●ANNOUNCEMENT● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 2nd period
●ANNOUNCEMENT● AKIRA REMIX CD
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●BOOKLET● ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO ZENSHŪ KAISETSU 4 SAYONARA NIPPON (大友克洋全集解説 4 さよならにっぽん )
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Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2024-V-26
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: -
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,200
●BOOKLET● ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO ZENSHŪ KAISETSU 3 HIGHWAY STAR (大友克洋全集解説 3 ハイウェイスター )
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Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2024-II-25
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 39
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,000
●FOREWORD● RINTARŌ's MA VIE EN 24 IMAGES PER SECONDE
Unfortunately, things didn't go the way Tezuka hoped. It's easy to imagine how difficult it was for a young, popular and promising mangaka to get along with the artisan blacksmiths of animation. He must have felt immense frustration and bitterness. At least that's a figment of my imagination. Apologies if I extrapolate!
But isn't Osamu Tezuka a man who uses failure to bounce back? This is how he created his own company, MUSHI PRODUCTION (虫プロダクション), in 1961, just a year after Sayuki. Was he very angry? Had this harsh ordeal triggered a real trigger in him? Still, the following year, he directed ARU MACHIKADO NO MONOGATARI (ある街角の物語) and the first episode of TETSUWAN ATOM (鉄腕アトム ).
From the start, Mushi Production operated recklessly, since, in the event of a financial deficit, Tezuka drew his mangas to cover debts.
The first Japanese television animation, Tetsuwan Atom, was created from Tezuka's own manga, so it was not subject to adaptation rights. It even ultimately generated revenue through the sale of derivative products, and this success led to the proliferation of animated television series. Rintarō's comic strip clearly shows that at the time, at the dawn of this flourishing industry, Mushi Production even ensured human resources devoid of any experience because its production system seemed attractive to certain young people. Unlike Toei animators, endowed with a real educational background and solid technical training, those of Mushi Production launched into the adventure simply being pushed by the spirit of entrepreneurship: the one who has the greatest passion is capable of doing for the best.
How exciting it was to acquire the know-how alongside older animators or the same age, despite the pressure of deadlines and the mountain of work that was piling up! In Japan, this spirit still seems to prevail in this industry.
Mushi Production faced some criticism because its preferred themes were neither educational nor emotion-based, but rather entertainment-oriented. The fact remains that society has enabled previously unknown artists to flourish. And, quite naturally, Japanese animation has moved towards the adaptation of popular manga, since young artists have naturally followed the example of Tezuka, the founder of Mushi Production, who himself adapted his own manga. one after the other. Of course, there were successes and failures!
In the 1970s, television animation therefore developed alongside the rise of manga. Japan was probably the only country experiencing such a phenomenon at the time. Rintarō, too, began directing within Mushi Production, directing works such as JUNGLE TAITEI SUSUME LEO! (ジャングル大帝 進めレオ!) or SABU TO ICHI (佐武と市), before leaving the company to become independent. His series JETTER MARS (ジェッターマルス) , GRAND PRIX NO TAKA (アローエンブレム・グランプリの鷹) and UCHŪ KAIZOKU CAPTAIN HARLOCK (宇宙海賊キャプテンハーロック) attracted the attention of the president of TOEI so much so that he entrusted Rintarō with the direction of the feature film GINGA TETSUDO 999 (銀河鉄道999) which was a huge success. This is how animated television series reached the level of quality of a feature film. Subsequently, feature films were screened in international festivals, then occupied a dominant place with the arrival of video cassettes, laserdiscs and DVDs. And it is therefore thanks to the influence of these precursors that today young people are creating original animations all over the world.
By reading this comic, which closely combines the history of animation with Rintarô's personal life, from his childhood to his adolescence and adulthood, I realize how much I owe to my elders, the "anarchists" from the Showa era (1926-1989), which I warmly thank.
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●BOOK● OTOMO: LA NOUVELLE VAGUE DU MANGA
■Preface
■Foreword
■Prologue: walking in the sky
■A youth in the heart of the Sendai plain
■Part 1: the path to prodigious deicide
-Chapter 1: On the shoulders of the giants, in the contesting typhon
-Chapter 2: On the influence of the New American independent cinema and Avant-garde manga
-Chapter 3: Tokyo vice
-Chapter 4: To the sound of the new wave
-Chapter 5: Children's dreams
-Chapter 6: Pop culture is about to explode!
-Chapter 7: Building on the ruins of Neo-Tokyo
-Chapter 8: Ghost writer
■Part 2: An animated destiny.
-Chapter 1: Omnibus departing from Armageddon
-Chapter 2: A.D. 2019.
-Chapter 3: Memories of digital issues.
-Chapter 4: Illusions lost in the steam
-Chapter 5: Short Peace
-Chapter 6: Staying original
■Part 3: From pencil to camera.
-Chapter 1: Cinema desires
-Chapter 2: In search of lost japan
-Chapter 3: A life on film
■Part 4: Inside Otomo
-Chapter 1: Jack of all trade, master of all
-Chapter 2: Quotes and thoughts
■Part 5: Side stories
-Chapter 1: The shadow of the AKIRA myth.
-Chapter 2: The book eater
-Chapter 3: All for the music
-Chapter 4: Corpus - A selective bibliography
■Bibliography
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●BOOKLET● ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO ZENSHŪ KAISETSU 2 BOOGIE WOOGIE WALTZ (大友克洋全集解説 2 BOOGIE WOOGIE WALTZ)
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Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2023-XII-3
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 36
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,000
●CONVERSATION● Katsuhiro Otomo × Minetaro Mochizuki
STICKLERS! (スティックラーズ!) (published in 2017)
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●MAGAZINE● ANIMELAND No.244: AKIRA
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●EXHIBITION● AKIRA CEL EXHIBITION OSAKA
The exhibition AKIRA SERU GATEN (AKIRA セル画展) that took place in Mixalive TOKYO from August 10 to 31, 2023 will open today in Osaka in Shinsaibashi 心斎橋PARCO SPACE14. The event will take place from October 6 to 24, 2023.
The exhibition will showcase original cels from Katsuhiro Otomo's animation film AKIRA, some of which are being collected in the OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS volumes 23, 24 & 25, volumes related to Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames that are being published by Kodansha these days.
To learn more visit the exhibition's official website.
●BOOKLET● ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO ZENSHŪ KAISETSU 1 JŪSEI (大友克洋全集解説 1 銃声)
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Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2023-IX-3
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 30
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,000
●EXHIBITION● AKIRA CEL EXHIBITION
Today has opened in Mixalive TOKYO the exhibition AKIRA SERU GATEN (AKIRA セル画展) showcasing over 600 pieces of cels and other production materials from Katsuhiro Otomo's animation film AKIRA. The event will take place from August 10 to 31, 2023 in Ikekuburo (池袋), Tokyo.
●SIGNATURE● AKIRA CEL EXHIBITION Message Wall
●MANGA● ZENSHŪ-KUN GA IKU (全集くんが行く) part 5
Read the 4 panel manga strip here:
●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 5: Fire-Ball
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●TŌI MATSURI (遠い祭り)
●TAIKYŌ (大麻境)
●KAZOKU (家族)
●CINEMA CLUB (任侠シネマクラブ)
●ASHITA NO YAKUSOKU (あしたの約束)
●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 1: JŪSEI (銃声)
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●ADVERTISEMENT● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS vol.1+5
Advertisements for the upcoming publication of OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS Vol.1: JŪSEI and Vol.5: Fire-Ball started to appear in the latest issues of Young Magazine published by Kodansha.
Here some of the magazines in which the advertisement is printed:
Release date: 2023-VI-19
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: -
Size: 25.8x18 cm
Retail price: ¥480
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Release date: 2023-VII-3
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Release date: 2023-VII-14
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●ANNOUNCEMENT● AKIRA CEL EXHIBITION key visuals
The first two key visuals for the upcoming exhibition AKIRA SERU GATEN (AKIRA セル画展) that will take place in Mixalive TOKYO from August 10 to 31, 2023 have been presented in the official OTOMO ZENSHU twitter and instagram accounts. Both posters will be available for purchase during the event.
The exhibition will showcase original cels from Katsuhiro Otomo's animation film AKIRA, some of which are being collected in the OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS volumes 23, 24 & 25, volumes related to Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames that are being published by Kodansha this days.
To learn more visit the exhibition's official website.
●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 24: Animation AKIRA Layouts & Key Frames 2
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Release date: 2023-V-17
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 710
Size: 248×172mm
Retail price: ¥7,700
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●ANNOUNCEMENT● AKIRA CEL EXHIBITION at Mixalive TOKYO
Mixalive TOKYO will hold the first exhibition of original cels from Katsuhiro Otomo's animation film AKIRA to showcase the original artworks that are being collected in the OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS volumes related to AKIRA that have been recently published by Kodansha. AKIRA SERU GATEN (AKIRA セル画展) will take place from August 10 to 31, 2023 in Ikekuburo (池袋), Tokyo. Stay tuned to the official website for more information.