6/30/2023 0 Comments Akira volume 1![]() ![]() On a more ethical level, it’s a case of changing the artist’s work, often without their approval, and can lead to confusion as the whole work feels like you’re reading it via mirror reflection (because you are).Īkira is a bit more complicated than just the art being flipped and calling it a day. ![]() Worst was Star Wars: The Manga, where everything you remember from the movie happens… in the opposite direction. I recall reading Kia Asamiya’s Batman: Child of Dreams, where Two-Face’s halves were on the wrong sides. I’ve got some bad memories of that sort of s-t. Typically, if you see a manga and it reads left-to-right, then that means the publisher flipped the artwork and now everything is “backward”. When I picked up my copy of Akira Volume 1, my initial reaction was “Oh no, it reads from left-to-right.” In case you don’t know, Japanese comics read from right-to-left. I liked the movie, so Akira was an easy choice to read.īut before I get into the first volume of Otomo’s six volume series, I have to address something for posterity’s sake. It was one of those movies you stayed up late to watch on the Sci-Fi Channel in the wee hours of the early ’90s and, joining flicks like Wizards, Heavy Metal and Rock & Rule, was an early introduction into “adult cartoons”. ![]() Like most people my age, I’ve of course seen the 1988 film (adapted and directed by Otomo, animated by Tokyo Movie Shinsha). ![]()
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