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)
GenreScience fiction[1]
Manga
Written by
Illustrated byTetsurō Kasahara
Published byHero's Inc.
English publisher
ImprintHero's Comics
Magazine
  • Monthly Hero's (December 1, 2014 – October 30, 2020)
  • Comiplex (November 27, 2020 – present)
DemographicSeinen
Original runDecember 1, 2014 – present
Volumes21
Anime television series
Directed by
Produced by
  • Naohiko Furuichi
  • Fuminori Yamazaki
  • Kazuaki Takahashi
  • Mariko Satō
  • Isamu Yoshikuni
  • Masato Ishiwatari
  • Shinichi Nakatsuka
  • Nobuko Irie
Written byJunichi Fujisaku
Music byNoriyuki Asakura
Studio
Licensed by
Original networkNHK G
Original run April 15, 2017 July 8, 2017
Episodes12

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.

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