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.

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. 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! And Akira is about to rise!

Collected in six massive (and we do mean massive) volumes, Akira has been reproduced in its original, black-and-white majesty as never-before-seen in an English-translated edition.

Recommended for mature audiences due to violence.

Story and art by Katsuhiro Otomo.