Satoshi Kon's: Opus

Satoshi Kon really outdid himself with this one. If you don't own this masterpiece I highly recommend getting it

Satoshi Kon still has yet to be ousted as my favorite anime filmmaker, though he passed away a few years ago. I usually don't preorder items on Amazon, but I didn't actually think this book would ever be published so took a chance. Most of Kon's work is difficult to find, but his vision is much more mature than what most people expect out of anime and manga.Opus is very similar to Kon's anime work that came out around the same time (Perfect Blue, Millenium Actress; there's even a reference at one point in Opus to the author's work on Katsuhiro Otomo's Memories). The plot is full of portal-to-another-world metafiction and centered on its own sense of being self-referencing. You can at times feel that the protagonist is Kon himself, and though Opus is less preachy than Paranoia Agent, the story does reach the same level of intelligence. The message is clear, and at no point do you feel that you are reading an author's early work (in fact, this was Kon's last long manga). It's gripping, it's unusual in the way it tells its story, and because of the story, the art is required to be careful in its development (the world's perspective, the backgrounds, are deliberate, and need to be for the story to work).I'm glad someone took the time to reprint Kon's written work, and for those who like a tight, clear story instead of fifty volumes of manga, this is exactly what you should consider purchasing.

Satoshi Kon's Opus blurs the lines between the creator and the art, fiction and reality, and destiny and predestination. The author (Kon himself?) is working on a manga called Resonance when he decides to kill off one of the main characters. The character, Lin, objects, and transports into the real world, where he steals the page on which he's killed. The author follows him into the manga, and the reader is treated to a metafictional tale of psychics, heroes, villains, and crime.Metafiction has been around forever. Gogol used it in "The Nose" and Dead Souls. We've all seen blends of animation with real life. Walt Disney's "Alice" shorts are an example from nearly 100 years ago, as is the 1980s pop video for the song "Take on Me" by A-Ha. Still, there's something fresh and new about this manga. Resonance, the manga the author falls into, isn't terribly well developed, and the cancellation of Comic Guy's, which serialized the story, along with Kon's death mean that there isn't a definitive ending for the story. Still, I liked it. ****1/4

Satoshi Kon's OPUS is a meta-manga dealing with creators, their creations, and how they affect each other. Bespectacled manga creator Chikara Nagai is under a deadline to finish his graphic novel RESONANCE. Lin, the character he wants to kill off, objects. At the end of the penultimate chapter of "Resonance". Lin steps in to protect the lovely Satoko who is battling the evil Masque. Even Chikara's editor just wants a happy last chapter where Satoko defeats the Masque. Later, while working on the final pages, Chikara finds a panel that has depth and gets literally pulled into his own story. Satoko wonders whose pawn he is. Lin discovers his projected fate and moves to make sure it does not happen. Chikara returns to his real world and brings Satoko with him. From then on, Chikara's world of the page and Satoko's world on the page riffle together like a shuffled deck of cards entertainingly stretching the boundaries of everyone's reality. But author Kon's career began shifting from manga to anime before the tale was finished. After Kon's death, the rough pencils of the final chapter were found among his papers. That chapter from beyond the grave is included here to supply the proper [if not totally satisfying] meta-fiction closure. Recommended for fans of both manga and anime with character.

Kon was a brilliant artist and this book is the best testament to that fact.And he deserves a lot of credit for steering clear of the guns-and-bombs stereotype established by predecessors like Akira to create instead believable, likeable and sympathetic characters, including himself at the book's end.

Satoshi Kon will always be cemented as the master of anime. Any fan of his work will be absolutely enthralled with this book. A VERY Kon story, that always keeps you wanting to know what will happen next. The translation is excellent and my book arrived in perfect condition. The unfinished ending published in this version is also, in my opinion, the absolute perfect conclusion to the story. Recommend VERY highly.

Satoshi Kon's Opus is everything you'd expect from him in terms of story and design. If I had read it with it's original ending (excluding the last chapter), I would have probably given it 3 stars. After reading the final chapter in this volume, I feel at ease with the story's final destination. Its in one sense resolved, and in another not so much. But that suits both the story and the artist.

A beautiful masterpiece from THE Satoshi Kon, with an ending that is both satisfyingly perfect and incomplete at the same time. The never before seen epilogue that was included was just as wonderful, and the final page made me cry. A wonderful piece of work from an artist who left too soon.

I've read a lot of manga, and this is the one and only that made me go "HOLY SHEETTTT WHATTT???". Aside from the incredible art, the ending to this manga is Satoshi Kon's 4D chess move that made me realize manga can be more than.. manga. You gotta read it to understand it!

Engrossing enough that I finished it in one sitting. Although officially incomplete, the ends are tied up somewhat neatly, so a satisfying read overall.

Opus' psychological storyline is a delight for every Satoshi Kon's admirer. The quality of the book, in general, is suitable for a pleasant reading experience. As for the order request, it arrived on time with no damage!

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