Salute Your Shorts is a weekly column that looks at short films, music videos, commercials or any other short form visual media that generally gets ignored. With Phil Mulloy’s films, it’s easy to see ...

Three draft storyboards created by manga maestro Osamu Tezuka, including two previously unreleased titles, have been discovered in storage at the animation studio he founded. Totaling 99 pages, the ...

Click to share on X (Opens in new window) X Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook It was Japan’s first animated TV series, setting the foundation for the entire anime industry.

Osamu Tezuka, CEO and president of leading Japanese media company and anime powerhouse Toei Company, has died. He was 62. No cause of death was provided for the executive, who is not related to the ...

For a brief decade-long period in animation history, between the late-1960s and late-1970s, feature animation filmmakers cast aside their inhibitions and created films that aimed to titillate and ...

As Mipcom’s 2016 country of honor, Japan has been selected for its “spirit of imagination.” And a big reason is the upcoming centennial of Japanese animation. The Japanimation industry has a long ...

Toshio Ban and Tezuka Productions, trans. from the Japanese by Frederik L. Schodt. Stone Bridge, $29.95 (914p) ISBN 978-1-61172-025-9 Osamu Tezuka (1928–1989), the “god of manga” and creator of such ...