French firm Tanuko is taking pre-orders for a retail launch of “Love Saves the Earth”, an anthology Blu-ray Disc field set Osamu Tezuka‘s tv specials. The corporate had launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign for the set in July, however didn’t attain its aim.

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The field set accommodates the next anime:

The Blu-ray Discs will embrace English, French and Spanish subtitles. The collector’s field set options an outer packaging that resembles an ’80s tv set and particular person packaging for every Blu-ray Disc that resembles a VHS tape. It additionally features a ebook with the entire storyboard of the Submarine supertrain: Marine Specific anime, Philippe Bunel TEZUKANIMATION ebook, eight postcards that includes key paintings from every anime, and two lenticular playing cards for show within the collector’s field.

Tanuko launched a crowdfunding marketing campaign on Kiss Kiss Financial institution Financial institution for the set in July. The marketing campaign had a aim of 300 pre-orders and reached 137 pre-orders earlier than ending on August 9. The anticipated ship date for rewards was September 2024. Stretch objectives for the marketing campaign embrace a hardcover version for the TEZUKANIMATION ebook, a VCR-shaped design for the Submarine supertrain: Marine Specific storyboard ebook and polish choices, in addition to further embossing for the collector’s field.

Tezuka was a prolific manga artist who drew quite a few influential works, together with Astro boy, Jungle Emperor Leo, Black Jack, Princess Knight, DororoAnd Phoenix amongst many others. These works would encourage generations to return within the discipline of manga tales and artwork, incomes him the nickname ‘The God of Manga’. Equally essential is his founding of the Mushi manufacturing studio, the place he would direct the manufacturing of anime diversifications of a lot of his manga and different unique productions. Maybe crucial of those was Astro boyprimarily based on Tezuka’s manga, which turned Japan’s first half-hour animated collection. The present pioneered animation methods and manufacturing strategies that gave rise to the earliest aesthetics and types of tv anime.

Supply: Tanuko