Below, is an excerpt from The Osamu Tezuka Story, which Frederik L. Schodt translated and which is now available in English for the first time.
The Osamu Tezuka Story was published in English last month.
Originally published after Tezuka’s death, The Osamu Tezuka Story was created by his production company and Toshio Ban, one of his long-time collaborators.
But at one time, a weekly TV anime was seen as an impossibility in Japan.