{"product_id":"astro-boy-kodansha-manga-bunko-complete-set-volumes-1-to-13-osamu-tezuka-japanese-edition-1672","title":"Astro Boy, Kodansha Manga Bunko Complete Set, Volumes 1 to 13, Japanese","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe complete Astro Boy, in thirteen pocket volumes, from Kodansha’s Manga Bunko library, in the original Japanese. The edition gathers Osamu Tezuka’s full run of the stories, first drawn for the page from 1952, in a compact A6 paperback format issued across 2002, with the thirteenth and final volume dated December of that year. Each volume is a small pocket paperback of the kind Kodansha used for this library, about 15 cm tall, designed to be read and kept rather than displayed behind glass. Kodansha published no further volumes in this library after the thirteenth; the set is complete as issued. The set offered here is a used, complete run of volumes 1 to 13, and will be packed as such.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA stock photograph of the edition is shown, only to identify the edition. It is not a record of the particular copies that will be sent. Those copies are used volumes of the same Kodansha Manga Bunko edition; they are listed with no conspicuous marks or soiling, but wear, fading and the presence or absence of paper obi bands will vary from volume to volume. The spines of this edition are a uniform blue, lettered in silver, with the Japanese title, the volume number and Tezuka’s name; the first volume shows Astro Boy on the cover under the English line Mighty Atom.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCondition is Very Good, as a used complete set of this kind, with the reservation that the individual volumes have not been photographed here. The books are offered as a reading set in the original language, not as a mint, banded collector’s run. Anyone seeking unused copies, or copies that still wear their paper bands, should look elsewhere.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTezuka first drew the boy robot in 1952 and brought him to television in 1963, the series that set the pattern for Japanese animation. In the original story he is switched on for the first time on 7 April 2003. This bunko library appeared in the year before that date, and it remains one of the most practical ways to own the whole saga in Japanese, in a size that sits on a shelf of ordinary depth. The text is Japanese throughout; these are not the English-language editions.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePacked for dispatch at 25 × 20 × 15 cm, 4 kg.\u003c\/p\u003e\n","brand":"Kodansha","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54492872311077,"sku":"JP-CL-G1208651672","price":280.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0758\/8829\/6229\/files\/l2-g1208651672-1.jpg?v=1794754046","url":"https:\/\/japonista.com\/de\/products\/astro-boy-kodansha-manga-bunko-complete-set-volumes-1-to-13-osamu-tezuka-japanese-edition-1672","provider":"Japonista","version":"1.0","type":"link"}