The manga is a biography of Osamu Tezuka, covering Tezuka's life and career, and the evolution of the manga and anime industries in Japan.[1]
Production and release
The Osamu Tezuka Story was created by Tezuka Productions and Toshio Ban, who was one of Tezuka's assistants and the sub-chief of manga productions for magazines at Tezuka Productions.[2] The manga was serialized in the news magazine Asahi Graph of Asahi Shimbun Company following Tezuka's death from 1989 to 1992.[2][3] Asahi Shimbun collected the manga into two volumes in 1992, covering the time periods 1928–1959 and 1960–1989, respectively.[4][5]Kin no Hoshisha [ja] republished the manga in three volumes in 2009.[6] It was published in a single volume in North America on July 12, 2016, by Stone Bridge Press, with an English translation by Frederik L. Schodt.[1] The manga has also been published in France by Casterman in four volumes under the title Osamu Tezuka – Biographie.[7]
Reception
The Osamu Tezuka Story was nominated for the 2017 Eisner Award in the "Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia" category.[8]