Japanese Visual Culture

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Gallery two: Tezuka Osamu and Takahashi Rumiko

I. Works of Tezuka Osamu

A page from Tezuka Osamu's series Tetsuwan Atom ("Mighty Atom"), 1959. An animated version of Atom was known in the U.S. as Astro Boy.

Frederik Schodt, Dreamland Japan: Writings on Modern Manga (Berkeley, CA: 1996) 246.

A page from Tezuka Osamu's Jungaru Taitei ("Jungle Emperor"), also known in the U.S. as Kimba, the White Lion.

Frederik Schodt, Dreamland Japan 269.

Tezuka Osamu, Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century (Volume One), translation by Yuji Oniki (San Francisco: Cadence Books, 1995) 78-79.

Tezuka Osamu, Adolf: A Tale of the Twentieth Century, 106-107.

II. Works of Takahashi Rumiko

Takahashi Rumiko, Ranma 1/2 (Volume One), English adaptation by Gerald Jones and Matt Thorn (San Francisco: Vis Publications, 1993) 21.

Takahashi Rumiko, Maison Ikkoku (Volume One), Trans. Gerald Jones and Matt Thorn (San Francisco: Vis Publications, 1994) 16-17.

Takahashi Rumiko, Maison Ikkoku, 178.