鉄腕アトム (Astro Boy) influenced ドラゴンボール (Dragon Ball)

Tezuka set the terms every later shonen artist worked in, and Toriyama has named him as the figure he grew up reading, alongside Disney. What is inherited here is form rather than plot: weekly serialisation with a cliffhanger an episode, cinematic panelling with speed lines and impact frames, big round eyes and simplified faces on bodies drawn with real anatomy underneath, and a boy hero whose strength is the engine of the story. Filed MEDIUM rather than HIGH because it is a whole-tradition debt rather than a specific borrowing: the map already records Tezuka's direct line to Akira.