Osamu Tezuka Archives

The other surprise? It's from one of the most little-known manga by God of Manga Osamu Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy, which has was recreated in the gritty award-winning reboot Pluto by Naoki Urusawa, which just got a faithful anime adaptation on Netflix. Takeshi Miike Does Not "Phone" it In Midnight is about a psychic taxi driver[...]

Naoki Urusawa is one of the greatest creators of manga right now, creating not only Pluto, a darker, more political retelling of a classic Astro Boy story by Osamu Tezuka, but also classic series like Pineapple Army, Happy!, Yawara, Monster, 20th Century Boys, Billy Bat, and the current ongoing Asadora It made sense that he[...]

Alabaster, Osamu Tezuka's classic manga, is getting a reimagined and updated graphic novel from Noir Caesar Entertainment, the indie creative company that supports and nourishes art from marginalized communities across various media, in collaboration with Osamu Tezuka Productions They have launched a Kickstarter campaign for its publication Alabaster will be written by the award-winning Bitter[...]

Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case – and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets." As if the original story by Osamu Tezuka wasn't sad enough already, Urusawa's grim and gritty reboot story introduces more politics,[...]

A legend of comics, manga, and pop culture joins the ABLAZE catalog as the publisher announces that it has licensed four acclaimed manga titles by Osamu Tezuka from Tezuka Productions, in cooperation with DI Books, for English publication under the ABLAZE MANGA imprint The first title will debut in August of this year, with the rest slated to[...]

This production cel is currently available for auction at Heritage Auction's website. According to the description of this production cel on the auction listing at Heritage Auctions' website: From Osamu Tezuka's series that defined the entire artistic movement known as anime, this is an amazing hand-inked and hand-painted original production cel from the seminal classic series Astro Boy. Tezuka,[...]

Determined to keep his country-bumpkin status a secret, he tries to keep a low profile … but when his groundbreaking performance in his first test attracts the attention of not only his (gorgeous) classmates but the Demon King herself … Chrono realizes his dreams of a "happy, normal school life" may die in the dungeons[...]

As the demon dies, the swordsman's mask falls off his face as he gets is skin back for the first time in his life… Thus begins the new adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's classic manga from the 1960's, updated to a 21st Century anime aesthetic The character art is more realistic, less "cute" like Tezuka's original Disney-sque[...]

If you're a Prime subscriber, you can watch it as part of the service without additional cost. Bad news, anime fans! They forgot to add the English subtitles – so it's in Japanese only. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLat_-OyHIsVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: DORORO 2019 Official Trailer New HD (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DLat_-OyHIs) Dororo is a new adaptation of a manga series[...]

In 1982 the creator of Astro Boy, Osamu Tezuka went to the ninth Angoulême comic book festival. Sponsored by the Japanese government and accompanied by politicians, he turned the experience into a comic book, as recalled by Paul La Marca for Fumettologica. Which gives a chance to see what once was, through the eyes of an outsider… as he took one of his[...]

Calling all fans of Astro Boy! This September will bring the release of Osamu Tezuka's beloved Astro Boy in a whopping seven hundred-page omnibus! Dark Horse Comics will release Astro Boy Omnibus Volume 1, and it will feature Astro Boy's jet-powered, evil-bashing adventures The omnibus will collect rare and out-of-print material sure to please fans[...]