The young Prince of Silverland, Sapphire is in reality a girl, but must pretend to be a boy in order to inherit the throne and prevent the evil Duke Duralumon from taking power. Her personality is more refined than tomboyish, but she's good with a sword and at night fights crime as the masked Phantom Knight. She's good-hearted, has a strong sense of justice and is competent and level-headed as well. Although most of her time is spent as Prince Sapphire, later in the series she is able to go about as a girl (wearing a blonde wig) in the persona of the Princess, Prince Sapphire's sister. In this way she is able to court Prince Frank.

Princess Sapphire is a girl raised as a Prince. Through the mischief of an angel, the princess is born with both a girl's body and boy's mind. Since there is no boy successor in her kingdom, Sapphire is raised as a boy, but evil ministers try to reveal her secret. Unable to put up with the kind of vicious conduct prevailing in the kingdom, Sapphire disguises herself as "Princess Knight" and wields her sword of justice. 
This is an animated version of the girls' manga featuring Sapphire's romance and adventure, which marked the first made-for-TV animated program geared towards girls in Japan. 
(Source: Official site)

A Mexican voice actress. She is known for being the Latin American Spanish voice of Bulma in the _Dragon Ball_ franchise.

She is the sister of [Sylvia Garcel](https://anilist.co/staff/113385/Sylvia-Garcel), is married to [Jorge Roig](https://anilist.co/staff/108303/Jorge-Roig-Gutirrez) and is the mother of [Jorge Roig Jr.](https://anilist.co/staff/182223/Jorge-Roig-Jr)

__Real name:__ Yoshiko Saka (阪淑子)
__Height:__ 154 cm

Married to [Osamu Saka](https://anilist.co/staff/95147)

[Profile (T-Echo)](https://t-echo.co.jp/?page_id=2680)

German voice actor, Kaoru Kamiya in Samurai X: Reflection (OAV). She was born in Köln. Her parents were opera singers.

Born in Algiers. Currently lives in Quebec

French dub-over voice of Julie Roberts, Anne Heche, Ellen DeGeneres, Courtney Cox, and Cheryl Ladd.

Was born in what was French Morocco

Magali Barney is a French Actress and Voice Actress.

Sister to [Fabio Boccanera](https://anilist.co/staff/95779). Cousin to [Emanuela](https://anilist.co/staff/204647), [Riccardo](https://anilist.co/staff/101720), and [Massimo Rossi](https://anilist.co/staff/96185)

Tezuka Osamu who going to a 21 Century new year's party with all the charters he made. One thing leads to another and he ends up missing! It's up to his most popular charters to find out what happened to him and get him back safely before the rest of the guest show up 
(Souce: Kuro Hazama (a Black Jack shrine))

As "another story" set after the end of the original manga, this what-if "Return" plot depicts what happens to the title character after his final act to save Earth. After drifting in space, the robot boy is rescued by the three members of ravex, and he is miraculously revived &mdash; not by Tezuka's Black Jack surgeon character, but by "Space Jack." The newly evolved robot boy will be named "Ratom." The Princess Knight and other Tezuka characters will appear in this all-new story. Musical artists BoA, Maki Goto, Anna Tsuchiya, Tohoshinki, and TRF are contributing to the album, and an event is planned at Tokyo's National Museum of Emerging Science and Innovation on April 10. The album marks Avex's 20th anniversary and what would have been Tezuka's 80th birthday.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Young Black Jack is a prequel to Osamu Tezuka's classic manga series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

**Height:** 145 cm (4'9")
**Nicknames:** Ao-chan (あおちゃん), Kodomo sensei (こども先生, lit. Child teacher)
__Agency:__ Aoni Production

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Aoi Yabusaki, better known by her stage name Aoi Yuuki, is a Japanese actress, voice actress and singer represented by Pro-Fit.

Yuuki entered the entertainment industry at the age of four. As a child, she acted in films and dramas. From 1999 to 2002, she made regular appearances on the variety shows Appare Sanma Dai-sensei and Yappari Sanma Dai-sensei which aired on Fuji TV. When she was in fifth grade, she made her debut as a voice actress as [Sakura](https://anilist.co/character/15429/) on [Kino's Journey](https://anilist.co/anime/486/).

In late 2006, she was affiliated with the theater company Central. After her admission to high school in August 2007, she joined the agency Breath, whilst changing her stage name to Aoi Yuuki. In 2008, she got her first major role in [Kure-nai](https://anilist.co/anime/3358/) as [Murasaki Kuhouin](https://anilist.co/character/10174/). In August of the same year, she moved to the agency Pro-Fit.

In October 2011, she won the Newtype award for best lead voice actress for her role as [Madoka Kaname](https://anilist.co/character/37832/) in [Puella Magi Madoka Magica](https://anilist.co/anime/9756/). She was also awarded for Best Lead Actress in the 6th Seiyuu Awards for Madoka Kaname, [Victorique de Blois](https://anilist.co/character/20170/) and [Tooru Ichii](https://anilist.co/character/38904/).

In 2013, Yuuki and [Ayana Taketatsu](https://anilist.co/staff/101996/) formed the singing unit [petit milady](https://anilist.co/staff/116523).

**Non-anime voice roles:** 
- [Lumine](https://anilist.co/character/209682/Ying) - Genshin Impact (VG)
- Gwen Stacy - Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (Movie); Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse (Movie)
- Renne Bright - Eiyuu Densetsu: Sen no Kiseki IV (VG), Eiyuu Densetsu: Hajimari no Kiseki (VG), Eiyuu Densetsu: Kuro no Kiseki (VG)
- Yurusen - Kamen Rider Ghost (VG)
- Fiona - Xenoblade Chronicles 3 (VG)
- Rita Rossweisse - Honkai Impact 3rd (VG)
- Moddey - Memento Mori (VG)
- Futaba Sakura - Persona 5/Royal (VG)
- Pascal - NieR: Automata (VG) (VG)
- Nian - Arknights (VG)
- Istina - Arknights (VG)
- Ravi & Apocalyptic Ravi - Epic 7 (VG)
- Schneider - Reverse: 1999 (VG)
- Lysithea - Fire Emblem: Three Houses (VG)
- Cinderella - Nikke: Goddess of Victory (VG)
- Sugar - Reverse Collapse: Code Name Bakery (VG)

Among adult readers in Japan Black Jack is Osamu Tezuka’s most popular achievement, and perhaps the most close to the creator’s heart, as Tezuka considered entering the medical field—majoring in medicine in college—before devoting his life to comics. Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner. But as readers will soon discover, that is not the whole story.
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)
 Note: Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977.

Taking place in a medieval fairy-tale setting, Princess Knight is the story of young Princess Sapphire who must pretend to be a male prince so she can inherit the throne (as women are not eligible to do so). This deception begins as soon as she is born, as her father the King announces his baby is a boy instead of a girl. The reason for this is that the next-in-line to the throne, Duke Duralumon, is an evil man who would repress the people if he were to become king, and because of this the King will go to any length to prevent him from taking over. 
(Source: Wikipedia)

Sapphire was supposed to be a tomboyish junior high school girl who's not interested in boys, but it all changed on her 14th birthday. Not only did she find out that she's prince Sapphire, the Ribbon Knight, but she also has to protect a country called Silver Land!?

Dr. Black Jack - unlicensed, unorthodox, thoroughly brilliant - he is a surgical genius capable of such impossible feats like operating blind, and even operating on himself. 
In this beautiful remake of Tezuka&rsquo;s best-loved series, Dr. Black Jack's ingenuity and skills are once again called upon and put to the test: a starlet who has built her life around a secret; a tortured artist who has lost his muse; a pro-fighter whose compassion is his handicap; and a disfigured man whose face has corrupted his soul. 
As he takes on cases that will push the limits of medical science, only he can create the miracles necessary to save his patients. 
(Source: Chuang Yi)

Using Tezuka's characters, the very best artists were allowed to let loose and adapt his characters into short stories.


Once known as a skilled fencer who had masqueraded as a prince in order to succeed her late father, Sapphire is now happily married to her love Franz and queen of their combined realm. After she gives birth to twins, a boy and a girl who are now equal in the royal line of succession, however, a dispute arises among the courtiers and populace over which child is the true heir. When a whimsical cherub with a familiar face is unwisely summoned to settle the matter, he allows sheer luck to rule in favor of the boy.
 
Yet once Prince Daisy is whisked away by a cabal opposed to his ascension, the remaining Princess Violetta must embark on the same path her mother once tread to safeguard her family’s claim to the throne. Cross-dressing is hardly the end of it as she undertakes breathless adventures with a gypsy lass she meets—Emerald!
 
(Source: Kodansha USA)

Based on the brilliant maverick doctor created by manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka. This prequel follows Black Jack when he was still a medical student in the 1960s.
 
(Source: Anime News Network)

A remake of the original Princess Knight, and the much more well-known version of the story. 
Taking place in a medieval fairy-tale setting, Princess Knight is the story of young Princess Sapphire who must pretend to be a male prince so she can inherit the throne (as women are not eligible to do so). This deception begins as soon as she is born, as her father the King announces his baby is a boy instead of a girl. The reason for this is that the next-in-line to the throne, Duke Duralumon, is an evil man who would repress the people if he were to become king, and because of this the King will go to any length to prevent him from taking over.

The May issue of Akita Shoten's Bessatsu Shounen Champion magazine revealed on Monday that Spanish artist Kenny Ruiz (Telémaco, Dos Espadas) will launch a new manga in collaboration with Tezuka Productions based on various characters of Osamu Tezuka's manga. 
 In the manga's story, a robot alliance rules over 90% of the universe. The knight Sapphire is troubled over the pain of non-robots, and she makes a decision, for a new future. 
(Source: Anime News Network)

Words from Nagai Go (excerpt from the introduction):
 
The same year as Barbara, Tezuka began serializing Black Jack, and the following year ('74), he introduced Black Jack's assistant Pinoko in the same work, which I think was the prototype for the two characters in Barbara. I think Barbara is a very significant work that marked a turning point in Tezuka's works. I hope you enjoy Barbara: Go Nagai Version, a new interpretation of Barbara in my own way.
 
(Source: Shogakukan, translated)

An animated special made by Tezuka Productions to celebrate the new millennium. The special contained a wide variety of different characters created by Osamu Tezuka, known as the "Star System". Characters would be given awards based on their performances throughout the years. Very little about the special has surfaced online, and it's considered completely lost.