●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 13: AKIRA 2

   

The thirteenth volume of OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS features the second volume (out of eight) that will collect the manga AKIRA. This second volume includes episodes 15 to 28 (up to page 200 of AKIRA vol. 2) covering the period  when  Katsuhiro Otomo was 29 years old in 1983 and 1984.

When AKIRA was collected in book format for the first time, Otomo gave it a lot of polish; he completed it through additions, corrections, deletions, replacements, rearrangements of pages and frames, he also added finishing touches, new drawings and illustrations. In addition to all that, the title pages of each episodes were also deleted from the book version and they were all collected in the 1995 published book AKIRA CLUB.

This new edition presents AKIRA in the closest way to its original serialization in Kodansha's YOUNG MAGAZINE . In accordance with the purpose of "arranging all of Otomo's works by era and tracing how he has changed as an author," everything, including the title pages, has been restored as much as possible to the way it was when it was serialized for the first time. However, There are some parts where the original illustrations no longer exist, and some parts cannot be restored to the way they were when they were serialized in the magazine because the manuscript was directly edited, but the goal of this new edition is to restore AKIRA to their original state as much as possible.

The original color pages from the serialization are all reprinted the same way they were first published in Young Magazine but this time with a pristine printing quality.

BOOK DETAILS

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Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)

Publication date: 2025-IV-18

Release date: 2025-IV-18

Language: Japanese

Number of pages: 290

Size: 248 x 172mm 

Retail price: ¥3,500

ISBN-10: 4065384338

ISBN-13: 978-4065384336

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EPISODES

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●AKIRA part 15

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.14

1983-VII-18 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 16

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.15

1983-VIII-1 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 17

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.16

1983-VIII-15 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 18

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.17

1983-IX-5 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 19

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.18

1983-IX-19 | 26 pages | Color & B&W

●AKIRA part 20

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.19

1983-X-3 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 21

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.20

1983-X-17 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 22

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.21

1983-XI-7 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 23

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.22

1983-XI-21 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 24

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.23

1983-XII-5 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 25 

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.24

1983-XII-19 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 26

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.1

1984-I-2 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 27

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.2

1984-I-16 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 28

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.4

1984-II-20 | 20 pages | B&W

●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 7: APPLE PARADISE

 

The seventh volume of OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS collects a variety of shorst stories and episodic manga works created by  Katsuhiro Otomo  between 1980 and 1981 when he was 26-27 years old.

This volume collects in book format for the first time the work, APPLE PARADISE, the unfinished  six chapter manga that was only published  in magazine format in the late 80's. This volume also includes the twelve fairy tale and literature inspired short story series THAT'S AMAZING WORLD previously collected in HANSEL AND GRETEL (seven of them) and  KANOJO NO OMOIDE (彼女の想いで…) (five of them). Aditionally five other short stories are also collected in this book, two of them from the fore-mentioned books another two from  SOS TAITOKYO TANKENTAI (SOS 大東京探検隊) and one from GOOD WEATHER.

The manga I・N・R・I  has been published this time in the original manuscript format, with the story opening from the end of the book to be read from left to right; when it was  collected in a book for the first time, the left and right frames were swapped and it was altered to open from the right.

As in the previous volumes, the manuscripts that had colors are reproduced in color, the same way they were first published in magazines but this time with a pristine printing quality.

BOOK DETAILS

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Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)

Publication date: 2025-IV-18

Release date: 2025-IV-18

Language: Japanese

Number of pages: 288

Size: 248 x 172mm 

Retail price: ¥3,500

ISBN-10: 4065384346

ISBN-13: 978-4065384343

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COLLECTED STORIES

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●SOS TAITOKYO TANKENTAI (SOS 大東京探検隊)

Monthly Manga Shonen (月刊マンガ少年) No.4

1980-III-6 | 32 pages | B&W

●5-PĒJI NO ARISU (５頁のアリス)  -That's Amazing World-

Pop Corn (ポップコーン) No.1

1980-IV-10 | 5 pages | B&W

●HAKUGEI (白鯨 ) -That's Amazing World-

Pop Corn (ポップコーン) No.2

1980-V-10 | 5 pages | B&W

●ŌKAMI OTOKO (狼男) -That's Amazing World-

Pop Corn (ポップコーン) No.3

8・10 | 1980-VII-10 | 5 pages | B&W

●OZU NO MAHOOSHI (オズの魔法使い) -That's Amazing World-

Pop Corn (ポップコーン) No.4

10・10 | 1980-IX-10 | 2 pages | B&W

●CINDERELLA AFTER 12 O'CLOCK (12時過ぎのシンデレラ) -That's Amazing World-

Pop Corn (ポップコーン) No.6

2・10 | 1981-I-10 | 5 pages | B&W

●AOI TORI (青い鳥) -That's Amazing World-

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)

3・7 | 1981-II-20 | 5 pages | B&W

●NEMURERU MORI NO BIJOO(眠れる森の美女 ) -That's Amazing World-

Just Comic (ジャストコミック) May issue

1981-IV-2 | 5 pages | B&W

●ARAJIN NO MAHÔ NO TSUBO (アラジンの魔法のつぼ) -That's Amazing World- 

Just Comic (ジャストコミッ) June issue

1981-V-2 | 5 pages | B&W

●ARIBABA TO YOJUUNIN NO TOZOKU (アリババと四十人の盗賊 ) -That's Amazing World-

 Just Comic (ジャストコミック) July issue

1981-VI-5 | 5 pages | B&W

●NOA NO HAKO FUNE (ノアの箱船) -That's Amazing World- 

 Just Comic (ジャストコミッ) August issue

1981-VII-5 | 5 pages | B&W

●ROJIN TO UMI (老人と海) -That's Amazing World-

Just Comic (ジャストコミッ) September issue

1981-VIII-5 | 5 pages | B&W

●ENTAKU NO KISHI (円卓の騎士) -That's Amazing World-

Just Comic (ジャストコミッ) November issue

1981-X-5 | 5 pages | B&W

●SUN BURG HILL NO OMOIDE(サン・バーグズヒルの想い出)

Makinchoo (漫金超) Vol.1

1980-IV-1 | 32 pages | Color + B&W

●ELECTRIC BIRD LAND
SF Adventure (SFアドベンチャー) No.7
1980-V-25 | 16 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.1「KIKAN ZEN'YA」part 1

(APPLE PARADISE 第一話「帰還前夜」1)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) vol.2

7・15 | 1980-VI-5 | 29 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.1「KIKAN ZEN'YA」part 2

(APPLE PARADISE 第一話「帰還前夜」2)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) vol.3

11・15 | 1980-IX-15 | 24 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.1「KIKAN ZEN'YA」part 3

(APPLE PARADISE 第一話「帰還前夜」3)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) Vol.4

1・15 | 1980-XII-25 | 12 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.1「KIKAN ZEN'YA」part 4

(APPLE PARADISE 第一話「帰還前夜」4)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) Vol.5

3・15 | 1981-II-25 | 17 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.2「KIRO」part 1

(APPLE PARADISE 第二話「帰路」1)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) vol.5

3・15 | 1981-II-25 | 8 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.2「KIRO」part 2

(APPLE PARADISE 第二話「帰路」2)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) Vol.6

6・15 | 1981-IV-25 | 16 pages | B&W

●APPLE PARADISE ep.2「KIRO」part 3

(APPLE PARADISE 第二話「帰路」3)

Manga Kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外) vol.8

11・15 | 1981-IX-25 | 16 pages | B&W

●VIRGIN SHADOW NI ICHIBANNORI! (VIRGIN SHADOW に一番乗り！)

Shōnen shōjo SF manga kyōsaku dai zenshū hachi (少年少女SFマンガ競作大全集８)

11・1 | 1980-X-5 | 4 pages | B&W

●I・N・R・I

Monthly Starlog (月刊スターログ) No.10

1980-IX-1 | 12 pages | B&W