5/30/2023 0 Comments Akira manga vol 1![]() ![]() Now that I’ve read about it a little bit, I am seeing Akira influences everywhere. I watched the anime movie, read a little more about the storyline, and I can’t get it out of my mind. ***One week later*** I sat on this review for a bit because Akira is starting to crawl under my skin. ![]() Akira is pretty close to our time frame right now, so it's fun sort of fun to read a story published 30 years ago that thought the "future" was going to be so different. It has an interesting story in a post-apocalyptic world that reminds me very much of the video games I'd play on Nintendo that were set in the decimated world of the post-war 1990s. I’m not seeing how ground-breaking it is because the ground has already been well and truly broken by the time I’m getting into manga. However, I’m coming to this well after the series was published, and I’m seeing the fruits of Otomo’s labor. ![]() Someone even compared it to the Japanese version of Watchmen in terms of its influence. People point to Akira as being so inspirational and launching genres. As soon as I finished reading this manga, I couldn’t figure out what all the fuss was about. ![]()
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