Atom: The Beginning Vol. 9

The prequel series to the legendary Astro Boy manga and anime franchise by Osamu Tezuka continues with its 9th volume. When a malfunctioning robot connects to Six possibly fusing the two, Six must fight to maintain his identity. Fans of mecha fights and anime will find a perfect fit with this action-packed Manga!

After encountering a malfunctioning robot, Tenma and the gang decide to diagnose him by linking him to Six's mainframe. But when the two robots' minds start to fuse the team must do everything to save Six from losing his identity before it's too late!

Created by Masami Yuki and Tetsurō Kasahara, Volume 9 of ATOM: The Beginning inches closer to the iconic Osamu Tezuka creation, Astro Boy, an icon known across the world from the hugely successful manga and anime.

Author: Osamu Tezuka
Publisher: Titan Manga
Published: 10/22/2024
Pages: 208
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781787741041
ISBN10: 1787741044
BISAC Categories:
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Science Fiction | General
- Comics & Graphic Novels | East Asian Style | Manga | Mecha
- Comics & Graphic Novels | Action & Adventure

About the Author
Osamu Tezuka was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist, and animator whose revolutionary comics earned him the title of manga no kamisama ("God of Manga"). His body of work is one of the largest and most prolific in all of Japanese culture, and he produced several of the country's greatest drawn stories for both children and adults, including the iconic Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack, Dororo, Message to Adolf, and Princess Knight. Tezuka passed away in 1989.

Masami Yuuki is a manga artist and member of the artist group Headgear. He is most known for his celebrated manga series Mobile Police Patlabor, which has spawned many spin-offs and adaptations into anime, movies, live-action projects, novels, video games, and more.

Tetsuro Kasahara is a manga artist whose body of work revolves mostly around the robot and mecha genres. One of his most famous works, RideBack, was adapted into an anime in 2009. Now, he is focusing on ATOM: The Beginning, a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy.