I know some of the people I work with thought it would work well as an original anime, but I was more interested in making comics. From there, I set out to understand what kind of project this would be. I wrote up a pitch and sent it Tezuka ProductionвЂ™s with a hope and a prayer, and to what is still my immense surprise, they liked and accepted it. He had a long relationship with Tezuka Production, and I discovered that they were open to pitches concerning their characters. She introduced me to Vince Shortino, who founded Crunchyroll Japan. SS: It all ties back to writer and Mangasplaining co-host Deb Aoki. How did you initially get their blessing for this new graphic novel? OM: With this all-new adventure you are working very closely with Tezuka Productions. I personally think Tezuka was working through some profoundly difficult ideas at the time, mostly relating to the nature of beauty and kindness, and how they can be misused. But what I really love about the character is that, despite him being a cute little unicorn, вЂњtoo cute,вЂќ as Tezuka described him, his story is powerful, complex, and quite dark. In Japan, you see Unico everywhere, mostly appearing in illustrations that contain the most recognizable members of the Tezuka Star System, and he still gets merchandised quite a bit. A story that was never truly finished, and which was created at the same time as Tezuka was making one of my favorite books of his, MW, which to me makes a kind of sense. But it wasnвЂ™t until I visited the Osamu Tezuka Museum in Takarazuka that I learned more about who Unico was with a little more added context: an iconic cult character with a strange, complex, and tragic story.

IвЂ™d heard of Unico before, mostly due to the animated films that came to the US in the вЂ™80s. Samuel Sattin: I truly love Osamu TezukaвЂ™s work, and have spent recent years trying to track down as much of it as I can.

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