tezuka parade of values
Our unplanned Osamu Tezuka January jag continues! Let’s take a seek for at some offbeat merchandise from Tezuka-impressed anime sequence; particularly JUNGLE EMPEROR, which as KIMBA THE WHITE LION unless you tag it as LEO THE LION. Which is rarely truly truly the same elaborate, but a sequel. The 1965 KIMBA sequence was the first coloration frigid gripping film made expressly for Jap television, and served as the inspiration for a good deal of tributes, imitations, and merchandise, including this gorgeous Leo gentle.

No, severely, that’s what it was marketed as, the “Magnificent Leo Gentle”.



In the end within the mid 1980s my brother went out to L.A. He picked this lamp up on the fabled “Pony Toy-Waddle-Spherical”. And sure, it mute works!

And if discovering out by the gentle of the Magnificent Leo Gentle makes you hungry for sweet, you would also in any appreciate times possess some Jungle Emperor Ju-C-Double sweet, delivered factual from Leo’s neck.




I picked this up at a now-defunct Jap grocery retailer in Doraville GA and sure, I ate all the sweet. As an imitation Pez, the Ju-C initiating system sports actions softer plastic construction and a less sturdy sweet-feed mechanism than its European counterpart. On the opposite hand, it parts the exasperated head of Leo, within the face of which all objections vanish.

At the same time as you occur to are done with the sweet, Leo’s head can also be mounted trophy-vogue atop your licensed pencil in college.

Take into account moms, this sweet is accredited by Osamu Tezuka himself – and he’s a doctor!



As soon as your Tezuka themed taking a seek for expedition is full, your purchases will fit neatly interior your Astro Boy plastic bag.



This one was picked up within the mid 80s on the Philadelphia retailer “Heaven”, which featured a paunchy line of Astro Boy T-shirts and Set apart of dwelling Giants and Godzilla monster toys, alongside thousands of magnets, toy robots, and diverse glorious kitschy goodness. A more aptly-named retail institution would be hard to earn.


-Dave Merrill

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