The series has Katsyuki Motohiro as the chief director with Tatsuo Sato as the hands-on director working from the series composition by Junichi Fujisaku.
Created by Tetsuroh Kasahara, it serves to tell the tale leading up to the events that most folks know as Astro Boy.
The manga itself has Tezuka’s son Makoto supervising the work and Kasahara has been illustrating it based on the original plans by Masami Yuuki.