ATOM

It's time for an epic fight at the World Robot Battling championship! The high-tech U-Ran will lose control and face down Six's deadly rival Mars in this epic prequel to Osamu Tezuka's Astroboy! This epic series is perfect for fans of mecha anime and manga!

ATOM Volume 7 continues the amazing story of the prequel to Astro Boy, created by manga legend Osamu Tezuka!

At the first ever World Robot Battling tournament, the entrants compete to be declared the most powerful in the world! U-Ran dominates the competition but when she gets out of control Mars, Six's eternal rival, shows up to calm things down!

Series Overview: ATOM: The Beginning is an ongoing manga series that's presented as a prequel to the renamed Astro Boy series by Osamu Tezuka, one of the most important people in manga history. It's written by Masami Yuuki and drawn by Tetsuro Kasahara, with supervision by Makoto Tezuka (Osamu Tezuka's son) and Tezuka Productions. It started its serialisation in 2014 and had an anime adaptation in 2017.

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.

About the Illustrator

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.