Akira Manga

Ξ June 7th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ |

Seriously, there’s nothing like completing a collection even if you haven’t seen/read it yet. Despite them being really expensive at around £20 a pop, they are arguably the best drawn, best detailed and one of the best storied manga’s ever. Forget the movie; the manga has a whole depth that makes the movie look like a dried up puddle.

Get them NOW whilst you can, because, word down the grapevine is Dark Horse Manga who publish it in the UK (& US?) are re-issuing them in a smaller, A5 format. I can’t see how, since the level of detail in the A4 format is incredible as it is, so making it smaller might loose that, or, if they are cutting and rejigging it some of the scenes might not make as much sense or they will try and shift 10-12 books, rather than 6. The A4s have FAR more impact on your shelf as well.

I’m only up to book 3 and a bit which gets a tad monotonous with the perpetual running away, but it’s still a damn good read.