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I wish that all the ills of society - conformism, laziness, indolence, betrayal, violence, lust, rape - and especially the evils of politics will be represented in the form of an absolute depravity.

— Osamu Tezuka

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What is one man's life compared to the eternity of time and space? No more than a snowflake that glitters in the sun for a moment before melting into the flow of time.

I am convinced that comics should not only make people laugh. For this in my stories found tears, anger, hatred, pain and end not always happy.

Comics are an international language, they can cross boundaries and generations. Comics are a bridge between all cultures

I first followed the comics of Tagawa Suihō and Yokoyama Ryūichi. But suddenly, once I became devoted to Disney, I set out to copy and master that stuffed-animal style, eventually ending up with how I now draw.

Tezuka Osamu and American Comics (1973)

I conceived this story [ MW ] with the intention of presenting readers a picaresque drama that distort the traditional atmosphere of my stories leave them stunned.

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Fear and destructiveness are the major emotional sources of fascism, eros belongs mainly to democracy.

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