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 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 –…
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…
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…
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:…
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…
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…
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…
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…
By the end of 1970 Osamu Tezuka was gone, leaving the wreckage of Mushi Productions behind him. It was no secret that Tezuka’s feature Cleopatra had doomed the studio; but…
