324. Two Animation Cels and Pencil Illustrations

Sold Stock #188140 | Sold Jul 3 2025

AKIRA (1988)

Pop Culture Live Auction: London 2025

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A set of two original hand-painted animation cels from the production of Katsuhiro Otomo's Akira. The film is widely regarded as one of the greatest animated and science fiction films ever made and a landmark in Japanese animation. These cels were initially obtained from a comic video store in the early 1990s.
One cel shows the male nurse seen during the sequence of Tetsuo Shima experiencing hallucinations in the hospital and is labelled "H- 26". The second artwork shows Doctor Onishi, the head scientist of the secret psychic research project and is labelled "A.35". Both cels are painted in gouache on acetate sheets and come with their original corresponding pencil production drawing. There are several strips of sellotape along the top of one of the drawings where the paper has been torn. Dimensions (each cel): 23.5 cm x 35 cm (9.25" x 13.75")
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Size

Item size: 9.06" × 13.78" × 0.04" (23cm × 35cm × 0.1cm)

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