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AKIRA Hardcover Collection 3
  • Published: 27 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781646511365
  • Imprint: Kodansha
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $60.00
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AKIRA Hardcover Collection 3

  • Katsuhiro Otomo
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The epic, timeless hit that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word "manga" part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the original right-to-left manga reading format and Katsuhiro Otomo's original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful, large-sized collectible edition.

The epic, timeless hit that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word "manga" part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the original right-to-left manga reading format and Katsuhiro Otomo's original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful, large-sized collectible edition.

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.
  • Published: 27 January 2026
  • ISBN: 9781646511365
  • Imprint: Kodansha
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 288
  • RRP: $60.00
Categories:

Praise for AKIRA Hardcover Collection 3

Praise for the manga and anime
"Some kind of fever-dream masterpiece, easily the most breathtaking and kinetic anime ever made and one of the most eloquent films about atomic afterclap." –The Village Voice

"One of the most energizing, thrilling comics ever written: every panel seems like a small celebration of comics as an art… Everyone should read AKIRA." -Anime News Network

"Landmark Japanese cyberpunk animation…There is a thanatonic rapture to [AKIRA's] vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." -The Guardian

Praise for the manga and anime
"Some kind of fever-dream masterpiece, easily the most breathtaking and kinetic anime ever made and one of the most eloquent films about atomic afterclap." –The Village Voice

"One of the most energizing, thrilling comics ever written: every panel seems like a small celebration of comics as an art… Everyone should read AKIRA." -Anime News Network

"Landmark Japanese cyberpunk animation…There is a thanatonic rapture to [AKIRA's] vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." -The Guardian