Ravex in Tezuka World is a 2009 18-minute anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 short film by Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese band Ravex

Ravex

Ravex is a Japanese electronic music group, consisting of Shinichi Osawa, Tomoyuki Tanaka and Taku Takahashi. Established to mark the 20th anniversary of the Avex label, their productions are usually based on collaborations with other artists on the label...

. It was featured in the album Trax

Trax (album)

is the debut album from Japanese electronic music group Ravex.-CD:# "I Rave U "# "Rock U feat. Namie Amuro"# "Just the Two of Us feat. Tohoshinki"# "House Nation feat. Lisa"# "Bangalicious feat. Anna Tsuchiya"# "Believe in Love feat. BoA"...

, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Avex as well as the 80th birthday of Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Tezuka

was a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, animator, producer, activist and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion and Black Jack...

.

Plot

As "another story" set after the end of the original manga, the plot starts after Astro

Astro Boy (character)

is a fictional character, and the main protagonist of the Astro Boy franchise. Created by Osamu Tezuka, the character was introduced in the 1951 Captain Atom manga...

 is found on a asteroid

Asteroid

Asteroids are a class of small Solar System bodies in orbit around the Sun. They have also been called planetoids, especially the larger ones...

 after his final act to save Earth (shown in the 1960s anime). The robot boy is rescued by the three members of Ravex, and he is miraculously revived by "Space Jack

Black Jack (character)

is a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka, introduced in Weekly Shōnen Champion on November 19, 1973.-Character:Black Jack is a medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cape, eerie black-and-white hair, and stitched-up scars worming...

". The newly revived robot is named "Ratom" - built by combining Rock with Astro, and equipped with the power of music.

Professor Ochanomizu

Professor Ochanomizu

is a fictional character in the anime and manga series Astro Boy, as well as all of its many adaptions, including the 1980s series, 2003 series, and the film. Created by Osamu Tezuka, the character has since appeared in many of his other works. He serves as a guardian to Astro, and sometimes also a...

 works with Space Jack to create the newly evolved Ratom.

Characters

A number of Tezuka characters

Osamu Tezuka's Star System

Over the course of his career, Osamu Tezuka reused the same characters in different roles in different stories. The way that Tezuka used the characters in his "star system" can be seen as somewhat analoguous to a film director frequently casting members of a regular "stable" of actors in different...

 appeared in the anime short:

Main:

• Astro Boy
• Rock Holmes
• Princess Sapphire
  Princess Knight
  is a Japanese manga that ran through four serializations from 1954 to 1968, as well as a 1967 Japanese children's animated series. It was dubbed into English and brought over to Western audiences in 1970, where it was called Choppy and the Princess. In 1973, this series was dubbed in Portuguese and...
  
  
• Ravex members (Shinichi Osawa, Taku Takahashi
  Taku Takahashi
  is a Japanese DJ and record producer, who debuted in 1998 as a member of the group M-Flo. The group rose to prominence in the early 2000s, with hit singles such as "How You Like Me Now?" and "Come Again." Takahashi was also a member of Avex's 20th anniversary dance music project Ravex, and has...
  
  , Tanaka Tomoyuki)

Supporting:

• Pinoko
• Tink
• Hyakkimaru
• Unico
  Unico
  is a manga and anime character by Osamu Tezuka. Unico is a baby unicorn with white fur, a pink mane, and little cinnamon bun-shaped ears, who was born with the very special gift of making all living creatures lighthearted and happy....
  
  
• Melmo
  Marvelous Melmo
  is a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered around Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers . While in Heaven the children's mother is given one wish...
  
  
• Black Jack (character)
  Black Jack (character)
  is a fictional character created by Osamu Tezuka, introduced in Weekly Shōnen Champion on November 19, 1973.-Character:Black Jack is a medical mercenary, selling his skills to the highest bidder. He is a shadowy figure, with a black cape, eerie black-and-white hair, and stitched-up scars worming...
  
  (known as "Space Jack")