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Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd. (株式会社手塚プロダクション,Kabushiki-gaisha Tezuka Purodakushon) is a Japanese mass media company founded byOsamu Tezuka in 1968, based inShinjuku, Tokyo. The company is known for managing, supervising and licensing the intellectual property of Tezuka's works through various business areas such as publishing, animation, films, toys, video games among others. Aside from its licensing business, the company also handles an animation studio in Tezuka's former studio office inNiiza, Saitama and has produced notable works such asMarvelous Melmo, the1980 and2003Astro Boy series, andBlack Jack among others.
In 1961, Osamu Tezuka establishedOsamu Tezuka Mushi Production as a video and animation production unit. It was officially incorporated asMushi Productions, the following year.[3] Tezuka served as acting director of the company until 1968, when he left to start another animation studio, Tezuka Productions Co., Ltd., as a spun-off division ofMushi Productions dedicated to manga production and copyright management.[3]
In 1970, Tezuka moved the headquarters of Tezuka Productions to the second and third floors of a cafe business across fromFujimidai Station inNerima.[4] The second floor was reserved for employee offices and production assistants, while the third floor was Tezuka's own workspace and office.[4] For the first few years, the studio took sub-contracted animation work from Mushi Production, which included a variety of animated shorts and a full television series,Fushigi na Merumo (Marvelous Melmo), which was broadcast byTBS for 26 episodes from October 1971 to March 1972.[5][6] After Mushi Production filed for bankruptcy in 1973, Tezuka Productions took on animation production full-time along with its manga and copyright businesses and began growing rapidly as an animation studio.[5] In 1976, Tezuka Productions relocated again to theTakadanobaba Seven Building (高田馬場のセブンビル,Takadanobaba no Sebun Biru) inTakadanobaba, Shinjuku.[4]
From 1980 to 1981, Tezuka Productions produced a remake forAstro Boy that ran for 52 episodes onNippon Television. Tezuka had been dissatisfied with the firstAstro Boy series produced at Mushi Production, and had wanted to create a remake for the series since 1974.[7]
In 2007, Tezuka Productions began a multi-year project to digitize and color all of Tezuka's published manga series, comprising over 150,000 pages.[8] Tezuka's former personal assistants reproduced the color charts that they originally used for all-color pieces while Tezuka was still producing series, in order to ensure that the new coloring process remained faithful to the colors used in Tezuka's time.[8]
In 2008, Tezuka's son, Makoto, announced that he would completeLegend of the Forest, his father's final unfinished work, at Tezuka Productions.[9] The film was completed in 2014, premiering at the 2014 Hiroshima International Animation Festival in August, and in North America at the Japan Society in New York City on February 21, 2015.[10][11]
