

Akira is in Tokyo in the year 2030 based, the 38 years earlier by a third world war was destroyed. Since The suicide of Paradise was Otomo influence for many young Manga artist so-she might Yoshida, Jirō Taniguchi and Taiyō Matsumoto.Īnimated by the great commercial success of The suicide of Paradise began Otomo 1982 with the Drawing of Akira for Young Magazine, for the time, including Masamune Shirow of Ghost in the Shell worked. In 1984, it was in the Manga, with a further award for outstanding works of Science-Fiction, the Seiun award. The film fanatic Otomo won for the Manga consists of over 220 pages and over 500,000 copies sold, in 1983, the Nihon SF Taishō, an, until then, only for novels prize for outstanding Science Fiction stories. It is about a little girl with supernatural powers that pulls in a residential house settlement, where an old man, endowed with supernatural abilities, responsible for self-murders, or fatal accidents of some of the tenants. For this magazine, in which among other things, Kazuo Koike’s and Gōseki Kojima’s Lone Wolf & Cub appeared, he drew in the following years, many more, about 20-page Comics, the master of the Science Fiction prescribed goods.Ī first success as a Manga artist, he managed with The suicide’s Paradise, from 1980 to 1981 in the first four chapters in Action Deluxe, a sister magazine Manga Action, was released.
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His first Manga as a professional animator, he published yet in 1973, with the work of the French writer Prosper Mérimée (1803-1870) – based, 23-page short story Jūsei in a special issue of the Manga magazine Manga Action. After that, he devoted himself to Drawing manga and moved to Tokyo. There he attended the Sanuma high school, from which he graduated in 1973.


Otomo grew up about 400 kilometres to the North of Tokyo in Hasama (since 2005, district of Tome) in Miyagi Prefecture, one of the fisheries and Agriculture-dominated landscape.
