Big X

Big X
Cover of Big X volume 1 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition
ビッグX
(Biggu X)
GenreAction
Manga
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byShueisha
MagazineShōnen Book
DemographicShōnen
Original runNovember 1963February 1966[1]
Volumes4[2]
Anime television series
Directed byMitsutero Okamoto
Osamu Dezaki
Produced bySaburō Gōda
Yutaka Fujioka
Written byJirō Tsunoda
Moribi Murano
Tadashi Hirose
Music byIsao Tomita
StudioTokyo Movie
Original networkTBS
Original run 3 August 1964 27 September 1965
Episodes59

Big X (ビッグX, Biggu Ekkusu) is a science fiction manga series and an anime series by Osamu Tezuka, based on actual experiments conducted by the Nazis to create secret weapons toward the end of World War II. The anime, which was Tokyo Movie's first work, is considered lost, with only episodes 1, 11-12, 14, and 40-59 known to survive.[3]

  1. ^ "Big X". Tezuka Osamu @World. Archived from the original on October 9, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  2. ^ "Big X list". Tezuka Osamu @World. Archived from the original on February 24, 2008. Retrieved December 26, 2021.
  3. ^ "Lost TV Anime". cartoonresearch.com. 2015-05-02. Retrieved 2021-10-03.