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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 Otomo’s original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful, large-sized collectible edition.In the 21st century, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of aTokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boycalled Akira—the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrongnow imprisoned for three decades in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, anunstable youth with immense paranormal abilities of his own, has donethe unthinkable: He has released Akira and set into motion achain of events that could once again destroy the city and drag theworld to the brink of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armada ofgovernment forces race against the clock to find the child with godlikepowers before his unstoppable destructive abilities are unleashed.