Saturday 19 September 2020

A fun manga comparison!

Tarzan 

Tezuka’s Tarzan equivalent: The dead kings of retro manga, Osamu Tezuka and Mitsuteru Yokoyama, are credited for drawing and writing the two most famous Tarzan manga stories out there. Funnily enough, as both manga stories are perhaps set in the land of Leo the Lion, an expy of the character has a leopard buddy named Iga. 

Koshiro’s Tarzan: Takeshi Koshiro had drawn a Tarzan story set in the 1960s, which featured both Cheeta and Jai (sometimes called Boy for obvious dubbing reasons). 

The Jungle Book 

Segoshi’s Mowgli: Ken Segoshi was a little known mangaka whose career possibly lasted from the late 20s into the mid 1950s. His Mowgli is much more brattish than Reitherman’s Mowgli as shown in the manga cover. 

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