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Ban and his partners have created a landmark guide to the life and accomplishments of a master."- Foreword Reviews this near 1,000-page biography of manga artist Osamu Tezuka will spark excitement and rabid consumption."- Library Journal Legendary manga scholar Schodt provides a first-rate translation.- Publisher's Weekly Captures its subject's tireless genius through WWII, the lean post war years, and the emergence of Japan as a superpower. This book is a necessary reference for Tezuka fans and a historical document providing insight into the philosophy, creation and manufacture of manga."- Shelf Awareness " The Osamu Tezuka Story offers a reverent and candid review of Tezuka, in a style that memorializes and mirrors his artistic sensibilities-conceptually rich landscapes, clean, complex lines and extreme attention to movement and expression.

entertaining, heartwarming, and quite sad in places, the warmth and charm that defined Tezuka's work has been captured here. Winner of the 2016 Foreword INDIES Award for Graphic Novels & Comic One of Publishers Weekly's Best Summer Books of 2016 He often served as Osamu Tezuka’s English interpreter and was a consultant on one of his animated features and a TV series. Schodt is a translator, conference interpreter, and award-winning author of books on Japanese history and pop culture. In the wake of Tezuka's death in 1989, it has continued as a family enterprise, responsible for the development, production, merchandising, licensing, and distribution of his many manga and anime creations, including books, films, and characters.įrederik L. , is the now-legendary company founded by Osamu Tezuka in 1968 to produce his own manga and anime. After working for a period as a free-lancer, he later re-joined Tezuka Productions in 1978 as the sub-chief of manga production for magazines, supporting Tezuka's creative work until the end. Toshio Ban joined Tezuka Productions in 1974 as one of Tezuka's assistants. A never-before-seen popular culture history of postwar Japan, it is sure to fascinate fans and anyone interested in manga, anime, and the potential of the graphic storytelling medium. It is also an anecdotal study of the evolution of Japan's early manga and anime business and its heroes. This graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka—Japan's "God of Manga"—looks at one of the twentieth century's great creative artists ( Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack ).