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Tezuka Osamu, manga artist and animator
The manga artist and animator who shaped modern Japanese manga and TV anime, creator of 鉄腕アトム (Astro Boy), ブラック・ジャック (Black Jack), and 火の鳥 (Phoenix). He is widely called 漫画の神様, "the god of manga."
The name is read おさむ even though it is written 治虫: his real name was 手塚治, and he added 虫 (bug) as a boy because he loved the ground beetle, オサムシ.
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Cultural note
He introduced film-like panel layouts and long story manga after World War II, and his studio set the low-budget production style of Japanese TV anime. Many later artists, gathered at the Tokiwa-sō apartment house, began as his followers.