Atom: The Beginning

Atom: The Beginning
The cover of the first volume, featuring A106
アトム ザ・ビギニング (Atomu za Biginingu)
Genre	Science fiction[1]
Manga
Written by	Tezuka Productions (cooperation) Makoto Tezuka (supervision) Masami Yuki (concept works)
Illustrated by	Tetsurō Kasahara
Published by	Hero's Inc.
English publisher	NA/UK: Titan Publishing Group
Imprint	Hero's Comics
Magazine	Monthly Hero's (December 1, 2014 – October 30, 2020) Comiplex (November 27, 2020 – present)
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	December 1, 2014 – present
Volumes	21
Anime television series
Directed by	Katsuyuki Motohiro (chief) Tatsuo Satō
Produced by	Naohiko Furuichi Fuminori Yamazaki Kazuaki Takahashi Mariko Satō Isamu Yoshikuni Masato Ishiwatari Shinichi Nakatsuka Nobuko Irie
Written by	Junichi Fujisaku
Music by	Noriyuki Asakura
Studio	OLM Production I.G Signal.MD
Licensed by	NA: Sentai Filmworks
Original network	NHK G
Original run	April 15, 2017 – July 8, 2017
Episodes	12

Atom: The Beginning (Japanese: アトム ザ・ビギニング, Hepburn: Atomu za Biginingu) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tetsurō Kasahara, with writing contributions by Makoto Tezuka and Masami Yuki. It was serialized in Hero's Inc.'s Monthly Hero's magazine from December 2014 to December 2020 and transferred to Comiplex online website in November 2020. Its chapters have been collected in 21 tankōbon volumes as of September 2024. An anime television series adaptation aired from April to July 2017.

The manga is based on Osamu Tezuka's Astro Boy series and is initially set up as a prequel, depicting the events up until the birth of Astro Boy. However, as the story progresses, discrepancies with the main story of Astro Boy emerge, and it is later revealed to be a different world with a divergent history from that of Astro Boy after an incident in 1969.