Akira: Art of Wall

<b>AD 2019: The year the world caught up to <i>AKIRA</i>. Two years before this milestone author Katsuhiro Otomo worked with artist Kosuke Kawamura to enrobe a Tokyo city block in a collage of gripping moments from the manga that revolutionized an art form. Then over the next two years he did it twice more. The result: three electifying compilations of Otomo's art meandering across the city. And now you can take them home.</b> <p/>From 2017-2019 the throngs passing through Tokyo's emblematic Shibuya neighborhood were lucky enough to witness a massive art project. The PARCO department store was closed for renovation and Katsuhiro Otomo and collage artist Kosuke Kawamura seized on the opportunity to stretch Otomo's landmark manga <i>AKIRA</i> across the barriers separating the construction site from the bustling nightlife of Shibuya Tokyo. <p/>When the project was completed it was 2019: the very year the story of <i>AKIRA</i> began. To commemorate this milestone a silver foil-coated collector's box presents an exquisite reproduction of Otomo and Kawamura's work with the specifications overseen and approved by Otomo-sensei personally. Nearly 75 feet (22.7 meters) of illustrations speech balloons and text selected from AKIRA's six volumes stretch across three accordion-bound volumes. A fourth volume includes an exclusive interview with Otomo and Kawamura as well as photographs of the original exhibition by award-winning photographer TAKAMURADAISUKE. Rounding out the box is a dramatic 16.5x23.4-inch poster. <p/>In this form Kawamura's recontextualization of Otomo's manga is reminiscent of traditional Japanese <i>emaki</i> (picture scrolls) the narrative scrolls that some scholars see as manga's most ancient ancestors. <p/>Don't miss this change to own a singular artifact in the history of anime and manga. <p/><b>Contains</b><br><li>Scroll 1: Oct. 25 2017-May 15 2018. 29.3 feet (8.94 meters).</li><li>Scroll 2: May 16 2018-Feb. 27 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters).</li><li>Scroll 3: Feb. 28 2019-Aug. 8 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters).</li><li>430 x 607 mm poster</li><li>52-page hardcover catalog book including new interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo and Kosuke Kawamura and photographs by TAKAMURADAISUKE</li><li>Rigid silver cold foil-wrapped box</li>