Akira - Manga Review 

To me this is still one of the best manga's i've read , hopefully oneday the masses will understand how different the manga is from the movie, great review also.

One of the best mangas ever

Just finished reading volume 6. Took me over 10 weeks to read and purchase every volume but it was worth every penny. What a ride. Amazing detail and artwork in every panel. I heard they're gonna make in into a series too which'll follow the manga. Super excited to hear more about that. Good vid, thanks

Read Akira recently and omg, it’s a masterpiece. I can now see why lots of series’ copy a lot of its tropes, such as average joe guy meeting badass rebel girl and fighting together, the idea of rivals who were once friends and have differing ideals, psychopaths who gain unlimited power and let it get to their heads, and just the whole cyberpunk, post apocalyptic genre as a whole. I loved the romance between both Kaneda and Kei along with Tetsuo and Kaori, even if the latter’s meeting wasn’t the best of circumstances. I’m a sucker for romance, so of course seeing all the cute moments between these two pairs made me so happy. Kaori’s death was so sad and seeing Tetsuo sad about it too was such a heart-felt moment. Tetsuo is like the perfect villain, having a mixture of irredeemable and sympathetic qualities. Akira being seen as a villain is missing the bigger picture. He is just a child who doesn’t know better, and the giant nukes he causes are because of the traumatic things he goes through. This is also why Kaneda sets up the Great Akira Empire at the end, to stop these army men and scientists studying psychic children and trying to make weapons out of them. They didn’t want history to repeat itself. At least, that’s how I interpreted it. And yeah, it was as you said, the art in this series is all very well done. Everything just looks so natural and realistic. The second Akira explosion really shocked me as you see all the destruction and death caused. It is very vivid in its detail. Yeah, this was the best manga I ever read. Very surprising that it came out in 1982, years before the likes of Dragon Ball, JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure, Sailor Moon and One Piece. Akira was manga history and anyone who is even remotely interested owe it to themselves to read this. 10/10 for me.

I just finished all 6 volumes at the beginning of this week, and I think that the Akira manga is leagues ahead of anything the movie ever tried to be. The characters have better and clearer motivations, the story is less convoluted and actually makes sense, and there's less offputting/disturbing imagery. I was also surprised to meet new characters that didn't even show up in the film, or at the very least had inconsequential roles. I was able to get attached to the characters in the manga, where I couldn't at all in the film. Though there are 5 or 6 little groups of people you have to keep track of by the end of the story, I didn't have too hard of a time following what was going on. The themes were a lot more fleshed out as well. Definitely one of my favorite mangas now.

Pure masterpiece... great review ! Thanks ! I saw the real Kaneda bike in Angoulême, where I live. Soooo cool.

Thank you for sharing such a big passion for Akira with others. I barely post anything on video's comments but I had to. And I'm proud there is people out there who appreciate Mr. Otomo's work as much as I do :')

Very underrated channel. Great job, keep it up.

man im proud to be your subscriber number 100 after watching this review! keep em coming you´re onto something

So good, I was reading each series one after another, each in one sitting after the four volume I had to pace myself cause i didn’t want it to end

Loving the volume 5 appreciation

Got volume 1 on the way, Akira has been one of the "big ones" sat on my to read list for a while. Thanks for providing such an ace review. You got yourself a sub my man

Actuuuuually, they aren't thrown into reform school. They were already attending the Eighth District Youth Vocational Training School, where they formed the Capsules motorcycle gang.

I finished reading Akira right now, it's one of my favourite mangas now. The only things I "criticize" are the characters (I think they're good, but they could have been waaaay better if the pacing slowed down a bit at times, and I would have preferred that the friendship-rivalry between Tetsuo and Kaneda was more fleshed out) and the beginning of the story, I never really liked how Kaneda got involved in all the anti-government stuff. I also think that Otomo could have explained better some things regarding the psychic power, but still, it's a masterpiece

Akira is just savage!!! Great video

Great Review! Also Nice fighting game music choices. Third strike

Tbh I watched the Streamline dub first and saw a few clips of the later dub more recently, but is it weird to say I prefer the original dub? Great vid BTW Awesome use of SF Alpha 3 music btw

stunning content ZombieJohnny. I killed that thumbs up on your video. Continue to keep up the wonderful work.

I just Randomly found out about your Chanel and was very entertaining you sir just earned a subscriber. Also SFA 3 music nice touch

Great review! What is the BG music used in 8:00? So mystical, yet some how suit this video very well! Great pick!

God. I just finished this manga and i loved it.

also ich fand das video gut er hat laut und deutlich gesprochen nicht zu schnell! und viele Bilder benutzt sehr informativ 10/8

Just a note of 8:30, the akira japanese sign is written in katakana (one of the alphabetic letters in japanese), not in kanji.

I read it in one week and I’m planning on doing and essay on it for my English class.

keep making interesting videos like this.

Man now I want to re-read it

I’m thinking about picking up the 35th anniversary box set but I’m contemplating whether I should get the Akira box set or the Dragon ball Z box set 🤔

When I visit the States (after all these lockdowns as stuff...different restrictions in different countries, we are forbidden to leave...anyway),....next time I am in the USA, I will track down all the 38 issues of Marvel/Epic Comics Akira series.

Great Manga, Geat Video.

Amazing video!!

Question I’m new to manga and I wanted to buy the full box set of akira I just want to know can I get it in coloured Thanks for your time amazing video!

Holy shit I'm buying that

I just watched this last night.

Get the McFarlane Kaneda Bike and the Kaneda and Bike boxset. Get also Bandai Soul of Popynica Kaneda Bike.

as an artist i really wanna search where Katsuhiro Otomo find references xd and how he learned

the art style looks like moebius

The marvel colour job is legendary. How far marvel has fallen

can someone explain in book 2 the spy helps kaneda and kei to escape in the hospital in the van, but at the boom gate the guard looks at the back of the van and nothing is there so how did he sneak out kei and kaneda, becuase nexr you see then at keis aunts place, its bothering me

Ive seen the movie and never really felt like the story was good and that the only thing i feel like was amazing were the atmosphere and the god tier animation. Ive been trying to get more i to books specifically manga (cause comics i feel are harder to follow) and wanted to know if i should just pick the books up all together?

They shouldn’t of skipped Yamagatas death in the movie bc then he just was in for afewc scenes and disappeared

I just subbed 🌺

4/10 Manga. The only reason that the score is that high is thanks to the finely crafted graphical elements. Everything else is disgracefully poor, only good enough to satisfy the bare minimum required of the medium. The characters are sub-one-dimensional and mostly unlikable, with some being so devoid of substance and meaningful agency that they are barely more than plot devices. A concerning portion of the dialogue is just characters yelling each other's names, the rest nothing more than a utilitarian means of moving the plot along. The plot itself is just a mess, meandering and unfocused from start to finish. Akria may be an influential manga and a visually impressive work in its own right, but it most certainly is not a well-made story. Essentially, its 2000~ pages of thinly justified chase-scenes, screaming, violence, and miscellaneous chaos.

i done a erview of it 2. Im proud of it!!!!! :D haha lol he tuns into a baby

while people be like “ta-KA-shi”

Does the manga have any nudity I am 14 and I don't want to see that cuz I'll get in trouble

why does it say 2030ad

Where is that hat at 5:47 from?

Bartkira !