Katsuhiro Otomo es un mangaka y cineasta japonés cuyas obras están profundamente arraigadas en la atmósfera turbulenta del Japón de los años 60, lo que dio forma a su perspectiva sobre la sociedad y la juventud. Su estilo distintivo, que combina un enfoque visual occidentalizado con el arte del cómic japonés, ha influido en toda una generación de creadores. Otomo es conocido por su narrativa visionaria y su capacidad para capturar energía cruda, rebelión y tensión social tanto en sus novelas gráficas como en sus películas. Sus narrativas exploran temas como la adolescencia, la autoridad y el impacto de los cambios sociales en los individuos.
Tetsuo y Kaneda se van adentrando cada vez más en el misterio de Akira. Por pura casualidad, unos pandilleros se ven envueltos en uno de los secretos mejor guardados del gobierno: unos experimentos que, con el objetivo de hacer evolucionar a la raza humana, han creado unos seres con poderes especiales... que a veces no pueden controlar. Y el más especial de todos ellos duerme bajo el cráter de Tokio...
¡Vuelve el clásico que desencadenó la mangamanía en Europa y América! Una ocasión ideal para descubrir -o redescubrir- el manga que lanzó a Katsuhiro Otomo a la fama internacional, en una nueva presentación en seis tomos a todo color. En la hostil y caótica megalópolis de Neo Tokyo, Tetsuo y sus compañeros deberán averiguar el enigma de Akira, bajo el cual se esconde el más escalofriante secreto científico. La edición definitiva de una obra maestra del cómic japonés -y también mundial- que no debe faltar en la estantería de cualquier aficionado al cómic en general.
Una madre lucha incansablemente por recuperar a sus hijos en un mundo devastado por la guerra. A pesar de su determinación, se enfrenta a la incertidumbre de si sus hijos querrán regresar con ella. La historia explora su travesía y el impacto de la guerra en sus vidas.
En "Las colonias han vuelto a la Tierra, pero. ¿Con qué fin?", la paz se ve interrumpida por la caída de una colonia espacial cerca del lugar de la explosión de la Epoc-22. La estación de Sarah se convierte en el epicentro de un misterio: ¿es casualidad o parte de un plan más complejo?
IN A DEVASTATED 21ST CENTURY, Neo-Tokyo, the armed might of Earth is massed against the godlike powers of two psychic titans, the mute child Akira and the deranged youth Tetsuo. While Akira has unintentionally destroyed the city twice before, Tetsuo has ravaged the surface of the Moon for his sheer amusement, and his madness grows as his abilities expand. But he is gradually losing control of the limitless energies that rage within him, mutating Tetsuo into a horror beyond imagination, and as all forces converge for a final confrontation, the fate of the planet lies in the hands of mere mortals...and the mind of a child. This final chapter of Katsuhiro Otomo's internationally honored graphic-novel masterpiece brings to a shattering, mind-warping conclusion the science-fiction epic that has influenced storytellers from every continent and in every medium. Akira is a one-of-a-kind work of breathtaking scope, unforgettable imagery, and singular vision.
This post-apocalyptic saga charts the coming of the creature known only as Akira, a power both feared and prized for its potential to shake the recovering world. The Great Tokyo Empire rises, but with technology's most advanced weaponry to hand, the planet is not taking the threat lying down.
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, the once glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic Akira. From the flooded wasteland of rubble and anarchy rises the Great Tokyo Empire, populated by a ragtag army of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira ad his mad prime minister, Tetsuo, and angry teen with immense powers of his own— and equally immense, twisted ambitions. The world at large is not taking the threat lying down, and the military strength of the planet is massing to take on the empire, but will technology's most advanced weaponry be enough to destroy Akira? And are Tetsuo's rapidly growing paranormal abilities a potentially greater threat? A mind-blowing epic, Akira is a sweeping graphic-novel tour de force of awe-inspiring vision and gut-wrenching intensity— and the inspiration for the brilliant Akira animated film. Creator Katsuhiro Otomo has influenced a generation of graphic novelists and animators and is universally acknowledged as a storyteller of extraordinary skill, standing alongside the finest writers and directors of science fiction.
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. Set off by the bullet of a would-be assassin, the godlike telekinetic fury of the superhuman child Akira has once again demolished in seconds that which took decades and untold billions to build. Now cut off from the rest of the world, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, with Akira its king, the psychic juggernaut Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a growing army of fanatic acolytes ready to go to any length to please their masters. Forces on the outside still search for a way to stop Akira, and the answer may lie in the hands of the mysterious Lady Miyako, a powerful member of Akira’s paranormal brotherhood. But the solution to harnessing Akira may ultimately be more dangerous than Akira himself. Twenty years since its original release in Japan, Akira remains one of the most widely acclaimed and influential works of graphic fiction, and creator Katsuhiro Otomo has become a legendary storyteller in animation as well as manga. Akira is a science fiction tour de force, a breathtaking vision of innocence, infamy, and insanity.
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. One of the true international classics of graphic fiction, Akira has once again taken America by storm. Artist/writer/filmmaker Katsuhiro Otomo is acclaimed worldwide as a master storyteller, and Akira showcases Otomo at the peak of his creative form. Akira is a timeless, epic work of unforgettable beauty, horror, and imagination.
Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo’s stunning science fiction masterpiece is considered by many to be the finest work of graphic fiction ever produced, and Otomo’s brilliant animated film version is regarded worldwide as a classic. This edition includes a new foreword from the author and a postscript from Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson!
