Rock
（Rock）
from "Vampire"
In the world of show business, it is common knowledge that actors who start out playing the role of children rarely make it to the top of their profession. This is because child stars, who are loved in the role of cute children, even if they grow, are burdened with the fate of having to continue showing the same image to audiences. In the same way, in the Manga of Tezuka Osamu, loveable, law-abiding characters like Kenichi and Atom were restricted to continuously playing the same role. But Rock is different. He was not simply a virtuous character. From the time he started performing in child roles, he never believed in the image that "a bright future will be born if only justice triumphs". "The world is full of inconsistencies. The world will not weep even if the fight for justice is lost and evil triumphs. Come spring the flowers will still bloom, the sunshine will still pour down in the summer." Rock was a boy who stared these realities in the face. As might be expected from a character that got his name from Sherlock Holmes, Rock is a highly intelligent young boy. That's why he never had to trade on his charms even as he grew up. He concealed the malicious face of the devil under his handsome visage. He built up his character as the portrait of a villain. Part of the appeal of Tezuka Osamu's Manga lies in the fact that such warped boy stars are incorporated into the stories, and in the inclusion of elements of profundity and philosophy.
MAJOR WORKS
1949Detective boy, Rock Home
1950Manga University (as Bessy）
1950Cuckoo clock event
1951The Road to Utopian Lurue (as the Manga Artist）
1951Next World (as the Journalist）
1951The new volume Monn World Gentleman (as the privete Investigator, Danbara Eijiro）
1951Fossil Island (as the Journalist）
1952Rock in Volcano Island
1952The Adventure of Rock
1953The 13 Secrets
1953X-Point on the South Pacific
1953The Adventure of Rock, Phantom Disk
1954The Devil of the Earth
1954Ford 32 years Type
1954Astro Boy /Fuhrer ZZZ (as Rovel）
1955The age of Great Floods (as a Pilot）
1956Astro Boy /Duel on the Alps (as Kenta）
1957The Pink Angel (as Rock）
1957The Earth War (as the soldier of Urameshia）
1958The Three Who Glimpse The Future (as Rock）
Color illustration
1958Malachite (as Japanese Young Man）
1959Jet King (as Ryo-chan）
1959Astro Boy /Fool Ivan
1959Merchant of Venice (Vassanio）
1959The Moment (The Taxi driver）
1960Astro Boy /Uran (as the specttator of Robotting）
1961Astro Boy /Plant People
1962SHIKYOYAMAENGI Picture scroll
1963Astro Boy /The Vehicle, White Planet (as Koichi）
1965Astro Boy /Heros of Tezuka Osamu Manga (as the ally of justice?）
1966Flying Ben
1968Astro Boy /The Man Who Returned From Mars (as the funeral attendant of Dr.Ochanomizu）
1969The Runaway Tanker (as Yamashita Mamoru）
1970Gachaboi's record of one generation
1970Alabaster (as FBI）
1972Dust 8 (as the young bother of Asa Midori）
1973Black Jack /Where is a doctor! (as Akudo）
1973Black Jack /Man Bird (as the spectator in a "flying man" competition contest）
1974Black Jack /Nadare the Deer (as the Dr. Ohedo）
1974Black Jack /Finger
The Adventure of Rock
1975Black Jack /Black Queen (as the lover of Queen）
1975Black Jack /Rats in A Sewer (as BB）
1975The Story of Stone (Thomas Wateman）
1975The Story of Bis Bis Bis Planet (as Satoru）
1976Metamorphose /Woobit (Rockbelt Baron）
1978Black Jack /The Last Train (as the husband of Konomi）
1978Black Jack /Tenacious Black Jack (as Homura Rokuhisa）
1979NEC Advertisement
1979Tezuka Osamu on American Comics
1979Insector (as the son of Bloodarrow Oil Company Chairman）
1981Rainbow Parakeet /12 men who can be angry (as Junior）
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