The complicated plot revolves around two teenagers in a motorbike gang that encounters a strange child with an old man's features. But this first volume is all action, nonstop car chases and gun fights strung together with exaggerated speed lines and lots of gigantic machinery. Set in Tokyo 38 years after its destruction in World War III (which, according to this story, happened in 1992), Akira eventually evolves into a philosophical investigation of time. This new six-volume series is the first time it's appeared as an English-language graphic novel. Originally serialized in Japan between 19, Otomo's 2,000-plus-page science fiction epic Akira was reprinted as a monthly comic book in the U.S. 'synopsis' may belong to another edition of this title. If you love science fiction, manga or comics, Akira is the one work that must be represented in your collection! And Akira is about to rise! Collected in six massive volumes, Akira has been reproduced in its original, black-and-white majesty as never-before-seen in an English-translated edition. And at the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear: a fear of someone - or something - of unthinkably monstrous power known only as.Akira. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, who becomes a target for a shadowy government operation, a group who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2019, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III.

Katsuhiro Otomo's stunning science-fiction masterpiece, Akira! Regarded by many as the finest comic series ever produced, Akira is a bold and breathtaking epic of potent narrative strength and astonishing illustrative skill. and Studio Proteus, Dark Horse has again gathered one of the crown jewels of graphic fiction. Dark Horse is committed to bringing the finest comics from around the world to America.

Akira, Vol. 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo