Rock and his typical "bad boy" look. Art by Osamu Tezuka.

Rock (full name being Rock Home) is a recurrent character in Osamu Tezuka's mangas, and he is an important part of Osamu Tezuka's Star System. Image File history File links Rock Home, by Osamu Tezuka. ... Osamu Tezuka and his creations commemorated on two stamps Dr. Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫 Tezuka Osamu, November 3, 1928 - February 9, 1989) was a Japanese manga artist and animator born in Ōsaka. ... Rurouni Kenshin manga, volume 1 (English version) Manga (漫画) is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. ... Over the course of his career, the mangaka Osamu Tezuka reused the same characters in different roles in different stories. ...

Rock (sometimes spelled Roc) is a young boy with shiny dark hair. He first appeared in the manga series Rock Home, as a child detective. (His name was then based on Sherlock Holmes). A detective is an officer of the police who performs criminal or administrative investigations, in some police departments, the lowest rank among such investigators (above the lowest rank of officers and below sergeants), a civilian licensed to investigate information not readily available in public records (a private investigator, also called... Sherlock Holmes Sherlock Holmes (1854-1957, according to William S. Baring-Gould) is a fictional detective of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, created by British author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ...

While most manga characters stay the same age, Rock grew up and his character was reused for more mature "roles" in Tezuka's mangas, where he gets a "bad boy" personality; often being cold and brutal, his character tends be used as an antagonist. In this older form, Rock is often wearing a three-piece suit with dark sunglasses which became a bit of his trademark. It has been suggested that Onassis glasses be merged into this article or section. ... A trademark (Commonwealth English: trade mark)[1] is a distinctive sign of some kind which is used by a business to identify itself and its products and services to consumers, and to set the business and its products or services apart from those of other businesses. ...

Rock was most recently seen in the animated version of Tezuka's Metropolis, the manga for which he did not appear in. A character named Rock (but of a different appearance and personality) also appeared in the 1980 animated Phoenix 2772. Metropolis, also known as Osamu Tezukas Metropolis is a manga by Osamu Tezuka and an anime movie based on the manga. ... Phoenix 2772 (Space Firebird) is a Japanese animated film by Osamu Tezuka. ...

External links

Rock's official biography on Tezuka Osamu World