Year | Title | Director | Writer | Animator | Notes |
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1991 | World Apartment Horror | No | Story | No | Adapted to his own manga of the same name. |
1991 | Roujin Z | No | No | Yes | Background designer and key animator |
1992 | Hashire Melos! | No | No | Yes | Layouts and key animator |
1993 | Patlabor 2 | No | No | No | Layouts |
1995 | Memories | No | Yes | No | Segment: Magnetic Rose
Also background designer and layouts |
1997 | Perfect Blue | Yes | No | No | Also character designer |
2001 | Millennium Actress | Yes | Yes | No | Also character designer |
2003 | Tokyo Godfathers | Yes | Yes | No | Also character designer |
2006 | Paprika | Yes | Yes | No |
Television[]
Year | Title | Director | Writer | Animator | Notes |
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1993 | JoJo's Bizarre Adventure | Yes | Yes | Yes | 3 episodes; also storyboard artist
Key animator of episode: "Iggy the Fool and N'Dool the GEB (Part. II)" |
2004 | Paranoia Agent | Yes | Yes | No | 13 episodes; also creator and storyboard artist for 4 episodes |
2008 | Good Morning | Yes | Yes | No | 1-minute short film aired on television. |
Bibliography[]
Manga[]
Year | Title | Notes |
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1984 | Toriko (虜) | Manga debut and a doujinshi work. It won the 2nd place Tetsuya Chiba Award for "Superior Newcomer". Published in English in the collection Dream Fossil. It is not related to the Mitsutoshi Shimabukuro manga Toriko. |
1990 | Tropic of the Sea(海帰線) | Published in Young Magazine by Kodansha. Published in English in 2013 by Vertical Comics. |
1990 | Akira | Uncredited assistant artist |
1991 | World Apartment Horror (ワールド・アパートメントホラー) | Adapted from the film of the same namedirected by Katsuhiro Otomo from a Keiko Nobumoto screenplay. After the main feature the volume collects three much shorter manga original to Kon: Visitors, Waira and Joyful Bell, which last prefigures Tokyo Godfathers. |
1994 | Seraphim 266613336Wings(セラフィム 2億6661万3336の翼) | An unfinished collaboration with Mamoru Oshiithat first ran in the May 1994 issue to the November 1995 issue of Animage.Partially reprinted posthumously in a memorial supplement of Monthly Comic Ryū in 2010 and published in comic book form by Tokuma Shoten in December that same year. Published in English in 2015 by Dark Horse Comics. |
1995–1996 | Opus | An incomplete manga that was released bi-monthly in Comic Guys from 1995 to 1996. It was collected and re-released in December 2010. Published in English in 2014 by Dark Horse Comics. |
Other literary works[]
Year | Title | Publisher | ISBN | Notes |
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2002 | Kon's Tone: The Road to "Millennium Actress" (コンズ・トーン: 「千年女優」への道) | Shobunsha Publications | 978-4794965462 | Biography-type work documenting his journey to his second film. Reissued in 2013. |
2002 | Chiyoko: Millennial Actress (千年女優画報―『千年女優』ビジュアルブック) | Kawade Shobo Shinsha | 978-4309905112 | Artbook containing interviews with the cast and director as well as character design art by Madhouseanimation. |
2003 | Tokyo Godfathers: Angel Book (東京ゴッドファーザーズ・エンジェルブック) | Takarajimasha | 978-4796636803 | Artbook containing interviews with the cast and director as well as character and background art. |
2011 | The Anime Works of Satoshi Kon (今 敏アニメ全仕事) | G.B. Co. Ltd. | 978-4901841948 | Retrospective book containing interviews, character design sheets and more. |
2012 | Kon's Tone II | Sold exclusively through Kon's Tone online store. Collection of essays and sketches including his farewell message. | ||
2015 | Perfect Blue Storyboard Collection (今敏 絵コンテ集 PERFECT BLUE) | Fukkan | 978-4835451411 | Complete storyboards for Perfect Blue, smaller print originally bundled with Limited Edition of the 2008 release of Perfect Blue on home video. |
2015 | Dream Fossil: The Complete Stories of Satoshi Kon | Vertical Comics | 978-1941220245 | Originally published in Japan in 2011. A collection of his short manga stories published between 1984 and 1989. Includes Toriko, Wairaand Joyful Bell. |
2015 | The Art of Satoshi Kon | Dark Horse Comics | 978-1616557416 | Released in Japan as Kon's Work 1982-2010 in 2014. Artbook spanning entire career, contains character design for unreleased film Dreaming Machine. |