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: A dedicated chapter on Osamu Tezuka and his role in originating "story manga".

While Tezuka popularized the "Disney-esque" aesthetic with big eyes and rounded features, the Gekiga movement of the late 1950s and 60s—spearheaded by artists like Yoshihiro Tatsumi—rejected this. They coined the term gekiga (dramatic pictures) to differentiate their work from manga (whimsical pictures). manga sixty years of japanese comics pdf