(From the BOOK Database)
On April 7, 2003, Atom the “Astro Boy” was born. And on that day, the world was at war.... When Osamu Tezuka made a symbolic statement by depicting this un-woundable manga character as someone who bled real blood, postwar manga began. Why did Tezuka give a manga character a real body and heart, and why did Atom resist becoming an adult? A revolutionary critique that resolves the “Atom proposition” that has run through manga from the end of the war up to the present day.