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Tezukapedia · 新着情報What’s new

The versions of the site, newest first, with their date and what they changed.

Current version 1.10.0

  1. 1.10.0

    New features

    New Quotes page: a random quote by Tezuka or his characters, in Japanese and translated

    • Quotes: 48 quotes from Japanese sources, with furigana, translation, source and links to the chronology and the series
    • Quotes: filters by theme and by speaker (Tezuka or characters), a direct link to each quote, site search
    • Menu: new Quotes entry after Relationships

  2. 1.9.1

    Fixes and improvements

    Magazines: 51 more covers and 6 issues added (COM, Shōnen Champion)

    • Magazines: 51 issues get their cover, 6 issues added

  3. 1.9.0

    New features

    Covers: 239 magazine covers, 7 furoku booklets, 51 French anime editions and a picture for every anime

    • Magazines: 231 issues get their cover and 8 issues are added
    • Furoku: covers of 7 of the 10 booklets missing from the collection
    • Anime: French editions (DVD, Blu-ray) with their covers, 13 Japanese edition covers and a picture for the 17 anime that had none

  4. 1.8.6

    Fixes and improvements

    Anime: 472 Japanese editions (VHS, LD, DVD, Blu-ray) with their covers, publishers, dates and EANs, from Amazon.co.jp

    • Editions tab: the Japanese editions of 83 anime

  5. 1.8.5

    Fixes and improvements

    Chronology: 649 events added for the anime (episode broadcasts, TV specials, OVAs); every anime now has its events

    • Chronology 1.32.0: episode broadcasts of Ginga Shōnen-tai, Big X, Jungle Emperor 1965 (Shōwa 40 / 昭和40年), Black Jack 2004 (Heisei 16 / 平成16年) and 21, Mitsume ga Tōru…

  6. 1.8.4

    Fixes and improvements

    Anime: 152 video editions (DVD, Blu-ray, LD, VHS, UMD) with their covers, distributors and EANs, from Anime News Network

    • Editions tab: covers and references of the foreign editions

  7. 1.8.3

    Fixes and improvements

    Anime: episode titles and summaries for Dororo, Pluto, Young Black Jack, Jetter Mars, Black Jack 21 and the Black Jack OAVs; Japanese titles, dates and translated titles for the older series

    • Summaries for 160 more episodes, 400 episode titles added

  8. 1.8.2

    Fixes and improvements

    Anime: summaries of every episode of the official TV series (W3, Big X, Jungle Emperor 1965 (Shōwa 40 / 昭和40年) and 1989 (Heisei 1 / 平成元年), Princess Knight, Goku, Astro Boy 1980 (Shōwa 55 / 昭和55年) and 2003 (Heisei 15 / 平成15年), Blink, Mitsume ga Tōru, Oniisama e, Black Jack 2004 (Heisei 16 / 平成16年), Go Astro Boy Go)

    • French titles and original FR/EN summaries for 650 episodes

  9. 1.8.1

    Fixes and improvements

    Anime: all 149 pages are written (summaries, information, trivia), with summaries of the 193 episodes of Astro Boy (1963, Shōwa 38 / 昭和38年).

    • Summary, broadcast information, trivia and sources for every production
    • Summaries of the 193 episodes of Tetsuwan Atom (1963, Shōwa 38 / 昭和38年)

  10. 1.8.0

    New features

    Anime: the page is rebuilt, with one page per production (150) and four views.

    • 150 productions: Tezuka’s own works, adaptations of his manga, pilots and commissioned films, from his official site, AniDB and Anime News Network
    • Index as a table, timeline, list and picture grid, with filters (format, Tezuka’s role, audience, theme, decade) and sorts
    • One page per production in six tabs: overview, episodes (1,253, with their broadcast date), characters, editions, credits with the people’s dates, trivia and sources
    • Links from the chronology, Series, MT-400, BT-200, Star System and search

  11. 1.7.1

    Fixes and improvements

    Chronology: 55 events added and 62 enriched from the Catsuka website.

    • Chronology version 1.31.0: video releases, online releases, exhibitions and announcements (2003 (Heisei 15 / 平成15年)-2026 (Reiwa 8 / 令和8年)) found on catsuka.com

  12. 1.7.0

    New features

    New “Books on Tezuka” page: 206 books about Osamu Tezuka and his works, in 9 languages, with cover, summary, price and Amazon link.

    • Books on Tezuka: biographies, studies, memoirs, guides, exhibition catalogues, art books, mooks and manga biographies from Japan and around the world; filters by language and type, chronological sort, grouping by language, type or decade, card or table view.
    • Work pages (Series) list the books devoted to them, and Search finds the books.

  13. 1.6.1

    Fixes and improvements

    Faster site build: only the pages that changed are rebuilt and written again.

    • A rebuild with nothing changed takes about 15 s instead of 2 min.

  14. 1.6.0

    New features

    New F.A.Q. page: 25 frequently asked questions about Osamu Tezuka and his works, with sourced answers

    • F.A.Q.: 25 questions (life, works, characters, animation, method, editions, awards, legacy), to expand one by one or all at once, filter by category and sort by suggested order, date added or category; each answer cites its sources and links to the chronology and the series
    • Work pages list the F.A.Q. questions about them, and the site search finds the questions

  15. 1.5.2

    Fixes and improvements

    Magazines: links to the old wiki, which is no longer public, removed.

    • Magazines: no more links to the old wiki

  16. 1.5.1

    Fixes and improvements

    Build tools: the tests no longer run by default, and the upload to the server shows its progress.

    • rebuild.bat --tests runs the regression tests; the file upload shows a progress bar (files, MB, speed, time left).

  17. 1.5.0

    New features

    A new Series section: all of Tezuka's works, one page per work.

    • Index of the 575 works of the official site, as a table, a timeline or an alphabetical and genre list, with sorting and filters.
    • One page per work in five tabs: overview, characters, editions, adaptations, trivia and sources.
    • Original summaries in French and English, official or translated titles, every anecdote sourced.
    • Links to the chronology, the MT-400, the BT-200, magazines, releases, films and the Star System, and back from those pages.

  18. 1.4.0

    New features

    The site now has a version number and this “What’s new” page.

    • Version number in the footer of every page, with a link to this page.
    • Version history: date and description of each change.
    • Version shown in the statistics of the About page.

  19. 1.3.0

    New features

    A Statistics section on the About page.

    • Number of pages of the site, number of visitors since it went online, online since 2026 (Reiwa 8 / 令和8年).
    • Size of the archive: chronology events, releases, magazine issues, volumes, characters, fanzines.

  20. 1.2.0

    New features

    A new menu, organised by kind of work.

    • New entries: Manga, Anime, Live action, Essays, Sculpture, Supervised works, Books.
    • Five new pages, still under construction: Live action, Essays, Sculpture, Supervised works, Books on Tezuka.
    • The menu fits on one line on large screens; the home page follows the new groups.

  21. 1.1.0

    New features

    Cookieless audience measurement, hosted by the site itself.

    • Page views, sources, time spent, devices and languages, without cookies or stored IP addresses.
    • Visitors can opt out from the About page; “Do Not Track” and GPC signals are respected.
    • Password-protected statistics administration page.

  22. 1.0.1

    Fixes and improvements

    Automatic tests check every page before each upload.

    • Checks of the code, the data and the links, then of every page in a browser, in French and in English.
    • The site is no longer uploaded to the server if a test fails.

  23. 1.0.0

    First version

    First numbered version of the site.

    • Chronology, MT-400 and BT-200 collections, magazines and furoku, filmography, fanzines, releases in eight languages, working relationships, Star System, quiz, links and search, in French and in English.