Best Selling Books by Katsuhiro

AD 2019: The year the world caught up to AKIRA. Two years before this milestone, author Katsuhiro Otomo worked with artist Kosuke Kawamura to enrobe a Tokyo city block in a collage of gripping moments from the manga that revolutionized an art form. Then, over the next two years, he did it twice more. The result: three electifying compilations of Otomo''s art, meandering across the city. And now you can take them home. From 2017-2019, the throngs passing through Tokyo''s emblematic Shibuya neighborhood were lucky enough to witness a massive art project. The PARCO department store was closed for renovation, and Katsuhiro Otomo and collage artist Kosuke Kawamura seized on the opportunity to stretch Otomo''s landmark manga AKIRA across the barriers separating the construction site from the bustling nightlife of Shibuya, Tokyo. When the project was completed, it was 2019: the very year the story of AKIRA began. To commemorate this milestone, a silver foil-coated collector''s box presents an exquisite reproduction of Otomo and Kawamura''s work, with the specifications overseen and approved by Otomo-sensei personally. Nearly 75 feet (22.7 meters) of illustrations, speech balloons, and text selected from AKIRA''s six volumes stretch across three accordion-bound volumes. A fourth volume includes an exclusive interview with Otomo and Kawamura, as well as photographs of the original exhibition by award-winning photographer TAKAMURADAISUKE. Rounding out the box is a dramatic, 16.5x23.4-inch poster. In this form, Kawamura''s recontextualization of Otomo''s manga is reminiscent of traditional Japanese emaki (picture scrolls), the narrative scrolls that some scholars see as manga''s most ancient ancestors. Don''t miss this change to own a singular artifact in the history of anime and manga. Contains Scroll 1: Oct. 25, 2017-May 15, 2018. 29.3 feet (8.94 meters). Scroll 2: May 16, 2018-Feb. 27, 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters). Scroll 3: Feb. 28, 2019-Aug. 8, 2019. 22.6 feet (6.88 meters). 430 x 607 mm poster 52-page hardcover catalog book including new interviews with Katsuhiro Otomo and Kosuke Kawamura and photographs by TAKAMURADAISUKE Rigid, silver cold foil-wrapped box

The epic, timeless hit that inspired the legendary anime film and made the word "manga" part of the global vocabulary returns in a new hardcover edition. The AKIRA Hardcover Collection features the original right-to-left manga reading format and Katsuhiro Otomo''s original, hand-drawn sound effects in a beautiful, large-sized collectible edition. The once glittering Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin, leveled in minutes by the infinite power of the child psychic Akira. From the flooded wasteland of rubble and anarchy rises the Great Tokyo Empire, populated by a ragtag army of zealots and crazies who worship and fear Akira ad his mad prime minister, Tetsuo, and angry teen with immense powers of his own--and equally immense, twisted ambitions. The world at large is not taking the threat lying down, and the military strength of the planet is massing to take on the empire, but will technology''s most advanced weaponry be enough to destroy Akira? And are Tetsuo''s rapidly growing paranormal abilities a potentially greater threat?

SARAH HA LOGRADO ENCONTRAR A SU HIJO HARATO, ¿PERO HABRÁ UN FINAL FELIZ PARA ELLOS?El grupo de Harato intenta usar la bomba como moneda de cambio para conseguir una posición de poder, pero el falso Tsumuri tiene otros planes.

Welcome to Neo-Tokyo, built on the ashes of a Tokyo annihilated by a blast of unknown origin that triggered World War III. The lives of two streetwise teenage friends, Tetsuo and Kaneda, change forever when paranormal abilities begin to waken in Tetsuo, making him a target for a shadowy agency that will stop at nothing to prevent another catastrophe like the one that leveled Tokyo. At the core of the agency’s motivation is a raw, all-consuming fear of an unthinkable, monstrous power known only as Akira. Katsuhiro Otomo’s stunning science fiction masterpiece is considered by many to be the finest work of graphic fiction ever produced, and Otomo’s brilliant animated film version is regarded worldwide as a classic. This edition includes a new foreword from the author and a postscript from Dark Horse publisher Mike Richardson!

As Tetsuo begins losing control of his abilities, the military''s forces converge on Neo-Tokyo for the final confrontation.

Suffering the fate that beset its namesake three decades earlier, twenty-first-century Neo-Tokyo lies in ruin. Set off by the bullet of a would-be assassin, the godlike telekinetic fury of the superhuman child Akira has once again demolished in seconds that which took decades and untold billions to build. Now cut off from the rest of the world, the Great Tokyo Empire rises, with Akira its king, the psychic juggernaut Tetsuo its mad prime minister, and a growing army of fanatic acolytes ready to go to any length to please their masters. Forces on the outside still search for a way to stop Akira, and the answer may lie in the hands of the mysterious Lady Miyako, a powerful member of Akira’s paranormal brotherhood. But the solution to harnessing Akira may ultimately be more dangerous than Akira himself. Twenty years since its original release in Japan, Akira remains one of the most widely acclaimed and influential works of graphic fiction, and creator Katsuhiro Otomo has become a legendary storyteller in animation as well as manga. Akira is a science fiction tour de force, a breathtaking vision of innocence, infamy, and insanity.

Après avoir subi un grand nombre d''examens médicaux et autres tests cognitifs, Tetsuo parvient à s''enfuir de l''hôpital. Il a entre-temps entendu parler d''un certain “Akira” dont il lui tarde de faire la connaissance. De leur côté, Kaneda et Kei essaient de s''échapper du complexe militaire où ils ont été faits prisonniers. Mais un groupe clandestin de guérilla tente alors de mettre à jour les secrets détenus par l''armée...

En 1983, Katsuhito Otomo a 29 ans et il dessine des mangas depuis bientôt 10 ans. Un an avant Akira, la bombe qui lui vaudra une renommée internationale, il publie un chef d''œuvre absolu que d''aucuns n''hésitent pas à placer dans les sommets de la bande dessinée japonaise - cette dernière restriction étant d''ailleurs superfétatoire. Dômu qui se traduit par rêves d''enfants combine avec une audace inconnue jusque-là l''enquête policière, le suspense, l''angoisse et le fantastique le plus moderne. Les cadrages dont Otomo réinvente les règles en permanence, le découpage syncopé et comme arraché à l''écoulement d''un temps implacable, le graphisme qui alterne réalisme poussé et abstraction symbolique, tout cela confère une atmosphère étouffante, néanmoins "suante d''humanité" - selon les propres mots de l''auteur - et compose un drame envoûtant, d''une originalité foncière. Comme disait ce bon kafka, si le livre que nous lisons ne nous réveille pas d''un coup de poing sur le crâne, à quoi bon le lire ? Une question qui, ici, ne se pose pas.