KUSAMORI Shuichi Animation Artworks
The first collection of works by the animation art director Kusamori Shuichi.
Kusamori Shuichi was responsible for landscape depictions in films such as “GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: Innocence” (created by Masamune Shirow, directed by Mamoru Oshii), “Metropolis” (created by Osamu Tezuka, written by Katsuhiro Otomo, directed by Rintaro), “X” (created by CLAMP, directed by Rintaro), which are said to be the pinnacle of Japanese animation art, along with the “PSYCHO-PASS” series. These works are not reproductions of real cityscapes or nature, but rather were painted as imaginary landscapes to show the world of science fiction and fantasy. Kusamori Shuichi has expressed a fictional world with overwhelming realism. This is the first art book to gather a comprehensive collection of Kusamori Shuichi’s animation works over the past 40 years. In addition to art from a wide range of works including “GHOST IN THE SHELL 2: Innocence”, “Metropolis”, “X”, the “PSYCHO-PASS” series, “Infini-T Force”, “Divine Gate”, “Patlabor The Movie” and “GHOST IN THE SHELL”, the book also includes cover illustrations for novels and original, newly drawn illustrations.
- Size：Size：7.2 × 10.1" / 182 × 257 mm
- Pages：384 pp. (Full Color)
- Binding：Hardbound
- Publisher：PIE International
- Language：Japanese, some English
- ISBN：978-4-7562-5996-7
- Author：KUSAMORI Shuichi
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*Available Worldwide from DEC 2025 (Asia/Oceania from FEB 2025)
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【Artist Profile】
An animation art director, KUSAMORI Shuichi has been working in the background art for animated films since the early 1980s, and became the art director for his first theatrical film in 1992 with “The Weathering Continent”. Since then, he has worked on high-profile films such as “X – The Movie” (1996), “METROPOLIS” (2001), and “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence” (2004), and on “PSYCHO-PASS”, including the 2015 theatrical version and the 2019 He is in charge of art for the third season of the TV series, among others. Over the course of his long career, he has shown a high level of expressiveness in both the true-to-life original art drawn with paints and the exquisite digital depiction using 3D. His novels include “The Eccentric Family” by Tomihiko Morimi and “A Gun and Chocolate” by Otsuichi.
