Books like Akira, Vol. 4
12 books with a reading profile close to Akira, Vol. 4 by Katsuhiro Otomo. Deep; a moderate read.
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Snow Crash
entertainment, narrative
In a near-future Los Angeles partitioned into sovereign corporate franchises, Hiro Protagonist delivers pizzas for the Mafia and hacks within the Metaverse, a three-dimensional virtual reality landscape he helped build.
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Akira, Vol. 1
narrative, science fiction
Set in the year 2019, thirty-one years after a nuclear explosion leveled Tokyo, the story follows a teenage biker gang navigating the neon-lit ruins of Neo-Tokyo.
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3
Y: The Last Man, Vol. 3: One Small Step
entertainment, narrative
Yorick Brown and his capuchin monkey, Ampersand, continue their trek across a world devoid of biological males.
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Y: The Last Man, Vol. 5: Ring of Truth
entertainment, narrative
In this fifth installment, Yorick Brown, the final human male on Earth, travels to San Francisco with Agent 355 and Dr.
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5
Superman: Red Son
by Mark Millar
entertainment, narrative
In this alternate history, Kal-El’s escape pod lands on a Soviet collective farm in 1938 instead of rural Kansas.
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6
Kingdom Come
by Mark Waid
entertainment, narrative
Set in a future where a new generation of metahumans executes criminals without trial, Kingdom Come follows an aging Pastor Norman McCay and a weary Superman.
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7
Time Enough For Love
entertainment, narrative
Lazarus Long, a man over two thousand years old, concludes his era of space travel and genetic survival by seeking a permanent death.
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8
Transmetropolitan, Vol. 1: Back on the Street
by Warren Ellis
narrative, science fiction
Spider Jerusalem is a cynical gonzo journalist who spent five years in self-imposed exile before returning to the City to fulfill a forgotten book contract.
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Vol. 1
by Alan Moore
entertainment, narrative
In 1898 London, British Intelligence recruiter Campion Bond assembles a covert team of Victorian literary figures to defend the Empire against a rising criminal threat.
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10
The Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy
entertainment, science fiction
Arthur Dent escapes the demolition of Earth by a Vogon constructor fleet by hitching a ride on a spacecraft with Ford Prefect, a researcher for an interstellar travel manual.
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11
Foundation and Chaos
by Greg Bear
entertainment, narrative
Set within the Second Foundation Trilogy, this novel follows Hari Seldon as he defends his theories of psychohistory during a formal trial on the capital world of Trantor.
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12
The Umbrella Academy, Vol. 2: Dallas
by Gerard Way
entertainment, narrative
The story follows the fractured Hargreeves siblings as they navigate the aftermath of the apocalypse they narrowly avoided.
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