- Creator Backlash: The reason a film adaptation was never attempted in Tezuka's lifetime was that he came to dislike the original manga as being too crude and amateurish. Katsuhiro Otomo jokingly said in an interview "I hope [Tezuka's] ghost doesn't haunt me."
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