The epic, timeless success that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word "manga" a part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The AKIRA Collection includes the original, right-to-left manga reading format and Katsuhiro Otomo’s original, handcrafted sound effects in a beautiful, large-format collector's edition.

The once brilliant Neo-Tokyo lies in ruins, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the psychokinetic child Akira. From the flooded wasteland of debris and anarchy arises the Great Empire of Tokyo, inhabited by a strange army of zealots and madmen who both worship and fear Akira and his crazy prime minister, Tetsuo, an angry teenager with enormous powers and equally enormous, twisted ambitions.

The world at large does not passively watch the threat, and the planet's military forces rally to fight the empire, but will the most advanced weapons technology be enough to eliminate Akira? And are Tetsuo’s rapidly growing paranoid abilities an even greater potential threat?

Pages: 416, Dimensions: 18.4x18.4cm