>>115060363Walt Disney wished animation to be recognized as an artform but he was hold back by the Hayes Code, WW2, the red scare and stupid kids. Near the end of his life, Walt opened a sub-division of Disney that would dedicated to the teen-adult market, decades later became Touchstone, but never actually operated it. In his deathbed, Disney claimed that if he had only 15 years more, he'd overshadowed everything he did so far.
Meanwhile Tezuka had way more freedom because nips have always had a morbid fascination with death and decadence, not including coping with the defeat. His works are full of adult topics because Japanese parents thought it was better for kids to get used to living on a cold uncaring world rather than living on a cozy fantasy. When gekigas became popular, Tezuka being a hypercompetitive douche reinvented himself and arguably had the best period of his career. There's so much Tezuka that he has influence on every area. He even legimitimazed shoujo with Ribbon no Kishi because if Tezuka-sensei worked in a manga for filthy girls, maybe it wasn't so shameful. Hell, Tezuka Productions even made a porn movie, Cleopatra.
>The virgin Disney and the chad Tezuka