The daughter of Osamu Tezuka, legendary creator of Astro Boy, Black Jack, and Buddha, recently discovered some of her father’s locked away sketches, including a handful of drawings of a rather voluptuous mouse.
RocketNews24 explains that when Tezuka passed away in 1989, he left behind a locked desk whose key had gone missing. Recently, his daughter Rumiko Tezuka opened the desk and found some previously unseen gems, including sketches of the heroine of his Marvelous Melmo:
キッタナイ紙袋から『ふしぎなメルモ』の原画がどっさり。直筆と資料室の森さんが鑑定。これがまぁ可愛いのなんの！ pic.twitter.com/C0eDkTil6y
— 手塚るみ子 (@musicrobita) March 27, 2014
But she wasn’t familiar with the mouse character from these drawings. According to RocketNews24’s translation, she tweeted, “I’ve got no idea what these were going to be used for.”
ある袋からはエロチックなカットがどっさり発掘。あまりの多さに立ち会った資料室森さんもスタッフも仰天！なかには田中圭一も真っ青な卑猥なイラストもあり、いったい何に使われたカットなのか不明。さすがに公開自主規制。ギリギリ可愛いのだけ。 pic.twitter.com/AmZvJ4ZAMt
— 手塚るみ子 (@musicrobita) March 27, 2014
Certainly nudity is not uncommon in Tezuka’s work, and it looks like this particular character’s figure offered a bit of visual humor; after all, it looks like she’s been swallowed by (or is turning into?) the snake over there on the left. Was this a character Tezuko was working on for a longer work, or just something he drew in private as a bit of sexy fun?
Daughter of Osamu Tezuka, God of Manga, discovers his stash of hand-drawn sexy mouse artwork [RocketNews24]
