num_pages: 384
description: Brilliant anime director Satoshi Kon (Paprika Paranoia Agent Tokyo Godfathers Millennium Actress Perfect Blue) died tragically young in 2010 at the age of forty-six. But before he became a director he was a manga artist and Dark Horse is honored to remember Kon with the release of Satoshi Kons OPUSan omnibus collection of a two-volume manga from 1996 created by Kon on the eve of his first film. OPUS contains the mastery of both realism and surrealism that would make Kon famous in Perfect Blueas a manga artist planning a shocking surprise ending to his story gets literally pulled into his own workto face for himself what he had planned for his characters!OPUS is Kon's metafictional tale of Chikara Nagai a creator under pressure to finish his latest graphic novel Resonance who finds that the harshest critic of the shock ending he's got planned is the character who'll have to die in it! Nagai's stregths and weaknesses as a creator are tested beyond their limits as his present and his past and the worlds of the manga and of reality become the levels of a maze he may never escape... let alone get a chance to resolve the story!
language: English
title: Opus
publisher: Dark Horse Manga