
AKIRA Hardcover Collection 3
Kodansha Comics · Hardcover · October 28, 2025
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.
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- Who it’s for
- This hardcover preserves Otomo’s original right-to-left format and hand-drawn sound effects.
- Themes
- Apocalyptic destruction, Paranormal powers, Covert government experiments
- Pacing
- Fast
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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.
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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.
Hand-Drawn Sound Effects
This hardcover preserves Otomo’s original right-to-left format and hand-drawn sound effects.
Come here for
- Original right-to-left manga reading format
- Otomo’s original, hand-drawn sound effects
Expect
- A large-sized collectible hardcover edition
Where it sits
| Cyberpunk Comics | 84% |
|---|---|
| General Manga | 50% |
| Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Comics | 48% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- General Manga
- Tie-In Comics
- Post-Apocalyptic Sci-Fi Comics
- Authors
- Katsuhiro Otomo
- Publisher
- Kodansha Comics
- Published
- October 28, 2025
- Format
- Hardcover
- Theme
- Apocalyptic destruction · Paranormal powers · Covert government experiments
- Reading lane
- General Manga