AKIRA Hardcover Collection 1 - Katsuhiro Otomo

Katsuhiro Otomo is perhaps the manga artist who has most defined the medium over the last 50 years. From his breakout early short stories A Gun Reportand Fire-Ball to his timeless longer works Domu: A Child's Dream , Memories , and, of course, AKIRA , Otomo's career punctuated the end of the gekiga era of the 1960s and 1970s and charted a new course toward Japanese manga and anime's now-central place on the global cultural stage. No single work is more responsible for spreading anime fandom around the work than the film adaptation of AKIRA , which Otomo directed himself and which was the most expensive animated film ever made at the time. Today, Otomo is revered by generations of comics creators as a professional inspiration and by fans around the world for his work in manga, anime, live-action film, picture books, public art, and more.