Independent Katsuhiro Otomo researcher and archivist Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也), who in 1999 started the website Apple Paradise: Otomo Katsuhiro Data Base has published the seventh of a series of booklets to accompany the KATSUHIRO OTOMO COMPLETE WORKS collection that is currently being published by Kodansha. This seventh booklet commentaries correspond to Otomo's late 70's manga works collected in the book OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G....
This book includes a detailed commentary covering the creation background of all the works included in OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G....; the differences between the original magazine publication, collected volumes, and the complete work collection, as well as Otomo’s circumstances at the time of creating the works. The narrative is reconstructed through descriptions in magazines and newspaper articles, along with interviews with related individuals, including Otomo himself. It also features the complete scenario, passed down orally, for the conclusion of “G….”, which remained unfinished in Katsuhiro Otomo’s version, as written by the original author, Noboyuki Shirayama (白山宣之).
These COMMENTARY SERIES booklets scheduled to be produced for all volumes also work perfectly as dividers of the complete works volumes, since they prevent vinyl covers from sticking to each other.
The booklet was sold for the first time today in COMITIA 150 (コミティア150) in the stand TE33a ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO KENKYŪ (て33a大友克洋研究). You can follow and contact Jun'ya Suzuki on Instagram and Twitter.
BOOKLET DETAILS
Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2024-XI-16
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 48
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,000
