Co-produced by Mediawan, a heavyweight in audiovisual production, and Shibuya Productions, this series entitled "Astro Boy Reboot" will have 52 episodes of 26 minutes.
It will be directed by Thomas Astruc, creator of another hit animated series, "Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir."
The announcement was made as part of the Annecy International Animation Film Festival, which runs until Saturday.
"I do not have the words to express how much Osamu Tezuka has influenced my life and my work. Astro Boy is a cult series that anticipated the future like no other work did", rejoiced Thomas Astruc in the production press release.
"Astro Boy" (or in French "Astro, the little robot") is the most famous work of Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) and a manga classic.
Created at the beginning of the 1950s, this series has as its hero a small rectifying robot with a child's physique, big laughing eyes, brown powder puff and red boots capable of transforming into reactors.
Astro was the subject of several television cartoon series beginning in the 1960s, one of which aired worldwide in the 1980s.
In 2018, an extremely rare board of "Astro Boy" was sold at auction in Paris for the record price of 269,400 euros, five times the estimated amount.
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