I am a long time fan of Tezuka's work and Buddha is my number 1 favorite story from Tezuka. While the stories are a bit different from each other they both hold beautiful artwork, messages and a wonderful tale. While Tezuka's manga shows humor occasionally the Anime stays quite serious. The anime's timeline is messed up compared to the Manga but I love both stories as not the same entity but as two separate telling's of the same story. Many people seem to trash this as fans of the original Manga but I am sure many animation fans enjoy Howl's Moving Castle without ever reading the original story I grew up reading the original story of Howl's Moving Castle which is much different from the movie just as I grew up with Buddha which is much different story. Both stories are good I recommend this movie to anybody.