Osamu Tezuka – Page 2 – The Manga Critic

7 Short Series Worth Adding to Your Manga Bookshelf

Posted on February 23, 2011

I like getting lost in a long, twisty story as much as the next person, but I often lose interest…

Posted on December 21, 2010

For the English-language reader interested in learning more about Osamu Tezuka, there’s a growing body of scholarship exploring his life…

Posted on December 19, 2010

What Osamu Tezuka’s New Treasure Island (1946) was to shonen, his Princess Knight (1953-56) was to shojo. Both were long-form…

Posted on December 17, 2010

Ayako is an odd beast. Structurally, it resembles a Russian realist novel, using a once-powerful family of landowners to embody…

Posted on December 15, 2010

Black Jack practices a different kind of medicine than the earnest physicians on Grey’s Anatomy or ER, taking cases that…