A flyer from this year’s AnimeJapan 2017 event revealed on Thursday that the television anime adaptation of Tetsuro Kasahara’s Atom The Beginning manga will have 12 episodes.
Kasahara (Rideback) launched Atom The Beginning in Shogakukan’s Monthly Hero’s magazine in December 2014 as a prequel of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy manga.
Yoshino Nanjō will perform the ending theme song “Hikari no Hajimari” (The Beginning of Light).
The first episode will then stream on Amazon Prime Video in Japan at 1:30 a.m. on Sunday, April 16.