Akira (GN 4 of 6)

Release date: 2010-11-30
Suggested retail price: $27.99
Age rating: 16+

SKU: DRAK-04
ISBN-10: 193542906X 193542906X
ISBN-13: 9781935429067 9781935429067

Description:
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. Set off by the bullet of a would-be assassin, the godlike telekinetic fury of the superhuman child Akira has once again demolished in seconds that which took decades and untold billions to build. Now cut off from the rest of the world, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, with Akira its king, the psychic juggernaut Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a growing army of fanatic acolytes ready to go to any length to please their masters.

Forces on the outside still search for a way to stop Akira, and the answer may lie in the hands of the mysterious Lady Miyako, a powerful member of Akira's paranormal brotherhood. But the solution to harnessing Akira may ultimately be more dangerous than Akira himself.

Story and art by Katsuhiro Otomo.

(added on 2010-06-11, modified on 2013-09-19)

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