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●ILLUSTRATED ESSAY● MANJŪ KOWAI (饅頭こわい) #1

MANJŪ KOWAI (饅頭こわい) #1
Suehiro engei-kai gakuyaura rupo (末広演芸会楽屋裏ルポ)

Variety (バラエティ) No. 8
1979-VI-21 | 2 pages | B/W & Red

●MANGA● RUN

RUN

GORO（ゴロー）
6・28 | 1979-VI-14 | 24 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:
●OTOMO KATSUHIRO ANTHOLOGY 2

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

In 1981 this story was adapted to a 16mm short live action film written and directed by Sohgo Ishii (石井岳龍) titled SHUFFLE (シャッフル)

●ILLUSTRATION● YOKOHAMA PARADISE (与太浜パラダイス )

Katsuhiro Otomo has drawn the illustration for the poster of the play YOKOHAMA PARADISE (与太浜パラダイス )

●MANGA● OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 4 - OOKAMI TO NANAHIKI NO KOYAGI (大友克洋の栄養満点４- 狼と七匹の子やぎ)

OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 4 - OOKAMI TO NANAHIKI NO KOYAGI
(大友克洋の栄養満点４- 狼と七匹の子やぎ)

Rockin’on (ロッキング・オン) No. 7
1979-VI-1 | 2 pages | B&W

AVAILABILITY
Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/2NAQS2y

Collected in the books:
●HANSEL & GRETEL

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●ILLUSTRATION● Monthly Comic Again (月刊コミックアゲイン) June 1979 Cover illustration

Katsuhiro Otomo has drawn the cover illustration of this month's COMIC AGAIN (コミックアゲイン) magazine. The illustration was reprinted in the page 18 of the July issue of PAFU magazine.

MAGAZINE DETAILS

Publisher: Minori Shobo (みのり書房)

Release date: 1979-VI-1

Language: Japanese
Number of pages:

Size: B5

Retail price: ￥350

●FILM● KOUKOU EROTOPIA AKAI SEIFUKU (高校エロトピア赤い制服)

Today it was released in Japanese theaters KOUKOU EROTOPIA AKAI SEIFUKU (高校エロトピア赤い制服) a 63 minutes long erotic movie based on an original story by Katsuhiro Otomo, written by Shôko Shikamizu (鹿水晶子) and directed by Shin'ichi Shiratori (白鳥信一).

The movie was released on DVD in 2006-III-24 with the catalogue number [GNBD-1231] and a retail price of 3,990 yen. Available in Amazon Japan:
http://amzn.to/1ntIVaF

●BOOK● KOUKOU EROTOPIA AKAI SEIFUKU (高校エロトピア赤い制服) Script

Script of KOUKOU EROTOPIA AKAI SEIFUKU (高校エロトピア赤い制服), the the live action film directed by Shin'ichi Shiratori (白鳥信一), written by Shôko Shikamizu (鹿水晶子) based on an original story by Katsuhiro Otomo.

BOOK DETAILS

Publisher: -
Release date: 1979-V-19
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 67
Size: B5
Retail price:

●MANGA● SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 4 (聖者が街にやって来る PART. 4)

SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 4 (聖者が街にやって来る PART. 4)

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)
5・31 | 1979-V-16 | 20 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:
●SAYONARA NIPPON

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●MANGA● SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 3(聖者が街にやって来る PART. 3)

SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 3(聖者が街にやって来る PART. 3)

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)
5・24 | 1979-V-9 | 20 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:
●SAYONARA NIPPON

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●MANGA● SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 2 (聖者が街にやって来る PART. 2)

SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 2 (聖者が街にやって来る PART. 2)

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)
5・17 | 1979-V-2 | 12 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:
●SAYONARA NIPPON

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●INTERVIEW● COMIC AGAIN

Katsuhiro Otomo was interviewed in this month issue of COMIC AGAIN magazine

MAGAZINE DETAILS

Publisher: Minori Shobo (みのり書房)
Release date: 1979-V-1
Language: Japanese
Number of pages: 186
Size: B5
Retail price: ¥350

●MANGA● OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 3 - SHAKUZU (大友克洋の栄養満点３ - 赤頭巾)

OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 3 - SHAKUZU
(大友克洋の栄養満点３ - 赤頭巾)

Rockin'on (ロッキング・オン) No. 6
1979-V-1 | 2 pages | B&W

AVAILABILITY
Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/2LLyYIy

Collected in the books:
●HANSEL & GRETEL

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●MANGA● SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 1 (聖者が街にやって来る PART. 1)

SEIJAGA MACHINI YATTEKIRU 1 (聖者が街にやって来る PART. 1)

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)
5・10 | 1979-IV-26 | 26 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:

●SAYONARA NIPPON

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●ILLUSTRATION● A SPACE GODZILLA PART 2 HOSHI E KAERU (A SPACE GODZILLA PART 2 星へ還る)

A SPACE GODZILLA PART 2 HOSHI E KAERU
(A SPACE GODZILLA PART 2 星へ還る)

Monthly Starlog (月刊スターログ)
1979-IV-1 | 8 pages | Color

This is the second of a two part illustrated tale by Nobuiko Ibarashi (大林宣彦) and Mitsutoshi Ishigami (石上三登志). Written by Hirata Minoru (平田穂生) and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo (大友克洋).

AVAILABILITY
Amazon JP: http://amzn.to/2oGCbzy

●MANGA● OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 2 (大友克洋の栄養満点！2)

OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 2 (大友克洋の栄養満点！2)

Rockin'on (ロッキング・オン) No. 5
1979-V-1 | 2 pages | B&W

AVAILABILITY
Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/2C4YWHh

Collected in the book:

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●BOOK● Short Peace (ショート・ピース)

This is the first book that collects Katsuhiro Otomo's short stories published in various magazines from 1976 to 1978.

BOOK DETAILS

Publisher: Bizarre Comics (奇想天外コミックス)

Publication date: 1979-III-10

Language: Japanese

Number of pages: 198

Size: B6

Retail price: ￥480

COLLECTED STORIES

OTHER JAPANESE EDITIONS

This book was re-released with an extra story titled YUME NO SŌKYŪ (夢の蒼穹) in 1986:

●SHORT PEACE (ショート・ピース) re-release

●MANGA● OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 1: Chō no kagebo (大友克洋の栄養満点！１：腸の陰干)

OTOMO KATSUHIRO NO EIYOO MANTEN 1: CHŌ NO KAGEBO
(大友克洋の栄養満点！１：腸の陰干)

Rockin'on (ロッキング・オン) No. 4
1979-III-1 | 2 pages | B&W

AVAILABILITY
Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/2C78t0O

Collected in the books:
●OTOMO KATSUHIRO ANTHOLOGY 2

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

Re-published in color in:

Manga kisōtengai (マンガ奇想天外 ) Vol.1
1980-IV-15 | 2 pages | Color

AVAILABILITY
Amazon JP: https://amzn.to/3RuXYc3

●MANGA● EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON（原案/狩撫麻礼)

EAST OF THE SUN, WEST OF THE MOON（原案/狩撫麻礼)

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)

3・8 | 1979-II-22 | 24 pages | B&W

This story is collected in the books:
●SAYONARA NIPPON
●CARIBU MARLEY SAKUHIN-SHŪ ― KARIBUSONGU SIDE A

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 6: G.....

●MANGA● HAIR

HAIR

Young Comic (ヤングコミック)
2・28 | 1979-II-14 | 25 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:
●OTOMO KATSUHIRO ANTHOLOGY 1

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 5: Fire-Ball

Otomo's note from Anthology's postface

While I was writing Fireball, I had the sudden idea for doing a parody of it. It would have the same premise: Somewhere there would be this evil Director, and there would be a guerilla group in opposition... The bite would be, they would wander around the streets looking totally filthy... My inspiration came from my memories of the Hippy Movement of the early? 70's. Even the title comes from a popular rock musical from that era...

●MANGA● FIRE-BALL

FIRE-BALL

Action Deluxe (アクションデラックス) No.1
1・27 | 1979-I-13 | 52 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:
●OTOMO KATSUHIRO ANTHOLOGY 1

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 5: Fire-Ball

Otomo's note from Anthology's postface

Prior to this, I had written a humorous story called "After the Dew", so I was asked to write another one for a new magazine called Action Deluxe. I have guilty memories of failing to tell them that I only wanted to write SF. This was the era of such children's comics as Dousei Jidai and Jukyoden, and I wanted to do something different, so I persuaded my editor to let me write a hardcore SF story, and this is the result. Of course, I ran over the deadline, and it was published without the final two plate [p. 226, 227 and 228 of this present book]. The story grew as I was writting it. In fact, after about 20 pages, I just decided that I'd had enough. Originally, it was going to be a much more simpler story about a group of freedom fighters going to destroy the Director's evil computer, but en route it became a tale about psychic superpowers. I came up with the title, "Fireball", last of all.

The ending was going to be a battle between the heat of the psychic superman and the cold of the computer whilst the temperature rose around them, and then the computer would analyse the secret of the psychic's power and turn it against him, whereupon the younger brother, who said he didn't have the power, woud manifest it after all. That outline is what I wrote, but its meaning is very obscure, so I redrew the scene where they combine their powers to overcome the computer, and the last scene was one in which the two heroes, looking down on the Earth from outer space, talk over old times. Once I had written that far, I felt satisfied, so that's what I drew. And that's the reason it's never been included in a collection until now.

Because it was incomplete, I always wanted to rewrite it, but never got around it, somehow... I think, once I rewrote the ending, I would feel compelled to write the wole thing, and rather than rehash old material, I always want to be involved in doing something new. Plus, by this time, I was writing Akira. I figured that what I had wanted to do with Fireball, I would do with Akira. The idea of Domu came while I was writing this, too. I was in the middle of my work when I suddenly thought, "Can't I do anything more interesting than this?", and thus the story was born. The next step on from SF is Horror. In thinking that Fireball, once written, might not be acceptable, I sought advice and opinions from other manga professionals. The editor of Manga Action told me "I don't care what you do next", so I decided, "Right ! Domu !"

Manga Action's manager, Mr Kawasoe, was really good to me round about this time. Of course, in order not to miss the deadline for this piece, I ended up seeing in the New Year all on my own from my apartment in Kichijouji with only my record player for company, as I didn't dare switch on the radio, and gradually I forgot about the outside world. Even so, Mr Kawasoe felt sorry for me all cooped up over New Year, so he brought me round some sushi, and on New Year's morning, suggested that we go out to eat. Somehow or other, I remember we ended up going to see the clear blue sea to welcome the first day of the year...

●INTERVIEW● Nanae Sasaya & Akira Kagami for Variety Magazine

Katsuhiro Otomo was interviewed by Nanae Sasaya (ささやななえ) & Akira Kagami (鏡明) in this month's issue of Japanese Variety (バラエティ) magazine. The interview took place last October as dated in the self-portrait drawn by Otomo in the occasion.

●ILLUSTRATION● A SPACE GODZILLA PART 1 SARABA CHIKYUU YO (A SPACE GODZILLA PART 1 さらば地球よ)

A SPACE GODZILLA PART 1 SARABA CHIKYUU YO
(A SPACE GODZILLA PART 1 さらば地球よ)

Monthly Starlog (月刊スターログ)
2・1 | 1978-XII-26 | 6 pages | Color

This is a two part illustrated tale by Nobuiko Ibarashi (大林宣彦) and Mitsutoshi Ishigami (石上三登志). Written by Hirata Minoru (平田穂生) and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo and Noboyuki Shirayama (白山宣之)

AVAILABILITY
Amazon Japan: http://amzn.to/2oyFWYN

●MANGA● SHINCHO SENKI (信長戦記)

SHINCHO SENKI (信長戦記)

Zōkan Young Comic (増刊ヤングコミック )
12・20 | 1978-XI-20 | 24 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:

●GOOD WEATHER

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 5: Fire-Ball

●MANGA● KATSUDON (カツ丼)

KATSUDON (カツ丼)

Weekly Manga Action (週刊漫画アクション)
11・16 | 1978-XI-2 | 18 pages | B&W

Collected in the books:

●GOOD WEATHER

●OTOMO THE COMPLETE WORKS 5: Fire-Ball

●SIGNATURE● SELF-PORTRAIT for Variety magazine interview

Katsuhiro Otomo drew this self-portrait for the January 1979 issue of Variety magazine where he was interviewed by Nanae Sasaya (ささやななえ) and Akira Kagami (鏡明)