With Akira and his mad prime minister ruling the Great Tokyo Empire, the world at large is gathering its military strength to take on them on.

As Tetsuo begins losing control of his abilities, the military forces converge on Neo-Tokyo for the final confrontation.

"Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Shigeo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to...

Gen finds a printer willing to print the eyewitness account "Papa" has written. When it has been printed and distributed, the U.S. Army censors become angry and teach them a difficult lesson. When Koji, Gen's brother finally returns home, he finds their mother on her deathbed.