Other Organisms

Lolo-Lulu is based on the Martians, Mr. Rollo and Mr. Lulu who appeared in Juzo Unno's novel "Martian Corps".

With a kingfisher-like laughter, Butanagi seems to be a seahorse-like prototype of a pigeonfish, but is actually said to be the pupa of the wild boar.

Hyoutan-Tsugi actually represents the fruiting body of a kind of Japanese mushroom, and is based on a sketch Tezuka’s sister did when she was very young. This strange little figure has become Tezuka’s signature, in a way, appearing in essentially every work he ever wrote in some strange form or another.