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—Katsuhiro Otomo, on the birth of Akira[14] Kodansha had been repeatedly asking Katsuhiro Otomo to write a series for their new manga magazine Young Magazine for some time, but he was busy with other work for another publisher and turned them down. [15] After finishing Kanojo no Omoide. (1980) and Farewell to Weapons (1981) for Young Magazine, he started
thinking of a new project. From the first meeting with the publisher, Akira was to be a short work of about ten chapters "or something like that," so Otomo said he was "really not"
expecting it to be a success. [15] Otomo had previously created Fireball (1979), a series in which he disregarded accepted manga art styles and established his interest in science fiction as a setting. [6] Fireball anticipated a number of plot elements of Akira, with its story of young freedom fighters trying to rescue one of the group's older brother who was being used by the government in psychic experiments, with the older brother eventually unleashing a destructive "fireball" of energy (the story may have drawn inspiration from the Alfred Bester's 1953 novel The Demolished Man). [16] Otomo used a science fiction setting
again the following year in Domu, which won the Nihon SF Taisho Award and Seiun Award and became a bestseller. [6] He then began work on his most ambitious work to date, Akira. Due to a lack of planning, Otomo had to hastily end Fireball without the finale he wanted and stated, "You could say that Akira was born from the frustration I had about that at the time.
» Elle a toutefois fait l'objet d'une adaptation non animée pour la télévision en 2005[6]. Le réalisateur dit s'être inspiré de Paulette, la petite fille du film Jeux interdits interprétée par Brigitte Fossey, pour la gestuelle de la petite fille (Setsuko)[7]. L'un des points les plus importants dans cette œuvre est le réalisme. Bien que dessinés, les décors sont crédibles. Comme le dit Bernard Génin dans l’article de Télérama du 19 juin 1996 : « Dès le début, la reconstitution d’un bombardement sur Kobe, dans des décors d’une précision hallucinante, installe un réalisme quasi documentaire. » Akiyuki Nosaka confirme cela dans une interview incluse dans le coffret DVD Collector du film, distribué par Kaze. Nosaka a vécu cet enfer étant jeune, et il explique dans cette interview que voir ce film lui a fait reconnaître chaque maison, chaque coin de rue, et le replongeait dans son enfance, car le quartier représenté dans l’œuvre de Takahata est celui où il a vécu étant petit. Le réalisateur
Isao Takahata fut lui-même amené, lors du bombardement américain sur Okayama en juin 1945, à fuir en pyjama avec l’une de ses sœurs[8]. Il resta plusieurs jours sans nouvelles de ses parents[9]. Le Tombeau des lucioles, à travers les yeux de Seita et de Setsuko, évoque des thématiques profondes telles que le deuil, la perte, la survie, la famille ou encore les conséquences dévastatrices de la guerre sur les civils. Le récit de Takahata se veut anti-manichéen, chaque personnage ayant ses propres
raisons d'agir selon des circonstances tragiques.
The 1968 model year was also the last the GTOs offered separate crank-operated front door vents. Concealed windshield wipers, which presented a cleaner appearance hidden below the rear edge of the hood, were standard on the GTO and other 1968 GM products
after having been originally introduced on 1967 full-size Pontiacs. A popular option, actually introduced during the 1967 model year, was a hood-mounted tachometer, located in front of the windshield and lit for visibility at night. An in-dash tachometer was also available. Redline bias-ply
tires continued as standard equipment on the 1968 GTO, though they could be replaced by whitewall tires at no extra cost. A new option was radial tires for improved ride and handling. However, very few were delivered with the radial tires because of manufacturing problems encountered by the supplier B. F. Goodrich. The radial tire option was discontinued after 1968. Pontiac did not offer radial tires as a factory option on the GTO again until the 1974 model.
