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Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro, born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He is best known as the creator of Akira, in terms of both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation.
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- April 14, 1954 (age 69), Miyagi Prefecture, Japan
Nov 3, 2023 · In this Thursday edition of the Animation Obsessive newsletter, we’re publishing a long interview with Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira) done in the mid-1990s. To our knowledge, it’s never appeared in English before. The interview comes from an out-of-print Japanese book called The Memory of Memories (1996).
Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA) is a Japanese cyberpunk post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. It was serialized biweekly in Kodansha 's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine from December 20, 1982, to June 25, 1990, with its 120 chapters collected into six tankōbon volumes.
Sep 18, 2021 · Here's everything you need to know about the seminal cyberpunk manga. Psychic apocalypses, super-powered sociopaths and scintillating cyberpunk action-sequencing; since its inception in the pages of Weekly Young Magazine in 1982, Katsuhiro Otomo’s groundbreaking postmodern epic Akira has been hailed as a trailblazing triumph not only of ...
Katsuhiro Ôtomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. In 1979, after writing multiple short-stories for the magazine Action, Otomo created his first science-fiction work, titled Fireball.
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Apr 13, 2012 · Katsuhiro Otomo, the mind and hands behind Akira, is posing for photos with giggling, excited visitors. Otomo is here to unveil his Gengaten — an exhibition of 3,000 of the pieces he's...
Jun 21, 2011 · Katsuhiro Otomo. In 1988, Katsuhiro Ôtomo turned his bestselling manga into a $10 million feature-length cartoon. The result, Akira, is quite simply one of the greatest animated movies ever...
