About Astro Boy
This system is built from the printed page of Tetsuwan Atomu, the manga Osamu Tezuka serialised in Kobunsha's Shōnen magazine from 1952 to 1968. The ground is white paper. Everything else is black brush ink and the 60% benday dot that does all of the shading.
Colour appears only where the character is coloured: vermilion boots, a teal waistband, warm skin. Layouts read as a spread of panels with hard gutters, and the occasional figure breaks through a border.
- Origin
- Tokyo, Japan
- Era
- 1952–1968 manga serial in Shōnen; TV series premiered 1 January 1963; colour remake 1980
- Key figures
- Osamu Tezuka · Fred Ladd
- Movements
- Postwar story manga · Limited-animation TV anime · Shōnen serial publishing
Astro Boy design spec
Colors
Background
Surface
Primary
Secondary
Accent
Text
Typography
Dela Gothic OneHeadings
Noto Sans JPBody
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