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Shibuya Productions is a Monaco-based entertainment production company.
It is the organiser of the Monaco Anime Game International Conferences .
Shibuya Productions was co-founded by Cédric Biscay and Kostadin Yanev in July 2014. [1]
In 2015, Shibuya Productions announced a reboot of Astro Boy with Caribara Animation and Tezuka Productions. [2] [3]
In June 2015, during E3, Shibuya Productions announced Shenmue III [4] with YS net. They launched a Kickstarter crowdfunding in order to raise $2 million for the game's development and launch. The campaign successfully secured over $6,333,295 from 69,320 backers. [5]
In February 2016, Shibuya Productions announced Cobra: Return of Joe Gillian [6] a new Cobra series about Rugball. [7]
They produced the first Bulgarian animation feature: Lilly and the Magic Pearl, [8] directed by Anri Koulev, with the voice of Ben Cross.
In 2020, they worked on Twin Mirror . [9] They also worked the Activ5 fitness device. [10]
They produce the animated series Petz Club , broadcast on the French TV France 4.
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Astro Boy, known in Japan by its original name Mighty Atom, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. It was serialized in Kobunsha's Shōnen from 1952 to 1968. The 112 chapters were collected into 23 tankōbon volumes by Akita Shoten. Dark Horse Comics published an English translation in 2002. The story follows Astro Boy, an android young boy with human emotions who is created by Umataro Tenma after the recent death of his son Tobio. Eventually, Astro is sold to a robot circus run by Hamegg, but is saved from his servitude by Professor Ochanomizu. Astro becomes a surrogate son to Ochanomizu who creates a robotic family for Astro and helps him to live a normal life like an average human boy, while accompanying him on adventures.
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