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Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo

11 reviews

rawbeatz's review

adventurous dark funny tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Amazing artwork, amazing story. Better than the movie so far!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Bullying, Drug abuse, Mental illness, Murder, Torture, Car accident, Death, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Medical content, Violence, Drug use, Gore, and War

maggiefae's review against another edition

adventurous dark tense fast-paced

3.5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug use, Violence, and Death

melodyseestrees's review

adventurous challenging fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This is another case of the movie altering my feelings about the book. Other volumes may erase the pacing issues I found within this volume but I am not compelled to seek them out and read them. This volume raised many questions but I don't feel it raised enough intrigue for most of them to feel important.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Drug use, and Death

Moderate: Drug use, Sexual harassment, and Addiction

Minor: Rape, Misogyny, and Sexual assault

olddatainadeadmachine's review

adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

goated

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Medical content, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Child death, Death, Death of parent, Body horror, Bullying, Child abuse, Gun violence, Injury/Injury detail, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment, Misogyny, Police brutality, Abandonment, Drug use, Forced institutionalization, Blood, Cursing, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Gore, Murder, Torture, Toxic friendship, Addiction, Alcohol, Alcoholism, Grief, Medical trauma, Rape, Sexism, Sexual content, Toxic relationship, Violence, and War

kriziny's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix

5.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Alcohol, Blood, Death, Gun violence, Violence, and Drug use

martinelecorff's review

adventurous dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? N/A
• Flaws of characters a main focus? No

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse and Drug use

_ac28's review

dark mysterious tense fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? No
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

Violent, bizarre, brutal, grotesque with, somehow, a pinch of Stranger Thing.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence

Moderate: Drug use and Drug abuse

Minor: Sexual harassment

akira_outofthegravity's review against another edition

adventurous dark mysterious fast-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? No

5.0

Tetsuo deserves better 😤 amazing, spectacular, deserves way more hype!!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Murder, Gore, Death, Addiction, Drug use, and Drug abuse

emohell's review

dark medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Plot
• Strong character development? It's complicated
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

1.0

this sucked :(

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Drug abuse, Drug use, and Murder

Moderate: Addiction

Minor: Misogyny

wthanyell's review

adventurous mysterious tense medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? It's complicated
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I've wanted to know the classical story of 'Akira' for so long & am finally onto it! This series is iconic & I am already beginning to understand why. I can see how many TV shows and other forms of media have been inspired by this story and am excited to see what happens next! Very cool dystopian action-filled story so far. I like how it follows a group of young bikie gang members as well, its not a common perspective for me to follow.

Characters 8/10
Plot 8/10
Style / Writing 7/10
Enjoyment 8/10

Overall 4/5

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Violence, Physical abuse, Murder, Gun violence, Drug use, Death, Blood, and Addiction

Moderate: Addiction, Alcohol, Bullying, Car accident, Cursing, Drug abuse, Sexism, Sexual harassment, Sexual content, Terminal illness, and Toxic friendship

Minor: Stalking