Kasahara (Ride Back) launched Atom The Beginning in the magazine in December 2014 as a prequel of Osamu Tezuka’s Astro Boy manga.
Rakuten’s Infoseek news website and the Anime! Anime! news website both briefly published an article on Saturday that listed the staff and spring 2017 premiere on NHK for the anime adaptation of Tetsuro Kasahara’s Atom the Beginning manga.
While the URLs for both sites now link to a different news article, caches of both articles with the Atom the Beginning information are still available.
Tezuka’s son Makoto Tezuka handles the editorial supervision of the manga, and the series is in collaboration with Tezuka Productions.