Akira Tributes

>>86077109
>Lets post

*Let's post

>>86077109
Who can I email to complain about this? Harassing a storytime over a week is ridiculous.

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>>86077132
Whatever

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And then after all these we will post 38 again and be done with it all

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Oh and I didn't bother making this one self bump so keep it alive :)

>>86077109
>Moebius
Wait, what?

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>>86077197
You have probably seen the piece of art before and not known its origin.

Just take Akira to /m/. The board is /a/ but With actual good gaste and it accepts anything remotely /m/ relatei without prejudice, being it japanese or western stuff

Why must the /co/ mods be such jackasses as to delete the last storytime thread?

>>86077236
>gaste
>relatei

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>>86077236
There are like 100 issues left if that I don't think it matters anymore.

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>>86077265
*images

>entire city laid to waste
>probably thousands of starved, injured, diseased and/or dying survivors scattered around the ruins
>military comes in with urgently needed humanitarian aid
>lol no fuck off I wanna ride motorcycles instead
This makes me mad at the end
Didn't got to post this in the other thread so I just put it here

>>86077291
classic japan, desu, telling foreigners to fuck off regardless of logic

Well, fuck the mods of /co/.

This was a great storytime that they ruined for "muh reasins". Yet nudity Flys on a sfw board on the regular.
Thanks for trying OP. I liked it.

Maybe I will shit post a bunch of nonsensical troll pics in random storytime threads in protest. Fuck it, I've got 3 different IPs to do it from.

>>86077208
It's really funny seeing Akira's artstyle with a western take, the chins become even more exaggerated.

>>86077109
isn't there also a tribute alike book but for Attack on titan?

>>86077329
Don't ruin other storytimes, man, come on. Storytimes are all we have on this godforsaken hellhole.

>>86077264
Teres some Weird autocorrect shit going on with me

>>86077326
The best part of this is that the UN forces were sanctioned by Japanese government

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>>86077360
Agreed

>>86077331
Yes but it's much less interesting, it has lame shit like strips about con cosplay.

>>86077360
Well, I guess you're right. I won't do it. But Goddammit I'm angry

Thanks OP, i couldn't even get to the second thread in the archive before this shit went down, but at less i got the download links for this amazing history, so thanks a lot for trying OP

>>86077291
Yea, the ending was the biggest letdown. I kinda *get* the intention, but it still comes off as incredibly selfish and short sighted on their part.

>>86077236
/m/ is just /a/ but the waifus are robots

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>>86077638
Joe Mad being a Giant Robo fan is my favorite thing.

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I love that this piece of art exists

>>86077653
IS that supposed to be a halo?

>>86077624
That's pretty cool

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>>86077737
Otomo has an Azarch piece in KABA 2 and they make a pretty nice pair

>>86077679
I love when American artists completely miss the point.

>>86077664
Is this Allred?

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>>86077822
Yep

>hiding the storytime

This is some cheeky shit.

>>86077822
Yeah, you can see his signature on the bloodstained rock on the left.

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>>86077867
They cut it off with like 25 images left

>>86077140
>>>86077109 (OP)
>Who can I email to complain about this? Harassing a storytime over a week is ridiculous.

I have not been in the story time or anything, but I can confidently say:

THIS IS FUCKING 4CHAN.

Just because it's one of the 'nice' boards doesn't make it a place for pussies. You can post a storytime and people will like you for it.

Some anon asshole can harass the fuck out of you, and she's a fucking dirtbag for it, but that's on him.

Suck it up and do what you're gonna do, or be a pussy and let the troll win.

DON'T FUCKING WHINE.

Fucking newfags....

>>86077471
It's not like they give a shit whether society returns to normalcy, they were already outcast delinquents.

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>>86077922
I actually agree with this anon

Personally it is why I have been so calm, it is no big deal really

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Being Cheeky also is very in line with this issue.

>>86077922
>I have not been in the story time

It shows. No one cares about the trolls. It's about the mods deleting perfectly /co/ appropriate comics.

I wasn't able to finish reading....anyone have links to the other threads?

>>86077624

Noice

>>86077922
> shut up and let janitors and mods walk all over you!

When a storytimer has to repeatedly explain why the content they are posting is board-relevant and keeps getting banned anyways, that's a problem.

Don't listen to the butthurt not muh co people

Though this is fun too.

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Sure this doesn't 100% make sense from a logical perspective.

But from an emotional and teenage perspective

100 fucking percent

The rest of this issue really hit me

>>86077241

Why do I still come here? Christ

>>86077963
>It's about the mods deleting perfectly /co/ appropriate comics.

Oh, no lie, we've obviously got a new mod who sucks balls.

But so what?

Eventually the fucking idiot mod will get bored and quit their SUPER HIGH-PAYING JOB on a wretched shit-hole in the internet, and somebody better will show up.

>>86077471
It's more like the epilogue.

Kaneda is clearly distrustful toward the army.
Before the catastrophe, military police is everywhere and the army was the one who continued to perform experiments leading to the destruction of Neo Tokyo even though their first experiments destroyed Tokyo 30 years before.
Kaneda saw the army take Tetsuo and what happened.

And even if it's not the Japanese army who came to help but an international force, they are still seen as an authoritarian force who's goal is to control the area and its population using humanitarian aid as a pretense. Hence the "why so many tanks if you're here to help?".

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This sequence man

>>86078050
> The memory of the psychotic mass destruction esper lives on with us

Fucking hell, Tetsuo and Akira were responsible for untold deaths and you all just want NeoTokyo to be a shithoe forever? I really can't get on board with this ending.

>>86078094
> Why so many tanks if you're here to help

Because they watched the first batch of aid groups get robbed by the tribalistic gangs, you idiot. Why wouldn't they bring tanks?

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Arguably the best last page in any comic.

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http://www.mediafire.com/download/m5upgkax0wpyver/EpicAkira1%262.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/of4b761b5nlw766/EpicAkira3%264.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/456iruqty1lv766/EpicAkira5%266.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/sadyqws9taiqd4w/EpicAkira7%268.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/1bxh97ym68hrw6q/EpicAkira9%2610.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/ica99axx4paqpjq/EpicAkira11%2612.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/gfl1fmxww1h2jad/EpicAkira13-16.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/zo7n8s60c78f42x/EpicAkira17-20.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/s1lhs2szm7vvb4b/EpicAkira21-24.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/28zs7ivu6obajjs/EpicAkira25-28.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/onere7s2a17c35j/EpicAkira29-32.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/kouyyvymqynexjm/EpicAkira33-35.zip

http://www.mediafire.com/download/83dmyfc3hp83l8l/EpicAkira36-38.zip


This was nothing what I expected it to be when it began, thanks for making it fun.

Can't Stop.
Won't Stop

>>86077135
TEX!

Also, thanks HL.

>>86078115
The core of the story was always about escaping the role that life had given you, whether it was poverty, weakness, being a follower rather than a leader, or a subjugated citizen a militarized state. The ending makes sense in that context. It's about freedom and choosing your own fate. Though, Kaneda is still a teenager, so he isn't exactly going to be subtle or eloquent about it.

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Oh yeah and a perfect last image from me for this thread.

This is what Oliff got from Otomo about the project.


Perfection

>>86078164
I have a hard time believing anyplace in Neo Tokyo looks like this after seeing page after page of every skyscraper in the area turned into the Leaning Tower of Pisa.

>>86077988
THIS.

>>86078115
I think the Akira they're thinking of is the child who was ultimately a victim of government experiments

>>86078223
Its symbolic you ninny

KEI IS MAI WAIFU

>>86077922
You know very well that old 4chan does not exist anymore. This is for all intents and purposes a completely different website than what it was years ago.

I am actually more confused by why I was banned some of the time but not others.

Yesterday and Sunday were bans but Saturday was only after I started going again after the thread was deleted and this was a deletion but no ban.

Thanks, OP.

>>86078180
Hey, just want to say thanks for story timing this! I've never read Akira before, but I enjoyed the hell out of this - despite all the fuckery the mods put you through.

>>86078180
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOaxEa5ONJw

>>86078210
Holy shit, that's fucking cool.

>>86078193
Which would actually make sense if the ending actually remained consistent with the character development Kaneda had shown throughout the story.
The Colonel gives up on fighting, Tetsuo and the other espers fuck off to another dimension, Miyako stays humanitarian to the end, all of these are consistent with the story.
But seeing Kaneda, Kai, Kay, and Chiyoko just go "lol fuck aid" is just dissatisfying.

>>86077349
HAMA!

>>86077485
ELLIS!

>>86077664
Oh wow seeing Allred without his wife's colors is really different

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Good job, Honorary Legionnaire. You stood your ground against what I consider some of the worst kinds of people.

>>86078131
>>86078140
>>86078151
Shit, this always get me mist eyed.

>>86078180
thanks op https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oyFQVZ2h0V8

>>86078074
Colonel's one of my favorite side characters. He has some great development.

>>86078740
I couldn't get Price's dub out of my head the entire time, it was great.

I really want the Wachowskis to direct the American live-action Akira movie that's been terrorizing the internet for years, if we have to have one. I trust them after the Speed Racer movie.

>>86078180
Thank you for this, HL. Your struggles over the past few days will be remembered.

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>>86078855
There is a script floating around that is

Questionable

To say the least

>>86078798
Me neither, I really like the movie's dub all around.

Thanks a lot for this, HL. I really appreciate your perseverance in posting this. Akira's one of my favorite works, and Otomo's one of my favorite manga artists. I've never seen this version of Akira, and it really put it in a fascinating new light.

Stay butthurt, Devilman-anon.

>>86077109
I think you made a wrong turn on your way to /a/.

>>86078909
That script is from 2012 though, isn't it? I just check wikipedia and they had Justin Lin onboard to direct, which I'm okay with since Star Trek Beyond was good. Hopefully it gets a better script.

>>86079024
I think you made a wrong turn before shitting on a story time that's been going on for a week you dumbass.

>>86079049
I'd be happy personally if we never got anything else Akira

>>86079071
A TV / OVA series that follows the manga.

>>86079063
And one that shouldn't even be on here in the first place.

>>86078936
With the prestige Akira has in America a movie is bound to happen eventually, not much we can do about it.

>>86079124
Devilman-anon, it's okay. It's over. You can stop now.

>>86079123
Wouldn't capture it, the movie does a brilliant job of capturing the the pace of what it feels like to read the comic.

>>86079160
I'm not the one that's getting defensive when there's already a board for manga and anime.

>>86077988
have you ever considered he might just be WRONG?

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>>86077132
LET US MOVE

>>86079024
Moebius, Mike Allred, Mark Texeira, and Alex Toth are my favorite mangaka.

eh, it's longer and grander in scope, but I don't really feel like the movie missed out on anything important.

I mean sure it's fun to see Joker and Kiyoko tear it up, and the whole Great Akira Empire stuff was post-apoc goodness, but none of that added anything to the themes? And by the time you've seen Tetsuo turn into a fetus monster twice, and the city laid to waste by a spherical explosion four times, and they start the laser spam, it's just exhausting and repetitive.

then as people have noted, the epilogue is consistent with Kaneda's character, but why everybody else is down with it seems odd, and it isn't a satisfying ending. That last sequence is glorious, but...

anyway, thanks for storytiming it. I'd always been intimidated by it for some reason.maybe next time you can do Nausicaa, and make up some bullshit reason why it should be allowed you faggot?

I suppose it's too much to ask for any live action adaptation of Akira to actually feature Japanese actors.

>>86079522
I feel like we are coming to this for very different things.

>>86079635
they literally are planning on it having an all jewish cast

they'll presumably throw in token blacks (who'll be closet fags), but there will be no asians whatsoever

>>86079686
/pol/, it's time for you to leave.

An "Americanized" adaptation of Akira makes no sense. Just fucking adapt Swan Song, or a myriad of other post-apocalyptic stories set in the US.

>>86078210
Thank you

>>86079653
Well, what do you think it brought to the table that the movie didn't deliver? I was hoping it would add some deeper meaning to the gorgeous imagery, but instead it's just the same empty "humanity evolves and these are the higher step we can't even understand them they're gonna fuck off now" stuff. Kaneda even asks "is that really what Humanity wants to become!?" and there's no answer for him. If you're into that kind of stuff, cool, but I like it when a piece presents a stance on something, rather than just presenting concepts.

Obviously the art is stellar, but you can only see the same explosion devastate a city in the same manner so many times.

>>86079328
He's right though. Spirited Away is just another Alice in Wonderland knockoff, Akira is more original and has a better story.

>>86079635
amazingly, countries cast for movies according to their own population of actors, rather than what would really be best for the setting.

the FMA movie (made in japan) features an all-Japanese cast, despite them obviously being in a European-style country.

Mexican films use hispanic actors in everything, Russian films cast Russians, it's what happens.

So no, an American Akira movie would/could not be made featuring Japs, because we aren't Japs. You'd have to wait for Japan to feel like making an adaption themselves.

>>86079832
2000 pages of perfectly flowing perfectly composed comic pages is what the Comic has over the movie.

The Action the movement the transition it all works.

This is an Action/Adventure Science Fiction comic the fact that it does all those things perfectly makes up for all the short comings in other areas that honestly I don't think the comic is really trying that hard to head towards.

>>86079522
Kanedas entire arc seemed to be him just needing to learn to use his talents for leadership, riding and fighting for something more than pleasure. Took Kei and the death of Yamagata for that to happen, though

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I did a thing. It's not very good, but I figure I might as well share. I'm sure someone can do a better job.

I always thought that ending was stupid, and just shows how mindless rebellion against authority is retarded. "We sure showed those guys who could help rebuild the place! Now let's go ride our motorcycles around some more!"

>>86079983
It's a whole lotta action, and you're absolutely right that it's crafted perfectly, it flows like butter and I'm devouring the pages.

But it all means so little, ultimately? I'll say it again, it feels exhausting. People empty round after round, and nobody important gets hit. They spray bullets, duck around corners, run up and down stairs, buildings crash, giant infant monsters shoot out tendrils, that laser comes down through the clouds, it hardly lets up. Though I did enjoy the double-page spreads the most, spent a good deal of time lingering on each.

But I suppose what I look for in action (in any medium) is something that makes me go "WHOA that was sick, rewind that shit I gotta see that again!" and there's honestly very little of that in Akira. The run-n-gun action comprises most of the piece, and it doesn't feel terribly original. the scenes of destruction and crazy imagery are great, but then lose their impact when they get repeated a few chapters later.

Going back to my original point, comparing this to the film, the latter seems like it has all the most important parts - storywise, but also imagery and action-wise. The manga doesn't lag behind in the spectacle, and provides more of everything the movie has, so I guess if you liked the movie but wanted to see just MORE of it but executed equally as well in a print medium, then the manga is what you want.

I don't mean to sound like I'm shitting on it, or dismissing its craft. I just feel like, with the exception of those last half-dozen pages, I wasn't missing out on anything by only having seen the film all these years.

>>86080549
> Nobody important gets hurt

I'm pretty sure the entire core cast save Kaneda gets shot at some point.

>>86080717
yeah, but it's all at critical moments, not the regular stuff. The bad guys have stormtrooper accuracy, which is fine, but only becomes more and more apparent the longer the piece goes on.

And then when people do get hurt, they have to be brought to some place, which also feels slightly repetitive? There's a lot of "I have to get X to X!" in this manga, a lot of shuffling the pieces around the board and putting them into new pairs (which is cool!) so that they can run around and shoot guns and leap over rubble in different-but-visually-identical settings.

>>86080840
Firearms are completely foreign to modern Japanese society, no amount of crazy esper drugs were going to turn Tetsuo's army into a bunch of crack shots overnight. The second half has a clear push and pull to its firefights, whereas in the first half the protagonists were clearly outmatched against the government forces.

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did the /co/ mods really delete all the archived Akira threads?

What is the name of the book with the art by all the different artists? I tried searching Akira Tributes but cant find it.

>>86081243
The Simpsons one?

>>86080840
I agree, the home stretch feels really padded. I feel a good hundred or so pages could have been trimmed pretty easily to make the pacing better, could have really cut down on the repetition.

>>86081270
The one at the beginning of the thread.

>>86081492
Those are the names of all the people who are doing pinups / comics posted in this thread.

>>86079024
How is this /a/? This is all western-made content by westerners. Unless Warren Ellis and Mike Allred are somehow mangakas.

>>86081510
Oh ok. I thought they were all in a collection you could buy.

>>86080942
Janitors are per board, mods are every board. Could easily have been an /a/ mod getting wind of this and coming in to sweep it up out of spite.

>>86081570
it does seem like a compilation, did you check the download links posted a bit further up in the thread? Also searching with the names of the contributors might help.

I'm as ignorant as you are, with even less effort applied, so take my words as you will.

>>86077922
At least you have very strong, very ignorant opinions about things you don't know about.

And there's always the irony in somebody calling others "newfags". You're not Internet Cool, you're just some dipshit.

>>86081550
Because mods and some of the dumber residents on this board don't understand that. Besides, if some idiot throws a fit it's "just 4chan", but responding to it makes everyone "pussies" and "newfags", because that one retard thinks he can tell everyone how 4chan is supposed to work.

tl;dr: it isn't /a/, but stupid people think it is.

>>86079212
No, you're just getting really mad in general.

Thanks for storytiming, I ended up saving too many images.

>>86078180
Are these CBR?

>>86083698
They should be. If not, it's easy to convert a zip to cbz.

>>86077109
>>86078285
This is a very gray area given how heavily adapted Epic's Akira is. Some mods will consider it a gray area and some won't.

If you get banned for something like this again, get on the 4chan IRC and make an appeal explaining the situation. I'm pretty sure they'll allow it.

>>86084992
Disappointing. I was hoping it was just the image files.

>>86085051
He shared all the files, there's no need for future storytimes here.

Are these tributes included in the mediafire links?

>>86077109
Just started reading your storytimes now they seemed to have been 404'd. Do you have a mediafire or rapidshare link to get the whole series?

>>86086402
CTRL+F "mediafire", dumbass nigga.

>>86077135
High school special bump.

>>86078936
That was just weird - Akira and what else I've seen of Otomo gives me a very (S objective, anecdotal) comic-like feel, while DM is very, very much a manga.
Using terms pretty arbitrarily here, I don't really like referring to manga as anything but comics at all unless I'm being specific. Capeshit, bandes dessines, manga.

>>86077602
Ellis can be so good when he's loving something.

>>86077140
try here [email protected]

>>86077329
thanks for admitting ban evasion.

>>86086633
You're really coming off like the pedantic twats over at space battles here.

which volumes have american contribution?
I have the originals, only interested in extra stuff, like that tribute

>>86077624
>moebius tribute to Akira
>expect some psychedelic short story
It's still nice, but I really hoped to get a few pages of it.

>>86078180
Thanks a lot HL, it's been a blast. Despite the haters.

>>86086750
kill yourself, you self-righteous prick!

>>86078162
Thank you for the insult and I was talking about Kaneda's point of view, not mine.

>>86077329
Wouldn't prove anything. Wouldn't change anything. We lost one, let's move on. No sense ruining another's storytime.

>>86086402
>rapidshare

Nigga you out of touch.

>>86077724
dope

>>86080184
Thanks for the background

>>86090720
>was no because its allowed

>>86090720
neither do you, you little snitch nigga

>>86090720
Fuck off and kill yourself.

>>86090900
Aint no body crying lmao. I finished the story, im satisfied. Theres nothing for me to be upset about

>>86090720
if people on a board enjoy certain content then why should you have the authority to dictate what goes where? for example if you wanted a dick rammed up your asshole, i doubt anyone would prohibit that.

>>86090963
>why should you have the authority to dictate what goes where?
I don't, the rules that the site has do.
That's why I keep saying "against the rules" anon.
Is your mommy around? Maybe you can ask her about it and she'll explain to you what rules are.

>>86091027
No you wanted attention and one was giving it to you. You are fucking child, you should go to you mommy and go back to sucking her breast.

>>86091027
usually this board is shit. it was one of the few good threads.

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Glad to see the thread is still here even if the method is another pointless argument

Oh, and for those of you out there interested in downloading the not dogshit version of Akira.

http://www.mediafire.com/download/qw4vo6zh520e76a/Akira.zip

>>86086400
They are part of issue 37 and 38 look to the file names.

>>86086685 See above

>>86079124
Meanwhile
>>86090585

>>86090720
So for a lot of time your response was to break the rules you clearly hold so dear?

>>86091483
thanks HL.

>>86091445
>the not dogshit version of Akira.
?

Thanks

>>86087024
This poster is a homosexual.

>>86086402
See: >>85930919

>>86075791
This is one of the most incredible pages I've ever seen.

>>86076048
What an incredible comic. One of the best things ever published in the medium.

>>86095181
>>86095223
what got deleted

Otomo is an artistic genius. I can't really comprehend how amazinly good he is at perspective and conveying fast-paced action,

>>86076485
It's been so long since his last name was used it somehow makes it more powerful when he says it again.

>>86095329
Nothing. Just post quote fails.

>>86085074
They're in jpg form on pirate bay.

>>86095437
Yeah, but fuck PirateBay.

>>86095627
Eh worked fine for me.

>>86078131
>>86078140
>>86078151
>>86078164
This is one of the most emotionally powerful endings I've ever seen.

>>86077291
The ending is PERFECT. I'd rank it up there with Hitman.

I wish there had been a scene in the movie with Tetsuo riding his bike with mind-powers,(they kind of do one of the poses with Joker instead) but the high-speed scene in the comic looks so fucking baller. I'd love to see it animated.

>>86077349
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>>86077455
Was this bitch the best minor character in the entire series?

>>86077653
Who drew this?

>>86095934
Yes. Strong female character who don't need no man done the right way.

>>86077679
Is this Jr. or Sr.?

>>86077694
>Alex MOTHERFUCKING Toth

Oh WOW!

>>86077724
Who is this by?

That made me feel the same way that I did when I first read stuff like Batman Year One or Frank Miller's Daredevil. The entire comic is operating on a level that NOTHING coming out currently can even remotely begin to reach. It's a shame that NO ONE has this much ambition in comics anymore. The last time I read anything even remotely close to being on this level would probably be Ennis' Punisher, Busiek/Truman/Nord's Conan, and MAYBE Planetary. There hasn't been a single comic this decade that'll be remembered as having the kind of status that a work like this does.

>>86096347
The 80's was a golden period.

>>86095674
How many seeds?

>>86096801
A lot when I downloaded some days ago. Probably because of these threads. Took 15 minutes or so.

>>86096801
>>86096931
See: >>86086602

>>86096549
The early direct market era was basically the pinnacle of American comics in terms of sheer quality.

>>86096008
Clearly Senior.

>>86097376
These are the same ones HL shared.

>>86096053
Looks like John Van Fleet.

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>there are people here RIGHT NOW who actually take this site's rules seriously

Are there any other manga on this level of quality?

>>86098745
Vinland Saga

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Posting some scans from the art book.

>>86098925
This cover is so weird and intriguing

It makes me think of '50s sci-fi posters

Should I read the colored Marvel translation first or the newer translations?

>>86099098
Marvel just plain has better art.

>>86098778
Thank you for reminding me that exists

>>86099268
It's the same fucking art. I'm asking about the translations.

Whatever happened to the cool looking boots Kaneda had all the time? I don't mean in the story, I mean in terms of fashion. I don't see many people wearing knee high boots any situation outside of formal military uniforms

They look so sexy

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Aren't they just typical biker attire?

>>86099694
Maybe. Most people I see riding motorcycles just wear jeans, some sort of ankle high boot or sneaker. Knee boots look cool, but not practical, cheap or convenient to put on

>>86098745
Nausicaa
Lone Wolf and Cub
Milk Closet
Appleseed
Monster
Fullmetal Alchemist just because it's entry level doesn't mean it isn't great
Ultra Heaven
20th Century Boys
Bokurano

The honest answer is that there's really nothing else like Akira, but these might do it for you with the epic scope, crazy imagery, well-executed action, tense drama, and overall tone.

Though I would say there are plenty of wonderful manga in different genres that make it hard to compare to Akira, like Strongest Man Kurosawa, Slam Dunk, GTO, or Yotsubato.

On a personal level, I enjoyed things like Trigun, Hellsing, Doubutsu no Kuni, and Lucifer & Biscuit Hammer more than I did Akira, but that's just me. I can't say they're objectively on the same level, artistically.

>>86098778
It's hard to compare something that's incomplete, imo. Without that ending, I can't see the whole series as a complete package. Berserk and Vagabond are excellent, but I have the same issue. You can't go into them expecting resolution.

>>86099410
Cool to see his progress of sketching out multiple poses from different angles to see which one works best in the final panel.

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What the hell is this? It's cool, but- what? Could some kind anon explain?

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>>86100150
Akira? Very influential Manga from the 80's. HL has been storytiming the American Marvel-released, colorized edition for the past week. But it's over now.

>>86100150
It's A K I R A

All hail the Great Akira Empire!

Its a japanese manga, recolored by a western artist, published by Marvel Comics. IT's a bout young people with psychic powers living in post (and later post-post) apocalyptic rebuilt Tokyo.

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>>86100150
Kek. I'd have thought it was impossible to find anyone on this board not familiar with it, or the animated movie.

>>86099729
>Kaneda stop bringing your fucking bike into my house

>>86077679
Hurt me.

So was Tetsuo just the biggest dick in the universe for little reason? All Kaneda ever did was stand up for him and be his friend, and the moment Tetsuo gains his powers he just starts shitting all over him AND begins killing his former friends with no remorse.

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>>86101311
To be fair he was munching drugs which made him psychopathic. Still a shit.

>>86101311
Tetsuo resented having to be stood up for in the first place.

>>86101380
Well sure, he was pissy he wasn't the leader, but Kaneda was still his best friend.

It's just rare to have a 'main' character be so despicable. He actually comes across as more sympathetic in the movie.

>>86078422
''aid''

>>86101378
Akira makes pills look like food in a Miyazaki movie.

>>86099773
>Strongest Man Kurosawa
My nigga. Fucking love Fukumoto

>>86101378
And he always had that insane migraine that put him in an easily irritable mood. He also felt some relief when using his powers because it was like releasing some of the pressure he built up. The guy was nuts and there was no real way to calm him down for a good chunk of the story.

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>>86103467
Yeah the comic quite clearly shows he's going insane from a combination of the drugs, migariens and god-like powers. That added on top of being a jealous little bitch is why he ends up like he does.

>>86103764
>migariens

>>86103811
It's late.

>>86077988
That is not board relevant.

>>86103950
Marvel comics are "board relevant".

>>86104015
When marvel is publishing Manga it's not a marvel comic, it's a manga published by an american editorial. It's still japanese and still belongs to /a/.
I'm not saying that's the case in the tribute pieces, but the general Akira storytime doesn't belong in /co/.

>>86103950
We've had the discussion multiple times. The American flipped edition of the manga, which is colored by a well-known American artist and released by Marvel, is board relevant. This was also a hallmark for digital coloring in the American comics industry

>>86104089
What's the artist name? Also if I made naruto fanart could I post it in /co/? Since, you know, i'm american.

>>86096347
I can think of modern works that will be held up and looked back on well into the future.

>>86099773
This is a pretty good list

I would include Vagabond and Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin and One Piece and Phoenix and MW and a bunch of stuff

There are a bunch of good comics of all types to find out there.

>>86104068
Do we really need to keep having this conversation? The storytime's over, fuck off and let us talk about the actual comic while the thread's still up.

>>86104152
We often have 'American fanart of Anime' threads and vice versa.

>>86099563
>It's the same fucking art
The coloring job is completely different, and it's a brilliantly done coloring in the Marvel version.

>>86104290
How about you have it on /a/?

>>86104313
No.

>>86104152
Well, yeah. Same reason we could have threads about Adam Warren's Dirty Pair.

>>86104152
Steve Oliff and don't you forget it.

>>86104329
Don't cry when people give you shit for it, then.

>>86104357
I'm not crying, I'm wondering what the point of you continuing to shit up the thread is when the storytime's over.

>>86104313
Yeah, I'm sure /a/ would love a flipped, localized, colored edition of Akira and not throw an even bigger tantrum over it than you are. They would accept it just like they do Toonami and dubbed Digimon.

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>>86104357
>People
>Not one, two at best, whiners crying for the mods

>>86104313
Because /a/ already came here to shit on it over the colors, which is an American addition.

I checked out some clips of the movie and it's hilarious how bad the Streamline dub is. It feels so out of place.

The biggest reason I enjoy the manga over the anime- aside from the greater scope- is Kaori's fate. Jesus Christ it's unneeded...and then everyone forgets she existed!

>>86104537
Is it really much better in the comic though? She's made into a sex-slave, suffers some sort of stock-holm syndrome, and is then shot.

>>86104537
Kei's a lot more important, too. The female characters are pretty great.

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Enjoy this concept art of white old Kaneda from the god-forsaken Hollywood adaption that was shut down some years ago.

>>86104310
I don't care about the coloring, I'm just asking about the translations.

>>86104653
It's back on, my dude.

>>86104653
Well, at least the outfit's sorta accurate.

>>86103950
>"art police"

>>86104653
Aging up the characters completely destroys one of the main themes in the story. So does setting it anywhere but in Japan with a mainly Japanese cast.

>>86104580
It doesn't seem like Tetsuo actually got around to having sex with any of his girls. Kaori obviously stuck around because staying near Tetsuo and Akira was the safest place someone could be in Neo Tokyo.

>>86104689
It's been back on and off for several years. It will probably be made one day though. Too much money and potential for Hollywood to leave it alone.

>>86104794
We'll have to see how GiTS performs. I hope it flops.

>>86104765
Wait, I distinctly recall a scene (right before he starts having flashback and flashforwards visions) of him fucking her while the other girls are lying dead besides them.

>>86104838
Just checked and yeah, it looks like he had sex with at least one of them.

>>86104794
I think it's being written by the showrunner for Daredevil at the moment.

Meanwhile, Katsuhiro Otomo said an anime might be in the works.

>>86099831
Babby's first coloring?

>>86104964
An anime series with a high budget would be boss.

>>86104964
>Akira anime
>Godzilla anime
what a time to be alive

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Strange concept art from another failed adaption with Chris Evans and Gordon Levitt as Kaneda and Tetsuo.

Would have been completely bonkers casting choices.

>>86105246
So would it be like Captain America where Evan's face is digitally inserted onto a teenager's body?