Question: Katsuhiro Otomo and Roger Kumble have this profession in common.

Context articles: Akira (1988 film)
Katsuhiro Otomo
Memories (1995 film)
Mushishi (film)
World Apartment Horror
Fireball (manga)
Domu: A Child's Dream
Akira (manga)
Roger Kumble
Highway Star (manga)

Akira is a 1988 Japanese adult animated science fiction film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's manga of the same name.
Katsuhiro Otomo (大友 克洋 , Ōtomo Katsuhiro , born April 14, 1954) is a Japanese manga artist, screenwriter and film director.
 He is best known as the creator of the manga "Akira" and its animated film adaptation.
 He was decorated a "Chevalier" of the French Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 2005, promoted to "Officier" of the order in 2014, became the fourth manga artist ever inducted into the American Eisner Award Hall of Fame in 2012, and was awarded the Purple Medal of Honor from the Japanese government in 2013.
 Otomo later received the Winsor McCay Award at the 41st Annie Awards in 2014 and the 2015 Grand Prix de la ville d'Angoulême, the first manga artist to receive the award.
Memories (also "Otomo Katsuhiro's Memories") is a 1995 Japanese animated science fiction anthology film with Katsuhiro Otomo as executive producer, and based on three of his manga short stories.
 The film is composed of three shorts: "Magnetic Rose" (彼女の想いで , Kanojo no Omoide ) , directed by Studio 4°C co-founder Kōji Morimoto and written by Satoshi Kon; "Stink Bomb" (最臭兵器 , Saishū-heiki ) , directed by Tensai Okamura of "Darker than Black" fame and written by Otomo, and "Cannon Fodder" (大砲の街 , Taihō no Machi ) , written and directed by Otomo himself.
Mushishi (Japanese: 蟲師 ) , also known in English as Mushi-Shi: The Movie and Bugmaster, is a 2006 Japanese fantasy film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, based on the manga of the same name.
 It stars Joe Odagiri as Ginko, a traveler who dedicates himself to protecting the populace from supernatural creatures called Mushi.
 Otomo began work on the film in 2005 after declining a "jidaigeki" project.
 He was interested in creating a mix of live action and animation and felt the manga gave him an appropriate creative vehicle.
World Apartment Horror (ワールド・アパートメント・ホラー , Wārudo apātomento horā ) is a 1991 horror comedy film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, with a screenplay by Otomo and Keiko Nobumoto from a story by Satoshi Kon.
 The film stars Sabu (later a film director) as a yakuza henchmen who encounters language problems and evil spirits in his attempts to evict a Tokyo apartment full of foreigners, a role for which he received the Best New Actor Award at the Yokohama Film Festival in 1992.
Fireball is an unfinished science fiction manga by Katsuhiro Otomo, created for "Action Deluxe" magazine and published in 1979.
 It is notable for establishing ground Otomo would later explore successfully in "Domu" and his best-known work "Akira".
Domu (童夢 , Dōmu ) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo.
 Similar to his work "Akira", the story centers on an old man and a child possessing extrasensory powers.
 It was serialized between 1980 and 1981, with the chapters collected and published as a "tankōbon" in 1983.
 The main inspiration for Domu came partly from an apartment complex Otomo lived in when he first moved to Tokyo & partly from a news report he heard about a rash of suicides that occurred at a different apartment complex.
Akira (often stylized as AKIRA) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Katsuhiro Otomo.
 Set in a post-apocalyptic Neo-Tokyo, the work uses conventions of the cyberpunk genre to detail a saga of turmoil.
 Initially serialized in the pages of "Young Magazine" from 1982 until 1990, the work was collected into six volumes by its publisher Kodansha.
 The work was first published in an English-language version by the Marvel Comics imprint Epic Comics, one of the first manga works to be translated in its entirety.
 Otomo's art is considered outstanding, and a breakthrough for both Otomo and the manga form.
 Throughout the breadth of the work, Otomo explores themes of social isolation, corruption, and power.
Roger Kumble (born May 28, 1966) is an American film director, screenwriter, and playwright.
Highway Star (ハイウェイ・スター , Haiuei Sutā ) is a graphic novel created by Katsuhiro Otomo.
 It is his second published collection of short stories from various years, each running at roughly 20 pages, and includes Otomo's second-earliest collected story.
 It has been reprinted four times, the last year being 1997.