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Osamu Tezuka - Blog Posts
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I couldn't be patient... so I "time-traveled". Here's my attempts to make BJ and Pinoko's outfits... I know I'll end up trying to make more... it's addictive.
So I was looking through My Pictures folder...
And I found a screencap I was going to post in September!
What on earth made me forget? Probably a game, usually is. Was it Harvest Moon...? Maybe it was Persona 4.... Meh, not important.
------- So, I have a tendency to watch Friends after my parents head to bed, mainly for background noise since I've seen most, if not all, the episodes thanks to reruns, and what do I randomly notice after all these years?
Do you see what I see?
I'll have to take a photo or scan my book for the original image (so it has her hair, not just her face), but that's Ayako! Sneaking into the states during the 90's, silly girl.
"We want to publish Osamu Tezuka's The Crater in a Limited Edition, individually numbered (out of 2000) high quality hardcover format."
I'll just leave this here in case you're a Tezuka fan as well...
(Click the title of the post to get the the Kickstarter page, my tumblr theme seems to make the link weird)
So I was checking my mail and I stumble upon this...
"In news guaranteed to satisfy manga fans, film geeks and evil pre-teen sociopaths, Guillermo Del Toro (Hellboy, Pan's Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) recently announced his involvement in an HBO pilot for an adaption of Naoki Urasawa's horror manga Monster. Not only is everyone's favorite geek-director producing, writing and directing the pilot, but he also revealed that the show would be a strict adaptation of the manga with no “extra” content to pad out the episode count. GDT plus HBO? Yes, please."
So... Honestly, I'm not a huge fan of Del Toro (I love the first Hellboy, and that's about it), but I'm actually pretty excited to see results when it comes out since the story is fairly realistic.
Sadly, I don't have HBO... bah.
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That just got me thinking, whatever happened to the plans for a live-action Black Jack series or did that go down the toilet?
I can see that being a bit difficult since you'd want to attract non-nerdy people to the series.
You'd end up having to: redesign his look~ make up some new story for Pinoko (if she even exists in the series), probably renaming some of the characters...
But if they did it right, it could be a good series if it ever came to into existence, but on the same token, it could be terrible if done wrong. Unfortunately, I sense more going wrong than going right with this series. Wish they would ask for fan-input when it came to this stuff. Then everyone could be happy with something that could have ended up with a very scary result.
Or they could even offer fans to submit scripts for different chapters of the manga, that would allow people to try to make it acceptable and appealing for everyone watching. I love manga just as it is, but I'm trying to think realistically with people who aren't used to Tezuka's storytelling. Prime example is Pinoko, I don't think the average person would be as accepting of her origin story as many of the fans are.
I mean you could completely skip over her story, and say she was a patient of his that he ended up adopting (which is true to the manga), but then you'd have to remove her real age or make the excuse that when she says she's 18 because she has such a huge crush on him, she wants to be of marrying age (but you'd have to take into consideration how dark the series would be). I think the best course of action for viewers here would be to make her a 11 to 13 year old who's simply his adopted daughter and assists him in emergencies.
Yeah... I went on a long rant.
This one took more time and precision than I thought. Mixing the right shades of blue over a really dark blue background.
A screenshot repainting of the Night Wind coming for Unico to take him to the Hill of Oblivion under the order of the gods. The look on her face shows just how no-nonsense she is and how she’s willing to do what the more merciful West Wind couldn’t.
The Fantastic Adventures of Unico belongs to Osamu Tezuka and Sanrio
Just made this today! Since both Raggedy Ann and Unico are sweet characters who bring happiness to others, I thought it would be cute to see these two meet one day.
In honor of the upcoming Raggedy Ann & Andy fan series coming to YouTube and “Unico: Awakening”.
Hyakkimaru drawing Daigo. (Dororo to Hyakkimaru-den)
happy 61st anniversary to the manga that is unknown to the point i've never seen fanart of it and i'm pretty sure its own author hated but was, to fourteen year-old me, a literal bible
PLUTO
happy 1st anniversary, you sad, beautiful anime :')
Well, I decided to draw Unico after finding out that this little unicorn is going to be revived as a new line of comics called Unico Awakening this year! Honestly, the world needs Unico now more than ever.
it's dangerous out there alone. take a hyoutantsugi
pick it one :)
You know they look the same, don't deny it. :)
You can trace an ideological lineage from Tezuka to Miyazaki, where both promote a kind of 'pacifism' which is at its core conservative and hostile to the idea of fighting against real evil. Thinking specifically of Tezuka's "Buddha" series here
My hot take is that I feel like “ghibli films are pro Japanese imperialism” is a lazy jab that grabs at a few soft spots in the oeuvre to make the cheapest most rhetorically damaging shot it can, and that an honest analysis would generally struggle to say even the most problematic of the movies like The Wind Rises come out of the wash with a positive opinion of imperial Japan. My hotter take is that if you rigorously pull at the threads where the nominally anti-war films thematically collapse, you’ll find the issue isn’t a support of Japanese Imperialism but a lack of a rigorous critique of industrial civilization.