This is not the orginal manga in colour!
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It's made up of loads of full color stills from the Akira anime movie with speech bubbles as with normal comics. It's about novel size, about 1cm thick (not normal graphic novel dimensions). It is exactly as the film is. This volume (volume one) goes up to Tetsuo being taken in and examined in that huge cylinder/scanner thing. It's great to see loads of colour images from the film but it's not the same as the HUGE black and white volume of the original manga/comic that the film was based on. Watch the ace anime then check out the original manga (all six massive volumes) before reading this. If you want the original Manga in colour apparently Marvel published it in full colour if you can find it. Also, it reads back to front which seems weird at first but actually the size and comic book format actually works pretty well that way.
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Cool book, but don't expect the film all over again.
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This book runs up to about issue 5 of the original comic, and is just great. It is a colour comic and the art is really fantastic. Otomo was on fire when he penned this book. If you want the film all over again then think again, but if you want Otomo's true vision of the start of this masterpiece then buy this book. DO IT NOW.
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