AKIRA HARDCOVER COLLECTION 1

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 Thirty eight years have passed since the end of World War III and the megalopolis of Neo Tokyo has sprung from the bones of the devastated old city By night the borderlands between glittering towers and irradiated ruins are ruled by criminals cultists and street gangs Two childhood friends and rivals Kaneda and Tetsuo ride with one of these gangs By day the military and a secret elite toy with the psychic phenomena that caused the devastation in the first place A high speed incident on a decrepit express road will lead to a collision between Tetsuo Kaneda and forces they cannot hope to understand and that will change them forever The AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the updated translation and lettering of the 35th Anniversary Edition box set now collectible one book at a time As in the box set this six volume version of the masterwork of Katsuhiro Otomo Memories Steamboy Domu A Child s Dream featur