Akira / ?tomo, Katsuhiro

Tetsuo takes pills in an attempt to control his inner self, while Kei and Kaneda prepare for their final showdown with him.

As Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin after an assasination attempt invokes the fury of Akira, the Great Tokyo Empire rises with Akira its king, Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a growing number of acolytes ready to go to any length to please the new leaders.

Akira, a boy with godlike powers who destroyed Tokyo with a telekinetic blast years earlier and has been imprisoned in a frozen state, is released by Tetsuo, a youth with immense paranormal abilities, and a group of resistance agents and government forces races to find Akira before he causes any destruction.

Despite being stuck in a frozen status, Akira still poses a threat to Neo-Tokyo and Tetsuo might be the city's only hope if it is ever released, but Tetsuo and his powers have become unstable and a group gathers to stop him from doing the unthinkable.

All of Earth's forces unite against the child Akira, who has accidentally destroyed Neo-Tokyo twice, and Tetsuo, whose loss of control over his psychic powers is turning him into a horror beyond belief.

A graphic novel which features the adventures of a group of men and women working to disbale a monstrous psychokinetic power known only as Akira.

In Neo-Tokyo, a city whose precursor was destroyed by a mysterious explosion, a streetwise teenager named Tetsuo begins to develop paranormal abilities, making him the target of a secret agency that wants to prevent another leveling blast and fears a terrifying force called Akira.