KODANSHA has released a new edition of AKIRA in Japan. This time presenting the colored version of the manga with Japanese texts for the very first time. This fifth book collects the same episodes of the original black and white volume AKIRA 5. Each of this six volumes of SŌ TEN'NENSHOKU AKIRA (総天然色AKIRA) come in a transparent slipcase.
Katsuhiro Otomo's epic manga AKIRA started its serialization in black and white in Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) on December 20, 1982. The international version colored by Steve Oliff was first published by Marvel Epic Comics in color in the US in a 38 paperback issues that were collected in Japan in twelve box sets as ŌRU KARĀ KOKUSAI BAN AKIRA (オールカラー国際版 AKIRA). Each set included a booklet with the English-to-Japanese translation.
BOOK DETAILS: Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2004-III-16
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 418
Size: 25.8 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm (B5)
Reatail price: ¥ 3,990
ISBN-10: 4063645045
ISBN-13: 978-4063645040
BOOK DETAILS:
Publisher: Norma Editorial
Release date: 2006-X-24
Language: Spanish
Number of pages: 416
Size: 25.8 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm (B5)
Reatail price: €23,95
ISBN-10: 8498144191
ISBN-13: 978-8498144192
2019 GERMAN EDITION ● AKIRA 5 (Farbige Neuausgabe)
BOOK DETAILS: Publisher: Carlsen Verlag GmbH Release date: 2019-III-26 Language: German Number of pages: 416 Size: 25.8 x 18.8 x 2.8 cm (B5) Reatail price: €29,99 ISBN-10: 3551739358 ISBN-13: 978-3551739353
Katsuhiro Otomo has drawn this illustration for a set of two postcards that will be given as an advanced ticket present, starting on march 6. The other postcard features another Otomo illustration from 2003, originally used as initial poster to promote STEAMBOY. 30.000 of them were produced
Kodansha has released the fourth volume of a new edition of The Legend of Mother Sarah (沙流羅) , a manga written by Katsuhiro Otomo and illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功) that started it's serialization in Young Magazine in 1990-I-15 and continued sporadically until 2004-IV-26 making a total of 5 parts collected in 7 books. This new edition that contains the same number of pages and episodes than the one previously published back in the nineties features a new cover art and is smaller in size.
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2004-III-5
Langueage: Japanese
Number of pages: 265
Size: 17.6 x 13.2 x 2.2 cm
Retail price: ¥650
ISBN-10: 4063612198
ISBN-13: 978-4063612196
Kodansha has released the third volume of a new edition of The Legend of Mother Sarah (沙流羅), a manga written by Katsuhiro Otomo and illustrated by Takumi Nagayasu (ながやす功) that started it's serialization in Young Magazine in 1990-I-15 and continued sporadically until 2004-IV-26 making a total of 5 parts collected in 7 books. This new edition that contains the same number of pages and episodes than the one previously published back in the nineties features a new cover art and is smaller in size.
BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2004-III-5
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 337
Size: 18 x 13 x 2.6 cm (B6)
Retail price: ¥700
ISBN-10: 406361218X
ISBN-13: 978-4063612189