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Otomo, Katsuhiro

Otomo, Katsuhiro

Author Biography & Works

Katsuhiro Otomo is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. In 2005, Otomo was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, promoted to Officier of the order in 2014, and became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012.

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Books by Otomo, Katsuhiro

Akira

Akira

Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo...

Steamboy (cover not available)

Steamboy

Ah, Steampunk. The anime Steamboy is one of the finest examples of the genre ever put to film. The second film from the director of the legendary anime Akira, Steamboy...

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