Popular Works:
Astroboy (1952)
Black jack (1973)
Phoenix (1967)
Nicknamed 'The Godfather of Manga', Osamu Tezuka developed becoming a mangaka, or working in the anime industry, into a profitable and well respected position. After being a teenager through World War 2, he found there to be a limitation in manga at the time and felt that manga was drawn more as if "seated in an audience viewing from a stage" making it impossible to create "dramatic or psychological effects". With this, he decided to incorporate cinematic techniques (inspired by French and German filmmaking) into his manga and made the content more enriching and heavy, rather than only trying to earn a cheap laugh. The signs of this appreciation for a more developed plot is made evident by his care of taking several frames/panels just depict one movement or facial expressions, leading his comics to have pages in the late hundreds or even thousands.
Nicknamed 'The Godfather of Manga', Osamu Tezuka developed becoming a mangaka, or working in the anime industry, into a profitable and well respected position. After being a teenager through World War 2, he found there to be a limitation in manga at the time and felt that manga was drawn more as if "seated in an audience viewing from a stage" making it impossible to create "dramatic or psychological effects". With this, he decided to incorporate cinematic techniques (inspired by French and German filmmaking) into his manga and made the content more enriching and heavy, rather than only trying to earn a cheap laugh. The signs of this appreciation for a more developed plot is made evident by his care of taking several frames/panels just depict one movement or facial expressions, leading his comics to have pages in the late hundreds or even thousands. 
Tezuka's influence on manga is still present until this day. Not only did he bring it to the status it is now, his style of large eyes (drawn from influences of Betty Boop and Bambi) because the style that manga is recognised for. His introduction of more cinematic action to manga helped revitalise the industry in post-war Japan.
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