Astro Boy
Great News. The popular anime is coming to us in CG/3D form. For those who don't know the franchise:
An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka will be screening in theatres on October 29, 2009. So, for all the "anime purist" hopefully you'll give it a chance when you see the Trailers.
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Astro Boy (????? ,Tetsuwan Atomu?, lit. "Mighty Atom") is a Japanese manga series and television program first broadcast in Japan from 1963 to 1966. The story follows the adventures of a fictional robot named Astro Boy and a selection of other characters along the way.
Astro Boy is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiarized as anime. It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the "god of manga". After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in the United States and other Western countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety
Astro Boy is the first Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiarized as anime. It originated as a manga in 1952 by Osamu Tezuka, who is often reputed as the "god of manga". After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as Shin Tetsuwan Atomu, known as Astroboy in the United States and other Western countries, and again in 2003. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety
An American computer-animated 3-D film based on the original manga series by Tezuka will be screening in theatres on October 29, 2009. So, for all the "anime purist" hopefully you'll give it a chance when you see the Trailers.
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