Akira Volume 2, by Katsuhiro Otomo

Tetsuo's powers and his instability are on the rise.  He becomes obsessed with Akira, the mightu force that destroyed Tokyo 38 years earlier.  Trying to stop him are the clandestine government forces that hold him, headed by the Colonel, and the underground resistance, and Kaneda and the street gangs of Neo-Tokyo.  As the novel Akira rises, a young boy, seemingly innocuous.

Akira Volume 1 by Katsuhiro Otomo

Kaneda is a disaffected rebellious teenage boy growing up in dystopian 2030 Neo-Tokyo, a city built around a crater of destruction from the massive detonation that exploded in the heart of Tokyo at 2.17pm on December the 6th 1992.  He leads his gang of anarchic motorcyling teenage delinquents breaking into the zone of destruction and his friend Tetsuo is badly wounded as they crash trying to avoid a mysterious wrinkled faced child who disappears.  Tetsuo is taken away by mysterious forces and return to their school for out of control teens strangely changed.  A wild adventure of gang warfare, underground resistance, a beautiful girl and awesome psychic powers begins, a 360 page long but absorbing fabulous ride.