tokyo (japan)

Nana and Nana have both decided to go to Tokyo and follow their dreams and, after meeting on the train when it breaks down for a few hours, the girls decide to become roommates and help each other find their way in the strange city.

A graphic novel in which two twenty-year-old women who share the same name become fast friends, despite their vastly different backgrounds, and learn about the world around them.

Feeling impossibly awkward and unpopular in spite of her international fame, Harriet decides a summer modeling job in Japan will make the perfect vacation, until her gorgeous model ex-boyfriend Nick shows up.

Kawashima, a successful graphic designer living in Tokyo with his wife and baby, battles the desire to stab his child with an ice pick. He decides to face his demons and hires a prostitute, determined to stab her with the ice pick and rid himself of the desire. However, when he meets the girl, he discovers she has her own problems and the two clash in one terrifying night.

An eyewitness chronicle of the Doolittle Raid on Japan in April 1942, that describes the crew's difficult escape from China afterwards and includes the War Department's official communiqu?, details on the crew one year later, and letters from the period the men were in China.

Despite being stuck in a frozen status, Akira still poses a threat to Neo-Tokyo and Tetsuo might be the city's only hope if it is ever released, but Tetsuo and his powers have become unstable and a group gathers to stop him from doing the unthinkable.

All of Earth's forces unite against the child Akira, who has accidentally destroyed Neo-Tokyo twice, and Tetsuo, whose loss of control over his psychic powers is turning him into a horror beyond belief.

Tetsuo and Kaneda, teenage friends in Neo-Tokyo following World War III, see their relationship change when Tetsuo begins developing paranormal abilities, making him the target of a shadowy agency motivated by fear of an unthinkable power known as Akira.

"When Sparky's magic bone blasts him to Tokyo, Japan, he discovers a whole new world--one with karaoke, 'squishy fishy' and sumo wrestlers! His new friend, an Akita named Nanami, guides him around the city, until Sparky loses her in a crowd. But it turns out Nanami isn't just any Akita. She's the queen of the Ninja Dogs--a fierce group who are convinced that Sparky has kidnapped her"--Provided by publisher.