It's society's outsiders, those who don't belong, who are more intriguing to draw. I wanted it to be about the marginal members of society. It's about motorcycle gangs, rock musicians and punk rockers. Young people go berserk on impulse and eventually destroy themselves. He becomes so self-destructive that he loses himself. I wanted to tell that story right and that became AKIRA. When I did Fire Ball I was given 50 pages. The publisher opposed but eventually ran my sci-fi piece. I told the publisher I was doing a science fiction story. " How I got to do AKIRA is a very long story. AKIRA was then published by Dark Horse Comics in the 90s. The work was first published in an English language version by the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics. Set in post-war Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Initially serialized in the pages of Weekly Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was then collected into six volumes ranging from 300-500 pages by its current publisher Kodansha. Japanese promotional art This page uses Creative Commons Licensed content from Wikipedia ( view authors).ĪKIRA (アキラ) is a seinen science-fiction manga series, written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. This article contains plot details about the source material.
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