# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/katsuhiro-otomo
# Generated: 2026-09-07T19:03:51.435Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/katsuhiro-otomo"
name: "Katsuhiro Otomo"
slug: "katsuhiro-otomo"
description: "Katsuhiro Otomo  is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter, animator, and film director. He first rose to prominence as a pioneer founder of the New Wave in the 1970s. He is best known as the creator of Akira, both the original 1982 manga series and the 1988 animated film adaptation. In 2005, Otomo was decorated a Chevalier of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, promoted to Officier of the order in 2014, and became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012. Celebrated in Japan, he was also awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the national government in 2013."
tagline: "Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director (born 1954)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/FIBD2016OtomoHermann_(cropped).jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "JP"
category:
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profileType:
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  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1954-04-14"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
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  momentum:             0
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  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump