Akira #5

Epic ⋅ 1989
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Key Facts

Adaptation of the genre-defining, Japanese cyberpunk classic

Issue Details

Publisher

Epic

Artist

Katsuhiro Otomo

Writer

Katsuhiro Otomo

Published

February 1989

Synopsis

War in the streets. Neo-Tokyo in the thirty-eighth year after World War III shakes with the thunder of careening motorcycles, rings with the clatter of brutal combat. With chains, with pipes, with the very machines they ride, members of the young fugitive Kaneda's motorcycle gang move to avenge themselves upon their ruthless rivals, the Clowns. But the Clowns have a new leader. Tetsuo. Once Kaneda called him a friend. Now everyone calls him a monster. Altered by forces he does not understand, Tetsuo has become a psychic powered giant. Yet for all his power, he teeters on the brink of madness, beyond control of even the mysterious government forces who helped place him on this path in the hope of countering someone even more deadly, even more threatening. Someone called...AKIRA.

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