OTOMO | THE COMPLETE WORKS 12 | AKIRA 1

Synopsis

Produced in 1982-1983 by Katsuhiro Otomo when he was 28-29 years old, the first to 14th installments 『up to page 279 of the first volume of the book』 of the series AKIRA, which began in Young Magazine, which was in its second year at the time of publication, were published as they were at the time of publication. Recorded in the form of, The first volume of Otomo's complete works edition 『AKIRA』 (8 volumes in total). This historical work, which had a great impact on the manga world, is famous for its level of perfection, but in reality, the author did a lot of brushing up when it was published as a book. Additions, corrections, deletions, replacements, page and panel changes, additions and finishes, new drawings, etc. The Yanmaga book version 『AKIRA』, which continues to be read 40 years after its first edition, has been refined and completed. In particular, it is a well-known story that the cover art of each serialized episode of the book has been removed. However, in this edition of Otomo's complete works, in accordance with the idea of ''ordering all the work by era and tracking how it has changed as a writer,'' everything including the cover art has been returned to the state it was in when it was serialized as much as possible It was decided to publish it as a ''serialized version'' that was reprinted before it was modified for the book. There are some parts where the original painting does not exist, and some parts where the manuscript cannot be returned to its original state due to direct revisions, but in the complete collection version, the proposition is to ''return it to its original state as much as possible.''. The opportunity to see it had been completely lost since the time of its serialization “the LIVE serialized version 『AKIRA』” is a bit different from the completed version “AKIRA『 read in the book, and perfectly reproduces the excitement at the time of its publication. do! This is the first must-have volume dedicated to all 『AKIRA』 fans. In addition, the extremely rare color spread of the first episode, which is different from the book version, and the color pages from the serialization are all reprinted as they were at the time.