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English
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Rougsih Harry Niles is an American raised in Tokyo in the years leading up to World War II. In 1941 he draws the suspicion of the police as a gaijin scam artist, which along with his torrid love affair, leads to intrigue and suspense. The question arises, is Harry a spy? And if so, who is he really working for?
2) Akira, #6
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Akira heads a great empire which is at war with the world. But Tetsuo's psychic powers might be even more threatening.
3) Akira, #2
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
A graphic novel which features the adventures of a group of men and women working to disbale a monstrous psychokinetic power known only as Akira.
5) Akira, #3
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
In Neo-Tokyo, resistance agents and government forces search desperately for Akira, a young boy with the power to destroy the world, who has been frozen and imprisoned by the government for thirty years and whom another troubled boy, Tetsuo, has just set free.
6) Akira, #5
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
The planet unites to take on the destructive, superhuman Akira and his Great Tokyo Empire, but the mad ambitions and paranormal powers of Tetsuo, Akira's teenage prime minister, may prove even greater dangers to the world at large than the king himself.
Author
Publisher
Distributed in the United States by Kodansha America
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Takako Otomichi, battling the disapproval of her family and prejudice against women on the job, takes on her first assignment as a detective to investigate the death of a Tokyo businessman who burst into flames while dining in a restaurant, and whose body bears bite marks similar to those found in a string of homicides.
8) Akira, #1
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2000
Language
English
Description
In Neo-Tokyo, a city whose precursor was destroyed by a mysterious explosion, a streetwise teenager named Tetsuo begins to develop paranormal abilities, making him the target of a secret agency that wants to prevent another leveling blast and fears a terrifying force called Akira.
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Retired marine Bob Lee Swagger agrees to help Philip Yano, whose father was killed in Iwo Jima by Bob's father, find the sword his dad fought with in World War II--which is considered a national treasure in Japan--and becomes involved in a deadly conspiracy with people who believe having possession of the sword is more important than life itself.
10) After dark
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Nineteen-year-old college student Mari Asai has a series of unusual encounters over the course of a long Tokyo night, while her sister Eri, a fashion model, sleeps.
11) Akira, #4
Author
Publisher
Dark Horse Comics
Pub. Date
2001
Language
English
Description
Where Neo Tokyo once stood, the Great Tokyo Empire grows in isolation from the rest of the world, led
by the destructive, superhuman Akira but while the outsiders have moved closer to harnessing Akira'spower, stopping him may prove more dangerous than leaving him alone.
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