Osamu Tezuka

The author avatar of Osamu Tezukahttps://anilist.co/staff/96938/OsamuTezuka. Tezuka often inserted himself into his stories in a variety of roles. Sometimes the manga Tezuka would be a direct representation of the author Tezuka: in Metamorphosehttps://anilist.co/manga/111431/Metamorphose/ he shows up to abruptly rewrite the story in response to reader complaints in Nanairo Inkohttps://anilist.co/manga/37080/NanairoInko/ he directly interacts with the fictional characters and in the collected editions of Astro Boyhttps://anilist.co/manga/30728/AstroBoy/ he appears in prefaces to introduce chapters and explain their publication history. Other times Tezuka would appear in the story as a simple cameo as a background character or in a bit part as a gag for astute readers. Occasionally Osamu Tezuka would be a character in his own right still modelled after the realworld Tezuka but a part of the narrative like any other character and with no power to affect it. In Vampirehttps://anilist.co/manga/44304/Vampire/ Tezuka is an ally of the protagonist Toppei and works with him to stop the vampires plans. In Black Jackhttps://anilist.co/manga/31600/BlackJack/ he appears as Dr. Tezuka a friend of Black Jack who occasionally calls him for help with his own patients.