Unfortunately, this volume set was never completed, (with only the equivalent of the first 31 issues of the original translated manga) and would require an extra volume or two in order to finish the story. Marvel/Epic Comics also released a more consolidated version of the same translated and digitally colored comic (with higher quality paper in a larger size) into 10 volumes from 1990 to 1993. (originally, the cover price for the 38 issue manga was on average $4.80)
These iterations of the English Manga are no longer being made, so the price per book currently goes from about 8 US dollars to upwards of 100+ US dollars. Later, these fully-colored pages would be used in the full-color Japanese edition of the manga. Initially, Oliff would send drafts to Otomo for his endorsement but was later given the OK from Otomo himself to continue coloring without his approval.
These versions were also altered from the original Japanese versions to make them more accessible to English-speaking audiences by flipping the image and changing the speech bubbles since manga reads right to left and is read vertically.Ĭolorist Steve Oliff was recruited to digitally paint the manga. The entire translated manga was released from 1989 to 1995 and consisted of 38 digitally colored issues (and is considered to be one of the first digitally colored manga ever). The first release of the Akira manga in English was released by Epic Comics, an imprint of Marvel. cover of the first issue featuring Akira.Each new Episode also featured a title illustration made specifically for that chapter.īelow includes the entire original first chapter of the manga as seen in Young Magazine ( link to image source): The price per issue of Young Magazine was about ¥180 (about $3.81 US dollars in the 1980s) for the entire release of Akira. Akira began serialization on December 20, 1982, and continued until J(the Anime was released in 1988). Each new installment in the manga, ranging from 15-26 pages long and was called an “episode”, with 120 in all. The original run of Akira was featured in Young Magazine (published by Kōdansha), a magazine specifically targeted for adult men (Seinen).
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