Satoshi Kon Livres

Director Satoshi Kon blazed a brilliant animation career before his tragic death in 2010 at age 46. Now Dark Horse is privileged to remember him and his works through The Art of Satoshi Kon, a beautiful book of Kon’s illustrations for his movies Perfect Blue, Tokyo Godfathers, Milennium Actress, Paprika and his televison series Paranoia Agent, plus his unfinished The Dreaming Machine, his manga, commercial art, and several little-known and incomplete projects by the creator! Includes a special message from Academy Award nominated director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler, Black Swan, Noah)

Opus is Kon's metafictional tale of Chikara Nagai, a creator under pressure to finish his latest graphic novel, Resonance, who finds that the harshest critic of the shock ending he's got planned is the character who'll have to die in it! Nagai's stregths and weaknesses as a creator are tested beyond their limits as his present and his past, and the worlds of the manga and of reality, become the levels of a maze he may never escape ... let alone get a chance to resolve the story!

Two of the most acclaimed anime directors of all time, Mamoru Oshii (Ghost in the Shell), and Satoshi Kon (Perfect Blue) came together to create a manga: Seraphim: 266613336 Wings. Written by Oshii and drawn by Kon, Seraphim is the story of a future Earth devastated by the "Angel Plague," a pandemic that induces apocalyptic visions in the afflicted, even as it ossifies their bodies into dead, seraphic forms. A cult-ridden, army-backed medical unit journeys into the heart of a dying Asian city accompanied by Sera, a mysterious girl linked to the phenomenon itself. Have they come here to kill or cure--and is the Angel Plague a withered branch on the tree of life, or somehow a new flowering of existence?

Yosuke's family has a strange tradition - once every sixty years they receive an egg from a mermaid. When the egg matures his family dutifully returns it to the sea, where the whole process is then repeated. In exchange for this favor, the mer-people bless his coastal town with bountiful catches of fish and calm seas. But as a commercial development encroach on the sleepy seaside village and Yosuke's father is lured away from tradition towards modern prosperity, and turns the egg into a tourist trap, what will happen to the promise their family made to the mermaids generations ago? Tropic of the Sea Satoshi Kon's first feature length manga, includes a dozen black and white art plates from his original release, along with a 5-page essay written by Kon in 1999 detailing his transition from the manga industry to the animation business.

Dream Fossil is a collection of 15 short stories by the late Satoshi Kon. These stories, serialized in a variety of magazines in the 1980's, give a rare glimpse into the early stages of Kon's uniquely compelling style of storytelling. The buds of dream-like themes and imaginative worldviews that would blossom in his later animated works are also readily apparent. Yes, the flights of fancy are anchored by knowing, empathetic portrayals of the very human nature of each story.

Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) zählt zu den renommiertesten Anime-Regisseuren der Gegenwart. Seine Filme überzeugen durch ihre virtuose Umsetzung und das geschickte Spiel mit den Grenzen zwischen Fiktion und Realität. Genau diese Qualitäten offenbaren auch seine Manga-Werke, die erst vor kurzem in Japan wiederveröffentlicht wurden. In dem zweiteiligen Werk OPUS wird der Protagonist, ein Manga-Zeichner, förmlich in sein Werk hineingezogen und ist plötzlich mit den Geschehnissen und Charakteren der von ihm kreierten Welt konfrontiert. Das Action-betonte Epos brilliert sowohl grafisch als auch erzählerisch durch verblüffende, bisweilen philosophische Ideen. 2013 wurde OPUS in Frankreich mit dem »Prix Asie de la Critique ACBD« prämiert und 2014 auf die Shortlist des Comic-Salons Angoulême der besten Comics gesetzt.

Satoshi Kon (1963-2010) zählt zu den renommiertesten Anime-Regisseuren der Gegenwart. Seine Filme überzeugen durch ihre virtuose Umsetzung und das geschickte Spiel mit den Grenzen zwischen Fiktion und Realität. Genau diese Qualitäten offenbaren auch seine Manga-Werke, die erst vor kurzem in Japan wiederveröffentlicht wurden. In dem zweiteiligen Werk OPUS wird der Protagonist, ein Manga-Zeichner, förmlich in sein Werk hineingezogen und ist plötzlich mit den Geschehnissen und Charakteren der von ihm kreierten Welt konfrontiert. Das Action-betonte Epos brilliert sowohl grafisch als auch erzählerisch durch verblüffende, bisweilen philosophische Ideen. 2013 wurde OPUS in Frankreich mit dem »Prix Asie de la Critique ACBD« prämiert und 2014 auf die Shortlist des Comic-Salons Angoulême der besten Comics gesetzt.