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Year Title Director Writer Animator Notes
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
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
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
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.
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