Some more interesting facts and tidbits:
- Tezuka studied medicine, but by the time he graduated, he had already become a successful professional manga writer, so he never actually worked as a doctor.
- He created the first manga for girls, Ribon no Kishi, and most of the shoujo manga conventions with it, like the sparkling eyes and the gender uncertainty theme.
- All in all, he created over 150,000 pages of manga and over 60 animated movies and series.
- He loved insects and permanently added the kanji for "bug" to his first name (this was relatively unproblematic because it didn't change the pronounciation)!
- He invented the manga assistant system and the animation bank, two things that, while not necessarily very "artistic", made possible a lot of things in manga and anime that had previously been too expensive to implement.
- Due to his enormous influence and the great amount of work he did, he is commonly called "the god of manga" in Japan.