If you haven't read Domu, stop whatever you're doing and run blindly around the countryside screaming the title until someone finally tries to pacify you with a copy. The art, the writing, the characters, the story: everything within the pages of these books is amazing. But that doesn’t matter because the rest of the story is pretty grounded in the sense that everyone is frustrated that they don’t understand what’s going on but that there’s one thing that needs to be done. One of the greatest achievements by Akira Kurosawa, Ikiru shows the director at his most compassionate—affirming life through an explora­tion of death.

By turns tragic and transcendent, Akira Kurosawa’s film follows the daily lives of a group of people barely scraping by in a slum on the outskirts of Tokyo. So up until now, actually and finally reading the manga, 40 years after it was first published, I thought the person on the cover was Akira!I didn't get the impression this was dated or outmoded either from an art style or the content of the ideas represented in the subtext of the story. He lets these new abilities go to his head, kicking off a gang war that builds to a revolution that permanently alters Neo-Tokyo.

Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. On the one hand, it is word for word the same 90% of the time with the previous translation, but there are some changes. What this does have is the art in the original right-to-left orientation, the original katakana sound effects and the original front matter from the original Japanese volumes which recaps the events in each previous volume. I don't know what the fuck Kodansha is thinking, but they need to publish a new edition and promote it.If you are into manga or getting into it, this is one of the classic titles you should think about checking out. A young executive hunts down his father’s killer in director Akira Kurosawa’s scathing The Bad Sleep Well. A grand-scale adventure as only Akira Kurosawa could make one, The Hidden Fortress stars the inimitable Toshiro Mifune as a general charged with guarding his defeated clan’s princess (a fierce Misa Uehara) as the two smuggle royal treasure across hostile territory. I also like how the movie feels so different, less personal and way more nuanced and political, it really makes both these works unique and worth consuming, over and over. Kurosawa’s effortless debut is based on a novel by Tsuneo Tomita about the rivalry between judo and jujitsu.

On a Technical Note: While I prefer the original right-to-left orientation of the 35th Anniversary box-set, Kodansha is still using the Dark Horse translation that appeared before Japanese formatting surprised the hell out of US publishers by catching on. Immediately after finishing the film adaptation of Akira I knew I wanted to dive into the source material and glean what I could glean to learn more about such an incredible film. Continuing his legendary collaboration with actor Toshiro Mifune, Kurosawa combines elements of Hamlet and American film noir to chilling effect in exposing the corrupt boardrooms of postwar corporate Japan. After finishing what would become his international phenomenon Rashomon, Akira Kurosawa immediately turned to one of the most daring, and problem-plagued, productions of his career.

Otomo's art on the page is as gorgeous as his production companies is on the big screen, whether it's depicting moments of fragility and intimacy, or apocalyptic scenes of mass destruction. However problems started showing in 5th and 6th volume where action was great but plot kinda loses its way, it felt like author did not know what to do next. Someone wrote in a review I read that the movie is more of an introduction to the story in the books, and boy were they right about that. Included in the set are the six volumes of the series, along with the odds-and-ends artbook Akira Club. m'amuse d'imaginer le personnage éponyme absent, mais je comprends parfaitement le choix : Akira est inutile.