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Neo-Tokyo has risen from the rubble of a Tokyo destroyed by an apocalyptic blast from a boy called Akira - the subject of a covert government experiment gone wrong, now imprisoned in frozen stasis. But Tetsudo, an angry young man with immense psychic abilities, has released Akira and set in motion a chain of events that could destroy the city and drag the world to the point of Armageddon. Resistance agents and an armada of government forces race against the clock to find the child with godlike powers before his unthinkable destructive abilities are unleashed!
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Akira was released by Tetsuo at the end of vol.2 and know the chase is on to capture him. This volume concentrates on the government and the resistance as they both search for Akira while at the same time trying to take out each other while caught in the middle of this are Kaneda, Kei, Ryu and Chiyoko.
Everything builds to a acopolyptic conclusion that will have you counting the days, minutes and seconds until the release of volume 4!...
By now the manga is telling an almost completely different story to the film and I think that it is far better because of it. During this volume we are introduced to a lot of new characters, some that never made it to the film, and all the familiar ones are further developed; another reason that the manga is simply a lot better than the film. The science fiction elements of the manga are analysed in a much greater depth than they were in the film, as are the themes of power and the nature of humanity.
One of the best things about Akira is that, unlike other seinen manga, it is not trapped underneath some ton weight of confusing jargon and techno babble. Katsuhiro prefers to write everything a little more simply and keep the dialogue to a level everyone can understand. The dialogue is also wickedly funny throughout, with Kaneda as usual being the source of most of the humour.
This volume has some of the best artwork I've ever seen in a comic book and you either have to be blind or dead not to appreciate it. The more action orientated storyline is drawn to perfection by Katsuhiro, who has managed to add a fantastic sense of pace and a fluid motion to the still drawings. The climatic end of this volume, leading into what I presume is the second half of the storyline starting volume four, has some of the most incredibly drawn panels I've ever seen, with the last three really taking my breath away.
Basically this is still the best manga ever and you really do need to get them all.
This volume, again, changes its manner of narrative. It's the shortest volume, moving at a faster pace, with far more time denoted to the current situation that characters find themselves in, rather than aiming to complicate the plot.
True, various actions go unexplained and new characters appear, but Katsuhiro aims to end the first stage of the story and and begin afresh in the next volume. He does this with amazing skill.
This is perhaps the most enjoyable novel of the series: with plenty of humour in the early sections and plentiful action. Like all the volumes it ends on a note of fear, uncertainty and absolute devastation. The artwork in the the last pages is famous and deserves to be. It is astonishing how Katsuhiro boxes, shapes and moulds his narrative. It is seamless, with characters moving in and out easily. The story is also thrilling, thanks to the drawing, the incident's themselves and how the pictures are fitted together on the page.
Furthermore, it becomes clear in this volume that while the themes of politics, the role of the military and science are important to the overall thrust of this saga, it is fundamentally a human drama, about how cataclysmic events impact on people's everyday lives.
If you've just skipped most of the preceeding blurb to read the final comment, here it is: AKIRA remains unparalled in the world of graphic fiction - go and by it all now.
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