Akira, Volume 6 SC Ormond “Compelling

“Compelling

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Akira, Volume 6 SC Ormond “CompellingBy Katsuhiro Otomo. Published by Kodansha. Softcover, 440 pages, B&W, 2011 (originally published in Japanese in 1993) IN A DEVASTATED 21ST CENTURY, Neo Tokyo, the armed might of Earth is massed against the godlike powers of two psychic titans, the mute child Akira and the deranged youth Tetsuo. While Akira has unintentionally destroyed the city twice before, Tetsuo has ravaged the surface of the Moon for his sheer amusement, and his madness grows as