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==Production==
Yokoyama's ''Tetsujin'', much like [[Osamu Tezuka]]'s ''[[Astro Boy]]'', was influenced by the artist's wartime experiences. In Yokoyama's case, this was through the [[bombing of Kobe in World War II]].<ref>{{cite book | title = Loving the Machine: The Art and Science of Japanese Robots | last = Hornyak | first = Timothy | year = 2006 | publisher = Kodansha International | isbn = 4-7700-3012-6 | pages = [https://archive.org/details/lovingmachineart0000horn/page/58 58–59] | url = https://archive.org/details/lovingmachineart0000horn/page/58 }}</ref>

As he had written in ''Ushio'' magazine in 1995, "When I was a fifth-grader, the war ended and I returned home from [[Tottori Prefecture]], where I had been evacuated. The city of ''Kobe'' had been totally flattened, reduced to ashes. People said it was because of the [[B-29]] bombers...as a child, I was astonished by their terrifying, destructive power." Another influence on Tetsujin's creation was the [[Vergeltungswaffen]], a set of [[Wunderwaffe|wonder weapons]] designed for long-range strategic bombing during World War II, and the idea that Nazi Germany possessed an "ace in the hole to reverse [its] waning fortunes".<ref>{{cite book | title =Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination | url =https://archive.org/details/millennialmonste00alli
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 |author=Anne Allison, Gary Cross| year = 2006 | publisher = University of California Press | isbn = 0-520-22148-6 |pages = [https://archive.org/details/millennialmonste00alli/page/n125 103]–114 }}</ref> The third work to inspire Yokoyama's creation was the 1931 film ''[[Frankenstein (1931 film)|Frankenstein]]'', which shaped Yokoyama's belief that the monster itself is neither good or evil.