Buddha (manga)

Buddha
Cover of volume 6 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works collection, featuring Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha)
ブッダ (Budda)
Genre	Historical[1]
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Ushio Shuppan
English publisher	NA: Vertical UK: HarperCollins
Magazine	Kibō no tomo – Comic Tom
Demographic	Seinen
Original run	September 1972 – December 1983
Volumes	14 (Japanese edition) 8 (Worldwide edition)
Anime film
Directed by	Kozo Morishita
Produced by	Makoto Tezuka
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Michiru Oshima
Studio	Tezuka Productions (production) Toei Animation (animation)
Released	May 28, 2011 (2011-05-28)
Runtime	110 minutes
Anime film
Buddha 2
Directed by	Toshiaki Komura
Produced by	Makoto Tezuka
Written by	Reiko Yoshida
Music by	Michiru Oshima
Studio	Tezuka Productions (production) Toei Animation (animation)
Released	February 8, 2014 (2014-02-08)
Runtime	90 minutes

Buddha (Japanese: ブッダ, Hepburn: Budda) is a manga drawn by Osamu Tezuka and is Tezuka's unique interpretation of the life of Gautama Buddha, the founder of Buddhism. The critically acclaimed series is often referred to as a visually explicit yet humorous and thought-provoking portrayal of the Buddha's life; the series itself has become a staple text in Buddhist temples for young adults and teens to learn about the Buddha's life.^[2] The series began in September 1972 and ended in December 1983, as one of Tezuka's last epic manga works.

Buddha has over 20 million copies in circulation and won Eisner Awards in 2004 and 2005. Due to differences between the ways in which Japanese and English are read, the American volumes published by Vertical Inc. are presented as mirror images of Tezuka's original work so they can be read from left to right, rather than from right to left. Nearly three decades after the manga was completed, an anime film adaptation was released in 2011. A second film was released in 2014.