We learned earlier this summer that one of the more recent Osamu Tezuka properties making the leap to anime was the January 2015 manga series Atom: The Beginning. Created by Tetsuroh Kasahara, it serves to tell the tale leading up to the events that most folks know as Astro Boy. The manga has three volumes out as of this summer since beginning its serialization in Heroes magazine. The manga itself has Tezuka’s son Makoto supervising the work and Kasahara has been illustrating it based on the original plans by Masami Yuuki.
The first promotional video has dropped for it now with the reveal of a spring 2017 debut for the show on NHK. The series has Katsyuki Motohiro as the chief director with Tatsuo Sato as the hands-on director working from the series composition by Junichi Fujisaku. It’s being animated by OLM, Production IG and Signal MD with Takahiro Yoshimatsu on character designs and Hideki Ito serv ing as the chief animation director.
Plot concept: The story tells the what happens up until the birth of Astro Boy.
Check out a promo for the release of the first volume below.
