From a senior of mine in the industry, I once heard that when Tezuka was working on the production of the Saiyūki (Alakazam the Great) animation feature, he reportedly advocated inserting an episode showing the hero monkey, Songokū, coming back and finding his girlfriend (also a monkey) dead. But there was never any reason for the girl monkey to be

I did not try to make “animation” as we usually think of it, but a manga, or a cartoon film.