Comments on: Japanese Lecture/Blog Post Translation: The Space Between Anime and Manga: #5: Katsuhiro Otomo, the Anti-”Story” Author by Kentaro Takekuma

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Wed, 04 Nov 2009 16:17:26 +0000

[...] who had read the coverage of my blog post translations of Kentaro Takekuma’s lectures (1, 2), offering the opportunity to translate portions of the anime scholar’s extensive book on [...]

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[...] Katsuhiro Otomo May 28th, 2009 | From: 4thletter! Early this week, Matthew Brady linked to a great lecture on Katsuhiro Otomo by Kentaro Takekuma. Click through, give it a [...]

By: Eoin

Eoin — Fri, 22 May 2009 19:54:30 +0000

Wow, thanks for translating this Alex! Otomo is perhaps my favourite mana-ka; I adore every single panel he draws. This was an incredibly insightful lecture! For one, I didn’t know Otomo was the first to bring Japanese-looking characters into manga.
I have to commend Takekuma for highlighting NOTHING WILL BE AS IT WAS, because for me its one of Otomo’s most ambitious and perfected stories. And I also was stunned by that scene in Fireball as well (especially the panel where the oldest brother is hovering above the city in a circular energy mass – chilling stuff!).
I’m kind’ve disappointed Takekuma didn’t go into Otomo’s animation work a bit more (such as his Cannon Fodder piece), but in all fairness there are plenty of essays about his animation work available.

If anyone is interested, I might be able to scan some images from SHORT PEACE and HIGHWAY-STAR…

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Thu, 21 May 2009 20:29:29 +0000

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Thu, 21 May 2009 14:57:15 +0000

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Thu, 21 May 2009 12:04:13 +0000

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By: Paul

Paul — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:36:56 +0000

Thank you very much for translating this!

By: TheBigN

TheBigN — Mon, 18 May 2009 17:58:45 +0000

“I think it’s basically anything big and flashy, whether it’s a big spread or even one panel like that Fire Ball panel (I think that one panel takes up only about a third of a page).”

This is what I think that term meant at all. I think it fits in with the whole “no climatic moments” that Otomo seemed to favor while creating manga.

And I think that sort of thing would make some readers go “well, what was the point of all that?”, and makes me feel like Otomo was just trying to draw manga about people in the process of doing, and not necessarily the “before and after” which a lot of people wanted to see. Focusing on the “what” more than the “why?”