It's been more than 50 years since Astro Boy made his debut as a peripheral character in the late Osamu Tezuka's comic strip Captain Atom. Influenced by the creations of Walt Disney, Tezuka created an extraordinarily vast body of work that has in turn influenced a legion of Japanese manga artists, like Shotaro Ishinomori (Cyborg 009) and Mitsuteru Yokoyama (Gigantor). While Tezuka's massive canon boasts such popular characters as Jungle Emperor Leo (aka Kimba the White Lion), Dororo (the subject of Sega's upcoming game Blood Will Tell), and Black Jack, as well as the source material for the modern anime masterpiece Metropolis, Astro Boy remains his defining character. How fitting then that Sega is primed to unleash not one, but two Astro Boy games: one for PlayStation 2, by Sonic Team; the other, a GBA collaboration between Sega's Hitmaker crew and the legendary development team Treasure.
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