Introduced to a world suffering from decay, yet shrouded by a desperation for recovery, clashing political agendas hinder this world from meaningful progress. We are swept in a race; a sprint towards discovering and harnessing true power, an urgency to withhold such dangerous potential and placed under the wrongful hands, and a determination to recover a friend lost under the navigation of the political machine, entirely wrapped in a kinetic flow that never ceases to take a breath. This volume of Akira ramps up a momentum that is effectively sustained. While it may have left me in a state of hunger for things to decelerate and highlight more character moments rather than cater to tension, I remained patient in the hopes that such an appetite would be compensated later on.