context: comics > Osamu Tezuka

Inspirations

His father was a big fan of the western comics that reached Japan, and of American movies. Tezuka wanted to make comics as thrilling and moving as the movies he saw, but his fundamental nature made his work as humanist as any storyteller ever, even when telling tales of robots. US comics and movies stopped being imported during WWII, and when this resumed afterwards, this was an important fresh injection of energy into Japanese comics at just the right time, and no one absorbed and used this energy better than Tezuka.

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