Sublime

Context: Osamu Tezuka, known as the “godfather of manga and anime” and someone who proceeded to inspire greats like Akira Toriyama and Eiichiro Oda, admitted in interviews that Scrooge McDuck served as major artistic inspiration for Astroboy.

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My 5 all-time favorite animations 1. “Jumping” by Osamu Tezuka, 1984 https://t.co/XEBxizJJeb

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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