My Top Ten Anime Features – In Conclusion
For the last six columns, I have listed what I admit are my 15 favorite Japanese anime features, as distinct from trying to figure out what the 15 “Best” might…
Tag Archives: Osamu Tezuka
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #8: ‘Border Planets: Galactic Exploration 2100′
Border Planets: Galaxy Investigation 2100. Ginga Tansa 2100 Toshi: Border Planet. August 24, 1986. 73 minutes. 10:00 p.m. to 11:35 p.m. Original idea: Osamu Tezuka. Development: Osamu Uemura, Iuchi Shuji,…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #7: “The Three-Eyed One: The Prince of Devil Island”
The 8th annual Love Will Save the Earth TV Special – the 7th with Tezuka involvement – is one of the oddest of them all! Akuma Shima no Prince –…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #6: “Baghi: The Monster of Mighty Nature”
Continuing our survey of the Tezuka Pro TV Specials of 1978-1989 with one of particular interest to those in “furry” fandom. Baghi: The Monster of Mighty Nature. Daishizen no Majū…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #5: “Primrose: A Time Slip of 10,000 Years”
We resume our survey of the Tezuka Pro TV Specials of 1978-1989 with the one based on Tezuka’s Prime Rose manga series. Time Slip Ichimannen Prime Rose. Primrose: A Time…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #4: ‘Bremen 4: Angels in Hell’ (1981)
Bremen 4 – Jigoku no Naka no Tenshi-tachi. Bremen Four: Angels in Hell. August 23, 1981. 90 minutes, in the usual 10:00 p.m. to midnight time slot. The credits say:…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #3: “Fumoon” (1980)
We resume our survey of the Tezuka Pro TV Specials of 1978-1989 with the one based on the epic manga, Nextworld. Fumoon. August 21, 1980. 91 minutes, in a two-hour…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials #2: “Marine Express”
We resume our survey of the Tezuka Pro TV Specials of 1978-1989 with the star-studded Marine Express. Kaitei Choutokkyuu Marin Ekusupuresu. (Marine Express: Undersea Super Train). August 26, 1979. 91…
The Tezuka Pro TV Specials, 1978-1989 #1 – Bander’s Book
1. The background and Bander’s Book. A note (or warning): I have previously described how, when Dr. Tezuka showed Bander Book at the C/FO meeting in December 1978, I told…
Animated “Treasure Islands” 1922 to 1980
One of the things that the early C/FO in the late 1970s noted about anime was that the Japanese animation industry seemed to love Robert Louis Stevenson’s boys’ adventure novel…
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