Osomatsusan and Tunogai (2017)
つのがい@sunxoxome Tunogai is a female manga artist(her portrait in her manga is a male) who published a comedy manga “こんなブラックジャックはイヤだ Konna Black Jack Wa Iyada (I Don’t Want to See Black Jack Like This)” in January.
she started posting a parody manga of the legendary manga artist, Osomu Tezuka on twitter in 2015, and her manga soon became popular and famous.
a few years ago, when she was between jobs and had nothing to do, a friend of her sent her a complete set of Tezuka’s masterpiece, Black Jack.
she had never learned how to draw pictures before, and had never drawn manga, but quickly developed her talent.
and Tezuka’s daughter, CEO of Tezuka Productions, Rumiko Tezuka found her, and officially approved her as an artist of Tezuka’s paroby manga. what a success story!
Tunogai is also well known as a big fan of Osomatsusan, and drew the sextuplets in a Tezuka style in her manga. (she says, the most favorite character is their mother, Matsuyo, though)
Tezuka and Akatsuka (the original manga artist of Osomatsukun) respected each other as artists.
in some works of Tezuka, the sextuplets made cameo appearances.
so, no wonder that Osomatsusan appeared in a parody manga of Black Jack.


