History Creator / KatsuhiroOtomo

* The ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}: Black and White'' short "The Third Mask", 1996.

After taking charge of a film adaptation of ''AKIRA'', Otomo made the jump from comic artist to film director; to date, he has six feature-length animations and two live-action movies (''World Apartment Horror'', 1991; and ''Mushishi'', 2006) to his credit. In 2012, he announced his plan to return with a {{Shonen}} manga set in Japan's Meiji period. This will be his first full-length series since ''The Legend Of Mother Sarah'', although it appears to be in DevelopmentHell.

* ''Anime/MeikyuuMonogatari'' (a.k.a. ''Neotokyo''): "Construction Cancellation Order" a/k/a "The Order To Stop Construction", 1987

* ''Anime/MeikyuuMonogatari'' (a.k.a. ''Neotokyo''): "Construction Cancellation Order" a/k/a "Order To Halt Construction", 1987

* ''Osamu Tezuka's Anime/{{Metropolis}}'' (screenplay), 2001

* ''Harmagedon'' (character design), 1982

* ''Roujin-Z'', 1991

Mangaka-turned director Katsuhiro Otomo (born April 14, 1954) has been working in the field of manga since the 1970s. His first "short stories" were published in 1973, while he was still in college; three of his more famous short pieces were adapted into the film ''Memories'' in 1995. Between 1980 and 1982, he published ''Manga/{{Domu}}: A Child's Dream,'' which contained themes and imagery he would expand on in his six-volume magnum opus, ''{{Manga/Akira}}''. Afterwards, he releases ''Manga/TheLegendOfMotherSarah'' which he wrote but didn't draw (Takumi Nagayasu did), which further elaborates on the themes of its predecessors but from a different perspective.

Mangaka-turned director Katsuhiro Otomo (born April 14, 1954) has been working in the field of manga since the 1970s. His first "short stories" were published in 1973, while he was still in college; three of his more famous short pieces were adapted into the film ''Memories'' in 1995. Between 1980 and 1982, he published ''Manga/{{Domu}}: A Child's Dream,'' which contained themes and imagery he would expand on in his six-volume magnum opus, ''{{Manga/Akira}}''.

After taking charge of a film adaptation of ''AKIRA'', Otomo made the jump from comic artist to film director; to date, he has six feature-length animations and two live-action movies (''World Apartment Horror'', 1991; and ''Mushishi'', 2006) to his credit. In 2012, he announced his plan to return with a {{Shonen}} manga set in Japan's Meiji period. This will be his first full-length series since ''AKIRA'', although it appears to be in DevelopmentHell.

His dark, obsessively detailed CyberPunk style has influenced dozens of artists, both in and outside of Japan. The film adaptation of ''AKIRA'' was a breakthrough success in the west and ushered forward an interest in anime in mainstream Western cinema, as well as a "second wave" of popularity among anime fans.

* ''Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis'' (screenplay), 2001

* ''Manga/TheLegendOfMotherSarah'' (writer), 1996

After taking charge of a film adaptation of ''AKIRA'', Otomo made the jump from comic artist to film director; to date, he has six feature-length animations and two live-action movies(''World Apartment Horror'', 1991; and ''Mushishi'', 2006) to his credit. In 2012, he announced his plan to return with a {{Shonen}} manga set in Japan's Meiji period. This will be his first full-length series since ''AKIRA'', although it appears to be in DevelopmentHell.

After taking charge of a film adaptation of ''AKIRA'', Otomo made the jump from comic artist to film director; to date, he has six feature-length animations and two live-action movies(''World Apartment Horror'', 1991; and ''Mushishi'', 2006) to his credit.

* [[http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-03-25/akira-katsuhiro-otomo-prepares-manga-series-in-shonen-mag A yet unnamed]] {{Shonen}} manga set in Japan's Meiji period, which is set to be his first full-length series since ''AKIRA''.

After taking charge of a film adaptation of ''AKIRA'', Otomo made the jump from comic artist to film director; to date, he has six feature-length animations and one live-action movie (''Film/WorldApartmentHorror'', 1991) to his credit.

* ''Fireball'' (never completed), 1978-1979

* ''Manga/TheLegendOfMotherSarah'' (scripted but didn't draw), 1996

Mangaka-turned director Katsuhiro Otomo has been working in the field of manga since the 1970s. His first "short stories" were published in 1973, while he was still in college; three of his more famous short pieces were adapted into the film ''Memories'' in 1995. Between 1980 and 1982, he published ''Manga/{{Domu}}: A Child's Dream,'' which contained themes and imagery he would expand on in his six-volume magnum opus, ''{{Manga/Akira}}''.

* "Short Peace", 2013 (Directed "Combustible" segment, wrote original manga of "A Farewell to Arms" segment)

* "Short Peace" , 2013