円谷英二
In visual media genre, film studio Toho spawned the Kaiju film genre in 1954 with Godzilla. Eiji Tsuburaya who directed the special effects for Toho's film formed his own studio and created Ultraman in 1966. Tezuka's manga "Astro Boy" (1952-1968) became the first Japanese TV animation series in 1963.