List of Osamu Tezuka anime

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]

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Film

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

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

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

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

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

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

TV series

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

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

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

References

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

Osamu Tezuka

Manga
1940s	Diary of Ma-chan (1946) Shin Takarajima (1947) Lost World (1948) Angel Gunfighter (1949) Metropolis (1949)
1950s	Faust (1950) Kimba the White Lion (1950–1954) Nextworld (1951) Age of Adventure (1951–1953) Ambassador Atom (1951–1952) The Fossil Island (1951) The Adventure of Rock (1952–1954) Astro Boy (1952–1968) Crime and Punishment (1953) Princess Knight (1953–1956) Chief Detective Kenichi (1954–1956) The Devil of the Earth (1954) Lion Books (1956–1957) Biiko-chan (1957) The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight (1958) The Film Lives On (1958–1959) Peacock Shell (1958) The Twin Knights (1958) Dr. Thrill (1959) The Merchant of Venice (1959) Song of the White Peacock (1959)
1960s	Angel's Hill (1960–1961) Captain Ken (1960–1961) Brave Dan (1962) Big X (1963–1966) Princess Knight (1963–1966) The Amazing 3 (1965–1966) Ambassador Magma (1965–1967) The Vampires (1966–1967) Dororo (1967–1969) Gum Gum Punch (1967–1969) Phoenix (1967–1988) Princess Knight (1967–1968) Activist Student (1968) Grand Dolls (1968) Swallowing the Earth (1968–1969) The Crater (1969–1970) Triton of the Sea (1969–1971)
1970s	Alabaster (1970–1971) Apollo's Song (1970) Bomba! (1970) The Book of Human Insects (1970–1971) Marvelous Melmo (1970–1972) Ode to Kirihito (1970–1971) Birdman Anthology (1971–1975) Lion Books II (1971–1973) Little Wansa (1971–1972) Serenade of a Pig's Navel (1971) Ayako (1972–1973) Buddha (1972–1983) Lay of the Rhine (1972) Lord Iechika Mogami (1972) The Moon and Wolves (1972) Old Folk's Home (1972) Black Jack (1973–1983) Microid S (1973) The Record of Peter Kürten (1973) Sensual Nights (1973) Son of Godfather (1973) The Three-Eyed One (1974–1978) Boy Detective Zumbera (1975) Rainbow Prelude (1975) MW (1976–1978) Unico (1976–1979) Don Dracula (1979) Insect Collector (1979) Insect Collector – The Butterfly Road Smells of Death (1979) The Thief Akikazu Inoue (1979)
1980s	Hidamari no Ki (1981–1986) Rainbow Parakeet (1981–1983) Spaceship Ringel Rock (1982) Suspicion (1982) Volcanic Eruption (1982) Message to Adolf (1983–1985) Peace Concert (1984) Duke Goblin (1985–1986) Gringo (1987–1989) Ludwig B (1987–1989)

Anime
1960s	Alakazam the Great (1960) Astro Boy (1963–1966) Big X (1964–1965) The Amazing 3 (1965–1966) Kimba the White Lion (1965–2009) Leo the Lion (1966–1967) Gokū no Daibōken (1967) Princess Knight (1967–1999) Dororo (1969) A Thousand and One Nights (1969)
1970s	Cleopatra (1970) Marvelous Melmo (1971–1972) Triton of the Sea (1972–1979) Belladonna of Sadness (1973) Little Wansa (1973) Microid S (1973) Jetter Mars (1977) Undersea Super Train: Marine Express (1979) Unico (1979–1983)
1980s	Astro Boy (1980–1981) Fumoon (1980) Phoenix 2772 (1980) Don Dracula (1982) The Green Cat (1983) Bagi, the Monster of Mighty Nature (1984) Lunn Flies into the Wind (1985) The Three-Eyed One (1985–1991) Phoenix (1986–2004) Yamataro Comes Back (1986) Blue Blink (1989–1990) The New Adventures of Kimba The White Lion (1989–1990) Rain Boy (1989)
1990s	Adachi-ga Hara (1991) Akuemon (1993) Ambassador Magma (1993) Black Jack (1993–2011) In the Beginning: The Bible Stories (1997) Jungle Emperor Leo (1997)
2000s	Hidamari no Ki (2000) Metropolis (2001) Astro Boy (2003–2005) Phoenix (2004) Astro Boy: Mighty Atom – Visitor of 100,000 Light Years, IGZA (2005) Astro Boy (2009) Ravex in Tezuka World (2009)
2010s	Buddha (2011–2014) Dororo (2019) Phoenix: Eden17 (2023)

Characters
Astro Boy Black Jack Hosuke Sharaku Rock Robita List of Astro Boy characters

Related
Animerama Galaxy Boy Troop Mushi Production Star System Tezuka Award Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Tezuka Productions The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime Tokiwa-sō

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