Katsuhiro Otomo is cartoonist of the science fiction with delicate picture power that represents Japan with which touch and the throb feeling overflow. In his most important work "AKIRA", Tokyo of the future is a stage. Volume 1 of "AKIRA" begins to draw in 1982, and has finished the final story in 1990. Refer to Wikipedia for the story. "AKIRA" is one of the comics that received a big influence when I am a high school student. Katsuhiro Otomo has the technique for quickly drawing person's movement and style. And, the building begins to brew the impression that the concrete that cracks in the uncleanliness is inorganic and cold. He is skillful also in the mechanic design. The motor cycle when hero "Kaneda" gets on is famous, and one of the one wanting it at now and me. The cartoon that depicts the resistance spirit in contradiction to a leftist ideology is a lot of tendencies in the cartoonist written at the age such as Katsuhiro Otomo, Osamu Tezuka, and Fujio Fujiko that are.
The sentence beginning of the book is the following...
At 2：17PM on December 6th 1992 a new type of bomb exploded over the metropolitan area of Japan. Nine hours later, World War began. Leningrad, Moscow, Kazakhstan, Irkutsk, Vladivostok, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Washington DC, New York, Okinawa, Berlin, Hamburg, Warsaw, London, Birmingham, Paris, New Delhi...
And the world began to rebuild.
NEO-Tokyo City, 38years after World War 3 (2030 AD)
Stories of boys of hot-rodder who awakes by resistance and drug over boy "AKIRA" who has ESP at nuclear weapon level by which city is destroyed.
