Akira
age-range
Not Rated
artist-author
Katsuhiro Otomo
genre
SciFi/Action
manufacturer
Dark Horse Comics
Akira Volume 1 (Color)
A decaying Neo-Tokyo breeds civil unrest, restless strees and an autonomous military that attempts to keep the seams together any way they can. In the bowels of this dystopia, Kaneda and his biker gang run reckless on the roads. However, when their rumbling interesects with a rebel activist plot to help a child with psycho-kinetic powers escape government operatives, Kaneda finds himself caught up in the top secret Akira project. This is the first volume of five Cine-Manga that capture the power and intensity of the classic animated film in graphic novel form.
$14.99
Akira Volume 1
Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilitites begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency who will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like that which leveled Tokyo. At the core of their motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as... Akira.
$24.95
Akira Volume 2
In the 21st century, Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of a Tokyo obliterated by a monstrous psychokinetic power known only as Akira, a being who yet lives, secretly imprisoned in frozen stasis. Those who stand guard know that Akira's awakening is a terrifying inevitability. Tetsuo is becoming increasingly unstable and harbors a growing obsession to confront Akira face-to-face. A clandestine group including his former best friend sets out to destroy Tetsuo before he can unleash Akira...
$24.95
Akira Volume 3
In the 21st century the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekenetic blast from a young boy called Akira - A subject of a covert government gone wrong now imprisoned for three decades in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an unstable youth with immense paranormal abilities of his own, has done the unthinkable: he has released Akira and set into motion a chain of events that could once again destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon.
$24.95
Akira Volume 4
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, 21st 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...
$27.95
Akira Volume 5
In the 21st century the once glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic, Akira. From the flooded wasteland of rubble and anarchy, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, populated by a ragtag army of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister, Tetsuo. The world at large is not taking this threat lying down, and the miltary strength of the planet is massing to take on the Empire...
$27.95
Akira Volume 6
The Final Chapter. In a devasted 21st century Neo-Toyko, the armed might of the Earth is massed against the godlike powers of two psychic titans, the mut child Akira and the deranged youth Tetsuo? all forces converge for a final confrontation
$29.95