Editing Katsuhiro Otomo (section)

==Legacy==
[[Image:FIBD2016ExpoOtomo.jpg|right|thumb|France's 2016 [[Angoulême International Comics Festival]] hosted an exhibition of art created in tribute to Otomo.]]
It was around the 1979 publication of his ''Short Peace'' short story collection that Otomo's work became influential in Japan. Artists influenced by him and his work include [[Hisashi Eguchi]], [[Naoki Urasawa]], [[Naoki Yamamoto (manga artist)|Naoki Yamamoto]], [[Makoto Aida]] and [[Hiroya Oku]].<ref>{{cite news |url=http://sexmagazine.us/articles/hisashi-eguchi/1 |title=Hisashi Eguchi: "Cute girls have a period of being really invincible." |work=Sex Magazine|year=2013 |access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/news/97558 |title=大友克洋特集がAERAで、浦沢直樹や山本直樹らが影響語る |language=ja |publisher=[[Natalie (website)|Natalie]] |date=2013-08-13 |access-date =2021-01-30}}</ref><ref name="Oku">{{cite web|url=https://natalie.mu/comic/pp/inuyashiki |title=奥浩哉の「いぬやしき」特集、山本直樹×奥浩哉の師弟対談 |language=ja |publisher=[[Natalie (website)|Natalie]] |date=2014-01-14 |access-date =2021-10-22}}</ref> When talking in 1997 about the future of manga, Urasawa opined that <blockquote>[Osamu] Tezuka created the form that exists today, then [[caricature]]s appeared next, and comics changed again when Katsuhiro Otomo came on the scene. I don't think there's any room left for further changes.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/main/eng/mt/1_3.html |title=The Birth of Best Seller Comics Writers of the New Generation of Comics and their World No. 3: "YAWARA!" |publisher=[[Shogakukan]] |date=1998-12-06|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/19981206073414/http://www.shogakukan.co.jp/main/eng/mt/1_3.html |archive-date=1998-12-06}}</ref> </blockquote>

[[Masashi Kishimoto]] cited Otomo as one of his two biggest influences, but liked Otomo's art style the best and imitated it while trying to develop his own.<ref>{{cite book |last=Kishimoto |first=Masashi |title=[[Naruto]] |volume=10 |year=2006 |orig-year=2001 |publisher=[[Viz Media]] |isbn=978-1-4215-0240-3 |page=157}}</ref> The [[Dragon Ball]] manga creator [[Akira Toriyama]] was interviewed on who was his favorite manga artist, and said that he found his peer Otomo to be “incredible.”<ref>{{Cite web|title=$~>|url= https://www.kanzenshuu.com/translations/adventure-special-toriyama-qa/|access-date=2025-02-14}}</ref>

Otomo's manga work also notably influenced a number of [[Japanese video game]] designers by the mid-1980s, including [[Enix]]'s [[Yuji Horii]] (''[[The Portopia Serial Murder Case]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest]]''), [[Capcom]]'s [[Noritaka Funamizu]] (''[[Gun.Smoke]]'' and ''[[Hyper Dyne Side Arms]]''), UPL's Tsutomu Fujisawa (''[[Ninja-Kid]]''), [[Thinking Rabbit]]'s Hiroyuki Imabayashi (''[[Sokoban]]''), [[dB-SOFT]]'s Naoto Shinada (''[[Volguard II|Volguard]]''), Hot-B's Jun Kuriyama (''[[Hoshi Wo Miru Hito|Psychic City]]''), and [[Microcabin]]'s Masashi Katou (''Eiyuu Densetsu Saga'').<ref>{{cite magazine|title=59 Developers, 20 Questions: 1985 Interview Special|magazine=[[:ja:Beep!|Beep]]|date=October 1985|url=http://shmuplations.com/20questions1985|access-date=2017-02-22|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170107003926/http://shmuplations.com/20questions1985/|archive-date=2017-01-07|url-status=live}}</ref>

Director [[Satoshi Kon]], who worked as an assistant to Otomo in both manga and film, cited ''Akira'' and especially ''Domu'' as influences.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.perfectblue.com/interview.html |title=Interview with Satoshi Kon, Director of ''Perfect Blue'' |work=[[Perfect Blue]] official website|date=1998-09-04|access-date=2021-09-04|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120402165610/http://www.perfectblue.com/interview.html|archive-date=2012-04-02}}</ref> American film director [[Rian Johnson]] is a big fan of Otomo and pointed out similarities between how telekinesis is depicted in ''Domu'' and its depiction in his film ''[[Looper (film)|Looper]]''.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://wegotthiscovered.com/movies/interview-rian-johnson-looper/3/ |title=Roundtable Interview with Rian Johnson on Looper |work=We Got This Covered|date=2012-09-27 |access-date=2021-09-04}}</ref>

In 2017, the book ''Otomo: A Global Tribute to the Mind Behind Akira'' was published in Japan, France and the United States, featuring writing and artwork from 80 artists such as [[Masakazu Katsura]], [[Taiyo Matsumoto]], [[Masamune Shirow]], [[Asaf Hanuka|Asaf]] and [[Tomer Hanuka]], and [[Stan Sakai]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/interest/2016-12-19/80-artists-and-writers-contribute-to-katsuhiro-otomo-tribute-book/.110009 |title=80 Artists & Writers Contribute to Katsuhiro Otomo Tribute Book  |work=[[Anime News Network]]|date=2016-12-19 |access-date=2021-09-05}}</ref> From April 8 to May 8, 2021, comic art collector Phillipe Labaune's self-titled art gallery in New York City held "Good For Health, Bad For Education: A Tribute to Otomo" as its first exhibition.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.crunchyroll.com/anime-news/2021/04/16-1/phillipe-labaune-comic-art-gallery-opens-in-new-york-with-good-for-health-bad-for-education-a-tribute-to-otomo |title=Phillipe Labaune Comic Art Gallery Opens In New York With "Good For Health, Bad For Education: A Tribute to Otomo" |work=[[Crunchyroll]]|date=2021-04-16 |access-date=2021-09-05}}</ref> Including pieces originally curated by Julien Brugeas for the 2016 Angoulême International Comics Festival, it featured a total of 29 Otomo-inspired works by international artists such as [[Sara Pichelli]], [[Paul Pope]], [[Boulet (comics)|Boulet]], [[François Boucq]], [[Giannis Milonogiannis]] and [[Ian Bertram]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.philippelabaune.com/exhibitions/good-for-health-bad-for-education-a-tribute-to-otomo#tab:thumbnails |title=Good for Health - Bad for Education: A Tribute to Otomo |work=philippelabaune.com |access-date=2021-09-05}}</ref>