Tezuka: God of Manga Documentary Explores Osamu Tezuka’s Iconic Legacy

If there's a Mt. Rushmore of manga artists, past Osamu Tezuka decidedly belongs connected it. Tezuka, creator of Astro Boy, Buddha, and Kimba the White Lion, is often referred to arsenic "the deity of manga" and compared to Walt Disney. It lone makes consciousness that this acclaimed creator and animator would beryllium the taxable of a documentary fittingly titled TEZUKA! God of Manga.

TEZUKA! God of Manga is simply a feature-length documentary from manager Jason Andrew Cohn (No Straight Lines: The Rise of Queer Comics) and accumulation institution Bread & Butter Films. You tin cheque retired a trailer for the movie connected YouTube.

The movie traces Tezuka's postwar beingness and career, arsenic good arsenic his lasting interaction connected the amusement world. It features interviews with manga artists, animators, scholars, and filmmakers similar Katsuhiro Otomo (Akira), Riyoko Ikeda (Rose of Versaille), Naoki Urasawa (Monster), Go Nagai (Devilman), Toshiyuki Tomino (Gundam), MADHOUSE co-founder and anime shaper Masao Maruyama (Tokyo Godfathers), anime manager Rintaro (Metropolis), Ada Palmer (Too Like the Lightning), Samuel Sattin (Unico Awakening), Jorge R. Gutierrez (The Book of Life), Helen McCarthy (The Art of Osamu Tezuka), Natsu Onoda Power (God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the instauration of post-World War II Manga), and Fred Schodt (Manga! Manga!). Once funded, the task volition adhd further interviews with Paul Pope (THB) and Ron Wimberly (Prince of Cats).

“TEZUKA! God of Manga celebrates Tezuka-sensei arsenic a preposterously prolific, enigmatic creator who everlastingly altered fashionable civilization by introducing young readers to a brand-new, DIY mean that rocketed astir the world,” said Cohn successful a statement. “The originative cross-fertilization betwixt artists successful Japan and the remainder of the satellite made Tezuka 1 of the astir beloved and influential artists of the 20th century. TEZUKA! God of Manga is simply a moving, immersive, and visually stunning romp done comics history. This movie volition observe his bequest and present his unthinkable creations to a caller generation.”

TEZUKA! God of Manga is presently being crowdfunded connected Kickstarter.

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