32. Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo Manga ReviewType: Manga
Title: Akira #1
Author: Katsuhiro Otomo
Publisher: Dark Horse
ISBN: 978-1569714980
Ages: 15 and up
Pages: 364 pages
Year: 2000
Genre: Manga, Sci-Fi
Reader's Annotation: Tokyo is dead but the power of Akira cannot be stopped.
BookTalk Ideas: Ideas about the post-apocalyptic world of Tokyo and the survival of Tetsuo and Kaneda.
Summary: This manga comic has two main characters, Tetsuo and Kaneda, set is a post-apocalypse Tokyo in the year 2019. Their world changes as "paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira". - Amazon
Critical Evaluation: This monthly reprint of the original is a very popular series. On Amazon.com it received a full 5/5 stars from customer reviews and 4.34/5 starts on Goodreads.com website. It is considered as being the best graphic novel manga series ever because of its narration and imagery.
Challenge Issues:
Ages: 15 and up
Pages: 364 pages
Year: 2000
Genre: Manga, Sci-Fi
Reader's Annotation: Tokyo is dead but the power of Akira cannot be stopped.
BookTalk Ideas: Ideas about the post-apocalyptic world of Tokyo and the survival of Tetsuo and Kaneda.
Summary: This manga comic has two main characters, Tetsuo and Kaneda, set is a post-apocalypse Tokyo in the year 2019. Their world changes as "paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira". - Amazon
Critical Evaluation: This monthly reprint of the original is a very popular series. On Amazon.com it received a full 5/5 stars from customer reviews and 4.34/5 starts on Goodreads.com website. It is considered as being the best graphic novel manga series ever because of its narration and imagery.
Challenge Issues:
- Comic books
- Too graphic in violence
- Be familiar with the themes in the material and how they relate to young adults today.
- Stay calm and remember to not be personally offended by their comments or concerns.
- Libraries provide materials and information presenting all points of view on current and historical issues. Materials should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.
- Books and other library resources should be provided for the interest, information, and enlightenment of all people of the community the library serves. Materials should not be excluded because of the origin, background, or views of those contributing to their creation.
- LISTEN to what they have to say and reiterate our freedom to read and be without censorship.
- All material for young adults are under the review of the branch manager and even further up, the Library Director and even City Council members.
