ATOM

The Beginning Vol. 8

9781787740051
Titan Comics
Masami Yuuki, Osamu Tezuka, illustrated by Tetsuro Kasahara
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The hit manga prequel to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy continues! This epic series is perfect for fans of mecha anime and manga! A surprise visit from a family member ends with a tale of robots past...

ATOM Volume 8 is here, building up to the legendary story of Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy!

After the World Robot Battling Championship, Tenma and the team return home to repair Six and U-Ran. A surprise visit from Ochanomizu's grandfather results in a tale of a robot boy he knew in his youth.

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Contributor Bio

Tetsuro Kasahara is a manga artist whose body of work revolves mostly around the robot and mecha genres. One of his most famous works, RideBack, was adapted into an anime in 2009. Now, he is focusing on ATOM: The Beginning, a prequel to Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy.

Masami Yuuki is a manga artist and member of the artist group Headgear. He is most known for his celebrated manga series Mobile Police Patlabor, which has spawned many spin-offs and adaptations into anime, movies, live-action projects, novels, video games and more.

Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator whose revolutionary comics earned him the title of manga no kamisama ('God of Manga'). His body of work is one of the largest and most prolific in all of Japanese culture, including the iconic Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack, Dororo, Message to Adolf, and Princess Knight. Tezuka passed away in 1989.

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