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| THIS IS A MANGA ONLY DISCUSSION POST. DO NOT DISCUSS ANYTHING BEYOND THIS CHAPTER. ---------------------------------------- I'm not really sure where MAL got this number of chapters from but oh well. I still like the movie, but it's nothing but a taste compared to this manga, it all felt like one epic saga and that was great. |
| Just finished it. Indeed, I like this version a bit more. This ending was truly emotional. What a ride :,) |
| all was perfect, but the end don´t liked me!!!! |
| While the epilogue isn't to my liking, it is coherent with the importance that the USA ingerence took over the second half of the series and the strong generations opposition the manga bathed in from the beginning. Also, I had feared that the last contact between the two heroes would seem insufficient but I guess it was enough to wrap that up, even including the last emotional bit (I cried even though I already knew that from the movie ^^") My main grip with the sixth book is Last tome: 4/5 Great usage of "80s ingredients" (sci-fi, ESP, rebellious kids/gangs, etc), superb landscapes and depictions of destruction, a larger scope with every tome and yet the personal side isn't totally forgotten toward the finale... I don't know what to write. Score: 9/10 I can't believe the new french publication started three years ago, it sure has taken a long time to get the six tomes ! |
Rei_IIIJul 20, 2019 2:53 AM
| Very good manga, Otomo and his masterpiece today one of the greatest references of animation culture. |
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| Amazing. All the characters were important in some way, and the female cast became more diverse and interesting here than in the film, wich I liked. |
| Happy to finally get around to this — all in all a great read. Otomo is a master of set pieces. He built to action and confrontations brilliantly, and each characters' personal affairs always tied in well with the wider plot. I wasn't massively into the ending, but most conclusions that end in an incomprehensible surge of power always feel the same. Also, the Kodansha US books have a surprising number of typos. They really need a (better) proofreader. |
| Tetsuo & Kaneda are somehow even more annoying here than in the movie. kinda impressive ngl |
| Floyd Mayweather English Tutor |
| So yeah I wasn't feeling this series so much when I first started it but the second half starting from Akira's "bomb" and especially this last volume just absolutely clicked for me. I feel like this will need a re-read from me at some point to really organize my thoughts but while I kind of wish the series spent a bit more time building it's characters the story of these children that were basically nuclear weapons as far as their danger is concerned was really effective. And I felt genuine pain for what Tetsuo was going through in the end. |
| "Yes, I have been deprived of emotion. But not completely. Whoever did it, botched the job." - Geralt of Rivia |
| This was definitely wayyy better than the anime, Cant wait to rewatch the movie and see what they made now that I actually read the source material. |
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| Episode 120: Pages 382-399 of volume 6 of the Kodansha publication. NOT the end of volume 6. [source] Oddly enough, it seems volume 6 doesn't actually end where chapter 120 ends. According to at least three sources regarding the publications that came out in Akira's original source, Young Magazine, the final chapter to ever be released through magazine ends with Kaneda and Kei watching the sun rise over Neo-Tokyo after it exploded once again. However, in the Kodansha publication, there are still 44 pages left before it ends, and I don't see any references showing this to be the case online. So either it doesn't count as a chapter, or these chapters were included exclusively for the collective volumes that came out afterwards. Probably for the best, as ending it at page 399 would be way too open-ended for a story that has so many twists and turns. Either way, what a wild ride this whole manga has been. MILES ahead of the movie, and that's really saying something since the movie was beautiful in its own way. |
| Reading this manga felt like going through a car crash. I mean, I enjoyed parts of it but goddamn, this manga is just non-stop action after action. Wish it spent more time developing the world and characters a bit more before Akira unleashed the second psycho-kinetic event. |
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