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Week 10: Manga and the Japanese comics tradition

I learned about and had the opportunity to read this week's Osamu Tezuka's work, and he's the father of Japanese animation. Japanese cartoons are very familiar to me, and I've seen cartoons since I was a kid, and I've seen a lot of movies and animations based on them. It was amazing when Astro Boy found out that he was the character of the comic he made. The most recent one was a cartoon called Dororo, and I first encountered a remake of animations before the cartoon, and the theme of a child born under a curse was intriguing. The journey of bringing almost all the organs back to other monsters was another interesting thing. The picture of the animation I saw was similar to the animation of today, and I could see that the picture of the original Tezuka is similar to the picture of Astro boy. The movement of his dark eyebrows enriched his character's expression. If you look at his cartoons, you can see the use of free panels according to the scene, which made