Edition contents & overlap

Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set: Six Story Books

Separate Akira’s six story hardcovers from Akira Club and check what the anniversary set adds to your collection.

Mapped coverage: The six story hardcovers in the 35th Anniversary Box Set. Akira Club is separate; no page-by-page equivalence with other printings is claimed.

Creator: Katsuhiro Otomo Publisher: Kodansha

Documented contents

What each edition covers

Numbering: Akira story-volume numbering. It describes numbered story units only; separately documented extras remain separate.

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Edition coverage for Akira
EditionCovered volumeFormatLanguage / marketISBN-13ExtrasSource
Akira 35th Anniversary Box SetView on Amazon US ↗1–6Hardcover box setEnglish / US9781632364616Akira Club art book, Pill-design patchPublisher source for Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set

Source records were checked on 2026-09-09. A missing ISBN is reported as not verified; unknown extras are never inferred.

Mapped coverage

1–6 · 6 numbered volumes across 1 documented editions. This is the range in this map, not a claim that the series is complete.

Your shelf

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Select the numbered units and editions you already own, then choose candidate editions to compare. The result uses only this series' numbering system.

The Akira 35th Anniversary Box Set contains six story hardcovers, the Akira Club art book and a patch. The seventh hardcover is not a seventh story volume. The calculator therefore maps story units 1–6 and lists Akira Club separately.

Count reading coverage and physical books separately

If you already own the first four corresponding story volumes, the set repeats 1–4 and adds 5–6. The art book may add a different kind of material, but it does not change the result from two new story units to three.

This map does not establish page-for-page equivalence between every Akira printing. The publisher describes this set’s original Japanese art and right-to-left format; we do not extrapolate that into claims about translation, color, paper or all earlier editions. Verify which format you own before treating it as equivalent coverage.

Check the exact anniversary package

The box-set ISBN identifies this package, not a single hardcover or a separate Akira Club copy. If a retailer lists six books, ask whether that means the story set alone or the full named package with its art book and patch. The source record cannot prove the contents of a particular used listing.

See why guidebooks and art books stay outside the story count for other examples. The numbered artwork here is schematic and does not reproduce Otomo’s art.