鉄腕アトム (Astro Boy) influenced Akira

Tezuka built the industry Otomo works in, and the inheritance is formal before it is anything else: the cinematic page, with panels used as shots, long wordless sequences and motion carried across a spread. Before Tezuka that was not how comics in Japan were drawn. The subject descends too. Astro Boy is a manufactured child with power beyond its keepers, built by a scientist who wanted his dead son back, and the stories are about what the state does with him. Tetsuo is that premise with the sentiment removed. Filed MEDIUM: foundational rather than specific, and Otomo is on record reacting against the roundness of the Tezuka style as much as inheriting from it.