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Summary: Akira, A Masterpiece!
Review: Akira, the title character, is central to this volume. Initially, he appears to be an asset that everyone wants, but the long-hinted at power of Akira is slowly awakened as the story progresses.The awakening of Akira changes the whole nature of the story. Both in the content and in the illustrations, you can see that a very large change has come to the world, and that things won't be the same again. And speaking of the illustrations: the sheer scope of the story is well captivated by Katsuhiro Otomo's art. Quite, quite spectacular. At the end of this volume, we are halfway through the six volumes of this epic story. From my uncertain beginnings, I'm now sure I'll be following this through to the end.
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Summary: Akira awakens...
Review: Akira, the title character, is central to this volume. Initially, he appears to be an asset that everyone wants, but the long-hinted at power of Akira is slowly awakened as the story progresses. The awakening of Akira changes the whole nature of the story. Both in the content and in the illustrations, you can see that a very large change has come to the world, and that things won't be the same again. And speaking of the illustrations: the sheer scope of the story is well captivated by Katsuhiro Otomo's art. Quite, quite spectacular. At the end of this volume, we are halfway through the six volumes of this epic story. From my uncertain beginnings, I'm now sure I'll be following this through to the end.
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Summary: Powerfull in the end
Review: Another fine installment in the Akira series in my opinion. The book has (yet again) less pages than the previous volume (book I - 364 pages, book II - 300 pages, book III - 280 pages of which a big segment is an even quicker read than any of the previous parts) but it doesn't fail to impress ... again. After Tetsuo got Akira out of the ground at the Olympic site (in volume II) their time together doesn't last long when Tetsuo mysteriously disappears (for almost the entire book), and Kaneda and Kei take a confused and dazed Akira with them. Neo-Tokyo turns out to have changed into a battle-ground where chaos rules as a result of the Colonels 'safety measures' (last volume). Martial Law has been declared. What follows is an almost volume-wide "hunt for Akira" that takes place all over the ravages of neo-Tokyo in which each 'competitor' (such as the Colonel and his project-members, the government, the rebels and the mysterious Lady Miyako) has it's own reasons to get their hands on him. The rebel group even splits into two parties when it turns out there's a traitor among them. Akira himself is letting everything happen as it may. He is 'up' but not fully 'awake' yet. But it's just a matter of time before he WILL awake and become the enormous force that legends tell he is, but nobody is able to predict how long that will take. Nor does anyone know what to do when it will happen. Storywise this book makes the least progress of all three volumes that are published at this point in time, which I don't neccesarilly mean to say as a bad thing. It's just that each scene gets even more exposure, more pages, than each scene has had so far (which was already big) and so you're at the end of the volume before you know it, without the story being that much further. Where Otomo used to take 10 pages for a scene in the previous volumes, he takes 20 here. The real emphasis in this book is mainly on the confrontations between the several parties of interest, which are drawn out over the better part of the pages. However, art-wise I must say that this volume is so far the most powerfull by far, especially in the last 60 pages which left me quite speechless (and I don't have that easily). In the end it leaves us with a great cliffhanger which makes the wait for volume IV to be published not exactly easier. A volume of which I'm glad to have heard it will be 400 pages.
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Summary: The Saga Continues
Review: If you know of the Akira Anime this Manga should be of no surprise; however, there are some definite differences that will become evident upon reading. 1st off the anime is way way shorter and edited to such an extent that most casual watchers are left feelin confused. These books will clear up any problems you may have had with the movie and expand upon the foundation the movie laid out. Be aware these books not in color.
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Summary: sinting surinting
Review: ini buku yang wajib dimiliki, sinting surinting aja kalau nggak punya. Forget everything else.
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Summary: Akira, A Masterpiece!
Review: The third volume in the Akira series is just like all the other volumes, magnificent. Although this is the shortest installment of the Akira series, at 282 pages, it's still great. I highly recomend
this book to any anime, sci-fi, or manga fan. If you want a good read get this book.
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Summary: Still very good
Review: They throw a lot of new characters at you in this one, and it can be hard to keep up. But hang in there and read it twice if you have to. I can't wait until I can get the next one, because the ending if (almost literally!) da bomb.
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Summary: Still very good
Review: They throw a lot of new characters at you in this one, and it can be hard to keep up. But hang in there and read it twice if you have to. I can't wait until I can get the next one, because the ending if (almost literally!) da bomb.
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Summary: The most action-packed volume so far
Review: This book was hard to get a copy of, but I finally managed to get my hands on one yesterday. Like the first two volumes, I read it straight through as soon as I got home. I hadn't planned to do that, but it was so good I couldn't put it down. This volume is the smallest so far in terms of the number of pages, but it is almost non-stop action from first page to last. Akira is awake, but still groggy from his long sleep. Multiple groups want to capture and control him before he fully wakes up. You can't skip a page if you want to keep track of who has Akira from one moment to the next. Lots of action, lots of firepower, lots of destruction. I can't wait for volume four.
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Summary: The most action-packed volume so far
Review: This book was hard to get a copy of, but I finally managed to get my hands on one yesterday. Like the first two volumes, I read it straight through as soon as I got home. I hadn't planned to do that, but it was so good I couldn't put it down. This volume is the smallest so far in terms of the number of pages, but it is almost non-stop action from first page to last. Akira is awake, but still groggy from his long sleep. Multiple groups want to capture and control him before he fully wakes up. You can't skip a page if you want to keep track of who has Akira from one moment to the next. Lots of action, lots of firepower, lots of destruction. I can't wait for volume four.
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