Táto rozsiahla manga séria sa odohráva v dystopickom postapokalyptickom Tokiu. Sleduje osudy skupinky motorkárov, ktorí sa zapletú do vládneho sprisahania zahŕňajúceho tajné experimenty a paranormálne schopnosti. Dej je plný akcie, politických intríg a psychologického napätia, pričom skúma témy moci, skorumpovanej spoločnosti a nevyspytateľnej povahy ľudstva. Je to vizuálne ohromujúce a myšlienkovo provokujúce dielo.
The Third World War began in 1992 with the explosion of a new type of bomb over Japan. Thirty-eight years later, the world has at last begun to recover. But in Neo-Tokyo, near ground zero of the original destruction, a dramatic confrontation sets in motion a devastating series of events, from which the world may never recover. And at the heart of the turmoil is a living conundrum, feared and prized for its potential to save or destroy the recovering world. It is someone or something known only as ... AKIRA.
In the year 2019, a cataclysmic blast levels the city of Tokyo and triggers World War III. By 2030, the dazzling Neo-Tokyo rises from Tokyo's ashes, but the power that once sent the world to the brink of Armageddon-a being of monstrous telekinetic power known only as Akira-lives on in absolute-zero frozen stasis far below the city. Those who stand guard will stop at nothing to keep Akira from awakening, but an angry young man named Tetsuo, himself possessing of immense-and rapidly growing-psychic abilities, becomes obsessed with confronting Akira face-to-face. In time, Akira will surely awaken, and Tetsuo may be the only being potentially capable of controlling him, but Tetsuo is becoming increasingly unstable and violent, and a group including his former friend Kaneda sets out to destroy Tetsuo before he can release Akira-or before Tetsuo himself becomes so powerful that no force on Earth can stop him!
IN THE 21ST CENTURY, the glittering Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic telekinetic blast from a young boy called Akira—the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong now imprisoned for three decades in frozen stasis. But Tetsuo, an unstable youth with immense paranormal abilities of his own, has done the unthinkable: He has released Akira and set into motion a chain of events that could once again destroy the city and drag the world to the brink of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armada of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unstoppable destructive abilities are unleashed. One of the true international classics of graphic fiction, Akira has once again taken America by storm. Artist/writer/filmmaker Katsuhiro Otomo is acclaimed worldwide as a master storyteller, and Akira showcases Otomo at the peak of his creative form. Akira is a timeless, epic work of unforgettable beauty, horror, and imagination.
Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. Set off by the bullet of a would-be assassin, the godlike telekinetic fury of the superhuman child Akira has once again demolished in seconds that which took decades and untold billions to build. Now cut off from the rest of the world, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, with Akira its king, the psychic juggernaut Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a growing army of fanatic acolytes ready to go to any length to please their masters. Forces on the outside still search for a way to stop Akira, and the answer may lie in the hands of the mysterious Lady Miyako, a powerful member of Akira’s paranormal brotherhood. But the solution to harnessing Akira may ultimately be more dangerous than Akira himself. Twenty years since its original release in Japan, Akira remains one of the most widely acclaimed and influential works of graphic fiction, and creator Katsuhiro Otomo has become a legendary storyteller in animation as well as manga. Akira is a science fiction tour de force, a breathtaking vision of innocence, infamy, and insanity.
This post-apocalyptic saga charts the coming of the creature known only as Akira, a power both feared and prized for its potential to shake the recovering world. The Great Tokyo Empire rises, but with technology's most advanced weaponry to hand, the planet is not taking the threat lying down.
Der Prachtband zur Manga-Legende! 1991 erschien mit AKIRA die erste Manga-Serie in deutscher Sprache und revolutionierte die westliche Comic-Welt. Die Science-Fiction-Serie von Katsuhiro Otomo, die auch als Anime schnell Kultstatus erlangte, gilt heute als moderner Klassiker futuristischer Popkultur, der den Manga und Anime den Weg nach Europa ebnete. Auf 256 Seiten sind unzählige farbige und schwarzweiße Illustrationen aus der Serie und der japanischen Magazinveröffentlichung versammelt, sowie Fotos, Promo-Illustrationen, Merchandise-Artikel und kommentierte Skizzen und Studien, die einen Blick zur Entstehung dieses Meisterwerks ermöglichen. Das ultimative Kompendium für alle AKIRA-Fans!
