With so many players in the board, I am still amazed that the author still managed to pull off a spectacular finale. Volume six didn't hit all the right spots in seamless storytelling, hugely because of the sheer amount of thins happening in the book.
Katsuhiro Otomo has created a masterpiece that is teeming with pure non-stop action. It is up there together with Kazuo Koike's Lone Wolf and Cub series. It's pretty much reflecting the Japanese society at the post-WWII era, I guess?Īkira is one of the greatest manga that has ever been created. Spoiler for the ending: Among the ruins, the survivors tried to rebuild again. PS: As to the fact that the most destructively powerful being in the series has the appearance of a 5 years old boy, it just reminds me of the fact that the atomic bomb that destructed Hiroshima on 6th August 1945 is also called "Little Boy". rode off to the sunrise or the sunset, is it just that!? Akira and the other pale children left, Kaneda and Co. The ending is a bit on the vague and general side but I honestly can't think of any better way for the story to end. Is that a hint that the old generation should eventually step aside and make way for the younger ones so they can shape the future? I like the scene in which, one of the few adults who is less corrupted and taking matter into his own hands, Colonel Shikishima departed with the youngsters.
So what did those teens do? They rebelled, they broke things up randomly, they disturbed the peace and the order of the society, they went after people (usually the corrupted adults) who messed with their friends, that makes so much sense. In this re-read, I can relate to the members of the teenage biker gang and their attitude: even before they were born, decisions had been made by adults who only care about their own interests, their world had been broken up and fucked up by forces which are entirely out of their control, and there is no way out for them outside of being trapped in a city which only viewed them as disposable losers. " Our friends are waiting on the other side."
Pre-review: I re-read Akira because real life and the society situations have become unbearable.
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