Katsuhiro Otomo Antología by Katsuhiro Otomo

Obviously, the foundation would be science fiction but I wanted to add a degree of horror to the story.

For some reason, this movie really resonated with me and as a result, I wanted to add a touch of horror to my next manga. “The first science fiction manga I wrote was Fireball and when I was working on this manga the movie The Exorcist was released. That was in part how something like Domu came about. Back when I was a kid, I used to love science fiction stories and so I thought about trying to recreate that kind of excitement I had.

So when I started to do professional work as a manga artist, I thought what I should do next. So it was all gekiga or sports manga, nothing to do with science fiction. “I started working on manga in the late 70's, almost all manga was gekiga like Golgo 13. Much of Otomo’s work tends to have narrative leanings towards science fiction and it seems that there is a good reason behind this, as the genre was under subscribed when he started out. Making Farewell To Weapons And Adding A Touch Of Horror To Domu In case you are curious, the first manga I drew was a version of The Little Match Girl, which I took the title from the Hans Christian Andersen story.” So I was hired from that point on and that's how I started in manga professionally. “Following my graduation from high school, I moved to Tokyo and gave this editor a call. The editor then asked me what I was planning to do after I graduated high school and he said if you are thinking of coming to Tokyo, then give me a call. During this time, one of my friends introduced me to an editor from Futabasha, which is a famous manga publisher in Japan, and I brought my own manga related works to shown him. So I felt that I would need to move to Tokyo at some point. “When I entered high school, I became interested in movies and I had ambitions on becoming a professional illustrator or maybe even a movie director. From that point on I tried to draw manga more seriously.” So I read this book and I came to understand how manga could be drawn properly. When I started to draw manga seriously, it was due to a book by Shotaro Ishinomori called How to Draw Manga. However, this is something that every elementary school kid did, so it's not that special.

“At elementary school I used to enjoy copying things like Tetsuwan Atom or Tetsujin 28-go, because I enjoyed drawing. So I really enjoyed those manga as a kid. This tended to be Shounen and it included things like Tetsuwan Atom and Tetsujin 28-go. “As I was growing up, the rule in my house was that I was able to buy one manga book per month.

Katsuhiro Otomo Antología by Katsuhiro Otomo