![]() They helped Tezuka pen the last pages of Kimba the White Lion during that period. ![]() Tezuka's standards was so high that even under close inspection they couldn't tell what was wrong with the material. Later they recalled seeing a stack of papers few feet high at Tezuka's house which were rejects of his comic pages. Tezuka (of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion fame) after coming to Tokyo like so many young comic artists of the time. ![]() They were mentored briefly by the late Osamu. In 1952 they made a comic titled "Tenshi no Tamachan" and two years later they moved to Tokyo to pursue their professional career. He was impressed by the intelligence and thorough nature of Abiko's story writing style even at that age, and started to draw comic together (although only as a hobby at the time) which continued for over the next 40 years. Born as Fujimoto Hiroshi, he met his future comic drawing partner Abiko Motoo when he was in fifth grade at an elementary school in his native Toyama.
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