Offering another anime simulcast exclusively via Anime Strike (the on-demand anime subscription service from Amazon Channels), North American anime publisher have confirmed that Atom the Beginning will be available exclusively through the service. Based on the original work of Tetsuro Kasahara, Atom the Beginning is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka’s manga The Mighty Atom. While exclusively available in the US through Anime Strike, Sentai Filmworks do plan to offer a home video release in the future.
Atom the Beginning has Katsuyuki Motohiro (Psycho-Pass, Ajin) acting as Chief Director, with Tatsuo Sato (Bodacious Space Pirates, Lagrange – The Flower of Rin-ne) as Director. Animation is being handled by Production I.G. (Haikyu!!, Kuroko’s Basketball, Joker Game).
Episodes of Atom the Beginning are set to begin airing in Japan this week.
About Atom the Beginning
After a great calamity in Japan, the world needed a hero: but did this hero need to be a god? Or a friend? Two young geniuses, Umataro Tenma and Hiroshi Ochanomizu, have labored extensively to create a powerful artificial intelligence to protect the future. The result of their collaboration was a robot, A106. In this previously untold story, Tenma and Ochanomizu lay the groundwork leading up to the birth of an android that would later change the world.
