Kaneda spends his nights racing his motorbike through the urban wastes against rival groups. One night, his friend Tetsuo suddenly encounters a strange boy and is injured in the ensuing crash. A military squadron appears on the scene to take the boy and Tetsuo away to an army research lab. Determined to free Tetsuo from captivity, Kaneda sneaks into the lab. However, a regimen of extreme experimental procedures has awakened a new, mad power in his friend...

A companion artbook to Akira, Akira Club is a collection of Otomo's visions, including over one hundred title-page illustrations created for the original serialization but not included with the published collections of Akira. The book also features alternate art, preliminary drawings, production sketches, and a variety of Akira posters, advertisements, and products, all accompanied by commentary by the artist himself.

Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War III to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists. The government seethes with corruption and only maintains a token control over the powerful military that prevents total chaos and hides the secrets of the past.

Finally! A new English translation of the original Japanese AKIRA script! Neo-Tokyo has risen from the ashes of World War III to become a dark and dangerous megalopolis infested with gangs and terrorists...

In time, Akira will surely awaken, and Tetsuo may be the only being potentially capable of controlling him, but Tetsuo is becoming increasingly unstable and violent, and a group including his former friend Kaneda sets out to destroy Tetsuo before he can release Akira - or before Tetsuo himself becomes so powerful that no force on Earth can stop him!

A ragtag group of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister, Tetsuo. The planet at large is not taking the threat lying down, however, and the might of the world is ready to take on the Empire, but will technology's most advanced weaponry be enough to destroy Akira - and is Tetsuo an ever greater threat?