Astro Boy was serialized by manga artist Osamu Tezuka in magazines such as shonen magazines in 1952. "Astro Boy" became the first truly Japanese domestic TV anime series and the world's earliest animated series. During the four-year broadcast period, it set an unprecedented high rating and rolled up a huge upsurge.
This smart, brave, and righteous little robot doll is almost loved by everyone. The feature-length story series, along with the later animated version of the same name, was broadcast on television for 13 years. Astro Boy also changed some people's prejudices about comic strips, and parents who previously thought that children's comic strips would affect their studies or even be adversely affected, began to encourage their children to watch comic strips. As a result, Osamu Tezuka's position in the Japanese comic strip world is no match for him.
A tribute to Astro Boy, but also to Osamu Tezuka, and to every piece of the original memory at the beginning of the tunnel of life. Also qualified to be placed in the same position are great works such as "The Forest Emperor" and "Galaxy Railway 999". Their greatness lies in the fact that a child is exposed to a real world that cannot be mastered, while having the luxury of having another fantasy paradise. When children feel the gray walls of the world and the repressed emotions of adults for the first time, they need to rely on the flight of Astro Boy in the sky to save themselves. Compared with modern cartoons, the production of cartoons at that time was much rougher, and it did not have any adult elements, simple, simple, and completely child's world. The feeling of watching "Astro Boy", then "dazzling" is the most appropriate. First of all, it was the earliest animated film series at that time, second, its characters and stories shocked the children and adults at that time, and third, it opened up the situation in which Japanese animation has been prosperous in the country for several years, since then, "Smart One Break", "Forest Land", "Nils Rides a Goose", "Flower Fairy", "Maya Adventure", "Smurfs"... The hits are out of control.
Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) was born in Osaka, Japan, whose real name is Osamu Tezuka, and began writing manga in middle school. In 1946, Tezuka was recruited to join the animation company, but was rated as "unfit for the animation industry" without success. The following year, Osamu Tezuka began his manga serialization career in the Mainichi Elementary School News, and has since embarked on a long journey. In 1947, Tezuka published his first heavyweight work: "New Treasure Island". In 1952, "Astro Boy" came out and caused a sensation in Japan. He succeeded in changing the prejudice of the Japanese people that manga was "childish". Astro Boy manga and later anime were intermittently serialized for 13 years, and Osamu Tezuka established himself in the Japanese manga industry with a small robot doll.
Osamu Tezuka was a great dreamer who gave Japanese manga a strong personality and a strong regional cultural color, and led the Japanese manga industry to gradually think deeply, and since then it has drawn a clear line with the superhuman manga of "Tall And Complete" in Europe and the United States. Tezuka not only fulfilled his mission as an animator strictly, he also left behind future generations of painters. He has always focused on cultivating the strength of Japanese manga successors and insisted on hosting the manga awards of the same name. Many well-known painters, such as Hojoji, began by winning this award and embarked on their own creative path. It is no exaggeration to say that Osamu Tezuka is not only the father of the robot doll Astro Boy, but also the originator of modern animation throughout Japan.