Atom The Beginning (Manga Discussion)
Official website
「アトム ザ・ビギニング」PV (First promo video)
Official Twitter account
Anime News Network article (leak)
Anime News Network article (reveal)
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It is official. Articles that were briefly published on Infoseek and AnimeAnime.jp revealed that the Atom The Beginning anime is set to be released in the Spring of 2017 on NHK.
Here is some of the confirmed staff:
- Original Work: Osamu Tezuka
- Project Planning Cooperation and Supervision: Makoto Tezuka
- Concept Works: Masami Yuuki (Patlabor franchise, Birdy the Mighty)
- Cooperation: Tezuka Productions
- Chief Director: Katsuyuki Motohiro (Psycho-Pass, live-action Ajin film)
- Director: Tatsuo Sato (Bodacious Space Pirates, Martian Successor Nadesico)
- Series Composition: Jun'ichi Fujisaku (Blood+, Appleseed XIII)
- Animation Production: OLM, Production I.G, Signal.MD
- Character Design: Takahiro Yoshimatsu (Trigun, Basquash!)
- Mechanical Design: Shinobu Tsuneki, Yoshihiro Ishimoto, Shinichi Miyazaki
- Prop Design: Mebara, Asuna Imahashi, Taiyō Yoshida
- Chief Animation Director: Hideki Ito
- Color Key: Miho Tanaka
- Art: Hiroshi Katō
- 3DCG Director: Takaaki Sugano
- Monitor Graphics: Takashi Aoki
- Special Effects: Masahiro Murakami
- Director of Photography: Teppei Satō
- Editing: Yūki Honda
- Sound Director: Yoshikazu Iwanami
- Music: Noriyuki Asakura