This is the first volume (8 volumes in total) of the Otomo Complete Works Edition "AKIRA", which was created by Katsuhiro Otomo when he was 28-29 years old in 1982-1983 and started serializing "AKIRA" in Young Magazine, which was just two years after its launch. It contains episodes 1-14 (up to p. 279 of the first volume of the book) in the original form
as they were when they were first published.