◆Katsuhiro Otomo (manga artist, film director) Born on April 14, 1954 in Miyagi Prefecture. Debuted in 1973. His representative manga works include "Domu" and "AKIRA". The animated film "AKIRA", which he directed and wrote the script for, was highly praised around the world and has had ...
Katsuhiro Otomo’s DomuO网页链接 The chilling 1983 manga “Domu, a child’s dream” O网页链接 , by Katsuhiro Otomo O网页链接 of Akira‘s fame O网页链接 , revolves around a child and an old man conducting telekinetic battle through a large apartment building.While classic Akira explored child...
In 1982, Otomo made his anime debut, working as character designer for the animated film Harmagedon. The next year, Otomo began work on a manga which would become his most acclaimed and famous work: Akira. It took eight years to complete and would eventually culminate in 2000 pages of ...
DOMU: A CHILD'S DREAM (1996): Otomo's breakthrough work is a violent and often disturbing affair, blending Otomo's long standing thematic concerns about urban poverty and decay with his newfound interest in parapsychology and psychic abilities. It also features one of the more memorable ...
Otomo has drawn a good many comics over these decades, so the collection is going to be positively epic…as will the price. Nonetheless, as a big fan I’m ready to bite the bullet on this one. I’ll post more updates on the details of the collection as well as the release date whe...
“Who isKatsuhiro Otomo– 大友克洋 新解説 ” was a special supplement that came bundled with the January 2007 issue ofBrutus, a Japanese pop culture magazine. Back then the life action version ofMushishi蟲師 ( directed by Otomo ) had just hit theatres and he was the talk of the town for...
(above) The book also comes with some mini stickers on the last page, and Brutus even threw in a copy of Otomo’s short manga “Park”,released back in 2007. 100 pages of Otomo goodness, with a free comic thrown in. What’s not to like ? Get this now, before it goes out of pr...
(above) A life size reproduction of the wall crater in Domu for visitors to pose and take pictures with. (below) A Kaneda wannabe dons the red jacket. It’s 500 yen a pop to sit on the bike and have your photo taken. (above) A quick doodle that Otomo-san drew on the wall the...
The first is that even though many of the art work aren’t new, its the first time they are presented in their “raw” and unvarnished form, uncropped too, lending a pristine quality to the work. It’s as if Otomo himself dug out all his original pieces of art work, stacked them in...
(below) The manga comes with a poster and postcard. As I mentioned in my review for the originalKibun Wa Mou Senso manga, the war genre probably isn’t everyone’s cup of tea, but Otomo’s art work is gorgeous as always, with plenty of detail in every drawing to marvel at. These...