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Sapphire: Princess Knight to Revive Tezuka's 1st Shōjo Work
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Anime scriptwriter Black Jack). Princess Knight and Toshiko Ueda's Boku-chan (1951) are considered among the first shōjo manga in history.
The original Princess Knight manga centers on Sapphire, a princess who has been disguised as a boy since birth to protect the throne. She goes on various adventures to fight evildoers under yet another different guise, the "Ribbon Knight." She falls in love with Prince Franz, who unfortunately see her as three different people: as "Prince" Sapphire, and as the "Ribbon Knight," as "Prince" Sapphire's mysterious "sister" (La Fille aux Cheveux de Lin or The Girl with the Flaxen Hair). Nakayoshi's next-issue preview proclaims that "the historical super manga makes a comeback in Nakayoshi! The romance of Sapphire and Franz that even your mothers cherished begins now!"
North America's Twin Knight sequel that follows the story's next generation. Nakayoshi then published Tezuka's second run of the Princess Knight manga from 1963 to 1966. Kodansha later published six Japanese/English volumes of this second run.
Hanamori's Pichi Pichi Pitch manga in North America.
Source: Ultimatum
