Katsuhiro Otomo

Katsuhiro Otomo was born in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 1954. At home and abroad, he is rightly considered one of the most talented directors of the animation genre. Since his youth, Katsuhiro was fond of Western cinema and literature, which had a considerable influence on his further work. Otomo had a special love for the art of the French animator Mobius (Jean Giraud). A pen failure in animated cinema appeared in 1973 for the young artist work in the painting “Matteo Falcone” based on the more

Katsuhiro Otomo was born in Miyagi Prefecture on April 14, 1954. At home and abroad, he is rightly considered one of the most talented directors of the animation genre. Since his youth, Katsuhiro was fond of Western cinema and literature, which had a considerable influence on his further work. Otomo had a special love for the art of the French animator Mobius (Jean Giraud).
A pen failure in animated cinema appeared in 1973 for the young artist work in the painting “Matteo Falcone” based on the novel by Prosper Merime. Otomo received recognition after the creation of the manga “Firework”, and the true glory of the manga director earned by creating the manga “Children’s Dreams”, awarded the prestigious Grand Prize at the Japanese NF. Manga has never received such awards before.

In 1982, Katsuhiro began developing character designs for Apocalypse. His style and manner of presentation of characters were not only unlike anything, but also brought animation art to a new unprecedented height.
From 1983 to 1990, the animator created the amazing power of the manga “The Great War with Gamma”.
Carnival of Robots, The Tale of the Maze of Mani-Mani. In 1988, the full-length anime Akira was filmed, where 24 frames per second were used.

In 1990, Hatsuhiro gave up drawing manga and limited himself to writing texts. The last successful works of the director-animator include the manga “Old Z”
"Memories", "Spriggan", "Metropolis", "Stimboy", "Master Musi" "Gandam: Ordered to take off."

The aesthetics of Otomo’s art are based on the ideals and philosophy of the punk movement with its pragmatic attitude to the world, skeptical attitude to various religious trends and humorous view of modern society.