Jeremy Mark Robinson
THE AKIRA BOOK: Katsuhiro Otomo: The Movie and the Manga Hardback
THE AKIRA BOOKKATSUHIRO OTOMO THE MOVIE AND THE MANGA A CRITICAL STUDYby Jeremy Mark Robinson This is a book about Akira the manga of 198290 and the movie of 1988, and about the creator of Akira, the genius artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). There are very few genuine auteurs in Japanese animation the animation industry, like all filmmaking on a large scale, is truly collaborative. However, you can definitely see elements in the films directed and written and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo that are auteurist Otomo has his own style, visually, but also his own concerns, thematically, politically and psychologically. Akira is a GIANT of a movie that opens at full blast this movie rocks from shot one. It really rocks at a far higher level of intensity than any comparable movie, including all of the classics regularly trotted out as hioctane moviemaking. Akira is clearly one of those movies where the filmmakers have thrown everything they can think of into the mix, and its a movie in which the filmmakers have given their all. Meanwhile, the manga of Akira exceeds all expectations about storytelling, about what a comicbook or manga is, about how an actionadventurefantasy story can work in a contemporary setting, and how a story can be genuinely thrilling, genuinely political, genuinely wild and epic. In short, Akira ticks all of the boxes (a) it has action and spectacle in spades, (b) it has fascinating characters and situations, (c) it is incredibly exciting, (d) it is very...
Binding: Hardback;768 pages; Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing; Classification: AKLC; Weight: 1042 g; Dimensions: 134 x 211 x 52
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THE AKIRA BOOKKATSUHIRO OTOMO THE MOVIE AND THE MANGA A CRITICAL STUDYby Jeremy Mark Robinson This is a book about Akira the manga of 198290 and the movie of 1988, and about the creator of Akira, the genius artist Katsuhiro Otomo (b. 1954). There are very few genuine auteurs in Japanese animation the animation industry, like all filmmaking on a large scale, is truly collaborative. However, you can definitely see elements in the films directed and written and supervised by Katsuhiro Otomo that are auteurist Otomo has his own style, visually, but also his own concerns, thematically, politically and psychologically. Akira is a GIANT of a movie that opens at full blast this movie rocks from shot one. It really rocks at a far higher level of intensity than any comparable movie, including all of the classics regularly trotted out as hioctane moviemaking. Akira is clearly one of those movies where the filmmakers have thrown everything they can think of into the mix, and its a movie in which the filmmakers have given their all. Meanwhile, the manga of Akira exceeds all expectations about storytelling, about what a comicbook or manga is, about how an actionadventurefantasy story can work in a contemporary setting, and how a story can be genuinely thrilling, genuinely political, genuinely wild and epic. In short, Akira ticks all of the boxes (a) it has action and spectacle in spades, (b) it has fascinating characters and situations, (c) it is incredibly exciting, (d) it is very...
Binding: Hardback;768 pages; Publisher: Crescent Moon Publishing; Classification: AKLC; Weight: 1042 g; Dimensions: 134 x 211 x 52
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