Akira #2

Volume 2 of Katsuhiro Otomo's *Akira*, published by Carlsen Comics in 2000, arrives with a cover that's all cool tension: a young figure in a red jacket stands arms-crossed before a massive, bolted vault door marked with industrial hazard stripes, the sheer scale of the machinery dwarfing him against its deep blue steel. Otomo's cover art captures that signature contrast between fragile humanity and overwhelming technological force that runs through the series' DNA. At 304 pages, this German-language edition is a genuinely substantial read for anyone drawn to neo-Tokyo's turbulent world.