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AKIRA Hardcover Collection 6
  • Published: 21 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781646511396
  • Imprint: Kodansha
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $75.00

AKIRA Hardcover Collection 6

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The epic, timeless hit that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word "manga" part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the original right-to-left manga reading format and Katsuhiro Otomo's original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful, large-sized collectible edition.

In Neo-Tokyo, the armed might of Earth is massed against the godlike powers of two psychic titans, the mute child Akira and the deranged youth Tetsuo. While Akira has unintentionally destroyed the city twice before, Tetsuo has ravaged the surface of the Moon for his sheer amusement, and his madness grows as his abilities expand. But he is gradually losing control of the limitless energies that rage within him, mutating Tetsuo into a horror beyond imagination, and as all forces converge for a final confrontation, the fate of the planet lies in the hands of mere mortals...and the mind of a child.
  • Published: 21 April 2026
  • ISBN: 9781646511396
  • Imprint: Kodansha
  • Format: Hardback
  • Pages: 448
  • RRP: $75.00
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Praise for AKIRA Hardcover Collection 6

Praise for the manga and anime
"Some kind of fever-dream masterpiece, easily the most breathtaking and kinetic anime ever made and one of the most eloquent films about atomic afterclap." –The Village Voice

"One of the most energizing, thrilling comics ever written: every panel seems like a small celebration of comics as an art… Everyone should read AKIRA." -Anime News Network

"Landmark Japanese cyberpunk animation…There is a thanatonic rapture to [AKIRA's] vision of a whole world ending and being reborn as something else." -The Guardian