Akira

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Alternativas: English: Akira
Japanese: AKIRA
Autor: Otomo, Katsuhiro
Modelo: Mangá
Volumes: 6
Capítulos: 120
Status: Finished
Publicar: 1982-12-06 to 1990-06-11
Serialização: Young Magazine (Weekly)

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4.2
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26.09%
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Alternativas: English: Akira
Japanese: AKIRA
Autor: Otomo, Katsuhiro
Modelo: Mangá
Volumes: 6
Capítulos: 120
Status: Finished
Publicar: 1982-12-06 to 1990-06-11
Serialização: Young Magazine (Weekly)
Pontuação
4.2
23 Votos
52.17%
26.09%
13.04%
8.70%
0.00%
0 Lendo
0 Quero ler
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Resumo
1988: It is World War III. Tokyo is decimated by a mysterious black explosion, unmatched in magnitude.

2019: Fast forward 31 years. Neo-Tokyo, hastily built on the ruins of old Tokyo, is a sprawling cityscape of neon extravaganza. It is a fusion of towering skyscrapers and cutting-edge technology that is permeated through and through with an explosive, hyper-violent cocktail of biker gangs, poverty, and revolutionaries. In this derelict metropolis live Tetsuo Shima and Shoutarou Kaneda, two bikers who are the best of friends and the fiercest of rivals, despite being affiliated with the same gang. Desperate to prove himself as Kaneda's equal, Tetsuo unwittingly pulls a stunt that culminates in the awakening of a cryptic existence that threatens to change both the face of Neo-Tokyo and the lives of those who call the city their home—the awakening of a government secret simply known as Akira.

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Akira review
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-Lupa-14
Apr 15, 2021
I went into this manga with no knowledge of the anime or story line, so initially I thought the whole book would be about Kaneda and his gang engaging in delinquent-ass activities. The story that unfolded was much bigger than that, including psychic children, the destruction of the city (twice), military intervention, and warfare between the two surviving cults in a post-apocalyptic landscape.

The characters are kind of hard to like at the beginning of the story. Kaneda is an orphan and the leader of a Bōsōzoku gang who frequently engage in fights with rival gangs, most notably the clowns. Being the leader, Kaneda also gets the most badass and technologically-advanced bike -- an electronic racer he stole from a sponsored rider. He is 15, has no parents and lives in a cyberpunk dystopia, so his morals are a little bit shaky. For example, he gets the school nurse pregnant and could care less, only using her to get free drugs for his gang. But regardless of his morals, I will admit he is pretty badass.

Tetsuo is an orphan just like Kaneda, but unlike him Tetsuo is not confident in his abilities and possesses an inferiority complex, possibly stemming from his absolutely abysmal hairline. He just wants to prove himself and be a badass like Kaneda,so he decides to take the lead during a motorcycle race but runs into one of the psychic children I mentioned earlier. The army retrieves their esper along with Tetsuo who is injured but miraculously alive. They decide that if Tetsuo could survive the explosive crash, he must be a psychic too. Tetsuo's power is realized and he doesn't know how to act. All his life he's been a beta and now he has godlike powers. He goes mad, killing his friend and taking control of the clown gang to get drugs.

Some real fucked up shit takes place in the latter chapters. Tetsuo starts a cult based around Akira (the child who destroyed the city multiple times) and creates an army to fight Lady Miyako, the leader of another cult. Tetsuo drugs and rapes like 3 girls at once and 2 of them end up dying. The lone survivor, Kaori, becomes his slave and is fiercely loyal to him.


The art in this book is absolutely phenomenal. I love it so much. The cityscapes in particular are amazingly drawn. The city itself almost becomes its own character which makes the impact of its destruction so much bigger. Otomo spent so much time and put so much detail into the crafting of Neo-Tokyo, only to destroy it and introduce us to Neo-Neo-Tokyo.


I absolutely adore the artwork but the rest of the manga has some flaws. The dialogue can be shitty at times, the characters can be flat, some parts of the story are too drawn out, but overall I very much enjoyed the 2000+ pages of this manga and plan to read it again.
Akira review
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ModusOperandi9
Apr 15, 2021
Teenagers revolted by the system without any respect for teachers and authorities, addicted to drugs, who instead of complaining on twitter, ride futuristic motorcycles and get into big trouble with the government. These are the tools of Katsuhiro Otomo to express his criticisms against Japan and the post-nuclear world in AKIRA. And it is a lot of fun how marginalized and abandoned adolescents by society are the main triumph of the plot to mock the government's oppressions.


Tetsuo - a teenager with the personality of a school terrorist - awakens paranormal powers after running over an elderly child, who has escaped confidential Japanese government experiments. Kaneda - leader of the teen biker group, whose Tetsuo was a member - needs to prevent Tetsuo's psychotic breakdown, armed with unbridled paranormal powers, from destroying any sign of life that comes his way and even worse, reactivating the sleeping AKIRA - another being with powers even more immeasurable than those of Tetsuo.


We read the clash between Tetsuo and Kaneda, set in a post-World War III NeoTokyo, guided by a political and revolutionary narrative. While on the one hand Tetsuo becomes more violent, powerful and unsociable, with the blind support of the army colonel and his team of scientists, Kaneda is allied with Kei and Ryu, members of the Nezu political party that opposes the military.


In 112 chapters and 6 volumes, the plot can be divided into 2 parts;
The first half supines the mysteries and establishes its cyberpunk universe with motorcycle racing, chases through the sewers, escapes from prisons, enemy being hurled into the air with telepathic powers, wall and rocks exploding with paranormal waves, and Tetsuo pissed off with everything, while the reader screams inside:

WHAT IS AKIRA?
by every person reading


In the second part, he clarifies his mysteries in an absurd and surreal way, heading the narrative to unexpected places, with catastrophes at all times. Instead of people being thrown around by the power of the mind, now it's buildings falling down and ships exploding. Motorcycle racing has become motorcycle racing ... with missiles. Everything from the first part is boosted by 1000x and the Tetsuo is even more pissed off.

"- THIS TIME TETSUO WENT TOO FAR!"
by Kaneda


The characters are similar, to the point of looking like generic versions of Kaneda and Tetsuo. Kei looks like the female Kaneda. Her brother, Ryu, looks like Tetsuo with a mustache. Every soldier, monk, bandit is like the other. It is normal to ask yourself "Who is who?", Especially in the busiest parts. Despite improving in the second half, with the features gaining more details like - scars, wrinkles, bulging eyes and etc. - and the hair being "combed" in a more stylized way. In addition to new ethnicities and different types of fat, muscular, skinny people gain space.

Akira's macro point is the urgency of the plot in which heroes need to stop Tetsuo, and the way things change from Eleven from Stranger Things to Vegeta from DBZ as credibly and interestingly as possible.

"KANEDAAAAAAAAAAAAAA !!!"
By Shima Tetsuo


"TETSUOOOOOOOOOOO!"
By Shotaro Kaneda
The manga highlights the anime that popularized it and or any other generic version of its work (coff ... Stranger ... Things ... coff).

GOOD FOR HEALTH BAD FOR EDUCATION
Akira review
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TsubasaFamily12
Apr 15, 2021
Akira est de ces mastodontes qu'on se doit de lire. Et de voir. Puisqu'il est bien connu que les deux embranchements pris par la saga, un brin chaotique, par Otomo tantôt Mangaka démiurge, tantôt réalisateur pressurisé, multiplie le champ des possibles. Akira, donc, c'est une œuvre somme, publiée pendant plusieurs années, condensées dans 6 volumes en papier massif. Et s'il avouer que l'œuvre plutôt titanesque, pour ce type de récit, a de quoi interpeller - et opéra comme une onde de choc en occident, la relecture, parfois un peu fastidieuse n'est pas tout à fait à la hauteur de la légende.

A blâmer ? Une histoire qui multiplie bien trop les séquences d'action à en devenir très rapidement rébarbatives. C'est comme si, au bas mot, 80% des planches étaient dévolues à mettre en scène des courses poursuites, des escapades, des fusillades ou autres bastonnades psychiques explosives (sans parler donc, des big bang catastrophe). Bien sûr, ces séquences sont assez magistralement dessinées et mises en scène. N'empêche que fort rapidement la lassitude pointe… Ce qui est d'autant plus dommage que l'univers mis en place est fort en promesses, pas toujours creusées.

Pour l'époque du début de publication, en 1984, Otomo tente une anticipation finalement totalement hors-sujet, et aux problématiques raccordées à la guerre froide alors sur sa conclusion. Ainsi, les expérimentations militaires sur les bambins renvoie au danger nucléaire. Et les enjeux géopolitique (URSS vs US) s'avéreront plutôt vite obsolète IRL. N'empêche, même si Otomo est tout rivé à son effrénée cavalcade, il effleure ainsi le zeitgeist de son temps : jeunesse nipponne rebelle à canaliser, voulant s'émanciper d'une attitude paternaliste.

La psychologie des personnages, pas immensément creusée (une lutte fratricide entre deux ex-meilleurs amis, une love story répulsive puis attractive… On a connu plus original), laisse tout de même quelques agréables surprises. Ainsi, l'évident personnage de grand vilain, Le Colonel, s'avère bien plus complexe et porté dès le départ par une problématiques hume-ienne (sacrifier quelques uns pour éviter la catastrophe majeure). A contrario, pas de franc manichéisme, malgré quelques rôles secondaires un peu fonctionnels (le politicien rat, le magouilleur se servant de Tetsuo/Akira pour son propre pouvoir). Et un scénario qui parvient tout de même, avec la césure du milieu (l'apocalypse comme si vous y étiez) et à la faveur d'une ellipse, à créer un geste ample, romanesque.

Au final, une démonstration de force imposante, un peu pesante et redondante, mais à la majesté indéniable.
Akira review
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khattikeri4
Apr 15, 2021
(just for the record, this is a slight alteration of my anime review)

VALUE SECTION: 10/10
Analysis: Historical Value 3/3, Rereadability 3/3, Memorability 4/4

Amongst the most classic manga titles of all times, Akira has passed in history as one of the best dystopian/apocalyptic titles of all times, not only because of its detailed artwork but also because of its themes, angst-ridden characters, and grotesque action/transformation scenes.

ART SECTION: 8/10
Analysis: General Artwork 2/2, Character Figures 1/2, Backgrounds 2/2, Readability 2/2, Visual Effects 1/2

I must say I am amazed. The artwork is extremely detailed and dynamic, to the point it counts as a graphic novel and not as a run of the mil comic book. The world is depicted in its most cold industrial form, buildings and machinery are highly detailed, there are various angles from which we see the action, and the violence is bloody and nightmarish. Although the average viewer may find the character figures to look too generic or even hermaphrodite, this does not take away the excitement from the numerous amazing action sequences throughout the story. Also, despite the rather blunt visual effects because of technology restrictions (or the maker’s personal choice) the gravity of each explosion and death retains its shocking aspect to the fullest.

CHARACTER SECTION: 9/10
Analysis: Presence 2/2, Personality 1/2, Backdrop 2/2, Development 2/2, Catharsis 2/2

Two prevailing characters, Tetsuo and Kaneda, orphans that grew up together in a world gone crazy. Although having the same background, Kaneda feels only like an edgy, teenage delinquent. He is the leader type that makes others like him and follow him and kicks ass when somebody questions his ego.

But Tetsuo, wow, the guy is one, big, crazy, son of a … His weak presence early in the film is quickly replaced by an insane megalomaniac, out to get even with the world that was hurting him all his life. He hardly knows whom to blame first; his researchers, his best friend or even his own self. And makes A LOT of damage because of it. Down inside, he is just a normal kid that never got the affection it needed to feel secure and now everyone will pay the price! A cult figure, for a good reason.

I prefer this kind of problematic characters to those lame heavy-dudes of today. Most recent stories with teenagers with issues don’t go further than shoveling us a silent-type guy whose woman was kidnapped or village was destroyed and now got ultra powerful and fights evil. Bleah!

Although they are the main two characters there are over 60 more secondary who affect the plot through various other means. The stuck-up military guy that wants to protect the status quo, the curious scientist that challenges the powers of the unknown just to see what they can do, the rebel zealots, the scheming politician, the psychic kids, all of them contribute and criticize the various facets of modern civilization in their own way.

The duration of the story is also not too short or not too long and thus you can see them change along the way smoothly. By the end of it, you actually understand them and like them for what they are. It is true that most of them are rather too simple in personality and seem to think rather 2-dimensionaly yet this doesn’t make them feel dried up at all since they develop along the way in an interesting way.

STORY SECTION: 9/10
Analysis: General Scenario 2/2, Pacing 2/2, Side Stories/Extra Spices 2/2, Plausibility 2/2, Conclusion 1/2

The theme is the rotten society and the psychological damage it does that causes its own youth to rebel and bring upon its own downfall. Yes, it’s a typical theme nowadays and there are a hundred series with a similar premise.

Amoral scientists experiment on little children, in order to harness their psychic powers. Searching in the dark for something they have no idea about, a kid named Akira goes amok, destroys Tokyo and brings about worldwide chaos. The politicians hide their shameful mistake from the public and scientists repeat the same experiment years later on a kid named Tetsuo… and get screwed again.

The story is simple in its premise and despite the mostly straightforward plot, its numerous characters flavor it through several side stories. The duration is as I said enough to let the story unfold smoothly and the conclusion, although rather corny, is satisfactory and solid. But it’s more of a story about the psyche of teenagers, not cool graphics or in-depth scenario.

ENJOYMENT SECTION: 9/10
Highly entertaining despite the rather basic premise for today’s standards. The pacing is rather slow but never wastes pages and the characters develop along the way, while the action and the mayhem are superbly depicted for their time.

VERDICT: 9/10
Well, it didn’t take much consideration. The accused is found … NOT GUILTY! … All charges were just slander and are dropped. The accused is free to go. We hope for more of you to be out there.
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Watame14
Apr 14, 2021
Akira is a classic.
I can only imagine how revolutionary it was for its time.
My biggest complains I have with the manga are that while it may had been breathtaking with its storytellling and characters on the 80/90's, and I did enjoyed the characters and apocalyptic scenario, both these just dont felt that amazing anymore in the current days.
The theme of Akira's was well explored, the whole death/life sci fi stuff was awesome, but the characters... with time I came to enjoy them more, but if I had to point Akira's main weakness, it would be those.
I can connect with Kaneda and the others, even Tetsuo (later on), but overall they werent that appealing.
And again, the story had some very interesting plotwists and events, but it also had some more boring arcs, so expect it, but it is interesting, and when it goes out of proportions, IT BLOWS IT SKY HIGH!

The best damm thing about Akira is the art! For its time, it is outstading, detailed, massive, clean, sharp and the action scenes are quite great.
I cant praise the manga enough in this category, it is that artisticly good.
From the gore, the pumping detailed action(great set pieces of action, some very massive and epic in scale, at least for its time), to the beautiful landscapes, ugly decaying city, full of dirt, rubble and dust...
Otomo Katsuhiro's hands are godlike with pencil, the guy is that good.
Still at this day and age, the art is just stunning beautifull, it still feels classic, but has that charm and detail to it.
I would reccomend reading the Epic version, which comes in full colours, 37 chapters, 70 pages per chapter, FULL COLOUR!
Its quality is quite good.
There will be some that will prefer to go with the classic black and white, for those... I do understand, but just think of the colour has some great extra, that you will enjoy to check out, after you have readed with original.
Seeing it drawned with the rich pallete of colours epic used, it feels like you are watching an artbook.

The manga itself (it or without colours, is already) a giant artbook! Add it
a solid and mature plot, interesting character development, amazing action scenes, and a great setting.
The Sci Fi aspect is great, I was pleasently surprised with all the phylosophy and other themes that the mangaka was bold to keep and keep exploring, again, and again, while keeping it real and interesting.

When you hear people talking about the classic manga Akira, all the praise, fear not, it is really a masterpiece that aged very well with the times.
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Galactic_Kitten14
Apr 14, 2021
I don't think I have ever written a review on something I quite liked as much as this, so this right now seems kind of unusual for me, but yeah, Akira the manga is excellent.

I had already watched the movie previously and loved it. It was an aesthetic masterpiece, however as far as story goes, it just felt too rushed and like it's skipping larger chunks of important information. Even if it ultimately raised interesting questions about society and technological development, it still felt like something was missing.

Now that I have finally gotten around reading the manga, I have to say, that even that problem is eliminated for me.

The story initially focuses around a group of juvenile delinquents, who happen to stumble upon a shriveled-up-vegetable-kid with psychic powers, while minding their own business, speeding with their motorcycles on the Neo Tokyo highway. One accident later all hell starts breaking loose.

The plot as it progresses is great. It starts by painting a society with loose morals; authorities are violent, kids get involved in all sorts of trouble (our real-life parents would be getting panic attacks for) and street gangs are running rampant. Throw in some politics, secret organizations and psychic powers, mix 'em up with interesting sci-fi ideas and post-world war II anxieties of the Japanese and you have yourself a tasty mixture to serve as the basis of a story unlike anything back in 1982 - as well as today.

The characters in Akira are good enough. I have found criticism of them not being developed too much and that's fair enough, but honestly I don't think Akira needed that. Yes, you might not like Kaneda, who is technically a morally more ambigious shounen main character, happy-go-lucky and way too brave for what he is doing, as well as an a**hole to boot, Kei is also kinda bland and while the colonel may grow likable for being a man of principle, who does his best to get sh*t done and Chiyoko is a bazooka wielding and tank driving war-machine, the closest thing to a relatable character will probably be Tetsuo, a crazy f**k, who develops godlike powers and holds Neo Tokyo in his palm with his rule of terror - the source of his relatability being the various psychological implications we get, an obvious oedipal complex, as well as his appearent ambitions. But none of that really matters, too much to me, cause - as I've already pointed out - the world building brilliantly makes up for it with portraying a general psychological mentality of the surroundings of Neo Tokyo, that makes the world come to life, even if I wouldn't want to go for a beer with any of the characters.

Aesthetically, it's also great. Sure Tetsuo looks like he is on one of those "who can make his face smallest?"-challenges and one or two characters look too much alike, but then again, all of them always seem really dynamic and never too stiff, the machinery presented has excellent designs and the backgrounds always look detailed and pleasing to the eye, which you grow to appreciate especially when Otomo starts sh*tting out pages upon pages of devastation and explosions.

So all things considered, I think it's only fair, I give this the best rating.
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Ixidorian9
Apr 14, 2021
First of all the length of this manga is misleading. I would say the length of an average manga volume is about 200 pages. Akira's manga volumes are around 400 pages so don't think you'll be able to rush through this thing. It will take time.

STORY: 8/10
The main plot is focused on stopping the newly escaped, child-psychic, named "Akira" from destroying Japan and the rest of the world. For the most part we follow a motor cycle gang member named Kaneda who somehow gets sucked into this government psychic conspiracy. Kaneda doesn't really care so much about Akira as he does about his bff Tetsuo who recently transformed into a Psychic and started acting all dickish. So Kaneda teams up with the female lead, Kei, in hopes to kill Tetsuo (the super powerfull psychic) with his bare hands. Meanwhile Tetsuo creates an ally out of Akira and they half-way team up because they're supposedly on the same psychic "frequency".

The story is not your linear adventure tale, but I wouldn't call it anything really special. You have your best-friend-turned-enemy and save the world plot all in the very first volume. At times this is executed brilliantly and will leave you either cheering for Kaneda to get revenge or for Tetsou to destroy more crap with his awesomely entertaining powers. Then we get to volume 3, which is hellish at best. It reminded me of a Scooby-Doo Chase scene where everyone just keeps running in and out of doors accomplishing nothing. It's a huge weak point in the mostly spotless story line. Considering that volume 3 is 1/6 of this entire manga I can't rate story any higher.

ART: 8/10
This is an 80s manga and you'll be able to tell at first glance. The characters have that 80s look to them and don't particularly stand out art-wise. Although I'm not complaining since the backgrounds more then make up for what the character designs lack. There are absolutely stunning two page layouts all throughout Akira. The background art work delivers on a level that isn't seen in most manga today. Now back to the character designs for a second. I had a hard time distinguishing Kaneda from Kei since they have nearly identical hair-cuts and facial structures. That definitely brings the overall art score down a bit.

CHARACTER: 8/10
I like the damsel in distress character just as much as the next guy, but its refreshing to see a female lead who isn't a whiny little pussy. Kei is both mentally and physically as strong, if not stronger, then any other character in the manga. Kudos to the mangaka for trying something different. Then you have Kaneda who is the typical hot-headed hero. I was trying to make a few comparisons throughout the manga between him and Naruto without much success until he started walking out of a room then stopped. He turned around and gave Kei a big smile and a thumbs up. Then uttered these exact words: "Believe it!". If that doesn't explain Kaneda's character then I don't know what will.

ENJOYMENT: 6/10
I rate enjoyment rather low because there were a lot of dead spots in the manga where I just wanted the meaningless side stories to end so I could focus on the main plot. This manga could have easily shed a couple 100 pages and not lost a thing. Also the psychic powers were a bit inconsistent which had me confused for a good while. For example Tetsou is shown to have the ability to teleport, explode things with his mind, fly through space, deflect bullets, and just overall do anything he wants with his powers. Then in one part, while at full strength, he starts getting beaten up by Kaneda who has no powers what-so-ever. He just gets his ass kicked for some unexplained reason. At first they say he's powered down, but then literally 1 second after he gets punched in the face he teleports into space and destroys an air craft carrier. I was left scratching my head wondering what the hell just happened. There were too many power inconsistencies and boring side plots for me to enjoy this manga any more then I did.

OVERALL: 7/10
There were times when I couldn't wait to turn the page to find out what happens next, but there were also times when I just wanted to skip 20 pages ahead so I could read something half-way interesting for a change. It also didn't help that the ending was well...open ended. Lots of questions went unanswered and the fate of a few important characters is never touched on. There was also a bit at the beginning where Kei's partner is described as her "sort-of brother", but there relationship goes unexplained for the rest of the series. There are a lot of little problems in Akira that build up throughout the manga. I set the standards high for this one considering its rank on MAL. It also didn't help that at the end of each volume there was a blurb about how much of a masterpiece Akira is. So is this a masterpiece? Maybe it was in the 80s, but to todays standards its nothing more than a slightly above average story manga with a lot of hype.
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