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I’ve heard a “Tezuka ending” described as “He dies, she dies, everybody dies!” And since Tezuka was a Buddhist, guess what, after dying you get reborn into another crappy life to go through it all over again.
He can talk and he’s highly intelligent. Morover, his powers surpass those of the Olympic Gods. I’ve never understood this comic myself.
Wording, Heartbutt
seriously, I think Tezuma was a great mangaka who could write some really interesting themes into his stories. But gesh, when he wanted to let his characters go through emotional hell, he did. I mean come on: Unico is a baby unicorn (although he looks for me more like a puppy mixed with a pony) that got separated almost instantly after its birth form his mother, gets thrown through time and space, the gods hate him because he just wants to make everyone feel happy and he loses his memories every time he leaves a world. If there is any Tezuka character who is in need of a happy ending it is that little guy.
That’s the one.
Black Jack? The one about the scarred surgeon?
We do some good movies at time, we did Six-String Samurai that is over all between “not bad” and kind of good” in quality but is still awesome.
So looking into Unico further, it turns out that his existance is at odds with some gods plans/preferences/something, and they kind of don’t want him to exist. But the guy they send to take care of him, the West Wind, takes pity on him instead and whisks him away.
However, the gods eventually find Unico (usually after Unico makes friends). Then the West Wind scoops him up again, takes him away from his friend, wipes his memory, and drops him off somewhere else. This repeats forever. Usually something bad happens in between visits from the West Wind, which can apparently include evil sorcerers and humongous demons. Unico himself apparently has friendship-based magic powers that allows him to defeat or outright kill these types of troublesome characters.
Oh, so it’s “bad” as in “significant nightmare fuel,” not “bad” as in “really poor quality.”
I get it now. I was a little confused since Derpibooru has done some of the Unico films as part of their Poonibooru Film Nights, and usually they do really bad films.
If that’s true, there are quite a few things that can be bad. Even Astro Boy had strong themes of mature subject matter like abadonment and grief over the loss of a child (the latter being the impetus of for Astro Boy’s creation, if memory serves).
Never forget that Osamu Tezuka was not just a manga artist, he was also a certified medical doctor disillusioned with the medical system of his time (which I believe heavily influenced the creatio of one of his works, the name of which escapes me).
A Japanese Unicorn called Unico.