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 thirteenth 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 22: Animation AKIRA storyboards 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 at at COMITIA 156 (コミティア156) in the stand no14b ŌTOMO KATSUHIRO KENKYŪ (の14b 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-VI-7
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 24
Size: 248 x 172mm
Retail price: ¥1,200
AVAILABILITY
Shosen Grande (書泉グランデ) Bookstore: https://shosen.tokyo/?pid=192418860
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