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Akira - The Beginning

By: Mandarin Publishing

Type: Softcover

Product Line: Graphic Novels - Manga (Mandarin Publishing)

Last Stocked on 3/17/2017

Product Info

Title
Akira - The Beginning
Category
Author
Katsuhiro Otomo
Publish Year
1994
Pages
304
Dimensions
7.25x10.25x1.25"
NKG Part #
2147558108
MFG. Part #
0-7493-9688-1
Type
Softcover

Description

Regarded by many as the finest comic series ever produced, Akira is a bold and breathtaking epic of potent narrative strength and astonishing illustrative skill. Akira is 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!