029. Akira

What is Akira? Not only is this a question that characters in the eponymous story must decipher, it is a slippery question for a reader to answer. Is Akira a precursor to the cyberpunk genre, a landmark sci-fi manga, the basis for a much loved anime, or should we think of it more as Mad Max meets 2001: A Space Odyssey? Maybe all of these, and more besides. Our freewheeling tour of the Modern Age of Comics continues with Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira.

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Topic for this episode is Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo.