One film and six volumes of manga, and the film ends in a place the manga is only halfway to.
The film first, then the manga, and go in knowing they are not the same story. Katsuhiro Otomo made the film in 1988 while he was still drawing the manga, which did not finish until 1990. So the film compresses the early chapters, rebuilds the second half from scratch and ends somewhere the manga has not reached yet. Neither one spoils the other, because after a certain point they stop telling the same story at all.
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A hundred and twenty four minutes, directed by Otomo himself. A biker gang in Neo-Tokyo, a friend who develops powers he cannot hold, and animation nobody had seen before.
Six volumes, a hundred and twenty chapters, over two thousand pages. Everything the film condensed is here at full length, and the back half is a different story entirely: Neo-Tokyo is destroyed around the midpoint and the rest is what people do in the ruins.
Then what? Nothing else. A live-action version has been in development since 2002 without being made. Warner Bros. held the rights until June 2025, with Taika Waititi attached at one point, and then let them go. There is no film to wait for.
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