The 2001 animated film Metropolis, is based on an original manga by Osamu Tezuka, which is loosely based on the film, though Tezuka claims he had not seen the film at the time.

The game was designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka, the creators of the original Super Mario Bros. Visually, it looked very similar to its predecessor, but it had a higher level of difficulty.

This series was the first Tezuka production in which Tezuka adopted a method of animation which had long been used by Disney and Warner Brothers in which each animator was responsible for drawing a single character instead of the team of animators each taking a piece of a show and drawing everything.

However, Tezuka ( who acted as coach when Ryuzaki was hospitalized ) saw that Echizen's attitude had become more arrogant since he defeated Sanada of Rikkaidai in the regional championship.

When Echizen sees America's Kevin Smith – who had been wanting to challenge him – defeat Yamabuki's Jin Akutsu using his destructive tennis form, Echizen had a change of heart and begged Tezuka to be on the team ; Tezuka revealed Echizen's spot, making him the third member of Seigaku to compete ( along with Fuji and Kikumaru ).

Unico had one more anime appearance afterward, in a short film called Saving Our Fragile Earth made for showing at the Tezuka Osamu Animation Theatre at Tezuka Osamu World in Kyoto.

* Note: Let it be known that Will Carroll has admitted to the fact that the pitch that he had taught to Joey Niezer and Craig Stutler, and wrote an article about in the Baseball Prospectus, was not in fact the gyro ( or at least, the same gyroball which is taught by Tezuka and Himeno )

Upon his entrance into Seishun Academy nearly a year later, Tezuka was already a better tennis player than most of his upperclassmen.

Throughout the series, Tezuka continues to constantly struggle with the pain in his left arm that was caused by an injury inflicted upon him by an upperclassman two years prior to the main storyline.

Despite not being at full strength due to his injury leading to chronic problems, and his sealing of a powerful technique that required the use of his left arm, Tezuka eventually became known as a National-level tennis player.

Tezuka's Tezuka Zone allows him to focus the effects of one of Muga's doors,, into his left arm, preventing the loss of stamina, and giving him the ability to return balls with twice the strength, or spin, that they were hit with.

Later, the Japanese Prime Minister arrives with Takuya's ex-wife, Masako Tezuka, and offers him to explore an island in the sea with Masako and Marutomo company secretary, Kenji Andoh, and become a free man.

Animax also exhibits affiliations with anime pioneer Osamu Tezuka's Tezuka Productions company, Pierrot, Nippon Animation, and numerous others.

* Phoenix ( manga ) ( Hi no Tori ), by Osamu Tezuka

is a high fantasy action-adventure video game series created by Japanese game designers Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

** Osamu Tezuka begins serialising MW, a manga inspired by the 1974 Kakuei Tanaka government scandal.

There is also a Japanese animated version of One Thousand and One Nights, directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eichii Yamamoto.

After World War Two, much of Iwerks ' early animation style would be imitated by legendary manga artists Osamu Tezuka and Shōtarō Ishinomori.

Kubota Mitsuyoshi says that Osamu Tezuka used yama nashi, ochi nashi, imi nashi to dismiss poor quality manga, and this was appropriated by the early yaoi authors.

Rather than having production of anime revolve around a single creator, as was the case for Mushi, which was headed by Osamu Tezuka, Sunrise decided that production should focus around the producers, a strategy that continues to this date.

* Lost World ( manga ), by Osamu Tezuka

As aforementioned, Super Mario Bros. also introduced the Paratroopa, a version of the Koopa Troopa with wings designed by Takashi Tezuka.

Development was handled by Nintendo Entertainment Analysis and Development, led by Shigeru Miyamoto, who directed the game along with Takashi Tezuka.

Originally titled Yoshi's Island 64, the game was developed by the Yoshi's Island team, directed by Hideki Konno and produced by Takashi Tezuka.

For example, the Boos are based on assistant director Takashi Tezuka's wife, who, as Miyamoto explained, " is very quiet normally, but one day she exploded, maddened by all the time Tezuka spent at work.

Pukko has what appears to be either a haircut or wig that resembles that worn by The Beatles ; probably added by Tezuka due to The Beatles ' enormous popularity in Japan at the time.

* Bokko, Nokko, and Pukko make a cameo appearance in the 2004 game Astro Boy: Omega Factor game created for the Game Boy Advance, along with a number of other characters created by Osamu Tezuka.

The Legend of Zelda, originally released as in Japan, is a video game developed and published by Nintendo, and designed by Shigeru Miyamoto and Takashi Tezuka.

) Miyamoto and Tezuka then began to work together to define Bowser's appearance.

Tezuka complimented the two, some years later commenting that he knew then they were going to be major figures in the manga industry.

Ryoma then manages to break out by copying what people believe to be the Tezuka Zone, though it is actually him copying his father's Zone ; a technique that he learned through his experience in playing against a superior opponent.

Tezuka then created a comic series in which Astro Boy was the main character.

Despite having made a promise to Shuichiro Oishi that he would lead Seigaku to the Nationals, Tezuka decided to quit the tennis club because he did not want to be on the same team with people who used their racquets to hurt others.

His seriousness is compounded by having picked up some character traits from his similarly stern grandfather ; ironically, Tezuka looks older than his actual age and is often mistaken as his teammates ' teacher.

According to Himeno and Tezuka, a gyroball is thrown so that, at the point of release, instead of having the pitcher's arm move inwards towards the body ( the standard method used in the United States ), the pitcher rotates his arm so that it moves away from his body, toward third base for a right-handed pitcher and toward first base for a left-handed pitcher.

She has been working as a model since she was 10, and her acting debut was in the 1999 movie Hakuchi ( directed by Makoto Tezuka, opposite Tadanobu Asano ), and has performed in several movies.

The results of these experiments with the Game Boy started to look promising, and following the 1991 release of the Super Nintendo game The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past, director Takashi Tezuka asked permission to develop a handheld Zelda title ; he intended it to be a port of A Link to the Past, but it evolved into an original game.

For Link's Awakening DX, Tezuka returned as project supervisor, with Yoshinori Tsuchiyama as the new director.

The way that Tezuka used the characters in his " star system " can be seen as somewhat analoguous to a film director frequently casting members of a regular " stable " of actors in different roles.

Yoshi Touch & Go was produced by Takashi Tezuka and director by Hiroyuki Kimura.

** animator, ( draft: Osamu Tezuka 手塚治虫, director, chief animator: Yasuo Otsuka, layout: Yasuo Otsuka, Hayao Miyazaki )