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●AKIRA #25 VISION UNDERGROUND

●BOOK BOX SET● ŌRU KARĀ KOKUSAI BAN AKIRA 9 (オールカラー国際版 AKIRA 9)

This is the ninth of twelve box sets that collect the INTERNATIONAL EDITION of AKIRA that was released by Marvel / Epic Comics in the USA as 38 comic books. Each box set includes three of the English language comic books plus a booklet with the English-to-Japanese translation. The coloring was in charge of Steve Oliff and the lettering was done by Michael Higgins.

AKIRA started its serialization in black and white in Young Magazine on December 20, 1982 and became the longest lasting manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo. Its 120 chapters were published over the curse of eight years. AKIRA was also adapted as a full length animation film directed by Otomo himself in 1988.

BOOKS INCLUDED IN THE BOX-SET:

●AKIRA #26 ASSASSINATION CORPS

●AKIRA #27 THE GRAND CONVOCATION

BOX SET DETAILS

Publisher: Kodansha (講談社) + Marvel

Release date: 1991-IV-20

Languague: English + Japanese

Size: B5

Retail price: ¥1,796

ISBN-10: 406305019X

ISBN-13: 978-4063050196

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OTHER EDITIONS

ENGLISH EDITION ● AKIRA vol. 9 (TPB collection)

This 10 volume collection was never completed and collects only 31 issues of the 38 that that were previously published by Marvel in the U.S.

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Marvel Epic Comics
Release date: 1992-XII
Number of pages: 200
Language: English
Size: 10x7 in
Retail price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0871359413
ISBN-13: 978-0871359414

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GERMAN EDITION ● AKIRA Bd. 13: Vision im Untergrund

20 volume paperback color edition.

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Carlsen
Release date: 1993-I
Number of pages: 120
Language: German
Size: 26x17 cm
Retail price: 29,90
ISBN-10: 3551711739
ISBN-13: 978-3551711731

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FRENCH EDITION ● AKIRA vol. 9: Visions

The incomplete French 31 paperback issues were republished as 14 color hardcover volumes, completing the series for the first time in France.

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Glénat
Release date: 1992-VIII-27
Number of pages: 179
Language: French
Size: 29x19 cm
Retail price: 15.5€
ISBN-10: 272341552X
ISBN-13: 978-2723415521

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ITALIAN EDITION ● AKIRA vol. 9: Visioni

The incomplete French 31 paperback issues were republished as 14 hardcover volumes, completing the series for the first time in France.

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Glénat
Release date: 1992
Number of pages: 179
Language: Italian
Size: 29x19 cm
Retail price: L 20.000
ISBN-10: 887811216X
ISBN-13: 978-8878112162

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SPANISH EDITION ● AKIRA vol. 9

The Spanish 38 paperback issues were republished as 14 color hardcover volumes.

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Ediciones B
Release date: 1993-VI
Number of pages: 179
Language: Spanish
Size: 29x19 cm
Retail price: 2000 ptas
ISBN 10: 84-406-3640-7

ISBN 13: 978-84-406-3640-9

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●ORIGINAL STORY● WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 4

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 4

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.17
1991-IV-15 | 18 pages | B&W

Original Story by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋),
Satoshi Kon (今敏) and Keiko Nobumoto (伸本敬子)

Manga by Satoshi Kon (今敏)

Collected in the book:

●ORIGINAL STORY● WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 3

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 3

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.16
1991-IV-8 | 18 pages | B&W

Original Story by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋),
Satoshi Kon (今敏) and Keiko Nobumoto (伸本敬子)

Manga by Satoshi Kon (今敏)

Collected in the book:

●PAMPHLET● WORLD APARTMENT HORROR movie pamphlet (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー映画パンフレット)

Theater pamphlet of WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー) the last live action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo. Includes a 6 page interview with Otomo as well as cast and crew info and photos from the film.

PAMPHLET DETAILS

Publisher:
Release date: 1991-IV-5
Number of pages: 28
Size: A5
Retail price: ￥577

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●FILM● WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー)

Today it was released in japanese theaters WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー) the first long live action movie directed by Katsuhiro Otomo upon an original story by Satoshi Kon (今敏). A manga with the same name was published in Kodansha's Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo and drawn by Satoshi Kon that was collected in the book WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー) together with three more stories by Satoshi Kon.

MAIN FILM CREDITS

Directed by

Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Screenplay

Keiko Nobumoto (信本敬子) & Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Draft

Satoshi Kon (今敏)

Planning:

Hida Matsuhisa (肥田光久)

Producers:

Yoshihiro Kato ( 加藤悦弘) & Yasuhisa Kazama (風間康久)

Cinematography:

Noboru Shinoda (篠田昇)

Art

Terumi Hosoishi 細石照美

Music

Kimio Nomura (埜邑紀見男)

Editor

Kan Suzuki (鈴木歓)

●BOOK ENGLISH EDITION● AKIRA #27 THE GRAND CONVOCATION

Twenty-seventh issue of Katsuhiro Otomo's AKIRA colored edition published by Marvel Epic Comics in English language in the USA. This book was collected in Japan in a box set: ŌRU KARĀ KOKUSAI BAN AKIRA 9 (オールカラー国際版 AKIRA 9).

COMIC BOOK DETAILS

Publisher: Marvel / Epic Comics
Release date: 1991-IV
Language: English
Number of pages: 64
Size: 10x7 in
Retail price: $3.95
ISBN-10: 0871356864

ISBN-13: 9780871356864

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OTHER EDITIONS

FRENCH EDITION ● AKIRA #27 La réunion prodigieuse

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Glénat
Release date: 1991-X
Number of pages: 64
Language: French
Size: 19x28 cm
Retail price: 16FF

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ITALIAN EDITION ● AKIRA #27 La grande assemblea

BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Glénat
Release date: 1992-VIII
Number of pages: 64
Language: Italian
Size: 19x28 cm
Retail price: L 4.500

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SPANISH EDITION ● AKIRA #27 La magna asamblea

BOOK DETAILS

Publisher: Dragón | Glénat
Release date: 1992-V
Number of pages: 64
Language: Spanish
Size: 19x28 cm
Retail price: 450ptas
ISBN 13: 978-84-406-2854-1
ISBN 10: 84-406-2854-4

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●ORIGINAL STORY● WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 2

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 2

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.15
1991-IV-1 | 18 pages | B&W

Original Story by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋),
Satoshi Kon (今敏) and Keiko Nobumoto (伸本敬子)

Manga by Satoshi Kon (今敏)

Collected in the book:

Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 7

This magazine also contains:

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH

●MANGA SCRIPT● THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 7 (沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第7回)

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 7

(沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第7回)

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.15
1991-IV-1 | 47 pages | B&W

Written by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功)

This episode is collected in the books:

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR part 2

This magazine also contains:

●ORIGINAL STORY● WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 1

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR (ワールドアパートメントホラー) part 1

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.14
1991-III-25 | 26 pages | B&W

Original Story by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋),
Satoshi Kon (今敏) and Keiko Nobumoto (伸本敬子)

Manga by Satoshi Kon (今敏)

Collected in the book:

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR

This magazine also contains:

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH

Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 6

●MANGA SCRIPT● THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 6 (沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第6回)

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 6

(沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第6回)

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.14
1991-III-25 | 42 pages | B&W

Written by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功)

Collected in the books:

WORLD APARTMENT HORROR part 1

This magazine also contains:

●MANGA SCRIPT● THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 5 (沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第5回)

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 5

(沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第5回)

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.13
1991-III-18 | 43 pages | B&W

Written by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功)

Collected in the books:

●MANGA SCRIPT● THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 4 (沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第4回)

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 4

(沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第4回)

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.12
1991-III-11 | 42 pages | B&W

Written by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功)

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●ILLUSTRATION & INTERVIEW● TAKARAJIMA magazine NO.219

This month Takarajima (宝島) magazine features an cover illustration by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋) who has recently directed World Apartment Horror (ワールドアパートメントホラー), a live action film based on the Manga written by him and drawn by Satoshi Kon (今敏). The magazine features interviews and comments about comics and cinema by Otomo and others. The cover illustration is collected in Otomo katsuhiro's ARTWORK book KABA.

INTERVIEW by Mayumi Mitome

EVERYTHING YOU ALWAYS WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT KATSUHIRO OTOMO, BY KATSUHIRO OTOMO.

(Interview ahead of the release of the film World Apartment Horror)

●So when you draw manga, do you think about the style of each frame?

No, although I did for a time in my earlier days. Say a low angle like Yasujiro Ozu, or Tai Kato ... but you always imagine you'll try that sort of thing, then end up not doing it. These days they even manage that much on TV, don't they? I watch a lot, so I've lost track of what's what (laughs).

●In your manga one even senses effects like slow motion, and the gaps between cuts.

I guess lt's because in my own way, I've studied just what films are, the shift from one cut to another and suchlike. Read the books of Akira Iwasaki. Studied Eisenstein's composition etc. Thus I've picked up that stuff in quite some detail. In brief, a movie is a story that runs for at the most an hour-and-a-half to two hours. It has around a thousand cuts, I suppose. None of which can be left out, of course. Each one is significant in its own way; each scene has a theme. It's almost as if I somehow remember that sort of thing in my bones, unconsciously. Film fans seem to have that ability. The '70s were a strange time really, weren't they, what with hippies, and New Cinema and so on. There was this sense of tearing down established things. But that gradually changed. There's an American director by the name of Frank Capra, you may recall. I began to take a greater and greater interest in Capra's work. People like that shoot films in a really orthodox manner. With happy endings I mean. We'd only ever watched the stuff that'd been dismantled. Seeing things before they were destroyed, it struck me that hang on, there's no need to break everything down quite so much (laughs). Even here in Japan we had New Wave cinema courtesy of Shochiku. Thinking about it now, Yasujiro Ozu was a great deal more radical. The same could be said for the likes of Spielberg and Lucas. There's something atavistic about it all. People watch a film then afterwards have a few drinks and discuss it, don't they? All trotting out their opinions, me included (laughs). Too much of that though gradually starts to pall. Next thing you're talking about making a film yourself.

●Your manga are thus quite cinematic, but is film production a different sort of challenge?

Totally. If it were the same it'd be boring. I'm not smart enough to do it as easily (laughs). That realty hit home when I was making Jiyu wo Warera ni. In one fell swoop I learned that you can never shoot something exactly the way you want it (laughs). That was quite an education, I must say. I drew the storyboards and went to animation studio. Of course you have this vision in your head of the visuals. Then you go to where they're actually doing the animation and find yourself thinking hang on, this isn't what I meant (laughs)! Looking through the lens I realised that it is completely different. Which is why I didn't do any drawings this time, because I knew I'd be disappointed (laughs).

●MANGA SCRIPT● THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 3 (沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第3回)

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 3
(沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第3回)

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.11
1991-III-4 | 43 pages | B&W

Written by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功)

Collected in the books:

●MANGA SCRIPT● THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 2 (沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第2回)

THE LEGEND OF MOTHER SARAH Part 2 -Kodomo no machi- Episode 1
(沙流羅第2話「子供の街」第1回)

Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.10
1991-II-25 | 36 pages | B&W

Written by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋)

Illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功)

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