| The Amazing 3 | |
 The cover of Wonder 3 volume 3 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition, featuring Bokko | |
| W3 (Wandā Surī) | |
|---|---|
| Genre | Science fiction |
| Created by | Osamu Tezuka |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Osamu Tezuka |
| Published by | Kodansha |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Magazine |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 21 March 1965[1] – 25 April 1965[2] |
| Manga | |
| Wonder 3 | |
| Written by | Osamu Tezuka |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | [3] |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Original run | 30 May 1965 – 8 May 1966 |
| Volumes | 3 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Taku Sugiyama |
| Produced by | Keijiro Kurokawa Tatsuo Ikeuchi |
| Music by | Seiichirō Uno |
| Studio | Mushi Productions |
| Original network | Fuji TV |
| English network |
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| Original run | 6 June 1965 – 27 June 1966 |
| Episodes | 52 |
The Amazing 3, or Wonder 3[3] (Japanese: W3, Hepburn: Wandā Surī, read as "Wonder Three"), is a Japanese comic series and a black-and-white Japanese animated television series created by Osamu Tezuka in the 1960s.[4] It involves the adventures of three agents from outer space who are sent to Earth to determine whether the planet, a potential threat to the universe, should be destroyed. Landing on Earth, the characters take the form of a rabbit, a horse, and a duck, and make friends with a young human boy.[5]
The series was first published in print format as manga in Japan in 1965, and then spawned an animated television version, with different stories. The latter was dubbed in English and broadcast in the United States with a different theme song, as well as different closing and opening elements, under the title The Amazing 3. The American version was also aired in Australia in 1969 and in Spanish-speaking countries as Los tres espaciales. The Japanese-language animated version was first released on DVD in 2002, and then a full 10-DVD set in 2005.
The series tackles a number of issues that were unusual in animated cartoons of that period: in particular, ecological concerns and poverty and racial diversity.
In 2017, a Kickstarter campaign for an English translation of the manga from Digital Manga made $82,137. The manga was released in 2020,[6] under the title Wonder 3.[3]
- ^ 週刊少年マガジン 1965年 表示号数13. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ 週刊少年マガジン 1965年 表示号数18. Media Arts Database (in Japanese). Agency for Cultural Affairs. Retrieved 9 April 2020.
- ^ a b c "Wonder 3 Omnibus – eManga". Digital Manga. Retrieved 24 July 2022.
- ^ Woolery, George W. (1983). Children's Television: The First Thirty-Five Years, 1946-1981. Scarecrow Press. pp. 17-18. ISBN 0-8108-1557-5. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
- ^ Erickson, Hal (2005). Television Cartoon Shows: An Illustrated Encyclopedia, 1949 Through 2003 (2nd ed.). McFarland & Co. p. 79. ISBN 978-1476665993.
- ^ "Digital Manga Cancels Release of 7 Bonus Osamu Tezuka Manga Originally Announced with Wonder 3 Kickstarter".