AKIRA VOL 1 – OTOMO 12 COMPLETE WORKS

Rp642.350

*”OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS” Volume 12
-This is the first volume (8 volumes in total) of the Otomo Complete Works Edition “AKIRA”, –

which was created by Katsuhiro Otomo when he was 28-29 years old in 1982-1983 and started serializing “AKIRA” in Young Magazine, which was just two years after its launch. It contains episodes 1-14 (up to p. 279 of the first volume of the book) in the original form as they were when they were first published.

This historic work, which had a great impact on the manga world, is famous for its perfection, but in fact, the author gave it a lot of brushing up when it was published in book form.

It was polished up by adding, correcting, deleting, replacing, swapping out pages and frames, adding finishing touches, drawing new illustrations, etc., and finally reached the completion of the Young Magazine book version of “AKIRA”, which is still read today, 40 years after its first publication.

It is especially well-known that the cover illustrations of each serialized episode are deleted from the book version.

However, in this complete edition of Otomo’s works, in accordance with the purpose of “arranging all his works by era and tracing how he has changed as an author,” everything, including the frontispiece, has been restored as much as possible to the way it was when it was serialized, and published in the “serialized version” in the form before it was edited for the book.

There are some parts where the original illustrations no longer exist, and some parts cannot be restored to the way they were when they were serialized because the manuscript was directly edited, but the goal of the complete edition is to “restore them to their original state as much as possible.

The ” live serialized version of AKIRA,” which has been completely lost since its serialization, is completely different from the “complete version of AKIRA” that you read in the book, and perfectly reproduces the excitement of when it was released! This is a must-have and must-see first volume dedicated to all AKIRA fans. In addition, the extremely rare color spread of the first issue, which is different from the book version, and the color pages from the serialization, etc., are all reprinted as they were at the time.

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*”OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS” Volume 12
-This is the first volume (8 volumes in total) of the Otomo Complete Works Edition “AKIRA”, –

which was created by Katsuhiro Otomo when he was 28-29 years old in 1982-1983 and started serializing “AKIRA” in Young Magazine, which was just two years after its launch. It contains episodes 1-14 (up to p. 279 of the first volume of the book) in the original form as they were when they were first published.

This historic work, which had a great impact on the manga world, is famous for its perfection, but in fact, the author gave it a lot of brushing up when it was published in book form.

It was polished up by adding, correcting, deleting, replacing, swapping out pages and frames, adding finishing touches, drawing new illustrations, etc., and finally reached the completion of the Young Magazine book version of “AKIRA”, which is still read today, 40 years after its first publication.

It is especially well-known that the cover illustrations of each serialized episode are deleted from the book version.

However, in this complete edition of Otomo’s works, in accordance with the purpose of “arranging all his works by era and tracing how he has changed as an author,” everything, including the frontispiece, has been restored as much as possible to the way it was when it was serialized, and published in the “serialized version” in the form before it was edited for the book.

There are some parts where the original illustrations no longer exist, and some parts cannot be restored to the way they were when they were serialized because the manuscript was directly edited, but the goal of the complete edition is to “restore them to their original state as much as possible.

The ” live serialized version of AKIRA,” which has been completely lost since its serialization, is completely different from the “complete version of AKIRA” that you read in the book, and perfectly reproduces the excitement of when it was released! This is a must-have and must-see first volume dedicated to all AKIRA fans. In addition, the extremely rare color spread of the first issue, which is different from the book version, and the color pages from the serialization, etc., are all reprinted as they were at the time.

order@toagraphicbook

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