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List of Osamu Tezuka anime

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This is a list of Osamu Tezuka's notable anime work in chronological order.

This list of anime includes all those listed on Tezuka's official site[1] as well as others that are directly based on his work, but not listed on the site yet. The English translations of the names used are from the original names found on the official Osamu Tezuka website.[1]

Film

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Year Title Notes
1960 Journey to the West
1962 Arabian Nights: The Adventures of Sinbad
1963 Doggie March Wrote the original story[2]
1964 Astro Boy: The Brave in Space
1966 Kimba the White Lion
1969 A Thousand and One Nights First film in the Animerama series.
1970 Cleopatra Second film in the Animerama series.
1970 The Kindly Lion
1973 Belladonna of Sadness Third and final film in the Animerama series
1978 The Phoenix: Chapter of Dawn
1978 World Masterpiece Fairy Tales: Princess Thumbelina Tezuka provided the character designs for this animated feature.
1979 Triton of the Sea
1980 Phoenix 2772
1981 Fantastic Adventures of Unico, The
1983 Unico in the Island of Magic
1990 The Film is Alive
1991 Adachi-Ga Hara
1996 Black Jack: The Movie
1997 Jungle Emperor Leo
1999 Neo Faust Incomplete
2001 Metropolis Based on the manga of the same name
2005 Black Jack: The Two Doctors of Darkness
2009 Astro Boy Imagi Animation Studios & Summit Entertainment
2011 Buddha

Pilot film

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Year Title Notes
1966 Adventures of the Monkey King
1966 Princess Knight
1967 Flying Ben
1968 Dororo
1968 Gum Gum Punch
1968 Norman
1968 Zero-Man
1971 Blue Triton
1979 Unico: Black Cloud, White Feather
1987 Brave Fire S09

Experimental film

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Year Title Notes
Party Incomplete
1962 Male
1962 Tales of a Street Corner
1964 Memory
1964 Mermaid
1965 Cigarettes and Ashes
1965 Drop, The
1966 Pictures at an Exhibition
1968 Genesis
1984 Jumping
1985 Broken Down Film
1987 Legend of the Forest, Part I
1987 Muramasa
1987 Push
1988 Self-Portrait
1995 Mosquito Incomplete

PR film

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Year Title Notes
1970 Misuke in the Land of Ice
1970 Once Upon a Time
1971 Misuke in Southern
1977 Tenguri, the Boy of the Plains
1987 Okazaki City in 70 Years

Tezuka Osamu World film

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Year Title Notes
1996 Black Jack: Capital Transfer to Heian
1999 Princess Knight
2000 Jungle Emperor: Hon-o-ji
2001 Astro Boy: Shinsen-gumi
2001 Unico Special Chapter: Saving Our Fragile Earth

OAV

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Year Title Notes
1983 Green Cat, The
1985 Lunn Flies into the Wind
1986 Phoenix: Karma Chapter
1986 Yamataro Comes Back
1987 Phoenix: Space Chapter
1987 Phoenix: Yamato Chapter
1989 Rain Boy
1991 Symphonic Poem: Jungle Emperor Leo
1993 Akuemon
1993 Ambassador Magma OAV series
1993 Black Jack OAV series
1995 Essays on Insects
2000 Black Jack: Child from the Sky This anime was originally produced as a supplement for, and was included with two volumes of the manga, in the Black Jack Limited Edition Box released in Japan on March 22, 2000.

Television

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TV series

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Year Title Notes
1963 Astro Boy
1963 Galaxy Boy Troop
1964 Big X Produced by Tokyo Movie.
1965 The Amazing 3
1965 Jungle Emperor
1966 New Jungle Emperor, Go Ahead Leo!
1967 Goku's Great Adventures
1967 Princess Knight
1969 Dororo
1969 The Vampire
1971 Marvelous Melmo
1972 Triton of the Sea
1973 Microid S
1973 Wansa-kun
1977 Jetter Mars
1980 Astro Boy
1982 Don Dracula
1989 Blue Blink
1989 Jungle Emperor
1990 The Three-Eyed One First project from Tezuka Productions approved after Tezuka's death
1997 In the Beginning: The Bible Stories Produced from 1984 to 1992; co-production with Radiotelevisione Italiana (Italy)
2000 Tree in the Sun
2003 Astro Boy Tezuka did not work on this Astro Boy installment due to his death on February 9, 1989.
However, he was still credited.
2003 Black Jack: The 4 Miracles of Life Miniseries
2004 Black Jack
2004 Phoenix
2006 Black Jack 21
2015 Young Black Jack
2017 Atom: The Beginning
2019 Dororo

TV special

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Year Title Notes
1965 New Treasure Island Based on the manga of the same name;
First one-hour animated TV special produced in Japan
1969 Astro Boy vs. the Giants
1969 Till a City Beneath the Sea Is Built
1972 Space Journey: The First Dream of Wonder-Kun

Produced for Nippon TV's 24 hour TV Love Saves the Earth charity program

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Year Title Notes
1978 One Million-Year Trip: Bander Book First two-hour animated TV special produced in Japan
1979 Undersea Super Train: Marine Express
1980 Fumoon Based on the manga Nextworld
1981 Bremen 4: Angels in Hell Based on the fairy tale "Town Musicians of Bremen" by the Brothers Grimm
1983 A Time Slip of 10,000 Years: Prime Rose Originally conceived and planned first before the manga it was based on was published
1984 Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature
1985 The Prince of Devil Island: The Three-Eyed One Produced by Toei Animation instead of Tezuka Pro
1986 Galaxy Investigation 2100: Border Planet
1989 The Tezuka Osamu Story: I Am Son-goku Tezuka died at the time of the planning

See also

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References

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  1. ^ a b Anime section of TezukaOsamu@World
  2. ^ "Doggie March". Tezuka Osamu Official. Retrieved 1 November 2023.