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Variety: Astro Boy Gets 3DCG Reboot Series by Miraculous Ladybug Creator
posted on by Alex Mateo
Entertainment news website Variety reported on Thursday that Tezuka Productions.
The series is slated for 52 half-hour episodes. The episodes will cover modern topics such as Internet, social media, and damage to the environment.
The reboot is planned to have a pool of animators from around the world, including Japan and .
Tezuka's Astro Boy manga inspired Japan's first full-fledged half-hour television anime series in 1963, followed by a color television series in 1980 and a remake (pictured right) in 2003.
In 1963, the Fred Ladd re-edited and re-dubbed the Tetsuwan Atom anime, based on Tezuka's manga, into Astro Boy. This was the first anime to air in North America.
The French-Japanese animated spin-off series created a television animation project in 2014.
Source: Variety (Elsa Keslassy)
