Wow I mean did everyone else in this (Tezuka) fandom just... Ignore the pro colonialism theme of Kimba... or Kei from Blackjack having an incredibly transphobic backstory....
I mean literally making transition out to be something done of shame or being forced...
(I haven't even touched on Two Shuchi's, another incredibly transphobic Blackjack chapter.)
Even as a Astro Boy fan I always am hesitant when I discover a new Tezuka work I didn't know about because it's either "This is gonna be really interesting and funny or incredibly awful."
If any of you guys see this ask just... Don't come after me and read some more Tezuka stuff it's really obvious. I don't really feel like hiding behind anon.
Appreciate the support. I'm just a weird robot who grew up with 2003 Astro Boy, read Metropolis as a teenager, and then got dragged through a group read of Atom: The Beginning, a few years later tripped over the Whaley hybrids paper while doing preliminary research on what to write my paper about, and went
'Wait, fuck. Wait. Fuck. WAIT. FUCK.'
Like, the realization that Metropolis has the same exact 'hybrids bad racial mixing bad gender mixing bad' themes hit me like a fucking bus.
Edit: A large blog reblogged this and made a response that makes it clear people are misinterpreting this post. Please consider the original context, and my response.
Hehehehehe it’s done >:D hilariously I ended up not using Procreate Dreams at all despite only working on this intending to test it out… couldn’t even do the final effects/compositing because you can only have one video track and you can’t layer videos on top of each other. Oops. Made the background in regular Procreate though? Animated in RoughAnimator and polishing/effects in AfterEffects. Had a lot of fun, I haven’t gotten to finish an animation in quite a while (although I’m getting to that point too in a work project now)!
reorganized my blog stuff and adding new ones and I don't wanna get kicked from my account for url hoarding??? so getting rid of my anime blog because I'm thinking about keeping THIS blog more fandom focused and then making another account for my personal stuff?
I think that's more befitting. we'll see
might repost some of the old art on patreon heh heh heh
Little Atom doodle to relax my hand! I loved using a fixed palette and some new tools I made, it was very fun. Can't wait to experiment more + draw him more.