Tokyo city block in a collage of gripping moments from the manga that revolutionized an art form. Then, over the next two years, he did it twice more. The result: three electifying compilations of Otomo's art, meandering across the city. And now you can take them home. From 2017-2019, the throngs passing through Tokyo's emblematic Shibuya neighborhood were lucky enough to witness a massive art project. The PARCO department store was closed for renovation, and Katsuhiro Otomo and collage artist Kosuke Kawamura seized on the opportunity to stretch Otomo's landmark manga AKIRA across the barriers separating the construction site from the bustling nightlife of Shibuya, Tokyo. When the project was completed, it was 2019: the very year the story of AKIRA began. To commemorate this milestone, a silver foil-coated collector's box presents an exquisite reproduction of Otomo and Kawamura's work, with the specifications overseen and approved by Otomo-sensei personally. Nearly 75 feet (22.7 meters) of illustrations, speech balloons, and text selected from AKIRA's six volumes stretch across three accordion-bound volumes. A fourth volume includes an exclusive interview with Otomo and Kawamura, as well as photographs of the original exhibition by award-winning photographer TAKAMURADAISUKE. Rounding out the box is a dramatic, 16.5x23.4-inch poster. In this form, Kawamura's recontextualization of Otomo's manga is reminiscent of traditional Japanese emaki (picture scrolls), the narrative scrolls that some scholars see as manga's most ancient ancestors. Don't miss this change to own a singular artifact in the history of anime and manga. Contains * Scroll 1: Oct. 25, 2017-May 15, 2018. 29.3 feet (8.94 meters). * Scroll 2: May 16, 2018-Feb. 27, 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters). * Scroll 3: Feb. 28, 2019-Aug. 8, 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters). * 430 x 607 mm poster * 52-page hardcover catalog book including new interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo and Kosuke Kawamura and photographs by TAKAMURADAISUKE * Rigid, silver cold foil-wrapped box
Winner of two 2018 Eisner Awards! Reprinted and available again for a limited time! An all-new, complete 35th anniversary hardcover box set of one of the most acclaimed and influential comics of all time, with the original Japanese art and right-to-left reading format for the first time! The science fiction epic that changed anime and manga forever is presented in six beautiful hardcover volumes, plus the hardcover Akira Club art book and an exclusive patch with the iconic pill design. 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. In 1988, the manga was adapted into what was at the time the most expensive animated film ever made, which brought Akira’s influence out of the manga world and onto the global stage. Today, it remains a touchstone for artists, writers, filmmakers, and fans, retaining all the brutal impact and narrative intensity it had when Otomo first unleashed it onto the world.
Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by
a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives
of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change
forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making
him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to
prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the
core of the agency's motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an
unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira.
Retro science-fiction epic set in Victorian England. 'Steamboy' features an inventor prodigy named Ray Steam (Anna Paquin) who receives a mysterious metal ball containing a new form of energy capable of powering an entire nation. This energy must be used to fight evil and save London from destruction.
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the
rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast
from a young boy called Akira--the subject of a covert government
experiment gone wrong now imprisoned for three decades in frozen
stasis. But Tetsuo, an unstable youth with immense paranormal
abilities of his own, has done the unthinkable: He has released
Akiraand set into motion a chain of events that could once again
destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon.
Resistance agents and an armada of government forces race against
the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his
unstoppable destructive abilities are unleashed.
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier,
twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. Set off by the bullet
of a would-be assassin, the godlike telekinetic fury of the
superhuman child Akira has once again demolished in seconds that
which took decades and untold billions to build. Now cut off from
the rest of the world, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, with Akira its
king, the psychic juggernaut Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a
growing army of fanatic acolytes ready to go to any length to
please their masters. Forces on the outside still search for a way
to stop Akira, and the answer may lie in the hands of the
mysterious Lady Miyako, a powerful member of Akira's paranormal
brotherhood. But the solution to harnessing Akira may ultimately be
more dangerous than Akira himself.
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, the once glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin,
leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic
Akira. From the flooded wasteland of rubble and anarchy rises the
Great Tokyo Empire, populated by a ragtag army of zealots and
crazies who worship and fear Akria ad his mad prime minister,
Tetsuo, and angry teen with immense powers of his own- and equally
immense, twisted ambitions. The world at large is not taking the
threat lying down, and the military strength of the planet is
massing to take on the empire, but will technology's most advanced
weaponry be enough to destroy Akira? And are Tetsuo's rapidly
growing paranormal abilities a potentially greater threat?
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of a Tokyo
obliterated by a monstrous psychokinetic power known only as Akira,
a being who yet lives, secretly imprisoned in frozen stasis. Those
who stand guard know that Akira's awakening is a terrifying
inevitability. Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense--and rapidly
growing--psychic abilities, may be their only hope to control Akira
when he wakes. But Tetsuo is becoming increasingly unstable and
harbors a growing obsession to confront Akira face to face. A
clandestine group including his former best friend sets out to
destroy Tetsuo before he can release Akira--or before Tetsuo
himself becomes so powerful that no force on Earth can stop him.
This 168-page collection began life as a limited-edition tribute to Otomo given only to attendees of the prestigious Angouleme International Comics Festival, where Otomo was recipient of the Grand Prize in 2015. Now it's available to readers and collectors around the world, with additional content from a list of more than 80 fine artists, illustrators, and comics legends, including Stan Sakai, Jiro Taniguchi, Tomer and Asaf Hanuka, and many others.
IN A DEVASTATED 21ST CENTURY, Neo-Tokyo, the armed might of
Earth is massed against the godlike powers of two psychic titans,
the mute child Akira and the deranged youth Tetsuo. While Akira has
unintentionally destoryed the city twice before, Tetsuo has ravaged
the surface of the Moon for his sheer amusement, and his madness
grows as his abilities expand. But he is gradually losing control
of the limitless energies that rage within him, mutating Tetsuo
into a horror beyond imagination, and as all forces converge for a
final confrontation, the fate of the planet lies in the hands of
mere mortals...and the mind of a child.
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