Osamu Tezuka

Osamu Teuka was the creator of Astro boy, Kimba the white lion, and Ambassador Magma. He was born in Japan in 1928. He worked on many manga. He loved Disney. He had a career as a medical student. In the 1950s he created Astro boy. It remained a manga in the 1950s but was created into a black and white anime. In 1980 he helped create it into another anime. He worked on a manga called Buddha and a manga called the three eyed one which was later turned into an anime. In 1988 he began creating on a manga called phoenix. He was 60 at the time. He stayed up 15 nights straight with no sleep working on it. He then sadly died. But his manga was finished and published. He was good friends with the manga artist Hiroyuki Takei. Hiroyuki Takei is possibly in his 40s now. He created the manga known as Shaman king. He also created a manga based on Buddhist mythology called Butsu zone. Osamu Tezuka was a great man. He was very peaceful and didn't have any hatred.

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