![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() But when a little girl moves in with her family, the old man is suddenly confronted by someone determined to stop his malevolent games, a child with powers that might exceed his own. The police investigating the deaths don't know what to make of it all, but as they follow the bizarre trail of clues, they get closer to a killer they're incapable of stopping. An old man with terrifying psychic abilities has become senile, and is now indulging his deadly and selfish whims, manipulating the residents like puppets and sending some to their deaths. In an apartment mega-complex with thousands of residents, the suicide rate has risen dramatically. It's tempting to see it as a 300-page 'test-run' for the 2000+-page magnum opus, but that ignores the fact that 'Domu' is Manga perfection. 'Domu', Otomo's first masterpiece, has always been overshadowed by the grandeur of Akira, but both the art and the story display the full range of his creative powers. The uncontrollable power of 'Akira' threatens to swallow everything in tentacle range, even it's older sibling, with whom the mega-manga shares it's own dramatis personae of troubled telekinetic characters: DOMU. ![]()
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