#tezuka world

[ogume-the-nurse-lion]

Here some BJ stickers i screenshots from messenger, this is from Tezuka World : Astro Boy Crunch!

[bakedbananners]

my black jack au called “what if blackjack was stealth all thru med school and kisaragi was an egg”

[dweamofsweep]

Studies from Naoki Urasawa’s PLUTO - Prof. Abullah! Without saying spoilers, I really love that this character was fleshed out in a meaningful way for Urasawa’s retelling. (If you don’t remember what character this was in the Tezuka versions… I do not blame you.)

[arcadebroke]

[ahkeb]

Cries, dies, resurrects, dies again, resurrects again, EXPLODES, reassembles, OUUUUUUGH BWAAAAAAAAAHH [normal now] this Pinoko is so cute

[radioactive-earthshine]

[fiendnyc]

Printed on a Lilac shirt is Astro boy, First worn by Scott in Volume 2 of the graphic novel

Etsy

Ebay

[arlzuteni]

QP: (about Fuji) Whatever happened to that kid? He’s like a wholly different player.

QP: He must‘ve gone through something traumatic to completely change his play style like that.

QP: What in the world happened to him?

Tezuka: ...

[yuniko]

Tezuka stationery by Can Do

[ogume-the-nurse-lion]

Korarī Nakamura as a Tezuka character!

[bakedbananners]

joke that has been 4 years in the making

[ID: fanart of Dororo and Hyakkimaru from the Dororo 2019 anime. Image 1 shows the two of them walking, Dororo blabbers while Hyakkimaru silently listens with a pokerface. A wall of bright red text reading “BLAH BLAH BLAH” surrounds them. Image 2: Hyakkimaru abruptly turns and grabs Dororo’s cheeks, causing him to pause and stare confused. Image 3: Dororo looks comically offended as Hyakkimaru pinches his lips shut, grabbing at his prosthetic arms trying to pull them away. There is a faint amused smile on Hyakkimaru’s face as he does so. End ID.]

[ben-the-hyena]

I'm a bit confused. I know about Osamu Tezuka's Star System, consisting in reusing his characters from different stories for other stories as different roles as if they were actors, think a bit of Muppet adaptations. They could be interpreted as AUs. But is it the case of this one example ?

In a volume of Black Jack, another manga by Osamu Tezuka, Dr Tenma looks older (ormaybedoesntdyehishairandbeardfullyanymore), is more unhinged, is trying to get into politics and he doesn't seem to be a doctor of robotics but he is a doctor in medecine, even owning a hospital. And more importantly : he has NO son, but a total different child, a daughter named Kasumi (or maybe he had 2 children and she is the youngest hence why he looks older ?)

He also acts more unhinged I fucking love his expressions lol and no matter the comic he is a father in, bastard always makes his kids feel neglected because he is a workaholic

She mentions no mother, meaning he is a widow in that continuity too. But he mentions a granny, meaning that unlike Tobio who seemed to have no grandparents, either Hoshie's or Umataro's mother is around (ngl at first I thought he was maybe the grandfather hence why he looks older than usual but then he does call her his daughter later so no)

And not only Kasumi looks kind of a human version of Uran, at some point he does a mistake and accidentally calls her Uran before correcting himself. Does this mean in this universe there was something going on between Kasumi and Uran like between Tobio and Atom, or is it just because shebis meant to be played by Uran like an actress with the Star System and it was just meant to earn a chuckle from the reader ?

She doesn't die fortunately, but she almost does in darker circumstances. She is so sad by him becoming greedier, angrier and more corrupted and ready to be gone on long trips poor little girl attempts at her own life, and goes into a coma. But fortunately Black Jack saves her, and we saw that Tenma does really care for her since by being seen with Black Jack he ruins his reputation and any chance at winning but he no longer cares, she is more important. And it's a nice change to finally see him have a child who lives and him being relieved and deciding to look on life a different way

So yeah either Tenma and Uran are actors as himself and as Kasumi respectfully, or better yet : HC that in the Black Jack universe, which is like an AU to the usual Astro Boy universe (and vice Versa since Black and Pinoko both often appear in Astro Boy media ; I guess both franchises are AUs of each other), robotics doesn't seem to be as developped so Tenma turned to medecine instead and being intelligent became as good at it as he would be in robotics in another world, climbed the scale quickly to the point of having a reputation anf money, still married Hoshie and had Tobio, Tobio never died since no toy car since no robotics, so Tenma being happier longer, he and Hoshie some time when Tobio was older like a teenager they had a 2nd child Kasumi, Hoshie fortunately died of her heart attack since I guess her heart is fragile in every universe and Tobio would soon leave home to study so Tenma found himself with his newborn daughter but he was so deep in his career and work (maybe to make sure nobody dies like Hoshi did again) he didn't have as much time as before all while maybe increasing his work cadence to cheat his widower grief, and nowadays Kasumi is the same age Tobio would have been when he died in the Astro Boy continuity whereas he is alive and a young adult here and Tenma grew older and got a love for power and money the deeper he got in and Kasumi got lonelier and lonelier with her father and brother away and her mother she always hears about but never knew and can't help but wonder if time was better for the family before she was born which, of course, neither of them think so and they adore her

[puff-cat]

Created some chibis of the spooky boys in my fanfic series ‘Among Shadows’!

Left to right we got Demon!Yuki, Werewolf!Sanada, Vampire!Atobe and Eldritch!Tezuka

Might make these into stickers or buttons, who knows~

[nickysfacts]

Never realized how Mega Man and Astro Boy are basically both robotic Pinocchios!

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[abuddyforeveryseason]

This is the Buddy for October 28th. It's Astro-Buddy!

There's an anime adaptation of Pluto (the Naoki Urasawa manga) out on Netflix. It's interesting, although it's a bit dated. The idea of robots having rights is best interpreted as metaphor, rather than something plausible for the future.

Still, I like Astro Boy. A lot people think it's the creepiest thing ever - he's a robot who looks like a half-naked child and cries all the time (also, you know he recharges through a plug in his butt). But the stories hold up pretty well. I'm reading the Dark Horse translation - haven't finished it yet, but I've read most of it.

The Dark Horse edition was based on the Akita Shoten version of the collection - the one with the chapters going out of order. On one hand, that's pretty annoying because you don't get a good view of the evolution of the stories and the art, which reached its peak around the mid sixties. And it's also a bit depressing because the stories are organized from best to worse (the idea being more people will by the first few issues, so they'll get all the best stories), which means that after reading the great stories, the quality will be going down until you reach the last (and worst) one.

But, on the other hand, it doesn't really matter that much, because to me what's more interesting is when the stories were published. The earliest ones, with their clunky art, compressed panels and rambling plots, are usually the worst. The later ones are also more like "hey, look, it's the famous character showing up again" specials than anything else. The best stories are the ones from the sixties - longer, smart and creative.

A lot of those are similar to The Greatest Robot in The World (the chapter Pluto is based on) - with robots from different countries, with different designs and powers, getting together to fight one conflicted main villain. It's clear that's where the Megaman series got the idea for the early games.

Astro Boy isn't my favorite Tezuka manga, and it's got some irritating flaws all through, especially the use of robot rights as a metaphor for human rights, but it's still a pretty interesting read.