Storytelling

Miyazaki didn’t reinvent animation—he reasserted it as a single, unbroken act of human attention.

Tezuka didn’t invent manga—he weaponised it as cinema on paper, then taught others how to do the same.

Stan Lee didn’t invent superheroes—he reinvented them as broke, insecure, quarrelsome New Yorkers.

Manga isn’t Japanese comics—it’s a 12th-century art form that got renamed, repackaged, and rebranded three times before becoming a magazine industry.