Akira is awake and what a cute bundle of untapped psychic force of creation strong eough to shatter the world he turns out to be! On the run and hiding with the awesome Chiyoko, Kei and Kaneda reach out to the resistance, but there is treachery afoot! With the Colonel and the military and two factions of the resistance after them, and after Akira the actions rolls furiously through the city until everything builds to the biggest E*X*P*L*O*S*I*O*N of them all, a sequence up there with Moore's Miracleman for sheer destructive power unleashed on the pages of a comic book. It is off the charts. And this is where the film ended. The comic is only getting started.