Osamu Tezuka was born in 1928 in Toyonaka, Osaka City (now Toyonaka City, Osaka Prefecture). In 1947, he published the novel New Treasure Island, which became a bestseller. After that, he created many manga such as "The Forest Emperor" and "Astro Boy", and became a giant of Japanese post-war manga. Osamu Tezuka has loved Disney animation since childhood and has always wanted to work on animation. After participating in the 1956 feature-length animation Journey to the West produced by Toei, Osamu Tezuka founded the Bug Studio in 1962 due to his inability to adapt to Toei's style, and his first work was the self-created experimental animation "The Story of a Street Corner", in which he was responsible for the layout of the story and the drawing of the split-shot script. The following year, the TV series Astro Boy began airing. Since then, Osamu Tezuka has also devoted himself to publishing independent productions such as "Mermaid" and "Exhibition Paintings" while producing TV animations. In 1984, his independent experimental short film Jumping won the highest prize at the Zagreb International Animated Film Festival. He died of stomach cancer in 1989 at the age of 60. Legend of the Forest Part 1 became an unfinished legacy.
Born in 1941 in Honsho-ku, Tokyo (now Sumida-ku, Tokyo), Miyazaki loved Horizuka's manga since childhood and aspired to become a manga artist. After watching Toei's first feature-length cartoon "The Legend of the White Snake" produced in 1958, I was deeply moved and became interested in animation ever since. In 1963, Miyazaki entered Toei to participate in the production of "The Adventures of the Sun Prince Halls" and "Cat in Boots". From this period onwards, Miyazaki established a unique animation creation method based on the creation of "idea maps" that was deeply involved in the field of script writing and directing, and retired from Toei in 1971.
In 1984, Hayao Miyazaki's theatrical feature-length anime "Valley of the Wind", based on his manga, became a huge success, and it began to attract much attention. Released in 1988, Totoro won various film awards in Japan that year, and Miyazaki established its unshakable position in the field of animation. After that, "Witch House Rush", "Porco Rosso", "Princess Mononoke" and other successes, released in 2001, "Spirited Away" has won the Golden Bear Award at the Berlin International Film Festival and the American Oscar For Feature Animation, winning a huge international reputation.
Hayao Miyazaki's critique of Osamu Tsukasa
Both Miyazaki and Osamu Tezuka are very concerned about each other's existence, which is a matter of course, and what the two of them know about each other is an interesting topic. Ironically, the impetus for making it public was the death of Osamu Tezuka.
After Osamu Tezuka's death in February 1989, almost all the media, including various anime magazines, planned a special report on the memorial of Osamu Tezuka, and published articles and interviews with people from all walks of life. Of course, many magazines also disclosed Miyazaki's speech, but the content of his speech was almost a complete denial of Osamu Tsuka's achievements in the field of animation, so it immediately caused an uproar.
There is a passage in the magazine "Comicbox", "Hayao Miyazaki's Special Interview":
I can't give him an evaluation of what he's done in the field of animation. I don't like the works of "Bug Maker", not only do I not like it, but I don't think so. Overall, I fully appreciate the fact that Osamu Tsuka "pioneered a new frontier in story comics and laid the groundwork for the work we do today." But regarding his animation, I think I have the right and obligation to speak, and what Osamu Tezuka has said and advocated so far is all wrong.
Of course, Miyazaki also admitted in the same interview that he was deeply influenced by Tezuka manga, and even revealed that he would burn his own manga manuscript in order to get rid of Tezuka's influence. In other words, Miyazaki acknowledged Osamu Tezuka's exploits in manga, but gave him a very harsh evaluation of his exploits in animation. But even so, calling it "all wrong" is unusual.