The Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize is a prestigious award handed out each year to manga artists that adhere to the type of approach the God of Manga applied to his own creations. Last year’s winner was Satoru Noda, who took the award home for his …Read more »
In the 1970s, Frederik L. Schodt was part of a group that wanted to translate manga and showcase it to the world. While manga’s international recognition was still to come, this led to him meeting Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy , Kimba the …Read more »
Even hardcore anime fans can be forgiven for not knowing of the existence of Osamu Tezuka’s Animerama. A trippy, LSD-bathed trilogy produced by the god of manga in the late 60s and early 70s, the Animerama films are definitely not kids’ stuff and have of …Read more »
Publisher Digital Manga launched its latest Kickstarter campaign , this time aiming to fund Osamu Tezuka's short story shoujo manga collection Storm Fairy . The Kickstarter has a goal of $14,200—it's already past the $10k mark at the time of this writing—and once it hits …Read more »
Anno and Hikawa speak at an earlier panel at TIFF. Acclaimed director Hideaki Anno of Evangelion fame held a special panel entitled, “Anno and Hikawa’s Collection of Showa TV Manga Openings” at movie theater Wald 9 in the Shinjuku district of Tokyo on November 8. …Read more »
For most fans with a casual knowledge of anime history (myself included), there’s a pretty massive gap in the chronology between the black-and-white debut of Tetsuwan Atom ( Astro Boy ) in 1963 and, say, the superhero team shows of the early 70s like Gatchaman …Read more »
If you want to know your manga history, you've got to start with Osamu Tezuka. The "god of manga," Tezuka created not only Astro Boy, Blackjack and a host of other iconic characters, he also pioneered the very system by which manga and anime are …Read more »
The tension is palpable in Pluto at this point, but somewhere in the thick miasma of suspense is a subtle hint of disappointment that it's all barreling toward a close. There may be two volumes left, but never before has the light at the end …Read more »
A quick word of warning: though I won't go into much detail, if any at all, by necessity there may be some aspects of this review that give away or hint at big moments from previous volumes. Anyone not at this point should just walk …Read more »
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