About

Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫) was born on November 3, 1928 to Yutaka (father) and Fumiko (mother) Tezuka. Although he was born in Toyonaka, a city near Osaka, the family soon moved to Takarazuka City, Hyogo - the home of the famous Takarazuka Revue.

Osamu Tezuka's love of animation as an art form ran deep, and right from the very beginning he knew that he wanted to push the artistic boundaries as much or more so than the commercial ones.

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Osamu Tezuka’s relationship with animation was a complex one.

At one end of the spectrum, he is, at least in regards to his career in anime, arguably most famous for his work on his many animated television programs.  On the other, Tezuka was equally enchanted with the idea of pushing the artistic boundaries of animation through his experimental animation short films.  However between those two ends of the spectrum, almost exactly in the middle, sit Tezuka’s animated feature films.

For Osamu Tezuka the “holy grail” of animation was always to be able to produce full-length animated films for theatrical release.  … Read the rest

With the success of his early animated weekly television programs, Tezuka decided to set his sights on a longer, higher quality television animation projects.

Osamu Tezuka is well-known as being the “father of Japanese television animation”. When he first decided to try his hand at animation, he decided to do something that had never been tried in Japan – a weekly television anime series.

Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), the "God of Manga", was arguably the greatest manga/anime artist of the 20th Century, and had it not been for him, Japanese anime and manga would not be what they are today. Although best known (especially outside Japan) as the creator of Astro Boy, the "boy robot with 100,000 horsepower", he was instrumental in developing (if not outright creating) nearly every genre of manga in existence today.