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Tezuka I think must have been heavily influenced by the war, you know he was almost killed in the 1945 fire bombing of Osaka. He was running to his air raid shelter from the factory he was working in as a teenager when he forgot he'd left his art supplies behind on a bench. He went back to grab ...

Perhaps you're wondering how Mister Moustachio aka Shinsaku Ban was created. During World War II Osamu Tezuka, like his classmates, had to endure the riggers of nationalistic military indoctrination. Clearly and thankfully Osamu made a lousy young soldier who didn't care much for drills as h...

Does anyone not agree that Astro's sister is a cute, comical show stealer : )

1:why does dr.temma turn into the bad guy? Interesting question. Though we have not seen through the entire new series as of yet, he never was a truely bad person in the orriginal manga. Drowning in grief over the loss of his son, abusive to Astro because of the disapointment that the robot would ne...

I love writing Astro and the younger Atlas going at each other's throats. 1. Astro chases Atlas through a Ginza and stops him by throwing a bungee cord lasso around his legs tied to an anchor he drops into a fountain. 2. Atlas is with Skunk trying to rob a bank and he sees Astro fooling around w...

First time watching it I thought he blew his shoulders out. Good episode.

I think the biggest difference between Walt Disney and Tezuka was that Tezuka was able to continue living a simple uncluttered life while Disney became drowned in self-obsessive mega-mania. I remember when Tezuka would come to the San Diego Comic Convention and spend hours drawing astroboy and kimba...

"I told you...your Sebu Lions suck!"

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"Oh Truth! I told you not to eat the Fuji Fire Curry!"