OTOMO COMPLETE WORKS 21 ANIMATION AKIRA STORYBOARDS 1

OTOMO COMPLETE WORKS 21 ANIMATION AKIRA STORYBOARDS 1

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***Japanese Import***

Released theatrically in 1988, the anime film adaptation of "AKIRA" revolutionized the realm of manga and anime.

This book is the first of a two-volume collection of storyboards personally drawn by Katsuhiro Otomo, the original author and director, in order to produce the anime version.

In addition to the fully cataloguing the first half of the entire film, new content such as previously unreleased cuts and commentary by the author himself are included.

Around 1987, the author, who was serializing the original manga version of AKIRA, interrupted its serialization for the sake of making a movie version and started doing the storyboards of this book, with the mecha and precision backgrounds drawn with the same tension of the series and the dynamism of the characters as the main manga.

The original storyboard collection of the old edition published by the Young Magazine editorial department in 1988 has long been out of print, with the first part of this collection being particularly difficult to obtain. But now this complete collection has been reprinted for the first time in more than 30 years!

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