I had forgotten until I saw this comment but now I distinctly remember a game where you were supposed to make a cake for a pig by following steps like putting the correct ingredients into the mixer. My sister and I used to repeatedly mess up the cake on purpose because the pig would eat it no matter what and we found it hilarious to feed him awful cakes made entirely of burnt eggshells.
It’s pretty common not to have heard of his works, Astro Boy is the only one that made it over to the West but it’s never gotten a ton of attention. I remember the 2003 series got some play on Saturday mornings and Toonami but it was really short-lived.
Pluto which came out on Netflix late last year is a reinterpretation of an Astro boy arc that’s done fairly well.
MAPPA also made a great anime adaptation of Dororo a few years ago but it mostly flew under the radar.