On the heels of the Asian Art Museum's bold new retrospective of the work of Osamu Tezuka, Japan's "God of Manga," comes a new book by manga historian Frederik L. Schodt exploring the colorful life, ...

Astro Boy—the beloved '60s Japanese anime series—is launching on the big screen on October 23! Woo ... wait a minute. Haven't we been here before? The Technicolor hemorrhage that was Speed Racer ...

The smiling boy with the pointy hairdo flying into theaters today in David Bowers’ computer-generated film “Astro Boy” isn’t just a clever diversion for the kids. He’s got a storied past that helped ...

Animal Logic Entertainment and Japan’s Tezuka Productions will be teaming up to develop a live-action, sci-fi superhero feature film based on Osamu Tezuka’s comic book franchise. Known in Japan as ...

UC Irvine’s East Asian Collection celebrated its 30th anniversary in 2020 and has extended its exhibition programming honoring the anniversary through November 2021. A preview inside the largest ...

Animoca Brands is announcing two mobile games based on Astro Boy, a famous anime and manga cartoon series from Japan. For Hong Kong-based Animoca Brands, a spin-off from mobile-game maker Animoca, ...

Appropriately for a film about robots, efficiency is the primary virtue of “Astro Boy,” a well-oiled CG-animated superhero pic that makes up in competence and vitality what it lacks in originality.

Just about anyone vaguely interest in Japanese comics and animation knows about Astro Boy. This cybernetic little hero practically gave birth to both industries. Since debuting in 1952, Astro Boy has ...

Dr. Tenma, Director General of the Science Ministry, loses his son Tobio in an accident. He decides to create the robot Astro Boy, who looks just like Tobio, using the best of the Science Ministry's ...