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Astro Boy was Japan's first weekly animated series

Osamu Tezuka's studio used limited animation to keep up the schedule Astro Boy began broadcasting in Japan on 1 January 1963 and was made by Osamu Tezuka's Mushi Production. To produce an episode every week the studio reused cels, held frames and moved only parts of the image, a style that became characteristic of anime. The show was later sold to American television. It sits in Mondo's movies & tv collection, one of 200 facts that each trace back to the reference below.

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Where does this come from, and can I check it?: Osamu Tezuka's studio used limited animation to keep up the schedule. The figure is taken from NHK, which is linked in full on this page. Every fact on Mondo Knows names its source rather than repeating an unsourced claim.
Is this really a movies & tv fact?: Yes. It sits on the Movies & TV shelf, one of 2,600 sourced facts grouped into space, animals, the human body, history, science and more. Category pages collect every fact in the same field.
What else can I read about it?: The links under the fact point to a quiz, game, puzzle or calculator on the same subject, and the shelf below shows related facts. The wording here is original, and quoted phrases are marked as quotations.