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LIMITED EDITION 2 VINYL





AKIRA Symphonic Suite is the soundtrack created by Geinō Yamashirogumi with the music composed and conducted by the music director Shōji Yamashiro. I designed a limited version of the vinyl containing the music from the film adaptation of the manga AKIRA written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo between 1982-1990.





Set in a post-apocalyptic and futuristic Neo-Tokyo, the manga focuses on the efforts of a teenaged biker gang leader Kaneda, political activist Kei, a trio of Espers, and Neo-Tokyo's military leader Colonel Shikishima to prevent Tetsuo, Kaneda's mentally-fractured childhood friend, from using his unstable telekinetic abilities to ravage the city and awaken a mysterious individual with similar psychic abilities named "Akira". Through this work, Otomo uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of political turmoil, social isolation, corruption, and power. It is considered a landmark work in the cyberpunk genre, credited with spawning the Japanese cyberpunk subgenre.











