The combined 23 tankōbon volumes have sold over 100 million copies worldwide, making it Tezuka's best-selling manga and one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Īstro Boy is one of the most successful manga and anime franchises in the world and has become Tezuka's most famous creation. By 2004, the franchise had generated $3 billion in merchandise sales. The series was also among the first to embrace mass merchandise including action figures, collectible figurines, food products, clothing, stamps and trading cards. The success of the manga and anime series led it to becoming a major media franchise consisting of films including a major motion picture, a number of soundtracks and a library of video games. In March 2015, a trailer was released announcing a new animated series. An American computer-animated film based on the original manga series by Tezuka was released on October 23, 2009. In November 2007, he was named Japan's envoy for overseas safety. After enjoying success abroad, Astro Boy was remade in the 1980s as New Mighty Atom, known as Astroboy in other countries, and again in 2003. The manga was originally produced for TV as Astro Boy, the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime. Īstro Boy has been adapted into three anime series produced respectively by the first incarnation of Mushi Production and its direct successor Tezuka Productions, with a fourth in development. Astro becomes a surrogate son to Ochanomizu who creates a robotic family for Astro and helps him to live a normal life like an average human boy, while accompanying him on adventures. Eventually, Astro is sold to a robot circus run by Hamegg, but is saved from his servitude by Professor Ochanomizu. The story follows Astro Boy, an android young boy with human emotions who is created by Umataro Tenma after the recent death of his son Tobio. Dark Horse Comics published an English translation in 2002. The 112 chapters were collected into 23 tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. It was serialized in Kobunsha's Shōnen from 1952 to 1968. 'Iron-Armed Atom'), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. Go Astro Boy Go! (2019 French/Japanese animated series)Īstro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Mighty Atom ( Japanese: 鉄腕アトム, Hepburn: Tetsuwan-Atomu, lit.Astro Boy (2009 Hong Kong-American CGI animated film).The Original Astro Boy (1987 American comic book series).

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