Akira Vol. 4 (manga)
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.
Twenty
years since its original release in Japan, Akira remains one of the
most widely acclaimed and influential works of graphic fiction, and
creator Katsuhiro Otomo has become a legendary storyteller in animation
as well as manga. Akira is a science fiction tour de force, a
breathtaking vision of innocence, infamy, and insanity.