Use two of Tezuka Osamu’s animes and two Disney’s cartoons as case study, Compare and Contrast – Astroy Boy, Black Jack (1973-83)(the little girl Pinoco) & Disney’s Pinocchio（1940）；Kimba the White Lion & Disney’s The Lion King to discuss and argue – How Disney affected Tezuka Osamu, in terms of Hybridity(Japan/Tezuka’s “strategic hybridism” ) and then Japanese Anime become globally popular, creates its own genre, independent from Disney or any other western cartoon – how Tezuka managed to preserve Japneseness or ethno-nationalism whilst taking inspirations from Disney, and in the end, successfully made Japanese Anime culture global “From the eastern Disney to advance/marketed to a global industry” and gained its own reputation, style, fandom and etc.
