In one of Tezuka's last communications to American anime fans in the mid-1980s, he urged them to seek out the manga of Katsuhiro Otomo, a new writer-artist who was winning his first awards ( Domu, Akira). One of his earliest TV animation staff was Rintaro (Shigeyuki Hayashi). He was known at the time as "the Walt Disney of Japan" (a title which has since passed to Hayao Miyazaki). The Re-Creation of Metropolis Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989), Japan's "God of Comics" (Manga no Kamisama), is widely credited as the major creative influence on that nation's post-World War II comic book industry in the late 1940s and 1950s, and its animation industry in the late '50s and 1960s. It blends the soft, "cartoony" art style of the late 1930s American theatrical short cartoons (Disney, Fleischer, Harmon & Ising) with the latest in computer graphics to tell a drama reminiscent of the sci-fi adventures of the 1920s and '30s Lang's Metropolis and other such mid-'30s serials as The Phantom Empire and Undersea Kingdom also did this. Metropolis (formally Osamu Tezuka's Metropolis, to distinguish it from the classic Fritz Lang 1927 feature) superbly straddles both the past and the future. It is unusual when one is equally successful as a tribute to the past. These usually project a modernistic or futuristic mood. Every so often a landmark film appears which advances the state of the art of animated features.
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