Research On Katsuhiro Otomo And His Animation Works

The research object of this paper is a great master of Japanese animation:Katsuhiro Otomoa and all his animation works.The research methods of this paper is text study,through the works directed by Katsuhiro Otomo,we can dig out the deep meaning in all his works and find out his modern reflection on science and technology.This article analysis all Katsuhiro Otomo’s works,and put him in the history of Japanese animation. He inherits the enthusiasm for machines begin from Osamu Tezuka.The hero is different from those in Hayao Miyazaki’s animation on different ways,such as the family environment of the hero,the motives for the heroic deeds.Katsuhiro Otomo belives the machine itself is harmless,but the effects of science and technology is positive or negative for human beings is all depend on the people who use it.