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Osamu Tezuka
Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫, Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 – February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, animator, producer and medical doctor, although he never practiced medicine. Born in Osaka Prefecture, he is best known as the creator of Astro Boy and Kimba the White Lion. He is often credited...
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The Amazing 3
The Amazing 3, known in Japan as W3 or Wonder 3 (ワンダー3, Wandā Surī), is an Osamu Tezuka manga and a black and white anime series. It involves the adventures of three agents from outer space who are sent to Earth to determine whether the planet, a...
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Kimba the White Lion
Jungle Emperor (ジャングル大帝, Janguru Taitei), known in the United States as Kimba the White Lion, is a Japanese anime series from the 1960s. Created by Osamu Tezuka and based on his manga of the same title which began publication in 1950, it was the...
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Black Jack
Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック, Burakku Jakku) is a manga written by Osamu Tezuka in the 1970s, dealing with the medical adventures of the eponymous doctor Black Jack.
Black Jack consists of hundreds of short, self-contained episodes that are typically about...
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Dororo
Dororo (どろろ) is a manga series from the critically acclaimed manga creator Osamu Tezuka in the late 1960s. The anime television series (1969) based on the manga consists of 26 half-hour episodes. It was made into a live-action film in 2007.
During...
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Phoenix
Phoenix (火の鳥, Hi no Tori) is a manga series by Osamu Tezuka. Tezuka considered Phoenix his "life's work"; it consists of 12 books, each of which tells a separate, self-contained story and takes place in a different era. The cycle remains unfinished...
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Adolf
Adolf, known in Japan as Adolf ni Tsugu (アドルフに告ぐ, Adorufu ni Tsugu, literally: "Tell Adolf") is a manga series made by Dr. Osamu Tezuka.
Adolf was published in English by Cadence Books and VIZ Media. The English manga is flipped to read left to...
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Princess Knight
Princess Knight (リボンの騎士, Ribon no Kishi, lit. "Knight of the Ribbon"), , is a Japanese manga that ran through four serializations from 1954 to 1968, as well as a 1967 Japanese children's animated series. It was dubbed into English and brought over...
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Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature
Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (大自然の魔獣 バギ, Daishizen no Majū Bagi) is an anime movie that premiered on the Nippon Television network on August 19, 1984. It was written by Osamu Tezuka as a critique of the Japanese government's approval of...
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Unico
Unico (ユニコ, Yuniko) is a manga and anime character by Osamu Tezuka. Unico is a baby unicorn with white fur, a pink mane, and little cinnamon bun-shaped ears, who was born with the very special gift of making all living creatures lighthearted, and...
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Big X
Big X (ビッグX, Biggu Ekkusu) is a science fiction manga series and an anime series by Osamu Tezuka. The series was based on actual experiments conducted by the Nazis to create secret weapons toward the end of World War II.
Invited to Nazi Germany...
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Ayako
Ayako (奇子) is the name of a manga trilogy by Osamu Tezuka. It was serialized in Big Comic, a manga magazine published by Shogakukan.
The story is about a post-World War II Japanese family, the Tenge, who have to cope with economic and family...
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Nana-iro Inko
Rainbow Parakeet (七色いんこ, Nana-iro Inko) is a manga series created by Osamu Tezuka dealing with the adventures of the eponymous phantom thief.
The manga is collected in seven volumes. It has been published in France by Asuka.
Rainbow Parakeet is a...
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Hosuke Sharaku
Hosuke Sharaku (写楽保介 ,Sharaku Hosuke) is the main character of the Osamu Tezuka manga and anime The Three-Eyed One (Mitsume ga tooru).
In some English versions, Sharaku's name has been "anglicized" to "Shallack".
Hosuke Sharaku is also part of Osamu...
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Ambassador Magma
Ambassador Magma (マグマ大使, Maguma Taishi) is the title and protagonist of a manga and tokusatsu TV series created by famous mangaka Osamu Tezuka. The TV series, produced by P Productions, aired on Fuji TV from July 4, 1966 to September 25, 1967, with...
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Buddha
Buddha (ブッダ, Budda) is a manga drawn by Osamu Tezuka and is Tezuka's unique interpretation of the life of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The critically-acclaimed series is often referred to as a gritty, even sexual, portrayal of the Buddha...
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Fumoon
Fumoon (フウムーン) is a Japanese science-fiction animated movie by Osamu Tezuka. It is based on the manga Nextworld.
Created in a time when the Cold War was becoming hotter, Nextworld is Osamu Tezuka's parody of the tense relationship between the USA ...
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Marvelous Melmo
Marvelous Melmo (ふしぎなメルモ ,Fushigi na Merumo) is a magical girl manga and anime by Osamu Tezuka. This series centered around Melmo, a nine-year-old girl whose mother is killed in an auto accident and has to then take care of her two younger brothers ...
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Lion Books
Lion Books Series (ライオンブックス, Riaon Bukkusu) was a 1950s Japanese manga series published by Shueisha into the Omoshiro Book as a supplement. The same company would publish Lion Books II into Weekly Shōnen Jump in the 1970s, which would commonly be...
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Kureopatora
Cleopatra (クレオパトラ, Kureopatora) is a 1970 Japanese animated film directed by Osamu Tezuka and Eiichi Yamamoto. When the film was released in the United States, American distributors changed the title to Cleopatra: Queen of Sex and released it with a...
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Metropolis
Metropolis (メトロポリス, Metoroporisu) is an anime film released in Japan in 2001 and loosely based on the 1949 Metropolis manga created by the early Osamu Tezuka and also a loose adaptation of the famous silent German film of the same name. The film had...
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Triton of the Sea
Triton of the Sea (海のトリトン, Umi no Toriton) is a manga series created by Osamu Tezuka, and an anime directed by Yoshiyuki Tomino based on the manga. This series, which had 27 episodes, aired from April 1, 1972 to September 30, 1972.
5000 years ago,...
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment (罪と罰, Tsumi To Batsu) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, based on Fyodor Dostoevsky's book Crime and Punishment that was published in 1953.
This is a manga version of the classic Russian novel Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky....
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Diary of Ma-chan
Diary of Ma-chan (マアチャンの日記帳, Maachan no Nikkichō) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1946.
Diary of Ma-chan is a collection of 4-panel comic strips about the everyday adventures of a small pre-school boy named Ma-chan. The manga...
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Don Dracula
Don Dracula (ドン・ドラキュラ, Don Dorakyura) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1979.
After living in Transylvania for several years, "Earl Dracula" (as Osamu Tezuka's official website calls him in English) has moved to Japan. (The...
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Duke Goblin
Duke Goblin (ゴブリン公爵, Goburin Kōshaku) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1985.
In the story, a Japanese boy named Chinki has a dream where he foresees the future. In it, he has excavated a bronze giant from the ruins of Angyang...
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Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (海底超特急 マリン・エクスプレス, Kaitei Choutokkyuu Marin Ekusupuresu) is a made for TV anime movie created for the Nippon Television Network's annual 24-hour charity program, "Ai wa Chikyu wo Suku", which roughly translates...
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Ode to Kirihito
Ode to Kirihito (きりひと讃歌, Kirihito Sanka) is a graphic novel by Osamu Tezuka. It was originally serialized in Big Comic in Japan 1970-1971 and was published in English translation in 2006 by Vertical Inc.
This series is about a heroic young doctor...
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Apollo's Song
Apollo's Song (アポロの歌, Aporo no Uta) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka. It was originally serialized in Shukan Shōnen Kingu in Japan in 1970 (1970/04/26-1970/11/22) and was published in English translation in 2007.
The story follows a neglected and abused...
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Galaxy Boy Troop
Galaxy Boy Troop was a children's TV series created by Osamu Tezuka that combined marionettes with traditional animation. It ran for two seasons from April 7, 1963 to April 1, 1965, for a total of 92 episodes. The series also aired in France as "Le...
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