Besides Kurumada, other renowned manga artists that resort to the master Tezuka's technique include legendary authors Leiji Matsumoto, Monkey Punch and Shōtarō Ishinomori or Clamp. Clamp was heavily influenced by Kurumada's works, and they began their career as manga authors creating doujinshi based on Kurumada's characters. It is also known that anime adaptations aren't much to his liking, he prefers manga. He agreed that his works "Fūma no Kojirō", "Saint Seiya", "Ring ni Kakero" and "B't X" were adapted to anime, to follow the long-time tradition of popular manga having an animated adaptation.