Katsuhiro Otomo, Creator Of The Most Influential Anime Movie Of All Time

Katsuhiro Otomo born on April 14, 1954 in Tome, Japan, is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director. He is best known as the creator of the manga Akira and its animated film adaptation. He has also directed some live-action films, such as the film adaptation of the manga Mushishi.

Katsuhiro Otomo was born in Tome, Miyagi Prefecture and grew up in Tome-gun. While he was in high school he was fascinated with movies, often taking a three-hour train ride during school holidays just to see them. In 1973 he graduated high school and left Miyagi, heading to Tokyo with the hopes of becoming a manga artist. On October 4, 1973, he published his first work, a manga adaptation of Prosper Merimee's short novel Mateo Falcone, titled A Gun Report. As he became more notorious later on. He started on his most well known "Akira" in manga form which eventually was offered an anime adaptation, he accepted in in the terms of him having creative control as he had experience with anime before. 

His biggest accomplishment has been the film despite not been able to cover the whole 2000 pages of the manga. It’s influence on animation in japan opened doors to more highly budget projects. Originally anime has been well known to cutting production corners with limited motion, such as having only the characters' mouths move while their faces remained static. Akira broke from this trend with detailed scenes, pre-scored dialogue wherein the dialogue is recorded before the film starts production and the movements of the characters' lips are animated to match it a first for an anime production.  As well as super-fluid motion as realized in the film's more than 160,000 animation cels. Unlike even the likes for live-action adaptations, Akira also had the budget to show a fully realized futuristic Tokyo.