“Tachibana… What are you doing here?” The blunt question, even though it was asked innocently, shakes Akira’s heart. As Christmas draws closer, Akira resolves to do a certain something for Kondo, and Yui, Yoshizawa and Kase grapple with secret feelings of their own…
As winter deepens, Yui works up the courage to give Yoshizawa her hand-knit scarf. The staff of Garden ring in the new year together, and January begins with new-fallen snow. Alone in his apartment, Kondo’s pen glides along manuscript paper. Akira heads out, hand-made scarf and umbrella in hand.
Akira is set in the post-apocalypse Neo-Tokyo of 2019, a vast metropolis built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by an apocalyptic blast of unknown power that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when dormant paranormal abilities
