I mostly know all these characters from their depictions in Pluto, but seeing their original Tezuka designs is fun! You can definitely tell how much cartoon influence each one has.
as always I want to claim astro boy did it first, but looked it up and discovered the first appearance of robotman (though not yet rocking the leather jacket) predates the publication of the greatest robot on earth by a year. damn!
I'll say I think Tezuka might be inspired by Robotman but he coined the robot detective archetype, cause so far I haven't found anyone earlier than Gesicht
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