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Osamu Tezuka

Born Nov. 3, 1928
Toyonaka, Osaka, Japan
Died Feb. 9, 1989, aged 60

Osamu Tezuka (手塚治虫, Tezuka Osamu) is a Japanese cartoonist, manga artist, and animator, often dubbed as the "Godfather of Anime". He was the originator of anime's trademark "large eyes" style of character drawing. Five years after his death, the Osamu Tezuka Manga Museum opened.

155 titles
129 Writing
30 Directing
16 Crew

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Writing (129)

Astro Boy (2009)

Author

Dororo (2019)

Comic book

Metropolis (2001)

Comic book

PLUTO (2023)

Original story

Dororo (2007)

Comic book

Astro Boy (1980)

Comic book / Screenplay

Buddha: The Great Departure (2011)

Author

Jungle Emperor Leo (1997)

Original story

Young Black Jack (2015)

Characters

Jumping (1984)

Screenplay

A Thousand and One Nights (1969)

Original story

Broken Down Film (1985)

Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)

Idea / Screenstory / Original story

Black Jack: The Movie (1996)

Comic book

Buddha 2: The Endless Journey (2014)

Author

MW (2009)

Novel / Original story

Tezuka's Barbara (2020)

Comic book

The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (1981)

Story

Phoenix 2772 (1980)

Screenplay / Original story

THE RIBBON HERO (2026)

Original story

Kimba the White Lion (1965)

Alakazam the Great! (1960)

Comic book

Astro Boy (2003)

Comic book / Original story

Pieta in the Toilet (2015)

Original concept

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Astro Boy (1963)

Comic book

Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984)

Screenplay

Phoenix: Eden17 (2023)

Comic book

Tales of a Street Corner (1962)

Animated Self-Portraits (1989)

Princess Knight (1967)

Original story / Comic book

Astro Boy vs The Junkyard Pirates (2010)

Comic book

Memory (1964)

Story

Mermaid (1964)

Original concept

Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad (1962)

Jungle Emperor (1966)

Comic book

Unico in the Island of Magic (1983)

Black Jack: The Two Doctors in Black (2005)

Original story

One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978)

Storyboard

Atom: The Beginning (2017)

Original concept / Characters

Black Jack (1993)

Original Series Creator / Comic book

Dororo and Hyakkimaru (1969)

Comic book

Legend of the Forest (1987)

Storyboard / Scenario Writer

Don Dracula (1982)

Original concept

Unico: Black Cloud and White Feathers (1979)

A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose (1983)

Original story

Black Jack (2004)

Comic book

Phoenix: Space Chapter (1987)

Comic book

The Phoenix (1978)

Comic book

Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)

Story

Adachi-ga Hara (1991)

Comic book

Phoenix: Karma Chapter (1986)

Author

Sleeping Bride (2000)

Novel

Triton of the Sea (1979)

Comic book

Triton of the Sea (1972)

Original concept / Comic book

Akuemon (1993)

Original story

Black Jack (2024)

Comic book

Black Jack: The Visitor in the Eye (1977)

Original story

Dororo (1968)

Comic book

Phoenix: Yamato Chapter (1987)

Comic book

Apollo's Song (2025)

Original story

Bremen 4: Angels in Hell (1981)

Original story / Screenplay

Jetter Mars (1977)

Original story

Marvelous Melmo (1971)

Rain Boy (1983)

Author

Astro Boy: The Brave In Space (1964)

Comic book / Scenario Writer

Blue Blink (1989)

Goku's Adventure (1967)

In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1992)

Series Composition

Jungle Emperor: Courage Changes the Future (2009)

Comic book

Phoenix (2004)

Comic book

PHOENIX: Reminiscence of Flower (2023)

Comic book

Tenguri, Boy of the Plains (1977)

Story

The Green Cat (1983)

Comic book

The Three-Eyed One: The Prince of Devil Island (1985)

Original story

Young Black Jack (2011)

Novel

Fumoon (1980)

Comic book

Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet (1986)

Screenplay

Go Astro Boy Go! (2019)

Characters

Space Journey: The First Dream of Wonder-kun (1969)

The Tree In Sunlight (2000)

Original story

Yamataro Comes Back (1986)

Comic book

Astro Boy: ZZZ Fuhrer (1960)

Comic book

Kimba the White Lion: Symphonic Poem (1991)

Comic book

Little Astro Boy (2014)

Comic book

MW: The Devil's Game (2009)

Comic book

Princess Knight (1999)

Original story

The Three-eyed One (1990)

Comic book

W3 (1965)

Astro Boy: Ivan's Planet - Robot and Human Friendship (2003)

Characters

Big X (1964)

Original story

Black Jack: The Boy Who Came from the Sky (2000)

Comic book

Leo the Lion (1966)

Little Wansa (1973)

Original story

New Treasure Island (1965)

Wonder Beat Scramble (1986)

手塚治虫の戦争 (2026)

A Tree In The Sun (2012)

Original story

Adventures of the Monkey King (1966)

Characters

Astro Boy: Mighty Atom – Visitor of 100,000 Light Years, IGZA (2005)

Comic book

Astro Boy: Shinsengumi (2001)

Characters

Astro Boy: The Glorious Earth (2004)

Characters

Astro Boy: Volume of the Blue Knight (1999)

Characters

Black Jack (1996)

Original story / Comic book

Black Jack 2: Pinoko I Love You (1996)

Original story / Comic book

Black Jack 3: Black Mirror Image (1996)

Original story

Black Jack: A Lucky Bet / Phoenix (1994)

Original concept

Black Jack: Capital Transfer to Heian (2000)

Comic book

Black Jack: Dr. Pinoko's Forest Adventure (2005)

Comic book / Original concept

Brave Fire S09 (1987)

Garon (2013)

Comic book

Jungle Emperor Leo: Hon-o-ji (2000)

Comic book

Legend of the Forest: 2nd Movement (2014)

Little Wansa (1989)

Novel

Microid S (1973)

Original story

Misuke in the Land of Ice (1970)

Neo Faust (1999)

Original story

Norman (1968)

Phoenix: "Dougo Onsen" Chapter (2019)

Comic book

Phoenix: Bonds Chapter (2012)

Comic book

Phoenix: Robe of Feathers (2004)

Comic book

Princess Knight - The Musical (2015)

Original story

The Amazing Three Pilot (1965)

The Book of Human Insects

Comic book

The Secret of Astro Boy’s Birth (2003)

Characters

Till a City Beneath the Sea is Built (1969)

Original concept

Vampires (1968)

Original story

手塚治虫実験アニメーション作品集 (1962)

手塚治虫の戦争 (2026)

Comic book

Directing (30)

Astro Boy (1980)

Jumping (1984)

Broken Down Film (1985)

Cleopatra: Queen of Sex (1970)

The Fantastic Adventures of Unico (1981)

Astro Boy (1963)

Series Director

Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984)

Animated Self-Portraits (1989)

Memory (1964)

Mermaid (1964)

Muramasa (1987)

The Drop (1965)

One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book (1978)

Legend of the Forest (1987)

Self Portrait (1988)

Push (1987)

Pictures at an Exhibition (1966)

Bremen 4: Angels in Hell (1981)

Cigarettes and Ashes (1965)

Rain Boy (1983)

The Green Cat (1983)

Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet (1986)

Lunn Flies into the Wind (1985)

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Yamataro Comes Back (1986)

Big X (1964)

New Treasure Island (1965)

Brave Fire S09 (1987)

Norman (1968)

銀河少年隊 (1963)

Crew (16)

Black Jack: The Movie (1996)

Creation

Black Jack: The Two Doctors in Black (2005)

Creation

Phoenix: Space Chapter (1987)

Creation

Popotan (2003)

Compositors

Adachi-ga Hara (1991)

Creation

Dororo (1968)

Creation

Phoenix: Yamato Chapter (1987)

Creation

Young Black Jack (2011)

Creation

Lunn Flies into the Wind (1985)

Creation

Saving Our Fragile Earth: Unico Special Chapter (2000)

Creation

Osamu Tezuka's Last Mystery of the 20th Century (2000)

Creation

Wonder Beat Scramble (1986)

Medical Consultant

Osamu Tezuka Tribute - "I Animated Tezuka's Characters" (2017)

Creation

Phoenix: Robe of Feathers (2004)

Creation

The Space Giants (1967)

Creation

火の鳥 (1977)

Script

Creation (13)

Dororo (2019)

Astro Boy (1980)

Don Dracula (1982)

Triton of the Sea (1972)

Marvelous Melmo (1971)

Goku's Adventure (1967)

In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1992)

Ambassador Magma (1993)

The Three-eyed One (1990)

W3 (1965)

Leo the Lion (1966)

Galaxy Boy Troop

手塚治虫実験アニメーション作品集 (1962)

Production (10)

A Thousand and One Nights (1969)

Executive production

Phoenix 2772 (1980)

Tales of a Street Corner (1962)

Cigarettes and Ashes (1965)

Astro Boy: The Brave In Space (1964)

Fumoon (1980)

The Kindly Lion (1970)

Executive production

W3 (1965)

Misuke in the Land of Ice (1970)

Visual effects (10)

Phoenix 2772 (1980)

Key Animation

Mermaid (1964)

Animation

Thumbelina (1978)

Character Designer

A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose (1983)

Character Designer

Animation

The Phoenix (1978)

Animation

Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979)

Character Designer

Bremen 4: Angels in Hell (1981)

Character Designer / Key Animation

In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1992)

Character Designer

The Tale of Osamu Tezuka: I'm Son-Goku (1989)

Character Designer

Acting (4)

Monster Heaven (1986)

Brave Fire S09 (1987)

Narrator (voice)

Osamu and Musashi (1994)

Main

Vampires (1968)

手塚治虫

Appearances (3)

Osamu Tezuka: Secrets of Creation (1985)

Himself

Animation Maestro Gisaburo (2012)

Self

Manga World (2005)

Self (archive)