Osamu Tezuka

...in the history of anime and manga. Takarazuka is the home town of the great innovator of both of those media, Osamu Tezuka. As a child, Tezuka's mother often brought him to performances of the theatre group. He would go on to transform manga...

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...as being "nurtured on Grimm's Fairy Tales, encouraged by his parents, and inspired-like so many others of his generation-by Osamu Tezuka's groundbreaking postwar comics. " The mention of fairy tales is notable because of its resonance with...

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...field is named after him. His work, easpecially early on as in Cat-Eyed Boy, shows the strong influence of the "God of Manga" Osamu Tezuka. It's easy to see a similarity between the visual style of Tezuka's Astro Boy in the titular character...

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...humanist dialectic between compassion for humanity and outrage over the species sins. The Art of Osamu Tezuka features a DVD of NHK's Osamu Tezuka: Secrets of Creation documentary. During the feature, Tezuka is shown working in front of a...

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...Charlize Theron and Bill Nighy. Their names are all over the movie's website. But where's the name of Astro Boy's creator, Osamu Tezuka? You'd need a magnifying glass to find any mention. In her lavish new book The Art of Osamu Tezuka: God...

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...spending money are waiting to be tapped. Into this crowded agora comes David Bowers' Astro Boy, an animated feature based on Osamu Tezuka's 1951 manga series that spawned a TV cartoon series from the '60s. (I confess I never saw it,...

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...include Kristen Bell, Charlize Theron and Samuel L. Jackson. Director David Bowers (Shark Tale) bases this adaptation on Osamu Tezuka's 1951 Japanese manga and subsequent anime series. Rated: PG Synopsis: The torturous reign of terror...

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...lots of reasons for this, but I have to believe one of them is that it's simply impossible to improve upon Osamu Tezuka's original Astro Boy manga and animation. Tezuka is a legend overseas, though he's still not quite a household name...

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...the work below the waterline. Here she tells us why Tezuka is so important. 'Rally Up Mankind' Photo: OSAMU TEZUKA Osamu Tezuka in his studio, 1962 From The Phoenix saga, which appeared in COM from 1967-1968. Photo: OSAMU TEZUKA

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Astro Boy creator crafted a manga revolution OUTSIDE Japan, Osamu Tezuka is known as the manga artist who created Astro Boy, the cute young robot whose crime-fighting antics are popular across the world. He also has been labelled, in an...

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