●TALK● OTOMO KATSUHIRO × TADASHI MATSUMORI (大友克洋×松森正)

   

Katsuhiro Otomo and manga artist Tadashi Matsumori (松森正) participated in a talk that took place today at 16:00 in Meiji University Liberty Tower as part of the exhibition OTOMO KATSUHIRO O SODATETA MANGA TACHI TEN (大友克洋を育てたマンガたち展) 'The manga works that nurtured Katsuhiro Otomo'.

The venue lasted about an hour and a half and the main topic was Mitsuyoshi Sonoda's ( 園田 光慶) IRON MUSCLE (アイアン・マッスル), rental comics, the early days of manga, their amateur days, and their path to becoming professionals. Otona Miyamoto (宮本大人), professor at Meiji University's School of Global Japanese Studies and Yoshihiko Saito (斎藤 宜彦) staff leader at Meiji University's Yonezawa Yoshihiro Memorial Library also participated in the event.

Official website: https://academy.meiji.jp/course/detail/7430

●SIGNATURE● RINTARO at the 29th OSAMU TEZUKA AWARD

   

The manga autobiography MA VIE EN 24 IMAGES PER SECONDE by director Rintaro  (りんたろう) won the Grand Prize at the 29th OSAMU TEZUKA AWARD (手塚治虫文化賞), and Otomo who wrote the foreword for the book and is a long time friend and collaborator with him attended the presentation ceremony and commemorative event and signed the message board. Osamu tezuka's son, film director and animator Makoto Tezuka (手塚眞) who also is depicted in Rintaro's manga also attended the event.

In the picture Makoto Tezuka, Rintaro and Katsuhiro Otomo

via Rintaro's Offcial Instagram: @rintaro.offical

●BOOKLET● ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO ZENSHŪ KAISETSU 7 APPLE PARADISE (大友克洋全集解説 7 APPLE PARADISE)

  

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 eighth of a series of booklets to accompany the KATSUHIRO OTOMO COMPLETE WORKS collection that is currently being published by Kodansha. This ninth booklet commentaries correspond to Otomo's early 80's manga works collected in the  book OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 7: APPLE PARADISE

The author explains the process of the creation of Katsuhiro Otomo's short stories from 1980 to 1981, when Otomo Katsuhiro was most prolific, as well as the title work: APPLE PARADISE an unfinished work that was published in book form for the first time, and the history of the publication, with a wealth of materials and numerous testimonies from people involved.

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 152 (コミティア152) in the stand O09a  ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO KENKYŪ (お09a 大友克洋研究). You can follow and contact Jun'ya Suzuki on Instagram and Twitter to get the book.

BOOKLET DETAILS

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Author: Jun'ya Suzuki (鈴木淳也)
Release date: 2025-VI-1
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 54
Size: 248 x 172mm 
Retail price: ¥1,200

AVAILABILITY:

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Shosen Grande (書泉グランデ) Bookstore: https://shosen.tokyo/?pid=187014225

Fukkan.com (復刊ドットコム): https://shorturl.at/vcORK

Kosho Bi Bi Bi (古書ビビビ) Bookstore 

Togetsuya (兎月屋書店) Bookstore