His favorite works were Space Battleship Yamato ( 1974 ), Heidi, Girl of the Alps ( 1974 ), Future Boy Conan ( 1978 ) and Mobile Suit Gundam ( 1979 ), as well as Katsuhiro Otomo's Domu: A Child's Dream.

He also became interested in publishing Japanese manga in the United States, though he himself was not a fan of Japanese comics until a visit to Japan in 1985 exposed him to Katsuhiro Otomo's single-volume title Domu: A Child's Dream.

Otomo has stated in various interviews that the main inspiration for Domu came partly from an apartment complex he lived in when he first moved to Tokyo & partly from a news report he heard about a rash of suicides that occurred at a different apartment complex.

Akira, like Otomo's other works ( such as Domu ), revolves around the basic idea of individuals with superhuman powers, especially psychokinetic abilities.

* 1995: Madam Butterfly is the central piece of Magnetic Rose, an animated short produced by Katsuhiro Otomo and directed by Kōji Morimoto.

There are numerous sub-divisions ( including Sunrise No. 1 Studio, No. 2 Studio, Sunrise Iogi Studio ( previously featuring the works of Yoshiyuki Tomino and currently those of Gorō Taniguchi ), and Sunrise Emotion Studio ( featuring Katsuhiro Otomo ), which are headed by Sunrise producers and directors assigned to the production of particular series.

* 1981 Manon ( マノン ), by Katsuhiro Maeda

The books were written by Kurt Busiek, Bruce Campbell, Katsuhiro Otomo, and Mark Waid as well as other comic book talent.

is a graphic novel created by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Memories ( also Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories ) is an anime produced in 1995 by artist / director Katsuhiro Otomo which were based on three of his manga short stories.

Script by noted anime director Satoshi Kon, based on a story by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Script by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Written and directed by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Category: Films directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

In an interview with Shonen Jump, Takahashi stated that his favorite manga from other authors included Akira by Katsuhiro Otomo, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure by Hirohiko Araki, and Dragon Ball by Akira Toriyama.

is a 2004 Japanese steampunk animated film produced by Sunrise, directed and co-written by Katsuhiro Otomo, his second major anime release, following Akira.

Category: Films directed by Katsuhiro Otomo

is a Japanese manga series, written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Real recordings by Otto Higel, Leo Ornstein, Josef Lhevinne, Eugene d ' Albert, Katsuhiro Oguri

She provided the voice of Mei in the Streamline Pictures dub of the Hayao Miyazaki film My Neighbor Totoro as well as Sachi in the Katsuhiro Otomo film Neo Tokyo done by ADV Films ; in the early Harmony Gold English Dragon Ball dub from the 1980s, she voiced Puar ( Squeaker ) and Arale Norimaki.

is a 1991 Japanese anime film directed by Hiroyuki Kitakubo and written by Katsuhiro Otomo.

Opening: Directed by Atsuko Fukushima and Katsuhiro Otomo.

Several other observers found images of the comet in precovery images obtained before March 24, including Kin Endate from a photograph exposed on March 15, S. Otomo on March 17, and a team led by Eleanor Helin from images on March 19.

More recently, electronic free improvisation has drawn on Circuit bending, Noise music, DIY-culture and Turntablism, represented by performers such as Yoshihide Otomo, Hemmelig Tempo, Günter Müller, poire z and many others.

There is also an album by Kenny Millions & Otomo Yoshihide, Without Kuryokhin, released in 1998 and dedicated to the memory of Russian jazz and experimental musician Sergey Kuryokhin.

The modern city of Tōno was officially founded on December 1, 1954 by the merger of the former town of Tōno with the seven villages of Ayaori, Otomo, Tsukimoushi, Matsuzaki, Tsuchibuchi, Aozasa, and Kamigo.

* Omega Red appears in Marvel Anime: Wolverine, voiced by Ryuzaburo Otomo in the Japanese version and by J.

The inspectors Yamagawa and Tamura both appear in an earlier one-shot by Otomo, namely Ashita No Yakusoku, which involved the pair yet again as head inspectors on a bizarre murder case.

The latter story was directed by Otomo himself.

His lyrics have been described as intensely personal and mystical, incorporating recurrent themes from his own personal mythos, and his songwriting and singing have been compared ( usually favourably ) to Syd Barrett and early Pink Floyd, referred by Ka-Spel, as being more a folk coincidence, not a direct influence ... Ka-Spel have mentioned so diverse influences and musical references as: Xenakis, Beatles, Otomo Yoshihide, Radiohead, Nurse With Wound, ( early ) David Bowie, Brainticket, Can, ( early ) The Residents, Magma, Ilicht, Es, Throbbing Gristle, etc.

He looked at the looming hoods of the supply wagons, struck by a new inspiration.

She showed her surprise by tightening the reins and moving the gelding around so that she could get a better look at his face.

Her hat had come off and fallen behind her shoulders, held by the string, and he could see her face more clearly than he had at any time before.

only the counter at one end was lighted by a long fluorescent tube suspended directly above it.

They, and the two large fans which I could dimly see as daylight filtered through their vents, down at the far end of the hall, could be turned on by a master switch situated inside the office.

Rumors of the offer Tom Horn had made at the Stockgrowers' Association meeting had leaked out by then, and as a grand jury investigation of the murder got underway, the prosecuting attorney, a Colonel Baird, ordered that the tall stock detective be summoned for questioning.

It is possible, although highly doubtful, that he killed none at all but merely let his reputation work for him by privately claiming every unsolved murder in the state.

Already a few hardy folk from their own train were zealously chipping away at the register rocks, leaving their own records along with those made by the earlier trains.

At once my ears were drowned by a flow of what I took to be Spanish, but -- the driver's white teeth flashing at me, the road wildly veering beyond his glistening hair, beyond his gesticulating bottle -- it could have been the purest Oxford English I was half hearing ; ;

While several yards from it, still concealed by the shrubbery, she'd seen two men on her left at the pool's edge.

Ramey looked down and saw the white sneaker at the bottom of the man's tanned leg cautiously nudge a bit of folded, blood-flecked substance lying by itself on the pavement.

The girl kneeled by her husband with one arm at his back.

Billy decided to set an example by arresting one of the ranchers, named Ed Dunn, who lived at Rock Fort.

at first gratingly, caught by grains of corn -- then with a clash into its slot.

since Bourbon whiskey, though of Kentucky origin, is at least as much favored by liberals in the North as by conservatives in the South.

They are supplied, a batch at a time, by a secret source and are continually changed by Wisman or his staff, at random intervals.

After that, it requires several minutes of concentrated work, including six separate and deliberate actions by a minimum of three men sitting at three separate stations in a bomber, each with another man beside him to help, for an armed bomb to be released.

In 1938, at the insistence of Arturo Toscanini, Steinberg left Germany for the United States, by way of Switzerland.

The latter in turn assured him that `` were I arraigned at the bar, and you my judge, I should expect to stand or fall only by the merits of my cause ''.

Its appeal from ballots to bullets at Fort Sumter ended by costing the Southerners their right to have slaves -- a right that was even less compatible with the sovereignty of man.

My curiosity was sharpened a day or two before the interview by a conversation I had with a well-informed teacher of literature, a Jesuit father, at a conference on religious drama near Paris.