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France's Annecy Shows 'Hi-no-Youjin' Anime by Akira's Otomo

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Other anime shorts, Blue Exorcist also to be screened at June 4-9 festival

France's Annecy, the world's largest animation festival, announced on Monday that it will screen Katsuhiro Ōtomo's "Hi-no-youjin" or "Combustible" anime short.

The June 4-9 festival will also show Shin Hashimoto's "Beluga," Akihito Izuhara's "LI.LI.TA.AL," Mirai Mizue's "Modern No. 2," Florian Piento's French-Japanese production "The People Who Never Stop," Syuhei Morita's "Tsukumo," and Ayaka Nakata and Yuki Sakitani's "Yonalure: Moment to Moment" in the same Short Films category as "Hi-no-youjin." The first Blue Exorcist episode will be in the TV series category, while Masaki Okuda, Ryō Ōkawara, and Yutaro Ogawa's Art Path 2011 "Count Down" will be in the Advertising Films category. Several student films round out Japan's roster at the festival.

Otomo created a one-shot manga called "Hi no Yōjin" in the very first issue of the Comic Cue anthology from East Press in December of 1994. (The issue is cover-dated 1995.) The story centers around people who put out fires in Japan's historical Edo period.

France's Fête de l'anim' festival had planned to host Otomo with a preview of "Hi-no-youjin" on Sunday. However, Otomo had to cancel his visit due to his workload.

Otomo began his career as a manga creator on such works as Domu, Kibun wa mō Sensō, and his most famous title internationally, Akira. He then branched into animation by directing part of the Robot Carnival omnibus and a feature film adaptation of his own Akira story. He directed other anime projects such as the Memories omnibus, the Gundam: Mission to the Rise event short, and the Steamboy feature. He also collaborated on Harmagedon, Roujin Z, Spriggan, Metropolis, Freedom Project and Hipira: The Little Vampire.

[Via: Catsuka]


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