Diary of Ma-chan
| Diary of Ma-chan | |
 Cover of "Diary of Ma-chan" from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition | |
| マアチャンの日記帳 (Maachan no Nikkichō) | |
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| Genre | Slice of life story |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Osamu Tezuka |
| Published by | Mainichi Shimbun |
| Magazine | Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi elementary school children's Newspaper) |
| Demographic | Children |
| Original run | January 4, 1946 – March 31, 1946 |
| Volumes | 1 |
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.
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 Tezuka's first professional work to ever be published. When Tezuka drew it 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.
See also
References
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External links
- Diary of Ma-chan manga page at TezukaOsamu@World (archived)
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