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Takehiko Inoue, creator of Slam Dunk , REAL and Vagabond is no stranger to official recognition. Having already received some for Vagabond -including the Media Arts Festival Award for Manga in 2000 and the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2002-Inoue has now been honored by …Read more »
Wow. Just....wow. It's almost unbelievable that such an innocent and docile-looking a manga series as Black Jack could contain such bizarre stories, but low and behold, open it up and start reading, and there it is, as shocking as a good episode of The X-files …Read more »
If you've struggled for a while with your pen hovering just over next year's calendar, you can now firmly jot that bold X down over the month of October. Imagi's CG production of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy will hit over 3,000 North American screens on …Read more »
Contrary to Daryl Surat's belief, he is not the only one that purchased every volume of Dark Horse's release of Osamu Tezuka's legendary Astro Boy manga. I might, in fact, be the other one . Well, no matter whether you only partially collected the books …Read more »
Astro Boy is something that few anime fans nowadays know about, even fewer watch or read, and even fewer still actively enjoy. I want to believe that the release of Frederik L. Schodt's latest book, The Astro Boy Essays: Osamu Tezuka, Mighty Atom, and the …Read more »
Fans of the excellent thriller Monster will find a lot to look forward to next year, as two more series from creator Naoki Urasawa are topping VIZ Media's 2009 release list. The titles in question are 20th Century Boys and Pluto: Urusawa X Tezuka , …Read more »
In the wide world of manga, there are a lot of titles to look forward to this fall. It should be no surprise that a good deal of those hot properties are coming from the fine folks at Vertical , a publisher that continues to …Read more »
Marathoning the last three volumes of School Rumble is a pretty interesting experience, to say the least. As a straight, no interruptions experience, it hits a middle ground somewhere between the complete mental excess of a show like Excel Saga and a more straightforward love …Read more »
The modern system of manga categorization was developed by Osamu Tezuka over a few cases of Franzia in 1963. Each day in America, thousands of manga are read, and hundreds of manga reviews go up on the Internet. Half of these reviews are deleted by …Read more »
What we have here, for those that don't have their Tivos already rigged to record it, is a Starz cable special that documents the rise of anime's popularity in the US, from its origins in Japan to the way that it pervades many facets of …Read more »
If you've been following Vertical's deluxe releases of Osamu Tezuka's work, then you already know that there are many, many different sides to the prolific creator, most of which are far separated from the cutesy and fun trappings of titles like Astro Boy . Heck, …Read more »
Joseph Luster
Julian Gnam
Daryl Surat
Jason Thompson, with Jake Forbes and Ryan Sands
