Astro Boy facts
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The "Father of Manga", Osamu Tezuka (author of Astro Boy, Black Jack, and Kimba the White Lion, among many others), was a descendent of legendary ninja Hattori Hanzo
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Stanley Kubrick watched Astro Boy and invited Osamu Tezuka to be the art director of his next movie, 2001: A Space Odyssey. Tezuka could not afford to leave his studio for a year to live in England, so he refused.
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Osamu Tezuka, the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba The White Lion, his last words before he passed away due to stomach cancer were: ''I'm begging you, let me work!".
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Fred Ladd, one of the first to introduce Japanese animated cartoons to North America, most notably Astro Boy in 1963—the inaugural appearance of anime on Western shores.
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There was a live action adaptation of Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atomu) in 1959, predating the 1963 anime adaptation.
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"The Lion King" was actually a ripoff of "Kimba The White Lion" which was created by osamu tezuka who created Astro Boy, Black Jack, Sapphire , Disney kept saying that the lion king's story was "original" and "unique" and also saying that they never heard of Osamu Tezuka before
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The 1963 Astro Boy anime had an instrumental theme, when it was brought over to America, it was decided to add lyrics. Osamu Tezuka (Creator of Astro Boy) loved it so much that he demanded lyrics to be added to the Japanese version, this began the trend of Anime having vocal theme music.
