A Future Tokyo

A two-page spread from the first volume of 'Akira'

The above image is a scan of a two-​page spread from Akira, a Japanese manga by Kat­suhiro Otomo. It is a fant­astic series, and well-​worth reading (try to find the original black and white version cur­rently pub­lished by Dark Horse). Here is a summary from the Wiki­pedia page on the manga:

Akira is a black and white serial manga or graphic novel by Kat­suhiro Otomo. Set in a post-​apocalyptic Tokyo, the work utilises con­ven­tions of the cyber­punk genre to detail a saga of turmoil. Ini­tially seri­al­ised in the pages of Young Magazine from 1982 until 1990, the work was col­lected in six volumes upon com­ple­tion by Japanese pub­lisher Kodansha. The work was first pub­lished in an English language version by the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics, one of the first manga works to be trans­lated in entirety. Otomo’s art on the series is con­sidered out­standing, and the work is a break­through for both Otomo and the manga form. An identic­ally titled anime film adapt­a­tion was released in 1988, short­ening the plot, but with its struc­ture and scenes heavily informed by the manga and its serial origins.

A key char­acter in Akira is the city itself, Neo-​Tokyo, a new urban area con­structed in the after­math of the nuclear war that dev­ast­ated the “old city”. This “new” Tokyo is con­structed on top of Tokyo Bay:

A detail of a page from the first volume of 'Akira'