Headscratchers / Phoenix (1954)

• In Strange Beings what was the original crime that forced Sakon to serve as a healer?
• In Yamato, why did Ozuna kill Takeru? Killing him basically played right into his father's hands (who Ozuna rebelled against anyway), and I don't see how killing Takeru would have helped the people of Yamato at all (and making the people happy seems to be Takeru's motivation).
  • Something about "honor", no?
• In Future, Rock invites Yamanobe to go to space with him. He seems convinced that yes, bringing a guy who you've been bossing around for a while now, who obviously seems to dislike you, is a very good idea. He gets rejected. What to do? Come to the fantastic, brilliant solution that bringing a girl along with you will allow you to repopulate the human race. Uh, what did he need Yamanobe for?
  • Rock outright states that Tamami isn't human; he basically considers her an animal, and he'd need someone to talk to as he attempts to restart the human race. Additionally, Rock may have been taking genetic stability into consideration: Given Yamanobe's relationship with Tamami, Rock probably figured it would be easy to get them to reproduce. The only other human around is Saruta, who's old enough that he may not even be genetically viable and - due to his advanced age compared to the younger guys - wouldn't live nearly as long.
• In Resurrection, why can't Leon just watch a live video feed of everything to see things as normal? He does see recorded video as normal so live video should be the same. This could even be made into a form of helmet to provide him with perfect vision. The manga was, AFAIK, written in the 1970s; a live video feed was a common idea by the time.
• In Future, Dr. Saruta manages to discover the secret of what makes the Moopies so invulnerable to damage. He is unable to do anything with it, since he dies from radiation exposure soon after, but he tells Yamanobe that he left the secret in his notes, and he must use it to make an indestructible lifeform. However when Yamanobe finally starts trying to create life, he goes back to using Saruta's artificial protein, and has the same results. Why didn't he use Saruta's notes? (This may have been an Aborted Arc, but if so why didn't Tezuka remove the storyline when the stories were released as a collection? He'd done similar edits before, including writing completely new endings for Life and Civil War.)

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