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Diary of Ma chan

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Genre
  
Slice of life story

Published by
  
Mainichi Newspaper

Written by
  
Osamu Tezuka

Demographic
  
Children

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Magazine
  
Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi elementary school children's Newspaper)

Original run
  
January 4, 1946 – March 31, 1946

Diary of Ma-chan (マアチャンの日記帳, Maachan no Nikkichō) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1946.

Contents

Plot

Diary of Ma-chan is a collection of 4-panel comic strips about the everyday adventures of a small pre-school boy named Ma-chan. The manga consists of 73 strips.

Characters

  • Ma-chan: A mischievous little pre-school boy growing up immediately after World War II.
  • Ton-chan: Ma-chan's friend.
  • University-age boy:
  • Father: Ma-chan's father.
  • Mother: Ma-chan's mother.
  • Teacher: Ma-chan's pre-school teacher.

    • First work by Tezuka

    Diary of Ma-chan is very important as it was Osamu Tezuka's first professional work to ever be published. When Tezuka drew this in 1946, he was only 17 years old. While the drawings were crude compared to his later art work, many elements of his art style first became visible in this comic strip.

    References

    Diary of Ma-chan Wikipedia
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