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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2010
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Summary: As Tetsuo begins losing control of his abilities, the military's forces converge on Neo-Tokyo for the final confrontation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2011
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Summary: "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 armanda of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unstoppable destructive...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2010
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Summary: "Akira began serialization in December of 1982 in Young Magazine, and the curtains finally closed when the sixth paperback collection was released in March 1993. This book chronicles that decade-plus of history in its entirety..."--T.p.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Manga 2007
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 OTOSummary: Magnetic Rose: Two space travellers follow a distress signal and are drawn into a magnificent world created by one woman's memories. Stink bomb: A young chemist accidentally transforms himself into an unstoppable biological weapon set on a direct course for Tokyo. Cannon fodder: Depicts a day in the life of a city whose entire purpose is the firing of cannons at an unknown enemy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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Summary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Kodansha Comics 2010
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1 available in Adult Graphic Novels, Call number: 741.5 AKIOtomo, Katsuhiro
Summary: In the 21st century, the once-glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruins, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic giant, Akira. Now a wasteland of rubble and anarchy, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, a ragtag group of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira and his mad prime minister, Tetsuo, an angry teen with immense powers of his own -- and equally immense twisted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dark Horse Comics 2001