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Tezuka Productions
Founded in 1968
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手塚プロダクション
Founded
January 23, 1968
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  1. Comedy
  2. Harem
  3. Romance
  4. School
  1. Tezuka Productions
Jan 10, 2019 at 11:33am EST

Futaro Uesugi, a high school second-year from a poor family, receives a highly appealing offer to work part-time as a tutor... but his students turn out to be girls from his own class! What's more, they're quintuplets... and all five are beautiful, but happen to be problem students who have borderline grades and hate studying! Looks like his first assignment will be to win all the sisters' trust?! Every day is a wild party in this rom-com centering around the quintuplet sisters of the Nakano household!

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Action
  2. Adventure
  3. Historical
  4. Mythology
  5. Supernatural
  1. Tezuka Productions
  2. MAPPA
Jan 6, 2019 at 10:00am EST

※ NOTE: First episode premiered on Amazon Prime Video in Japan ahead of broadcasting

During the Warring States period, the young thief Dororo encounters the enigmatic Hyakkimaru, a strange sightless boy who wields fearsome prosthetics in place of his missing limbs. Parts of Hyakkimaru’s body, skin and organs were traded to a group of 12 demons by his father in exchange for power and prosperity. Thanks to a kindly medicine man, Hyakkimaru survived this horrifying ordeal and now wanders the land in search of his missing body parts. Together, he and Dororo will fight to survive in a demon-plagued, dangerous and unforgiving world.

[Source: HIDIVE]

  1. Comedy
  2. Ecchi
  3. Fantasy
  4. Harem
  5. Isekai
  6. Magic
  1. Tezuka Productions
  2. Okuruto Noboru
Apr 8, 2021 at 12:28pm EDT

※ NOTE: Second season of How NOT to Summon a Demon Lord

After being summoned to another world as his character from a game, Diablo (Real Name: Sakamoto Takuma), enjoys life in a world just like his game where two women, Shera and Rem, both insist, “I’m the one who summoned him!”

Along the way, he fights the elite soldiers of the elves’ kingdom as well as the Fallen, and even subjugates the Demon Lord Krebskulm, and so on.

He proclaims, “My name is Diablo. A Demon Lord from another world!” and pretends to be a Demon Lord as he faces down powerful foes while occasionally being overwhelmed by the beautiful women with him and building a firm bond of trust between them.

—-Until one day.

Diablo and the others are traveling through the woods around the eastern lake when they encounter a lone girl in tatters.

“A-Are… you a God?”

The woman is Lumachina, a High Priest of the Church being pursued by a Paladin…!

The (pretend) Demon Lord with no social skills plunges into the mess with absolute strength!

These dream-packed tales of a Demon Lord from another world and the women who summoned him begin once again!

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Comedy
  2. Harem
  3. Romance
  4. School
  1. Tezuka Productions
Jul 2, 2021 at 1:25pm EDT

The protagonist, Naoya, is a first-year in high school. He asks out Saki, a girl he has been in love with, and she agrees to be his girlfriend. He's currently on cloud nine.

But then, a beautiful girl named Nagisa comes up to Naoya one day and tells him that she wants to go out with him.

Naoya feels himself wavering because Nagisa is such a good girl, and he comes to a decision!

A new kind of romcom from a rather unexpected decision is about to begin!

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Comedy
  2. Ecchi
  3. Harem
  4. Romance
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 7, 2023 at 12:53pm EDT

When Hayato's grandmother passed, he planned to sell her rundown café on the shore—not realizing that it was also home to five young women who call themselves her family?! Their desperation to keep the café open convinces Hayato to give it a shot...but even their best intentions might not be enough to make it work! And can he even work with these five unruly women? No matter what, he's got his work cut out for him! A fun new romcom by the author of Fuuka and Suzuka!

[Source: Kodansha]

  1. Action
  2. Adventure
  3. Anthropomorphic
  4. Comedy
  5. Fantasy
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 7, 2022 at 12:58pm EDT

I can’t remember. Who am I? What am I?

Seville is a student at a magic academy who has no memories of anything from before he joined the school.

Not understanding why he’s there, the time he spends at the academy feels hollow and empty. And since he doesn't know how to work hard, his grades are always the lowest in his year.

Then, one day, the school headmaster, Albus, orders Seville to participate in a dangerous special training.

"I want you to spread the use of magic in an area where they hold witch hunts."

It has only been a few years since the war between the church and the witches came to an end—the world has not yet fully accepted witches and their magic.

This is the dawn of the age of the witch.

This is the story of how a young man, a boy who is no one special, and his companions, who all hold wounds in their hearts, set out and end up finding themselves.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Comedy
  2. Fantasy
  3. Romance
  4. Video Game
  1. Tezuka Productions
Jan 6, 2023 at 12:25pm EST

Endo and Kobayashi just decided to play A Magical Romance, an otome game featuring a devious villainess named Lieselotte. Kobayashi thinks Lieselotte is a traditionally dastardly villain but Endo insists Lieselotte is just misunderstood. The pair bicker and argue about Lieselotte’s character and motivations. But little do they know that Lieselotte’s in-game fiancé can hear their every word, and their colorful chatter will lead him down a completely different path than his character is supposed to tread!

[Source: HIDIVE]

  1. Adult Cast
  2. Drama
  3. Organized Crime
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 2, 2023 at 10:30am EDT

After killing his daughter's abusive yakuza boyfriend to save her, ordinary salaryman Tetsuo Tosu becomes embroiled in the dark criminal underworld. The wish for a simple life he and his wife Kasen had for their daughter has been reduced to a wish for survival. Though middle-aged and weak, he'll put his life on the line using only his wits in order to protect his family.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Comedy
  2. Gourmet
  3. Romantic Subtext
  4. Slice of Life
Dagashi Kashi 2
TV (JP)
Released
Short-form
7.25
  1. Tezuka Productions
Jan 11, 2018 at 12:28pm EST

The queen of succulent snacks is back with Dagashi Kashi season two! As Kokonotsu continues on his path to become a manga artist, Hotaru refuses to give up on bringing him to the side of Japanese snack foods. With new faces and new tasty treats to try, will Kokonotsu finally be swayed to take over his father's sweet shop or is it time to move on from this small town and follow his manga dreams?

[Source: Funimation]

  1. Action
  2. Comedy
  3. Drama
  4. Slice of Life
  1. Tezuka Productions
Oct 5, 2023 at 12:33pm EDT

Ninjas still exist in Japan today. They number around 200,000. The ninja organisation NIN (National Intelligence of NINJA) is not controlled by the civilian government, with its elite members performing assassinations and sabotage in secret. There is an organisation that opposes NIN: UN (Under Ninja). Ninja versus ninja: What lies waiting at the end of this shadowy feud?

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Drama
  2. Love Polygon
  3. Music
  4. Romance
  5. School
  1. MAPPA
  2. Tezuka Productions
Apr 12, 2012 at 12:10pm EDT

The beginning of summer, 1966.

Because of his father's job situation, freshman high school student Kaoru Nishimi moves by himself from Yokosuka to Kyushu to live with relatives. Until then, Kaoru was an honor roll student who tended to keep to himself, but meeting notorious bad boy Sentaro Kawabuchi starts to change him. Through his devil-may-care classmate, Kaoru learns the attractions of jazz and finds the first person he can call a "friend". He also discovers how much fun it is to play music with a pal.

Other characters include Sentaro's kind childhood chum, Ritsuko, who is the daughter of a record shop owner; the mysterious upperclassman, Yurika; and Brother Jun, the much-admired leader among their peers. Set against the backdrop of a seaside town with a scent of American culture, this series is a drama about young people coming into their own, crossing each other's paths, and finding friendship, love, and music!

[Source: official website]

  1. Comedy
  2. Romance
  3. Sci-Fi
  4. Slice of Life
  5. Suspense
  1. Tezuka Productions
July 2024

Takuma is a single guy who does nothing but go to work and come home. Too tired to do chores, he decides to get a robot to cook and keep house. "Mina-chan" is such a good housekeeper, Takuma jokes that she should become his wife. Mina takes Takuma's joke seriously, and slowly the two start doing more things together, like having a picnic outside. As time goes by, Takuma starts to fall for Mina, but can a human and a robot ever have an equal, loving relationship?

[Source: Seven Seas Entertainment]

  1. Action
  2. Historical
  3. Samurai
  1. TYO Animations
  2. Tezuka Productions
Jan 11, 2015 at 11:35am EST

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is on the verge of unifying the realm, and all that remains is the Odawara Castle protected by the "Lion of Sagami" Ujiyasu Houjou. Hideyoshi's personally trained generals—Ishida Mitsunari, Katou Kiyomasa, and Fukushima Masanori—as well as Ootani Yoshitsugu, Shima Sakon, and Naoe Kanetsugu are all on the frontline of the battle. Amidst the battle formation are the two young warriors of the Sanada household: older brother Nobuyuki and younger brother Yukimura. As the stalemate begins to break down, Sanada Yukimura rides on a lone horse into the fray. His brother follows him right after.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
  2. Medical
  1. Tezuka Productions
Oct 11, 2004 at 6:00am EDT

Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' life (as long as they have the money for it, that is), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
  2. Medical
  1. Tezuka Productions
December 20, 1993 EST

Black Jack is the mysterious doctor whose past is unknown, but skills are legendary. The rich and powerful seek him to help when conventional doctors fail, but rumour says he isn't even licensed.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Action
  2. Adventure
  3. Mecha
  4. Sci-Fi
  5. Super Power
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 5, 2003 at 7:30pm EST

Astro is a robotic boy that posses super human powers and an artificial intelligence system that is unparalleled to any robot. His creator, Dr. Tenma, created him to replace his late son, Tovio. Dr. Tenma soon destroys his laboratory, after the creation of Astro, and shuts down Astro. Soon after, Dr. O'Shay, the head of the Ministry of Science revives Astro, and tries to give him a normal life as a 6th grade student that helps the police agency keep renegade robots and bigot humans from causing harm. Astro faces extreme racism for being a robot, and he must discover the truth about his creator Dr. Tenma.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Comedy
  2. Slice of Life
Rinshi!! Ekoda-chan
TV (JP)
Released
Short-form
7.42
  1. ascension
  2. ZERO-G
  3. Creators in Pack
  4. Tezuka Productions
Jan 8, 2019 at 11:00am EST

Ekoda-chan is from the countryside, living alone in the city. She's a temp worker and a strong, carefree soul, with no solid plan for the future, who doesn't care much about guys. She talks about how she lives her life and provides support to all those women trying to survive in the real life society.

Based on a 4-panel manga of the same title, this omnibus form anime will feature a different director, character designer, voice cast, and anime studio for each episode.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Drama
  2. Girls' Love
  3. Psychological
  4. School
  1. Tezuka Productions
Jul 14, 1991 at 5:00am EDT

Before leaving her cram school, Nanako Misonô asks one of the teachers if they can become pen-pals. The teacher, Takehiko Henmi, is reluctant at first, but eventually accepts the offer. The story is narrated through the letters sent from Nanako as she enters Seiran, a renowned private high school for girls only. There she encounters many difficulties as an ordinary middle-class girl invited to the prestigious Sorority, the most traditional and sophisticated club on campus.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Action
  2. Drama
  3. Medical
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 10, 2006 at 6:00am EDT

No direct-relation sequel to original Black Jack. Black Jack attempts to find out the conspiracy, of why he was involved in the bombfield accident that killed his mother, while he uncovers secrets of Organization and Project "Noir", which, his father and other famous doctors were involved in...

  1. Action
  2. Adventure
  3. Mecha
  4. Sci-Fi
  1. Tezuka Productions
Oct 1, 1980 at 6:00am EDT

Creating a robotic boy in the image of his recently deceased son Tobio, Professor Tenma thought nothing could go wrong now that his beloved child had been "reborn"... that is, until he comes to realize that this invention could never replace his son. Before long, however, the robot is kidnapped and spirited away to a robot circus in America, where he is soon rescued by Dr. Ochanomizu, and taken into his care. Tobio is given the new name Tetsuwan Atom, and transforms into Japan's crime-fighting hero, although his anti-violent pacifist views and overall childlike naivety tend to clash with his battles often.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Iyashikei
  2. Mystery
  3. Slice of Life
  4. Supernatural
  1. Tezuka Productions
  2. MADHOUSE
Oct 2, 2007 at 1:45pm EDT

This is a story about two sisters: Shizuru, is a high school student who is able to see ghosts while her younger sister, Mizuki, is haunted by these apparitions. Frustrated by their abilities, their parents decided to entrust the sisters into the care of their grandparents who live in the countryside. As they adapt to life in the countryside, Shizuru and Mizuki begin to learn about the importance of coexisting nature with these apparitions.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
  2. Medical
  1. Tezuka Productions
November 29, 1996 EST

Joe Carol Brane attempts to hire Dr. Black Jack on a breed of superhumans that have the strength, intellectual, athletic, and artistic skills with great excel in different fields, only to later find out that they start deteriorating after some period of time and causing an untimely death. Joe needs Dr. Black Jack's help on finding a cure.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
  2. Historical
  3. Romance
  1. TMS Entertainment
  2. Tezuka Productions
Jan 15, 2009 at 10:45am EST

Born from a much loved, but lowly ranked concubine, Genji Hikaru is called the Shining Prince and is the beloved second son of the Emperor. Although he cannot be an heir to the throne of his father, Genji spends his life surrounded by every pleasure and love. And yet, his one longing in love is something that even the power of an Emperor can never give him.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Adventure
  2. Drama
  1. Tezuka Productions
Oct 5, 1989 at 6:30am EDT

Leo (a.k.a. Kimba in the U.S.) is a young ambitious lion cub who takes his father's place as emperor of the jungle when is father is killed by poachers. Even though his father's fate was met by the hands of humans, Leo is one of the few animals in the Jungle that doesn't fear or feel hatred toward humans. He is not alone either, he is guided by friends of his father to help create the best animal kingdom there can be.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Adventure
  2. Drama
  3. Historical
  4. Sci-Fi
  5. Supernatural
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 4, 2004 at 6:30am EDT

PHOENIX is a powerful fable of human hope and despair, love and hate, life and death. It is a cosmic love poem to the human condition that illustrates the circle of life---from birth to maturity, from death to rebirth. Throughout history, from the distant past to the far future, men have sought to capture the Phoenix, the source of eternal life.

[Source: Crunchyroll]

  1. Drama
  2. Medical
  1. Tezuka Productions
December 16, 2005 EST

The mega-corporate Daedalus Group is under attack by a small group of activists known as the Ghost of Icarus. While taking care of some of the victims of the bombing, Black Jack encounters Dr. Kiriko, also known as Death Incarnate, who just like him, asks his patients huge sums of money but instead of saving them, he offers them a painless death. When the activist group requests both doctors’ collaboration, Black Jack finds himself caught in a spiral of life, death and treason while trying to save his patients' lives and avoid the breaking of a biological war that could destroy humanity.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Anthropomorphic
  2. Drama
  3. Fantasy
  4. Slice of Life
  1. Tezuka Productions
July 6, 2012 EDT

The fairy tale follows a young man named Guskou in the Tohoku forests of northeastern Japan in the 1920s. After an onslaught of droughts and natural disasters, Guskou is forced to leave his home and search for a better life elsewhere. Guskou joins a group of scientists at the Ihatov Volcano Department, which deals with the same natural disasters that drove Guskou from his home.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Drama
  2. Medical
  1. Tezuka Productions
December 21, 2003 EST

Black Jack is the "Surgeon with the Hands of God," a mysterious young Japanese doctor who travels the world performing feats of miraculous surgical genius. Though all recognize his skill, Black Jack is widely hated, especially by the medical establishment, because he refuses to conform to rules of any kind, and because he charges outrageous fees for his services. Black Jack's only companion is Pinoko, a child he created out of a special kind of tumor called a teratoma, who insists she is his wife.

  1. Supernatural
  2. Visual Arts
  1. Tezuka Productions
March 18, 2016 EDT

Aiko lives in a shrine that has a sliding door that mysteriously is only half painted, and thought during her childhood that she wanted to paint it. But the 17-year old Aiko now has no dreams about the future. Suddenly, a strange man appears before her. Aiko's grandfather and the shrine's chief priest offers the man to stay in the shrine, but Aiko isn't having any of it. But he realizes the kindness of the brusque young man, and slowly comes to like him. But what is his true identity?

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Adventure
  2. Fantasy
  1. Tezuka Productions
July 31, 1997 EDT

This movie focuses on the last half of Osamu Tezuka's revered saga of a white lion's quest to become king of the jungle. Leo's newborn cub, Lune, takes an interest to humans after discovering a music box in the wreckage of an airplane. At the same time, a greedy treasure hunter known as Ham Egg is leading an expedition team of rough-looking men on a trek for the fabled Moonlight Stones, which can supposedly save the world from an energy crisis. Two other humans, (who go by the rather wacky names of Dr. Moustache and Lemonade) try to stop Ham Egg's mad destruction of the jungle. Later, a terrible virus sweeps through the jungle, poisoning many of the animals. Dr. Moustache comes to save them with a cure. The film culminates with a treacherous journey up the legendary Mt. Moon in search of the stones....

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Sci-Fi
  2. Visual Arts
  1. Tezuka Productions
March 21, 2015 EDT

The story follows Kumi, a little girl who lives in a world with sparkling metal skyscrapers, and where robots support everything. Kumi's playground is a garden by one of those skyscrapers with a man-made water fountain, artificial vegetation, and digital water and butterflies. Kumi meets an old man who visits the park every day to paint the artificial flowers. The old man tells Kumi of when he discovered a "breathing" tulip sprouting amidst the artificial flowers, and the two decide to watch over the tulip together as it grows.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Comedy
  2. Horror
  3. Supernatural
  4. Vampire
  1. Tezuka Productions
Apr 5, 1982 at 5:00am EST

After living in Transylvania for several years, "Earl Dracula" (as Osamu Tezuka's official website calls him in English) has moved to Japan. In the Nerima Ward of Tokyo, he and his daughter, Chocola, and faithful servant Igor have taken up residence in an old-Western style house.

While Chocola attends Junior High School, Earl Dracula is desperate to drink the blood of beautiful virgin women; an appropriate meal for a vampire of his stature. However, each night that Earl Dracula goes out on the prowl he finds himself getting involved in some kind of disturbance which leads to him causing various trouble for the local residents. With nobody in Japan believing in vampires, his very presence causes trouble amongst the people in town.

  1. Action
  2. Romance
  3. Sci-Fi
  1. Tezuka Productions
August 18, 1984 EDT

Ryo is sent out by the people of a village to kill the monster which has been attacking the villagers. It is rumored that this monster is a cat-woman named Bagi. As Ryo waits for the monster to come to its watering hole, he thinks back to how he first met Bagi as a kitten who learned how to write, and later reenters his life on a quest to discover who and what she really is. But now she has gone wild, and as the time of her arrival approaches, he strengthens his resolve to kill her.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Action
  2. Adventure
  3. Comedy
  4. Drama
  5. Sci-Fi
  1. Tezuka Productions
August 25, 1979 EDT

The year is 2002, and the Marine Express, the first underwater train between America and Japan, is ready for its maiden voyage. The chief engineer suspects that the train's test run will be used for illicit purposes and hires private detective Ban Shunsaku. He arrives to his client's mansion only to find that he has just been murdered. Armed with just a glimpse of the murderer's face, Shunsaku boards the Marine Express to get to the bottom of this mystery. This job, however, is much more than what he bargained for, as the train holds secrets beyond anyone's imagination.

[Source: Anime News Network]

  1. Adventure
  1. Tezuka Productions
Oct 18, 1990 at 6:30am EDT

He is a little boy who has a terrible power. On his forehead is a third eye that, if open, releases extremely dangerous mystical energy that turns him into an evil sorcerer, bent on conquering mankind, and able to summon demons and wielding a red harpoon wand called Red Condor. To protect mankind from his terrible power, Sharaku is made to wear a bandage which seals his third eye. While his eye is sealed, Sharaku knows nothing of his true nature or his power, and does not remember his evil half's sinister attempts to conquer the world.

  1. Sci-Fi
  1. Tezuka Productions
August 30, 1980 EDT

Nuclear testing has resulted in the abrupt evolution of the Fumoon, a tiny but highly intelligent humanoid race on a small island, who are detected by Dr. Yamadano. Except for a few witnesses including the detective Shinsaku Ban, and the young men Rock and Kenichi and Kenichi’s sister Pichi (Pinoko), no one believes him. The Fumoon are kidnapping animals from around the world to bring with them as they use their space ships to evacuate the earth, because they know Earth is shortly to be destroyed by an enveloping cloud of black gas created by a stellar explosion. The Fumoon intend to abandon mankind, but one Fumoon, Rokoko, who becomes good friends with Kenichi, tries to help Dr. Yamadano and the others to develop a space ship to allow a few humans to escape, with the help of Dr. Ochanomizu and Dr. Frankenstein.

[Source: Tezukainenglish.com]

  1. Adventure
Jungle Taitei: Yuuki ga Mirai wo Kaeru
TV (JP)
Released
TV Special
  1. Tezuka Productions
September 4, 2009 EDT

Earth, sometime in the 21st century. Because of non-stop environmental destruction, the United Nations commissions a private company, "Eternal Earth," to create an artificial jungle, to be a nature preserve and to protect animals. All wild animals are forced to live in it.

The animals that live in this "neo-jungle" have an easy life. Leo, son of Panja, is born in this artificial world. Because of the unrealistic nature of the neo-jungle, Leo lives his life like he hasn't a care in the world. But Leo is ridiculed by the other animals; they call him a coward—he is not like his father, the great Jungle Emperor, but Leo vows that some day he will be.

Kenichi, son of the Eternal Earth company's CEO, has no doubt about the great success of the neo-jungle. The story starts when Leo and Kenichi meet. Kenichi has the special ability to understand what the animals are saying.

[Source: kimbawlion.com/2009.htm]

  1. Adventure
  2. Mystery
  3. Romance
  4. Sci-Fi
Ginga Tansa 2100-nen: Border Planet
TV (JP)
Released
TV Special
  1. Tezuka Productions
Aug 24, 1986 at 9:00am EDT

This work was produced as the ninth special animated piece for the 24-hour television program by Tezuka Production, which took full charge of the original story, screenplay and director. Tezuka Osamu crafts a love story in the time when humans are expanding into space at the end of the 21st century, employing an omnibus form similar to Bradbury's "Martian Chronicle." The story line is similar to "Phoenix: Nostalgia." Leaving the earth after marriage, a woman is left behind in space when her husband suddenly dies of a cosmic disease. These background details were used in "The Phoenix" as well. This time, her friends on the Earth head for space to save the woman who was once everyone's ideal lady. In this special animated piece, Tezuka Osamu emphasizes his basic concepts that "love can save the earth" and "only love can save humans."

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