Ten-Minute Buddha 2 Trailer

Crunchy Roll just confirmed that they will be streaming Tezuka’s Black Jack TV series, for free. “BLACK JACK was directed by Makoto Tezuka (Osamu Tezuka’s son) and is considered one of the top three most famous manga titles by the world famous manga-ka and anime producer that won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for the … Continued

The 28th of May saw the theatrical release of the anime version of Tezuka Osamu’s Buddha in Japan. Five years in the making, the film is part of a trilogy based on Tezuka’s epic eight volume manga Buddha. It tells the life story of Siddhartha Gautama, an Indian Prince in the 5th Century BC who … Continued

Ed Chavez, the marketing director of the North American manga publisher Vertical, reports that the Weekly Astro Boy Magazine application for the Apple iPhone and iPod touch mobile devices will be available in Europe in English and French in the summer of 2010. The application with weekly installments of titles from manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka … Continued

Manga Entertainment is streaming the 1980-1981 Astro Boy (Mighty Atom) anime series on the YouTube video website, and the Crackle channel began streaming the 2003-2004 Astro Boy television anime series on the same site this past week. Both are remakes of the original 1963-1966 Astro Boy television anime, which in turn was an adaptation of … Continued

The Daily Sports newspaper reports on Thursday that ravex, a new musical unit attached to the Avex label, will ship a special 18-minute Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom/Mighty Atom) anime short with its debut album, trax, at the end of April. Tezuka Production is collaborating on this anime based on the robot boy created by the … Continued