About the Book: AKIRA Hardcover Collection 2
The epic, timeless hit that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word
"manga" part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The
AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the original right-to-left manga reading
format and Katsuhiro Otomos original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful,
large-sized collectible edition. 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
Akiras awakening is a terrifying inevitability. Tetsuo, an angry young man with
immense?and rapidly growing?psychic