OTOMO Katsuhiro

Born in 1954, OTOMO made his anime debut, in 1982, working as character designer for the animated film Harmagedon. The next year, he began work on a manga, which would become his most acclaimed and famous work: Akira. It took eight years to complete and would eventually culminate in 2000 pages of artwork. In 1987, he continued working in anime, directing his first animated work for the first time, a segment in Neo Tokyo, which he also wrote. OTOMO decided to animate Akira into a feature film, although the full manga story was yet to be finished. In 1988, the animated film Akira was released.