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| Frank J. Lhota |
 Posted: Wed Sep 12, 2007 5:49 pm |
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As an Astroboy fan from way back, I'm really enjoying the Adult Swim run
of the series, although the AS content warnings that prefix the show
seem a bit out of place. In the decades since I first saw the series, I
have learned a lot more about its creator, Osamu Tezuka. One can find
some of Tezuka's themes in this humble kid's show.
Last weekend's show had a particularly good example of this. One of the
villians in the show was based on Acetylene Lamp, a frequent evildoer in
the Tezuka mangas. His biggest role is in Tezuka's excellent anti-Nazi
graphic novel "Adolf", were he plays a particularly sadistic SS officer.
Dr. Tezuka made Anime and Manga for a wide variety of audiences,
everyone from the very young ("Unico") to adults ("Crime and
Punishment"). Some crossovers between his works is to be expected, but I
never thought I'd see a character from "The Three Adolfs" in "Astroboy"!
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"All things extant in this world,
Gods of Heaven, gods of Earth,
Let everything be as it should be;
Thus shall it be!"
- Magical chant from "Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi"
"Drizzle, Drazzle, Drozzle, Drome,
Time for this one to come home!"
- Mr. Wizard from "Tooter Turtle" |
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| Doug Jacobs |
| Posted: Thu Sep 13, 2007 1:57 pm |
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Frank J. Lhota <FrankLho.NOSPAM@rcn.com> wrote:
Quote: Dr. Tezuka made Anime and Manga for a wide variety of audiences,
everyone from the very young ("Unico") to adults ("Crime and
Punishment"). Some crossovers between his works is to be expected, but I
never thought I'd see a character from "The Three Adolfs" in "Astroboy"!
I've noticed that Tezuka would use his character designs as archetypes.
Thus when he would need a villian for a story, he simply used one of his
pre-created characters. Prof. Hananomizu (the robotics professor with the
comically large nose) shows up in other stories as well, but he always
embodies the same ideals of equality and compassion. Personally, I think
Tezuka used him as his own personal mouthpiece in his stories.
As your example points out, if someone is familiar with other works by
Tezuka, you can recognize characters, and therefore know their beliefs,
motivations, etc. In fact you could practically "read" a story just based
on the characters present.
I've noticed this in Matsumoto's work as well.
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It's not broken. It's...advanced. |
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