Interestingly enough, though he was directly inspired by an iconic production still of Brigitte Helm in Fritz Lang’s 1927 masterpiece of the same name, Tezuka claimed that he had never seen the film and that it had a nonexistent impact on his story. His resulting 1949 single-volume manga Metropolis was pieced from numerous inspirations including Les Misérables, Superman, the 1936 film The Invisible Ray, and several of Tezuka’s other works (published and unpublished). Extraordinarily prolific, even his ill-fated battle with stomach cancer in 1989 wasn’t enough to stop him from creating - his famous last words being, “I’m begging you, let me work!”Įarly in his career, responding to publishers clamoring for stories other than junk food-esque comics, Tezuka would create an epic science-fiction graphic novel in less than a year. Throughout his awe-inspiring career, he would create some of the most iconic characters and stories that exist in the medium, including Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. Osamu Tezuka is arguably one of the most important figures in Japanese anime and manga, creating the very groundwork from which the mediums would come to define themselves.
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