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What happened to this series? Just when I started coming to terms with Akira not caring about either a thought-through plot or in-depth character development, the series just took a few pleasantly surprising turns that made this my favorite volume so far.



Remember how Akira has gotten his powers back in the last Volume and casually caused another massive destruction of Neo-Tokyo with which aftermath we are now dealing with. The city is now cut off from the rest of the world and with Akira its king and Tetsuo its mad prime minister, the world we are witnessing is turning into a post-apocalyptic nightmare.

It's a lot creepier than its predecessors. I can't even quite tell what it is - maybe it's the fact that we are introduced to a lot of new people and groups that just aren't as black and white as the good and the bad guys had been in the story so far. People we would have thought of as "normal" show signs of being manipulated, brainwashed or just in the process of going insane.

Here comes the world building I was so desperately waiting for. We learn more about the experiments that have been tried on the bearer of superpowers, how Lady Miyako might be the one to save everyone and the boring mean guy Tetsuo becomes not only a more disgusting prick, but also more interesting by having a intriguing hallucination and afterwards trying to control his drug-addiction. And I'm enjoying Kei a lot, too! Always here for a female hero.

I'm excited about this series again after having had quite neutral feelings about it for a little run now. Off to the next volume. After the change in pace and narrative, I wonder which direction this will go into now.