OTOMO | THE COMPLETE WORKS 7 | APPLE PARADISE

Synopsis

A collection of works created by Katsuhiro Otomo between 26 ―when he was 27, 1980― and 1981. Contains a short series consisting of 12 short stories, including 4 short comics, 1 short manga, and the title story, which was serialized 6 times in the quarterly magazine "Manga Kisoutengai" published by Kisoutengaisha. SF 『APPLE PARADISE』, a mystery story set in a huge resource mining spaceship that is about to return to Earth from a distant planet, is based on the previous volume 『G....』 Similarly, it had never been published in book form “a phantom work”, but it was finally recorded in six parts (approximately 120p/unfinished). It also includes the masterpiece Western 『Memories of Sunburg's Hill』 and the entire short series 『That's Amazing World』 with fairy tales and literature as motifs. The breakdown of the short stories included is 2 from 『SOS Greater Tokyo Expedition』 (1996/Kodansha), 1 from 『In Her Thoughts...』 (1990/Kodansha) and 4 short stories, 『Hansel and Gretel』 (1981/Sony Magazines) and 8 short stories, 『GOOD WEATHER』 1981/ 1 short story from Kitansha. The short stories 『INRI』 were changed to open to the right by swapping the left and right sides of the panels when they were first recorded in the book, but in this book, they are changed back to open to the left as in the original manuscript and read from the end of the book. Reprinted in the same two colors as when it first appeared in the magazine. In addition, the short story 『ELECTRIC BIRD LAND』, which was recorded in black and white in the book, is now included for the first time in a reproduction of the "all pages in two colors" version when it first appeared in the magazine.