Showings will focus on recent series including the 2003 TV adaptations of Black Jack, Phoenix and Astro Boy.

Motion manga are made by scanning manga images and showing them in a slideshow format with music and actors reading the dialogue. Many popular manga have been redone as motion manga in Japan including most Tezuka classics. This is the first English version of such a motion manga. They are commonly viewed on cell phones in Japan.

Brief trailer - more to come.

11/19/2008:

Tezuka's first published graphic novel has been out of print for many years due to his own dissatisfaction with the roughness of the original, but it will now finally be reprinted in Japanese, for its "historic value" according to spokesman.

• Tezuka Productions to post 700 Tezuka manga series online for free viewing
• Brief live action MW movie trailer streamed
• Interview with Fred Schodt discussing Tezuka, other matters
• The Official Tezuka Web Page has completely redone its layout and portal - the new version includes links to international publishers. Some info on how to navigate new site can be found here. Note: all old links to the English version of Tezuka@World do not work, including Uran on the right of this page. To reach the new Japanese page go directly to tezukaosamu.net There is no English version of the page at present but a new English version is in development.
• Astro Boy statue unveiled at Tezuka's old grade school

Astro Boy manga vols. 1 & 2 have been out of print for several years. This low-cost re release reproduces the original Dark Horse translation.

Late film project left unfinished at Tezuka's death in 1989.

Series will both begin in Feb 09, after Monster serialization ends.

Film project based on Tezuka's controversial dark shounen ai series will be centerpiece of 2008 80th anniversary celebrations.

Features scene of Ministry of Science lab with moving characters and a screen showing a variety of stills ranging from experimental films to shots from the upcoming MW film.

This will be DMP's first Tezuka release. Swallowing the Earth is a dark series similar to Vampires and Alabaster, focusing on the ice queen Zephyrus, seen in Black Jack as the Black Queen.

Director Hitoshi Iwamoto and the writing team which scripted the Death Note movies will work together on the film adaptation of the MW manga, one of Tezuka's darkest and most adult titles. No animated version exists.

Two of Vertical's US Tezuka releases were nominated, Apollo's Song for Best Archival Collection/Project and MW for Best U.S. Edition of International Material. Naoki Urasawa's Tezuka-inspired suspense series Monster received two nominations including Best Continuing Series. Vertical's edition of Buddha Eisners for Best U.S. Edition of Foreign Material in 2004 and 2005, as well as a 2005 Harvey for best American Edition of Foreign Material. More.

Writer of Moyashimon and artist of Pichi Pichi Pitch team up to produce remake manga Sapphire: Princess Knight. It will run in Kodansha's Nakayoshi Shoujo magazine, the same which ran the original.