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Manga : Akira
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| Neo-Tokyo, 2031 â€" 38 years after a massive explosion annihilated Japan's capital city and started World War III. Violent biker gangs rule the nighttime streets of the rebuilt metropolis. Kaneda, the cocky and charming young leader of one such gang, finds a whole new kind of trouble when a bizarre accident injures his best friend Tetsuo. The army takes Tetsuo into custody, and shortly thereafter Tetsuo manifests frightening new psychokinetic powers, and an angry and paranoid personality to go with them. Now the army's trying to re-capture Tetsuo, and Kaneda finds himself involved with an underground resistance movement opposing the army's mysterious covert operations. What's going on with the strange children who look like old people and can destroy a building with a single thought? Kaneda doesn't know what he's gotten himself into, but it all revolves around a mysterious something â€" or someone â€" known only as "Akira."
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