Chapter 10 The Awakening Beneath the half finished Olympic Stadium, AKIRA sleeps, peaceful and oblivious, while above him rages a battle to see who will control his future. Tetsuo, a powerful paranormal, seeks to awaken Akira, to see just who this extraordinary being is. Fearful of the dire consequences of waking Akira, Kiyoko, a paranormal [...]
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Chapter 9 Stalkers Escape. Somewhere on the streets of Neo-Tokyo in the year 2030 the young psychic-powered killer, Tetsuo, roams free of the secret government project where he learned of one possessing even stronger paranormal abilities than his own…AKIRA. Tetsuo now knows where this mysterious being lies in cryogenic sleep and means to find him. [...]
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Chapter 8 Weapon of Vengeance Chaos reigns in the secret government project run by the Colonel in 21st Century Neo-Tokyo. Two prisoners — Kay, young agent of the underground resistance, and Kaneda, vengeance driven leader of a teenage motorcycle gang — are on the loose in his skyscraper headquarters. His special team of mutant children [...]
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Chapter 7 Prisoners and Players Within one of 21st Century New-Tokyo’s great city towers is a secret government project. Here a volatile group of individuals is gathered. Most volatile of all is Tetsuo, haunted delinquent with murderous psychic power. The project’s head, the Colonel, hopes Tetsuo can be used to counter an even greater threat…the [...]
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Chapter 6 My Friend, My Enemy Combat. In the warehouse district of post-World War III Neo-Tokyo, a showdown is taking place. Two young men, once friends, are engaged in a struggle to destroy each other. Kaneda, rebellious gang leader, has a magnum revolver plus his own wit and determination as weapons. Tetsuo, who recently took [...]
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Chapter 4 King of Clowns A new force moves through the post-World War III city of Neo-Tokyo. A force dubbed Number 41 by the secret government agency monitoring his moves. Once he was a teenage motorcycle gang member named Tetsuo, but that was before a strange accident put him in the hands of the government [...]
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Chapter 3 Number 41! Threads. Slowly intertwining. Coming together. Twisting tighter. The construction site for the coming Olympic games in post-World War III Neo-Tokyo is rocked by an explosion, the work of anti-government rebels. In a secret government project controlled by the man known only as the Colonel, a wizened-faced child-woman awakes from a dream. [...]
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Chapter 2 Pursuit As earth recovers from World War III, strange new events are shaping in Neo-Tokyo. A pursuit has begun. Its object is a wizened-faced child with incredible telekenetic powers and the mark Number 26 on his palm. He holds clues to something prized and feared. Something or someone called…AKIRA. Two pursuers are the [...]
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Chapter 1 The Highway The Third World War began in 1992 with the explosion of a new type of bomb over Japan. Thirty-eight years later the world is at last recovering. But in Neo-Tokyo, near ground zero of the original destruction, a strange encounter takes place. Kaneda — young, restless, committed to defying authority — [...]
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