Katsuhiro Otomo AKIRA #3
First published in Young Magazine in Japan in 1982, this timeless masterpiece of unforgettable beauty, horror and imagination didn't loose any microgram of it's power ever since. Quintessential when it comes to sequential storytelling!
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 Akira and 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.
One of the true international classics of graphic fiction, AKIRA has once again taken America by storm. Artist/writer/filmmaker Katsuhiro Otomo is acclaimed worldwide as a master storyteller, and AKIRA showcases Otomo at the peak of his creative form.
Published by Kodansha
USA Import
Hardback
7 x 10 inch
296 pages
First published in Young Magazine in Japan in 1982, this timeless masterpiece of unforgettable beauty, horror and imagination didn't loose any microgram of it's power ever since. Quintessential when it comes to sequential storytelling!
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 Akira and 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.
One of the true international classics of graphic fiction, AKIRA has once again taken America by storm. Artist/writer/filmmaker Katsuhiro Otomo is acclaimed worldwide as a master storyteller, and AKIRA showcases Otomo at the peak of his creative form.
Published by Kodansha
USA Import
Hardback
7 x 10 inch
296 pages
First published in Young Magazine in Japan in 1982, this timeless masterpiece of unforgettable beauty, horror and imagination didn't loose any microgram of it's power ever since. Quintessential when it comes to sequential storytelling!
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 Akira and 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.
One of the true international classics of graphic fiction, AKIRA has once again taken America by storm. Artist/writer/filmmaker Katsuhiro Otomo is acclaimed worldwide as a master storyteller, and AKIRA showcases Otomo at the peak of his creative form.
Published by Kodansha
USA Import
Hardback
7 x 10 inch
296 pages
