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from "Princess Knight"

Sapphire is the cross-dressing heroine of the great classic of Shojo Manga (Manga for girls) "Princess Knight". Her character represents a fusion of all the influences of Tezuka Osamu's childhood in Takarazuka; only he could have created a character like Sapphire. She later blossomed into a mother in the sequel, "Twin Knight". After her appearances in this representative Manga series, Sapphire was solely assigned feminine roles. What's more, whenever she made a guest appearance in the "Black Jack" series, she habitually symbolized "the sorrows of women". She portrayed a teacher who burned to death whilst protecting one of her students, and although on one occasion she used her beauty as a weapon to make a rapid ascent into fashionable society, she was tossed by the hands of fate, falling onto hard times to become something like a vagrant. Tezuka Osamu though did not see her as a female swordsman with the heart of a man, but was intent upon the "woman" at the heart of Sapphire.


MAJOR WORKS

1952The Adventure of Rock (as paraticipating in a conference with Bird Man)

1958The Three Who Glimpse The Future (as the person listening to the prophecy by Higeoyaji)

1960Astro Boy /Uran (as the spectator of the Robotting game)

1962SHIKYOYAMAENGI Picture scroll

1965Astro Boy /Heroes of Tezuka Osamu Manga (as the fiancee of Count Red)

1966Flying Ben

1969The Crater /The Bell Rings (as the native people of the Malay Peninsula)

1970Gachaboi's record of one generation

1973Black Jack /Anaphylaxie (as the nurse)

1974Black Jack /The Heroine of the Tunnel (as the techer of the kindergarten)

1974Black Jack /Two Loves (as wife of Akira)

1975Black Jack /Swindler Apprentice (as mother)

1975Astro Boy /Astro Boy II (as the passerby)

1976Black Jack /U-18 knew (as the patient)

1978Black Jack /The Case of a Woman (as the patient)

1979NEC Advertisment

1979Tezuka Osamu on American Comics

1983This is what's going to happen in 1983

1984Dream cars and cars of the future

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