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)
Genre	Slice of life story
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Mainichi Newspaper
Demographic	Children
Magazine	Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi elementary school children's Newspaper)
Original run	January 4, 1946 – March 31, 1946
Volumes	1
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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 2.
• 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.

See also

• Osamu Tezuka
• List of Osamu Tezuka manga
• Osamu Tezuka's Star System

References

External links

• "Diary of Ma-chan" manga page at TezukaOsamu@World (English)(requires username and password)
• "Diary of Ma-chan" manga page at TezukaOsamu@World (Japanese) (requires username and password)