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AKIRA - Cut n° 2211 - Art Print
Official high-quality reproduction of Hiroshi Ohno's production imageboard for the AKIRA animated film, published by the Riekeles Gallery.
Format: 50 x 70 cm (or 19.68 x 27.56 inches)
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Illustration format: 50 x 70 cm (or 19.68 x 29.56 inches), offset printing on high quality paper Magno Volume 200 g/m².
The context
This illustration shows the production imageboard, used during pre-production to direct the artwork of the film AKIRA and features the second-to-last scene of the film, just after seeing Neo Tokyo explode to ashes, Tetsuo and his friends drive towards the ruins of the city.
As seen in the animated film:
The artist - Hiroshi Ohno

(picture © Riekeles Gallery)
Hiroshi Ohno (大野広司) is the art director of the animated film Kiki's Delivery Service, and an excellent artist, with some of the most iconic paintings depicting the film's many landscapes and backgrounds.
Director of Studios FUGA, Hiroshi Ohno also worked as art director for Hiroyuki Okiura on the film Letter to Momo (2011) and for Mamoru Hosoda on the film The Wolf Children, Ame & Yuki. In 2015, he was also the art director for Keiichi Hara's Miss Hokusai, which won the Jury Prize at the Annecy Animation Festival.
AKIRA - The story
AKIRA is a science fiction manga created by Katsuhiro Ôtomo between 1982 and 1990. It tells the story of the adventures of two childhood friends turned enemies drawn into the megalopolis of Neo-Tokyo as they fight for survival. A dramatic story including superpowers, political intrigue, and revolution.The manga was made into an animated film in 1988 providing the scene for this poster, and proved to be a huge success, and not just in Japan, taking the anime beyond the Japanese borders, contributing to its worldwide popularity.
The poster
This print is published by Galerie Riekeles in collaboration with the artist and Kodansha. It is a high-quality reproduction, as faithful as possible to the original work, accurately rendering down to the smallest detail the breathtaking landscapes and backgrounds that helped make the anime from which they are taken internationally successful.
The care taken with the choice of paper and the printing technique make these posters real collectors' items.
AKIRA - the author
Discover more about the creator of Akira, Katsuhiro Ôtomo:
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| Author | OHNO Hiroshi (大野広司) |
|---|---|
| Language | No text |
| Publisher | RIEKELES Gallery |
| Height (cm) | 70 |
| Width (cm) | 50 |
| Theme | Cinema and animation Landscape |
| Signed / sketched | No |
| Weight (kg) | 0.1 |
| Audience | Suitable for all ages |
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