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When anime character ambassador for the Tokyo Olympics Sailor Moon cheered on Japanese athletes and the Olympics recently, it generally didn’t go over well with fans. Fans who didn’t like it typically either felt Sailor Moon was being partisan or that it’s too dangerous to …Read more »
Any anime fan knows, or at least learns quickly, that Osamu Tezuka was instrumental in creating anime as we know it today. His early creations drew from both Eastern and Western sources, combining into the art form we know and love. And fans who want …Read more »
RetroCrush is adding more anime to its roster this June, including several Osamu Tezuka titles. Today Puppet Princess, Galaxy Angel, and Galaxy Angel Z all become available and can be watched either dubbed or subbed. Then we get to the Tezuka titles. On June 11 …Read more »
The winners for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The prizes are given yearly to manga creators who follow the tradition laid out by Osamu Tezuka. The Grand Prize, which comes with a bronze statue and approximately $19,000 in cash, goes …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka wrote his manga Barbara back in the 1970s, and in 2021 it’s getting a new chapter thanks to mangaka Go Nagai, who created Devilman, Cutie Honey and Mazinger Z. Nagai is working on Barbara with his company, Dynamic Production, and the new chapter …Read more »
Crime and Punishment is one of Osamu Tezuka’s earlier works, originally published in the early 1950s. It’s Tezuka’s manga adaptation of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s classic of the same name, and a note at the beginning explains that this manga was written for children. Anyone who’s read …Read more »
Storm Fairy is a manga collection of three stories by Osamu Tezuka, all originally published throughout the 1950s. It’s one of his lesser-known works, but is important in manga history, and it’s very valuable that it’s been translated. In the titular story, a fairy who …Read more »
The nominees for the 25th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize have been announced! The award seeks to reward manga that follows Tezuka’s tradition, and this year nine titles are in the running. Without further ado, the nominees are: I Want to Hold Aono-kun so Badly …Read more »
During his prolific lifetime as a manga creator, Osamu Tezuka declared his best work was Phoenix. The manga remained unfinished when he died and the English adaptation is unfortunately out of print (though you can read it digitally). However, not all is lost: Media Blasters …Read more »
Under the Air is a collection of short works from the prolific Osamu Tezuka, known as the “God of Manga,” originally published in the 1960s and 1970s. In his afterword Tezuka wrote that these short stories were “jumbled together” by the publisher and calls them …Read more »
It’s been 75 years since Osamu Tezuka first began selling his manga, and people want to celebrate. A limited edition of 350 prints showing his iconic Black Jack character have been made, pulling from a 1977 cover of Akita Shoten’s Weekly Shonen Champion. Each print …Read more »
The Asahi Shimbun interviewed Makoto Tezuka (sometimes written as Macoto Tezka) about adapting his father Osamu Tezuka’s manga Barbara into a live action movie, Tezuka’s Barbara. Osamu Tezuka wrote the provocative and mature Barbara in the 70s, when his son was a child. “I think …Read more »
Osamu Tezuka’s Eisner-nominated manga Barbara, which is available in English through Digital Manga Publishing, is getting a live action adaptation. The movie opens in Japan next month, and a trailer has been released. The movie was directed by Osamu’s son, Macoto Tezka. Christopher Doyle is …Read more »
It was surely only a matter of time, but god of manga Osamu Tezuka is being conducted into the Harvey Awards graphic novel Hall of Fame. Macoto Tezuka, Representative Director of the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Foundation, gave a lengthy statement. “We the family of Osamu …Read more »
Video game company Capcom, creator of the Street Fighter franchise, has an agreement with Tezuka Productions for Capcom vs. Osamu Tezuka Characters. But instead of fighting it out digitally, as the name implies, they’re working with each other for a special event at the Osamu …Read more »
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