"Ataru Moroboshi" wrote:I think it would be an unconvinience unless they make the Astroboy Tezuka envisioned for the 80s (according to Frederick Schodt): a parody series with lots of wacky humour in the same vein of Don Dracula. The other producers stopped his plans, and we only get to see what it would come to be in the chapters directed by Osamu Tezuka himself.
Wasn't that what he did with his 1981 manga? As for episodes from the 80's anime worked on by Tezuka, they're mostly the Atlas episodes and not all that comedy-like. I'll admit there's the Black Jack episode that's pretty funny though.