It's been a long time coming, but now the original original Astro Boy adaptation is coming more or less intact to Japanese DVD. The show in question is a live-action drama that debuted four years prior to the legendary black & white anime, showcasing Mighty …Read more »
I came back home—returning to the shimmering grasses of Louisville, KY that put New Jersey's post-apocalyptic wasteland miserably to shame—for Memorial Day, and the first thing on my mind wasn't simple mental relaxation. Rather, having just read the first volume of Naoki Urasawa's Pluto , …Read more »
The collected tales of the greatest unlicensed surgeon in the world continue in the fifth volume of Osamu Tezuka's legendary Black Jack . The fourteen stories here take the eponymous doc from the halls of hospitals loaded with overblown, pompous directors to a cabin in …Read more »
February 2009 marked the 20th anniversary of the death of legendary storyteller Osamu Tezuka, who was known in Japan as the God of Manga and the Father of Anime, due to the fact that in each medium, he revolutionized the production process for efficiency and …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 »
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Jason Thompson, with Jake Forbes and Ryan Sands