1990 adaptation of Osamu Tezuka’s 1974-78 manga
Is this any good? The opening certainly makes it look interesting, but director Hidehito Ueda is a bit hit and miss. Not that I have any means to actually watch it, but it’d be nice to bear it in mind if I run across it in the future.
Obviously it must have been a big influence on 3×3 Eyes, but I can’t help wonder given the timing of the manga Tezuka himself was being influenced by Devilman’s success.
Tezuka In English makes the Nagai connection, but to the earlier Shameless School. While that contains a lot of the traits of Nagai’s later works, the supernatural Jekyll & Hyde aspect that The Three Eyed One has doesn’t seem present there, and is much closer to Nagai’s Devilman and his subsequent return visits to that idea.