I know this is an anime thread but, I'll post this here anyway. After my friend convinced me to read the Akira manga (when I was less than blown out of the water by the film) I have become somewhat infatuated. Not the longest manga, but I can definitely see why it set the bench mark it did. As is obvious by my change on TSR... I do love this manga. Great pacing, stellar plotline, amazing art, great characters and lines and actually manages to ask some very philosophical questions without blatantly trying to be philosophical and contrived *cough* Ergo Proxy *cough*. I'd recommend it highly, if you've watched the film or not. If anything, it would be better if you didn't watch the film first, it would only colour your opinion of the manga which is very different. /fanboy
I need to buy the manga for this. Definitely get a reread sometime.