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Freedom Project is a Japanese promotional project by Nissin Cup Noodles for their 35th anniversary in 2006. As part of the project, the 7-part OVA series, titled Freedom, was commissioned with and designed by Katsuhiro Otomo (of the anime film Steamboy and the manga Akira and its film adaptation) serving as the character and mecha designer.
Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋, Ōtomo Katsuhiro, born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He is best known as the creator of Akira , both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation .
Originally influenced by Katsuhiro Otomo and Ryoichi Ikegami, [1] his manga often contain explicit violence, sexual depictions, and matters that are considered taboo by the public, and he is known as a pioneer in the use of digital processing for manga backgrounds. His debut manga Hen was a runner-up in the 1988 Young Jump Youth Manga Awards.
Akira is a Japanese cyberpunk media franchise based on Katsuhiro Otomo's seminal manga, Akira, published from 1982 to 1990. It was adapted into a 1988 anime film and three video games. A live-action feature film has also been in development since 2000, and a new anime television series by Otomo was also announced in 2019.
2.1 As director. 2.2 As screenwriter. 3 References. ... He co-wrote the screenplays for Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira and Shinji Aoyama's EM Embalming. [3] [4] Filmography
Fireball (stylized as Fire-Ball) is an unfinished Japanese science fiction manga written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo. The 50-page story was published in Futabasha's Action Deluxe magazine on January 27, 1979. Fireball is notable for establishing ground Otomo would later explore more successfully in Domu and his best-known work Akira.
Akira (アキラ, stylized as AKIRA) is a Japanese cyberpunk post-apocalyptic manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo.It was serialized biweekly in Kodansha's seinen manga magazine Young Magazine from December 20, 1982, to June 25, 1990, with its 120 chapters collected into six tankōbon ' volumes.
Akira (Japanese: アキラ) is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film [4] directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name.