This article is based on various interviews,columns and materials from darkhorse.com and around the internet. It was a small pain to gather the information but it was worth it and I hope the next article will be even better.

Considered the oldest independent manga publisher from USA, Dark Horse was founded in 1986 by Mike Richardson and the manga division started to function in 1988. The first manga they ever published was Godzilla by Kazuhisa Iwata. When Godzilla appeared…

Akira is inspired from the very popular manga with the same name created by Katsuhiro Otomo, manga that spanned from 1982 to 1990. When the film was released, the manga was not even finished. After a war has destroyed Tokyo, another city has been rebuild on the ruins of the old one, and called Neo-Tokyo. A city full of thugs on motorcycles and troubled by complicated politics and maneuvers.
The leader of one of these gangs – Kaneda and his friend Tetsuo, get the unwanted attention of a military organization. The …