Shotaro Ishinomori's wordless, semi-autobiographical manga Jun: Shotaro no Fantasy World served as the inspiration for an animated short produced by Takuya Inaba and distributed by the Ishinomori Manga Museum. The short was motivated by the desire of Ishinomaki, Ishinomori's hometown, to honor the work while also honoring the ongoing reconstruction and recovery of Ishinomaki following the Tohoku earthquake and tsunami in March 2011.