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by Katsuhiro Otomo (Author)
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  • Paperback: 288 pages
  • Publisher: Titan Books Ltd (25 Aug 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 1840233168
  • ISBN-13: 978-1840233162
  • Product Dimensions: 25.4 x 17.2 x 1.4 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 24,018 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Tetsuo, an angry young man with immense psychic abilities, has released Akira from his frozen stasis and set in motion a chain of events that could 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 unthinkable destructive abilities are unleashed.

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From master storyteller Katsuhiro Otomo, Japan's foremost manga maestro, comes the third epic instalment of the sweeping work that introduced the West to the stylised and dynamic artform that is manga - Akira!

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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5.0 out of 5 stars Unbelievable storytelling, 4 April 2003
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Katsuhiro Otomo remains almost impossible to fault as both an artists or writer. Akira Volume 3 is absolutely brilliant - and I ain't just writing enthusiastically.

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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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Awesome!, 4 Aug 2001
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This is the third volume in Katsuhiro Otomo's awesome, epic Akira series. Set in Neo-Tokyo, it follows two Japanese youths, Kaneda and Tetsuo, who get wrapped up in the unraveling of a conspiracy that destroyed Tokyo and started World War III. The mysterious and dangerous Akira.

To sum this series up in a paragraph is pointless. This is quite simply the greatest graphic novel ever written. The artwork is consistently stunning with a movie like quality while the story is compelling and draws the reader in. If you have any vague interest in Japenses manga, comics in general or the film you must get all six volumes of this brilliant series.

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5.0 out of 5 stars The best graphic novel ever., 23 Nov 2001
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The first two volumes of this series were good but I felt they were eclipsed by the film a bit. Vol.3 however goes beyond the anime and delivers 300 pages of the most intense, pulsating and spectacular story you're ever likely to read. In terms of sheer enjoyment this book surpasses such classics as From Hell, Preacher, Sandman and Watchmen, it is quite simply the best graphic novel (or book for that matter) ever produced!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Akira volume three
Volume three of Akira is much faster paced than the previous two as everyone is going for the nearest gun to try and track down the loose Akira, who was freed from his long sleep... Read more
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5.0 out of 5 stars 282 pages of brilliance
Katsuhiro Otomo's epic continues at breakneck speed in Akira:3. This is the volume where Otomo really exceeds as an artist. Read more
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