Katsuhiro Otomo

Artbooks, illustrations, commemorative books, and monographs by mangaka Katsuhiro Otomo, author of AKIRA. In their original Japanese edition.

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Otomo - The Complete Works 13 - Akira 2
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ISBN: 978-4-06-538433-6 // ISBN: 9784065384336Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 290Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 32 - Animation STEAMBOY Storyboards 2
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ISBN: 978-4-06-541659-4 // ISBN: 9784065416594Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 480Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 31 - Animation STEAMBOY Storyboards 1
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ISBN: 978-4-06-540846-9 // ISBN: 9784065408469Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 480Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 14 - Akira 3
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ISBN: 978-4-06-540467-6 // ISBN: 9784065404676Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 278Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 7 - Apple Paradise
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ISBN: 978-4-06-538434-3 // ISBN: 9784065384343Year of publication: 2025Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 288Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Animation AKIRA Layouts & Frames 3 - Otomo the Complete Works 25
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ISBN: 978-4-06-536054-5 // ISBN: 9784065360545Year of publication: 2024Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 678Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 4 - Sayonara Nippon
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ISBN: 978-4-06-527312-8 // ISBN: 9784065273128Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 320Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 3 - Highway Star
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ISBN: 978-4-06-527318-0 // ISBN: 9784065273180Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 320Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The complete Works 2 - Boogie Wooogie Waltz
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ISBN: 978-4-06-527320-3 // ISBN: 9784065273203Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 364Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 12 - Akira 1
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ISBN: 978-4-06-536785-8 // ISBN: 9784065367858Year of publication: 2024Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 320Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 6 - G.....
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ISBN: 978-4-06-536786-5 // ISBN: 9784065367865Year of publication: 2024Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 320Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 5 - Fire-Ball
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ISBN: 978-4-06-527313-5 // ISBN: 9784065273135Year of publication: 2023Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 310Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 1 - Gunshot
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ISBN: 978-4-06-527315-9 // ISBN: 9784065273159Year of publication: 2023Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 320Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames 2 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 24
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ISBN: 978-4-06-529356-0 // ISBN: 9784065293560Year of publication: 2023Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 650Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames 1 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 23
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ISBN: 978-4-06-528697-5 // ISBN: 9784065286975Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 650Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Otomo - The Complete Works 8 - Domu: A Child's Dream
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ISBN: 978-4-06-526263-4 // ISBN: 9784065262634Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 252Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Animation AKIRA Storyboards 2 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 22
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ISBN: 978-4-06-527310-4 // ISBN: 9784065273104Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 408Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Animation AKIRA Storyboards 1 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 21
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ISBN: 978-4-06-526264-1 // ISBN: 9784065262641Year of publication: 2022Publisher: KodanshaNumber of pages: 488Language: JapaneseCountry of origin: Japan

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Katsuhiro Otomo, the author

Katsuhiro Otomo made his debut as a manga artist in 1973, at the age of 19. With Domu, he became the first manga author to win the Nihon SF Taisho Award (Japan's Grand Prize for Science Fiction). In 1982 he began serializing AKIRA, and in 1988 Otomo personally directed its adaptation into an animated film. From that point on, his work expanded into the audiovisual field as well. As an author who opened new avenues of expression in both manga and animation, in 2015 he received the Grand Prix of the Angoulême International Comics Festival — the first Asian author to do so.

Katsuhiro Otomo, manga artist

Otomo's manga is known for its meticulous, restrained linework, free of exaggeration. The expressions of his characters and the structure of his cities are drawn with the same weight as reality, and that draftsmanship had a texture unlike any manga before it.

The serialization of AKIRA began in 1982, in the pages of the then newly founded magazine Weekly Young Magazine. The story unfolds in Neo-Tokyo, a city rebuilt after a third world war. The military and anti-government forces move around a set of psychic powers, and through that maelstrom a group of young delinquents carves its way on motorcycles. In the Japan of the 1960s and 1970s, violent collective movements such as the student protests and the bōsōzoku biker gangs erupted across the country. The motorcycle in particular was, for the young people of that era, a symbol of rebellion and self-assertion. Though set in the future, AKIRA carries within it the shadow of the times Otomo lived through.

The serialization continued until 1990, producing a vast work of more than 2,000 pages. The density with which the ruined city is drawn, down to the last fragment of rubble, has scarcely any precedent within the format of a weekly publication. Anyone who came to AKIRA through the film will discover, upon opening these pages, that what they had seen was only a part of the story.

Katsuhiro Otomo, anime director

In 1988, while AKIRA was still being published, Otomo personally directed the adaptation of the work into an animated film. A budget of ten billion yen, 150,000 drawings, a team of 1,300 people: a scale that exceeded what was usual in the animated cinema of the time. The scene in which Kaneda's motorcycle skids to a halt is known as the "Akira slide" and is still referenced today in works all over the world. The film crossed borders, changed the notion that "animation is for children," and was one of the triggers behind the spread of the term "Japanimation." Otomo went on to make MEMORIES and Steamboy, pursuing the audiovisual as a second field of expression, on a par with manga.

Otomo - The Complete Works

Otomo - The Complete Works is the complete collection that gathers, volume by volume, the work of Katsuhiro Otomo. Alongside the manga works — from early short stories such as Gunshot through Domu and the manga version of AKIRA — it also includes the storyboards and layout books of the films AKIRA and Steamboy. The storyboard is the blueprint Otomo himself drew to define how each shot of a film would move, and it lets you trace the stage that comes before the finished image. That the manga original and the audiovisual blueprint should appear together in a single collection is, in itself, proof that Katsuhiro Otomo has traveled two forms of expression.

The Katsuhiro Otomo you don't yet know

Much of the world came to know Katsuhiro Otomo through the film AKIRA. But that film is a reconstruction of only a part of the original manga, which had not yet concluded at the time. Otomo - The Complete Works, published by Kodansha, is the complete collection that brings together, in the original Japanese edition, his work both as an artist and as an anime director. As a manga artist and as a director, in the books of this category there is a Katsuhiro Otomo whom a single film is not enough to encounter.

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Katsuhiro Otomo

Otomo - The Complete Works 13 - Akira 2

Otomo - The Complete Works 32 - Animation STEAMBOY Storyboards 2

Otomo - The Complete Works 31 - Animation STEAMBOY Storyboards 1

Otomo - The Complete Works 14 - Akira 3

Otomo - The Complete Works 7 - Apple Paradise

Animation AKIRA Layouts & Frames 3 - Otomo the Complete Works 25

Otomo - The Complete Works 4 - Sayonara Nippon

Otomo - The Complete Works 3 - Highway Star

Otomo - The complete Works 2 - Boogie Wooogie Waltz

Otomo - The Complete Works 12 - Akira 1

Otomo - The Complete Works 6 - G.....

Otomo - The Complete Works 5 - Fire-Ball

Otomo - The Complete Works 1 - Gunshot

Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames 2 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 24

Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames 1 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 23

Otomo - The Complete Works 8 - Domu: A Child's Dream

Animation AKIRA Storyboards 2 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 22

Animation AKIRA Storyboards 1 - Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works 21

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