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A chronological selection of the most important works of Osamu Tezuka, a timeless influential figure on the medium and one of the greatest artists of all time.

These entries are listed keeping in mind its historical relevance, their context in Tezuka's life, and their overall influence on the mangascape. I believe the following titles would help you understand more about his style, life, and contribution to Japanese media. It is not comprehensive and should be treated as a jumping point for such a colorful career.

Most of these titles are available in English.

Tezuka sources you can check out:
The Osamu Tezuka Story - Toshio Ban
Frederik Schodt's writings on Tezuka - I highly recommend Manga! Manga! The World of Japanese Comics
The Art of Osamu Tezuka: The God of Manga - Helen McCarthy
Tezuka in English website

Here's some works that either center on birds or have them as important side-kicks. I tried to make this list mostly light-hearted.

Note: arranged in the order of release. Some of the titles are NSFW.

Work in progress!

Not found on MAL: Chouruizufu(2000), OL Hatopoppo(2011), Koitomo!?(2012), I Don't Want to Say I'm a Chicken(2012), Kami-sama no Susumori(2014), Habatake! Moukin Apato(2016), Uzura no jikan(2018).

List of manga that have been performed by Takarazuka Revue

manga that implicitly or explicitly portray Christianity.

remembering that Japan is a predominantly Buddhist, Shintoist or, in most cases, atheist country.

If you want to se the Anime version, follow this link:
https://myanimelist.net/stacks/54932

Most of the shoujo manga made by men were created in the 50's, 60's and 70's. Back in those days it wasn't out of the ordinary. The father of manga himself, Osamu Tezuka, created many shoujo manga, including the famous Ribbon no Kishi (Princess Knight).

After the 70's, shoujo manga created by men became a very rare occurrence with the only ones remaining being horror mangaka like Junji Ito, Umezu Kazuo and Morohoshi Daijirou publishing in horror shoujo mangazines.

On the other hand, shounen manga created by women became a common occurrence, kick-started by the influential Rumiko Takahashi beginning with Urusei Yatsura in 1978.

A shoujo manga means a comic published in a magazine targeted towards the
young female demographic (under 18) in Japan.

Josei means a comic published in a magazine targeted towards the mature female demographic in Japan.

Europe of classical antiquity, between history and myth in ancient Greece and Rome

I've put together a list of manga written by Tezuka Osamu, that was officially licensed and released in physical or digital format in the English language (mostly from North American releases). Tezuka's works in English are a mix of titles still being printed and circulated, and out of print. There are a varity of editions from comic book 'floppies', softback, hardbacks, and even boxed collections! This is a fan guide to figure out if the copies you are reading or buying are from legitimate sources.

This list is NOT complete, I'm merely one person and have probably missed a title or two.

Notes about Publisher's: Vertical Inc. was acquired by Kodansha USA in 2011, and fully absorbed in 2020. Any titles that were licensed to Vertical Inc. are currently distributed digitally via Kodansha USA with infrequent reprintings.

Digital Manga Publishing (DMP), and Digital Manga Guild Publishing/Publication (DMGP) are two branches of the same company as far as I am aware. DMP tends to be physical copies, DMGP is digital copies. Physical copies are sold via their website eManga, and Amazon. Digital copies can be found on eManga, via the following statement:

"eManga is Digital Manga, Inc.'s own one stop online shop for manga, originally established back in 2008. Providing manga both digitally (in a variety of downloadable formats) and physically, in 2018, eManga merged with DMI's print store - Akadot - to house everything in one place". [taken from eManga's website]

NOT LISTED IN DATABASE
+"Shakespeare Manga Theater", Ablaze Manga, 2024.
Stories included: The Merchant of Venice, Robio and Robiette from Astro Boy, Macbeth from Vampires, Hamlet from Rainbow Parakeet, The Taming of the Shrew from Rainbow Parakeet, Othello from Rainbow Parakeet. As well as essays, afterword commentary and more.
Digital version on Azuki: https://www.azuki.co/series/shakespeare-manga-theatre

TITLES THAT WILL BE ADDED IN A VOLUME TWO:
-Tetsuwan Atom Bekkan, 2002-2004 including with the Dark Horse edition of "Astro Boy".
-Vampires, 2024 select chapters via "Shakespeare Manga Theater".
-Rainbow Parakeet, 2024 selection chapters via "Shakespeare Manga Theater".

If you have more information on titles available to add to this list, please shoot me a DM and I'll add it accordingly. The more information you can provide, links, dates, etc the better off we as collectors will be!

pre-90s shoujo manga that has been officially published in english (physically and/or digitally) some are out of print.

missing titles
the v sign (1968)
pairazada (1984)

Just a list of Shojo and Josei manga that began publishing before 1990 that have been officially published in english, although some are Out of Print or from defunct digital publishers and thus are no longer legally available.

I can't seem to add this one, but Sign wa V!/The V Sign! (1969) was officially published as well (https://myanimelist.net/manga/125803/Sign_wa_V)

This one isn't in the MyAnimeList database, but Pairazahda/Pairazada (1984) is legally published and available digitally in english (https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07757Y1X9?ref_=dbs_m_cmx_rwt_calw_tkin_0&storeType=ebooks)

(database entry: https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/yrzhtz5/pairazada)

Some Pre-1990s Shojo stories without database entries from Moto Hagio were published in the English Anthology "A Drunken Dream and Other Stories". These include Angel Mimic/Tenshi no Gitai (1984), Autumn Journey/Aki no Tabi (1971), and Girl on Porch with Puppy/Pochi de Shōjo ga Koinu to (1971). (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Drunken_Dream_and_Other_Stories)

Himitsu no Akko-chan was published in Japan in a Bilingual English edition intended to be an english-learning aide to japanese people.

The Shojo stories Plus 1 (1986) and Purple (1985) from Ciao magazine were published in english in Animerica Extra's Short Program Volume 1 Anthology which was later released in its own collected volume in the US (https://myanimelist.net/manga/1443/Short_Program).

This is a list of the Shojo and Josei manga licenses held by Viz that are not under the Shojo Beat or older Viz Shojo labels. These include some digital-only Viz Select licenses they got after TokyoPop went under as well as ones published under the plain Viz or Viz Signature labels. Otherwise, these titles are under either Viz Signature or Viz Media imprints.

*X by CLAMP has been published under both the Viz Shojo imprint (singles) and the Viz media imprint (omnibi)

*Many of Junji Ito's short stories were published in the shojo magazines Nemuki and Halloween, and have been mixed into his seinen horror in the Viz hardcover releases for his works. So those are shojo that have not been released under Viz Shojo or Shojo Beat.