Tezuka in English

The list is not comprehensive, but includes all the appearances listed on the Tezuka World web page, plus later works and at least fifteen early appearances omitted by the official list. There are certain to be more, and new listings are added as we find them. More info on some of these series can be found at Red Zone. For more information, see the 'Rock Holmes: Transformation' Analytical Essay.

Total appearances: 90 and counting.

1948 - The Moony Man, as the detective
1949 – Detective boy, Rock Home (Holmes)
1949 – Rock does NOT appear in the original Metropolis manga
1950 – Manga University (as Bessy)
1950 – Cuckoo clock event
1951 – The Road to Utopian Lurue (as the Manga Artist)
1951 – Next World
1951 – The new volume Monn World Gentleman (as the private Investigator, Danbara Eijiro)
1951 – Fossil Island (as the Journalist)
1951 - Tezuka decides at the last minute to substitute the lighter character Saboten Sam for Rock as the protagonist of a manga called Saboten-kun, on the grounds that Rock was too dark.
1952 – Rock in Volcano Island
1952 – Adventures of Rock
1953 – The 13 Secrets
1953 – The Adventure of Rock, Phantom Disk
1953 – X-Point on the South Pacific
1954 – The Devil of the Earth
1954 – Ford 32 years Type
1954 – Astro Boy /Führer ZZZ (as Rovel)
1955 – The age of Great Floods (as a Pilot)
1956 – Astro Boy /Duel on the Alps (as Kenta)
1957 – The Pink Angel (as Rock)
1957 – The Earth War (as the soldier of Urameshia)
1958 – The Three Who Glimpse The Future: (as Rock)
1958 – Malachite (as Japanese Young Man)
1958 - Twin Knight, aka. Sapphire's Children (one page cameo)
1959 – Jet King (as Ryo-chan)
1959 – Astro Boy / Fool Ivan
1959 – Merchant of Venice (Vassanio)
1959 – The Moment (The Taxi driver)
1959-1960 -Astro Boy Live Action Series - Rock did not appear in this version of Führer ZZZ.
1960 – Astro Boy / Uran (as a spectator in a crowd)
1960-61 - Captain Ken as Hoshino Mamoru
1961 – Astro Boy / Plant People (as a classmate of Astro)
1962 – SHIKYOYAMAENGI Picture scroll
1963 – Astro Boy / The Vehicle, White Planet (as Koichi)
1963 - Galexy Boy Troop (as Rob)
1963 - The film Doggie March stars a dog named Rock, who is seeking to avenge his murdered mother, but this may be a naming coincidence.
1965 – Astro Boy / Heros of Tezuka Osamu Manga (as the ally of justice?)
1966 – Flying Ben
1966-69 – VAMPIRES (as Makube Rokuro)
1967-1968 - Princess Knight TV series (as Sapphire's boyfriend)
1967 – Phoenix "Future"
1968 – Astro Boy / The Man Who Returned From Mars (as a funeral attendant)
1968 – Rock DOES NOT APPEAR IN Prince Norman (ref. character David Flight)
1969 – The Runaway Tanker (as Yamashita Mamoru)
1969 – Live Action Vampires TV Series (as Makube Rokuro)
1970 – Gachaboi's record of one generation
1970 – Alabaster (as FBI)
1972-1982 – Buddha (as King Bimbisara)
1972 – Dust 8 (as the young bother of Asa Midori)
1973 – Black Jack /Where is a doctor!(as Akudo, son of Duke Red)
1973 – Black Jack /Man Bird (as a spectator in a crowd scene)
1974 – Black Jack/Finger (sealed - rewritten as "Print Proof" 1978)
1974 – Black Jack /Nadare the Deer (as Dr. Ohedo)
1975 – Black Jack /Black Queen (as the fiancée of the Black Queen)
1975 – Black Jack /Rats in A Sewer (as BB, the terrorist leader)
1975 – The Story of Stone (as Thomas Wateman)
1975 – The Story of Bis Bis Bis Planet (as Satoru)
1976 – Metamorphose /Woobit (as Rockbelt Baron)
1977 – Jetter Mars anime - appears in credits only
1978 – Black Jack /The Last Train (as the husband of the Black Queen)
1978 – Black Jack /Tenacious Black Jack (as the novelist Homura Rokuhisa)
1978 – Black Jack /Print Proof (as Makube Rokuro)
1979 – NEC Advertisement
1979 – Tezuka Osamu on American Comics
1979 – Insector (as the son of Bloodarrow Oil Company Chairman)
1979 – Undersea Super-train Marine Express TV special (son of Dr. Nazenkop aka. Ochanomizu)
1979 - Don Dracula, issue 26, as a young dentist.
1980 – Fumoon TV Special (adaptation of Nextworld)
1981 - Astro Boy 1980 TV, Episode 26 "The Time Machine" as Rock the Time Cop
1981 - Phoenix: "Strange Beings" (briefly as Sakonnosuke Yagi's love-interest)
1981 – Rainbow Parakeet /12 Angry Men (as the defendant
1983 - Prime Rose movie (A Time Slip of 10000 years: Prime Rose) cameo in crowd scene
1985 - Say Hello to Bookilla! (omitted on TW)
Osamu Tezuka passed away on February 9th, 1989
2001 – Metropolis Movie (as the adopted son of Duke Red)
2001/2 – Black Jack online Flash animation episode 9 - retelling of "Print Proof"
2003 – Astro Boy 2003 TV Series episodes 34-35 (as the boy hunting the Phoenix)
2003/2004 - Astro Boy 2003 Manga Remake (adaptation of Astro Boy 2003 TV)
2004 – Astro Boy GBA game "Omega Factor" (two different manifestations – human and robot)
2004? – Black Jack "Four Miracles of Life" animated special 1 - retelling of Black Jack manga issue #1 "Where's a Doctor?"
2004-6 - Black Jack TV episode 24 'Nadare the Deer'
2004-6 - Black Jack TV episode 59 'Black Queen'
2005 - Phoenix TV, episodes 12-13, based on Phoenix: "Future"
2005 – Issue 1 of Black Jack Kuroi Ishi manga remake - a retelling of "Nadare the Deer"
2005 - Black Jack Neo, Pinoko origin issue as the boyfriend of Pinoko's twin sister.
2005 – Black Jack Movie "Two Dark Doctors"
2006 - Black Jack 21 TV - appears in ending credits only.
2006 - Black Jack: Phoenix Version game for Nintendo DS
2007 - 10th Anniversary Toyota Prius Commercial