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Our unplanned Osamu Tezuka January jag continues! Let's take a look at some offbeat merchandise from Tezuka-inspired anime series; particularly JUNGLE EMPEROR, which you know as KIMBA THE WHITE LION unless you know it as LEO THE LION. Which isn't actually the same show, but a sequel. The 1965 KIMBA series was the first color cartoon made expressly for Japanese television, and served as the

Note: a version of this review originally appeared in 2002 on the website Anime Jump. METROPOLIS is an animated version of a manga by Osamu Tezuka, with a script by Katsuhiro Otomo, directed by Rintaro. If those names don’t mean much to you, then this review won’t either. Oh, sure, you’ll enjoy this movie- which is a visually stunning, brilliantly directed animation spectacular with an engaging

Custom hand-painted Russian nesting dolls sporting your favorite Osamu Tezuka characters? Yeah, that's pretty cool. Painted by "hooverdam", whose handmade MLS banners have been seen in major league soccer events around the world. Happy 2011!