Katsuhiro otomo biography sample
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Ōtomo Katsuhiro 大友克洋, Kōen（公園 Park）, 2014
Artist: Ōtomo Katsuhiro (Japanese, April 14, 1954- )
Title:公園 Park
Date: 2014
Medium: Full color manga
Publisher: Tōkyō: Magajin Hausu, 2014
Series: Brutus tokubetsu henshū.
Call Number: PN6790.J3 O8652
Cover of Manga
Sample bild Page
Park takes a slice of time out of the lives of three Japanese boys in a manga that serves as general reflection on ungdom and changing Japanese culture. The three boys, On, Hanaken and Shinta, are social misfits that end up spending time at a park after school. There, while the boys are thinking about their future ,they are confronted by older people who service the park and keep it clean. The confrontation occurs because the boys vårdslöst were throwing their skräp on the ground and after their encounter with the older people, they reflect more about their future and what might happen. The physical book is part of a special edition publica
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Akira (manga)
Japanese manga series by Katsuhiro Otomo
Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA) is a Japanese cyberpunkpost-apocalypticmanga 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. It was initially published in the United States by Marvel Comics under its Epic imprint, becoming one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety into English.[6] It is currently published by Kodansha Comics in North America. Considered a watershed title for the medium,[7] the manga is also famous for spawning the seminal 1988 cyberpunk animefilm adaptation of the same name and the greater franchise.
Set in a post-apocalyptic and futuristic "Neo-Tokyo", more than three decades after a mysterious explosion destroyed the city, the story centers on teenage biker gang leader Shotar
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Urasawa Naoki: An ‘Adult’ Since He Was Young
“Urasawa Naoki wa wakai koro kara no ‘otona’”
from Manga no fuka-yomi, otona-yomi (Over-Readings and Adult Readings of Manga; East Press, 2004)
Translated by Jon Holt and Teppei Fukuda
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Wow, this is going to be my commentary (kaisetsu) essay for Urasawa Naoki.
MONSTER and 20th Century Boys (Nijū seiki shōnen)—that Urasawa Naoki.
Urasawa—I can’t help myself being emotional about it.
Are you asking what makes me emotional? It’s that, if this were the 1980s, Urasawa Naoki would be the author you recognize for YAWARA!
But I’ll tell you a secret. Before that, Urasawa was one of the children of Ōtomo Katsuhiro from the days of his 1970s short story phase.
In those early days, he had Ōtomo’s sense of dry cruelty—that combined sense of cool (koiki) with some French avant-garde thrown in; that enlightened feeling of detachment.
More than his heroes and heroines, his stories and his line work gave fresh life to th