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●ADVERTISEMENT● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS vol.14+31

  

Advertisements for the  publication of OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS Vol.14: AKIRA 3 and OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS Vol.31: Animation STEAMBOY Storyboards 1 started to appear in the latest issues of various magazines published by Kodansha. 

Here a list of the magazines in which the advertisement  is printed:

YOUNG MAGAZINE (ヤングマガジン) No.41 | 9・22
MAGAZINE DETAILS:
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2025-IX-8
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: -
Size: 25.8x18 cm
Retail price: ¥510

AVAILABILITY:
Amazon Japan: https://amzn.to/4mPEWug
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YOUNG MAGAZINE (ヤングマガジン) No.42 | 9・29
MAGAZINE DETAILS: 
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2025-IX-16
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: -
Size: 25.8x18 cm
Retail price: ¥510

AVAILABILITY:
Amazon Japan: https://amzn.to/4gn7l8C
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YOUNG MAGAZINE (ヤングマガジン) No.43 | 10・6
MAGAZINE DETAILS: 
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Release date: 2025-IX-22
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: -
Size: 25.8x18 cm
Retail price: ¥510

AVAILABILITY:
Amazon Japan: https://amzn.to/3Is
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●BOOKLET● ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO ZENSHŪ KAISETSU 13 AKIRA 2 (大友克洋全集解説 13 AKIRA 2)

  

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 tenth of a series of booklets to accompany the KATSUHIRO OTOMO COMPLETE WORKS collection that is currently being published by Kodansha. This tenth booklet commentaries continue with the serialization of his seminal manga AKIRA collected in OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 13: AKIRA 2

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 153 (コミティア153) in the stand U14a  ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO KENKYŪ (う14a 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: 2025-IX-7
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 
Size: 248 x 172mm 
Retail price: ¥1,200

AVAILABILITY:
Shosen Grande (書泉グランデ) Bookstore: https://shosen.tokyo/?pid=188517557
Fukkan.com (復刊ドットコム):
Kosho Bi Bi Bi (古書ビビビ) Bookstore 
Togetsuya (兎月屋書店) Bookstore
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●ILLUSTRATION● KATSUHIRO OTOMO × GHOST IN THE SHELL Tribute Illustration

 

This tribute illustration was unveiled at MASAMUNE SHIROW'S WORLD EXHIBITION – OSAKA VENUE (士郎正宗の世界展　大阪会場) that opened on September 5 at Shinsaibashi PARCO in Osaka. Apparently, Otomo couldn't make it for the exhibition’s first venue at the Setagaya Literary Museum (世田谷文学館) in Tokyo back on April 12, 2025, but he definitely delivered on time in this occasion.

EXHIBITION DETAILS
■ Dates: September 5 (Fri) – October 5 (Sun), 2025
■ Venue: Shinsaibashi PARCO 14F PARCO GALLERY (1-8-3 Shinsaibashi-suji, Chuo-ku, Osaka City, Osaka Prefecture)
※ Merchandise Venue: Shinsaibashi PARCO 9F EVENT SPACE
■ Organizers: Kodansha (講談社) , PARCO (パルコ)
■ Planning Cooperation: Seishinsha (青心社) Setagaya Literary Museum (世田谷文学館)
■ Special Cooperation: Masamune Shirow (士郎正宗)
■ Graphic Design: Kei Sakawaki (坂脇慶) Hiroaki Hiyoshi (飛鷹宏明)
■ Spatial Design: Torafu Architects (トラフ建築設計事務所)

Official Exhibition Website: http://shirow-masamune-ex.jp


TWEETS by OTOMO (Sep 5~7, 2025)
■I was too busy and couldn’t make it in time for the Tokyo event. I’m sorry to those who came to the Tokyo exhibition. Drawing stickers is quite a task.

■(Regarding availability) It seems they’re making T-shirts.

■I think there’s online shopping available. It hasn’t arrived in time for the Osaka venue either. Check the official website for details!

■The choice of stickers is based on old racing car materials. 1980s materials.

■(Regarding the omission of the Canon sticker) I just forgot.

■This was hand-painted with markers. It was tough because the color I wanted to use was dried up.

■These are Copics from about 10 years ago. About half of them have dried up. But I’ve restocked the colors I use often, so it’s fine.

■Copics contain pigments, so they don’t fade easily. Direct sunlight is a no-go, though. Probably.

■(On the use of analog drawing) Of course. I don’t trust digital. There’s no point in looking at a printout (copy), right? If you’re going to look, it’s got to be the real thing.

■If you look closely, it’s blurred and goes beyond the lines. Please don’t look too closely. I haven’t fixed it with Photoshop or anything because doing so would make it no longer the original artwork.

■(With respect to his attendance at the event) That is a body double.

■(On how color differs when printing) Thank you for your hard work, as always. That’s just how prints are. That’s why the master becomes important
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●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 31: Animation STEAMBOY Storyboards 1

 


The 31st volume of OTOMO THE COMPLE WORKS  published by Kodansha features the first out of two volumes that collect the entirety of the enormous number of storyboards created by Katsuhiro Otomo for his 2004 feature-length animation film STEAMBOY, a work conceived, written, and directed by himself, whose production, from planning to release took a full ten years and marked Otomo's first such work since AKIRA.

At the time of the film’s release, STEAMBOY: THE STORYBOARD BOOK was published by Kodansha as a single, massive hardcover volume of 780 pages. This new edition divides the material into two separate volumes and enlarges the page size from A5 to the larger format used in THE COMPLETE WORKS collection.

This first volume contains the entirety of parts A, B, and C (out of the six total parts: A, B, C, D, E, and E2) and it also includes nearly 100 pages of “rough draft storyboards” published here for the very first time.  This two-volume set offers readers both a guide to unraveling the film’s structure and a new way to experience it through the medium of print.


BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Publication date: 2025-VIII-29
Release date: 2025-IX-2
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 480
Size: 248 x 172mm 
Retail price: ¥4,950
ISBN-10: 4065408466
ISBN-13: 978-4065408469

AVAILABILITY
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●BOOK● OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 14: AKIRA 3

 


The fourteeth volume of OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS features the third volume (out of eight) that will collect the manga AKIRA. This third volume includes episodes 29 to 42 (covering pages 201 of AKIRA vol. 2 through page 167 of  AKIRA vol. 3 )   when  Katsuhiro Otomo was 29-30 years old back in 1984.

When AKIRA was collected in book format for the first time, Otomo gave it a lot of polish; he completed it through additions, corrections, deletions, replacements, rearrangements of pages and frames, he also added finishing touches, new drawings and illustrations. In addition to all that, the title pages of each episodes were also deleted from the book version and they were all collected in the 1995 published book AKIRA CLUB.

This new edition presents AKIRA in the closest way to its original serialization in Kodansha's YOUNG MAGAZINE . In accordance with the purpose of "arranging all of Otomo's works by era and tracing how he has changed as an author," everything, including the title pages, has been restored as much as possible to the way it was when it was serialized for the first time. However, There are some parts where the original illustrations no longer exist, and some parts cannot be restored to the way they were when they were serialized in the magazine because the manuscript was directly edited, but the goal of this new edition is to restore AKIRA to their original state as much as possible, including the original color pages from the serialization, which are all reprinted the same way they were first published in Young Magazine but this time with a pristine printing quality.


BOOK DETAILS
Publisher: Kodansha (講談社)
Publication date: 2025-VIII-29
Release date: 2025-IX-2
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 290
Size: 248 x 172mm 
Retail price: ¥3,740
ISBN-10: 4065404673
ISBN-13: 978-4065404676

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EPISODES
●AKIRA part 29
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.5
1984-III-5 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 30
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.6
1984-III-19 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 31
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.7
1984-IV-2 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 32
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.8
1984-IV-16 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 33
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.9
1984-V-7 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 34
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン) No.10
1984-V-21 | 26 pages | B&W 

●AKIRA part 35 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.11
1984-VI-04 | 14 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 36 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.12
1984-VI-18 | 21 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 37 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.13
1984-VII-02 | 20 pages | B&W 

●AKIRA part 38 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.14
1984-VII-16 | 17 pages | B&W 

●AKIRA part 39 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.16
1984-VIII-20 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 40 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.17
1984-IX-03 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 41 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.18
1984-IX-17 | 20 pages | B&W

●AKIRA part 42 
Young Magazine (ヤングマガジン)No.19
1984-X-01 | 17 pages | B&W
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