Known worldwide as the godfather of both anime and manga, Osamu Tezuka’s cultural influence can never be over-stated. As pioneering as Walt Disney, and as prolific as Jack Kirby, his choices as a ...

Digital Media Rights (DMR), the New York-based distributor, has obtained North American rights to a range of anime titles linked to the revered Japanese artist Osamu Tezuka. The shows will debut on ...

Cancel those Rosetta Stone orders, anime fans! Dororo… has subtitles at last on Amazon Prime! And yes, it's much better when you can understand what they're saying. The story takes place in the ...

In the late 1960's, Osamu Tezuka — manga and anime visionary, as well as the creator of Astro Boy — helped create a 26 part serial for Japanese television called Vampire, in which a "vampire" (really ...

Three unknown storyboards apparently by Osamu Tezuka, dubbed the "god of manga," have been discovered at the original artwork repository of Tezuka Productions in the city of Niiza, Saitama Prefecture.

Director Takashi Miike hasn’t just oversaw countless movies in Japan, but has lent his talents to quite a few anime and manga adaptations during his career. These movies include JoJo’s Bizarre ...

In A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose, a powerful entity known as Death Mask hurls Kujukuri City, Japan, and Dallas, Texas, 10,000 years into the future, reshaping them into a ruthless ...

SAN FRANCISCO --The Asian Art Museum here isn't exactly what you'd call contemporary. Its last exhibit from Japan was of 18th-century screen paintings, and even that was considered pretty recent. But ...