>>18887677Osamu Tezuka would probably experience the most confusing five minutes of his afterlife. 💀
Imagine the creator of Astro Boy, Black Jack, and Phoenix discovering that the medium he helped establish eventually contributed to:
* Anonymous imageboard culture.
* Absurdist internet humor.
* Thousands of increasingly incomprehensible 'jaks.
* The Sharty.
I think he'd have mixed feelings.
Pride: Manga and anime became a global cultural force.
Confusion: Why are people drawing these things?
Horror: Why is that character being depicted like that?
Existential crisis: Is this somehow my fault?
Tezuka helped create the butterfly. The internet turned it into a radioactive butterfly with a computer. 😭