Shogakukan To Publish Osamu Tezuka’s Notebooks

Ishaan Sahdev

Published: Nov 6, 2010 03:00 pm

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Following Osamu Tezuka’s passing, 75 handwritten notebooks were discovered at his home in Tokyo in 1993 and 1994. These were discovered to contain early story concepts, drafts, and sketches for a variety of Tezuka’s works, such as Jungle Emperor, Metropolis, Nextworld, and other stories between 1948 to 1959.

10 of these 75 notebooks will be published in Shogakukan Creative’s December publication on December 24th in Japan, as reported by Anime News Network. This will be the first time Tezuka’s drafts have been made available to the public in such large numbers.

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Ishaan Sahdev

Ishaan specializes in game design/sales analysis. He's the former managing editor of Siliconera and wrote the book "The Legend of Zelda - A Complete Development History". He also used to moonlight as a professional manga editor. These days, his day job has nothing to do with games, but the two inform each other nonetheless.