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 twelfth book of a series of booklets to accompany the KATSUHIRO OTOMO COMPLETE WORKS collection that is currently being published by Kodansha. This booklet explains the origins of the project for the film AKIRA, the timetable for storyboard production, identification of changes in direction, and comparisons with the finished film as well as comparisons with the two previously released storyboard books, Kodansha's THE CONTINUITY OF AKIRA published in 1988 and the one included in Bandai's AKIRA DVD SPECIAL EDITION released in 2001. All with testimony from those involved., making it a perfect companion for OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 21: Animation AKIRA storyboards 1.
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 at at COMITIA 155 (コミティア155) in the stand su28b ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO KENKYŪ (す28b 大友克洋研究). You can follow and contact Jun'ya Suzuki on Instagram and X to get the book.
BOOKLET DETAILS
Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2026-II-22
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 30
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,200
