Editing Princess Knight (section)

==Publication==
There have been four manga serializations of ''Princess Knight'' in Japan. The first serialization ran from January 1953 to January 1956 in [[Kodansha]]'s magazine ''Shōjo Club'',<ref name=orig>{{cite web|url=http://tezukaosamu.net/en/manga/559.html |title=Princess Knight [Shojo Club <Girl's Comic>] |website=tezukaosamu.net |publisher=Tezuka Productions | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref> and was followed by a three ''[[tankōbon]]'' volumes release<ref name=50sandfukko/> between December 30, 1954 and June 25, 1958.<ref name=works>{{cite web | url=http://en.tezuka.co.jp/manga/backlist/ri01/index.html | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20030827023549/http://en.tezuka.co.jp/manga/backlist/ri01/index.html | archive-date=August 27, 2003 | title=Back Edition Princess Knight list | work=en.tezuka.co.jp | publisher=Tezuka Productions | access-date=July 20, 2014}}</ref> It was followed by several reissues; two volumes were published on October 11, and November 13, 1979 under the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works line;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086855 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 少女クラブ版 (1) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714212749/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086855 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086863 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 少女クラブ版 (2) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714212749/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086855 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> on April 17, 1995 under KC Grand Collection line,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3134121 | title=リボンの騎士 少女クラブ版 (KCグランドコレクション) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714212749/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3134121 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> and on November 12, 1999 under Manga Bunko line.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606569 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 少女クラブ版 (漫画文庫) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000242/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606569 | archive-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref> In 2004, [[Geneon Universal Entertainment]] released a ''[[kanzenban]]'' edition of the manga that was republished by Fukkan.com in 2012.<ref>{{Cite web | url=http://natalie.mu/comic/news/76048 | script-title=ja:「リボンの騎士」少女クラブ掲載のオリジナル版で復刻 | date=September 8, 2012 | publisher=Natasha, Inc. | website=[[Natalie (website)|natalie.mu]] | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja}}</ref> It was also released in a three-volume {{Nihongo|Kanzen Fukkoku-ban|完全復刻版||lit. "Full reprint"}} edition on January 13, 2009,<ref name=50sandfukko>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=364748X | script-title=ja:完全復刻版 リボンの騎士（少女クラブ版）(1) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714222646/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=364748X | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3647501 | script-title=ja:完全復刻版 リボンの騎士（少女クラブ版）(3) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000442/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3647501 | archive-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref> followed by a "Special Box" on January 14, 2009,<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3647463 | title=完全復刻版 リボンの騎士（少女クラブ版）スペシャルBOX | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714133524/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3647463 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> and in an Osamu Tezuka Bunko Complete Works edition on February 10, 2011.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3738213 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 少女クラブ版 (手塚治虫文庫全集) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714235603/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3738213 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref>

The second serialization, a follow-up to the ''Shōjo Club'' version, ran in ''[[Nakayoshi]]'' from January 1958 to June 1958.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://tezukaosamu.net/en/manga/428.html | title=Twin Knight | website=tezukaosamu.net | publisher=Tezuka Productions | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref> The title was changed to {{nihongo|''The Twin Knights''|双子の騎士|Futago no Kishi}} for publication in book form, but the serialization's name was still ''Princess Knight''.<ref name=orig/> It was first compiled by Suzuka Shuppan and released in a single ''tankōbon'' on May 15, 1960,<ref>{{cite book | url=http://iss.ndl.go.jp/books/R100000002-I000000833394-00 | script-title=ja:双子の騎士 (鈴木出版): 1960 | publisher=[[National Diet Library]] | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja| year=1960 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/ja/item-Mani-vin1791.html | script-title=ja:鈴木出版 手塚治虫漫画全集/手塚治虫『双子の騎士（カバー付・非貸本）全2巻セット』 | publisher=[[Mandarake]] | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714190815/http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/ja/item-Mani-vin1791.html | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | language=ja}}</ref> which was republished by Mushi Pro Shōji on July 15, 1971.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/ja/item-Mani-vin576.html | script-title=ja:虫プロ商事 虫コミックス/手塚治虫『双子の騎士』（初版） | publisher=Mandarake | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714184305/http://ekizo.mandarake.co.jp/shop/ja/item-Mani-vin576.html | archive-date=July 14, 2014 | language=ja}}</ref> Kodansha published it in different lines and formats; on July 28, 1978 under the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works line;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086537 | script-title=ja:双子の騎士 (手塚治虫漫画全集) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714202030/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086537 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> on June 4, 1995 under the KC Grand Collection line;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=313413X | title=双子の騎士 (KCグランドコレクション) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714213154/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=313413X | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> on November 12, 1999 under the Manga Bunko line;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606577 | script-title=ja:双子の騎士 (漫画文庫) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714113718/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606577 | archive-date=July 14, 2014}}</ref> and on May 12, 2010 under the Osamu Tezuka Bunko Complete Works line.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3737543 | script-title=ja:双子の騎士 (手塚治虫文庫全集) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000717/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3737543 | archive-date=July 15, 2014}}</ref>

The third serialization was a rewriting of the ''Shōjo Club'' version and ran from January 1963 to October 1966 in ''Nakayoshi'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://tezukaosamu.net/en/manga/560.html | title=Princess Knight [Nakayoshi <Girl's Comic>] | website=tezukaosamu.net | publisher=Tezuka Productions | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref> and was originally published into five ''tankōbon'' volumes by Kodansha<ref name=nakaandfukko/> between August 15, 1964 and June 15, 1966.<ref name=works/> It was followed by several rereleases and reissues; three volumes were published by [[Shogakukan]] in pocketbook format between March 10, and May 10, 1969;<ref name=works/> three volumes were published between June 13, 1977 and January 11, 1978 under the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works line by Kodansha;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086049 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 (1) (手塚治虫漫画全集) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714140635/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086049 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086065 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 (3) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140714181335/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=1086065 | archive-date=July 14, 2014 }}</ref> in June 1982 it was published by [[Holp Shuppan]];<ref>{{cite book | url=http://ci.nii.ac.jp/ncid/BA62356646 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士（ほるぷ出版） | title=CiNii | year=1982 | publisher=[[National Institute of Informatics]] | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja}}</ref> on December 14, 1994 it was released under KC Grand Collection line;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3137058 | title=リボンの騎士 (1) (KCグランドコレクション) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715005727/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3137058 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3137066 | title=リボンの騎士 (2) (KCグランドコレクション) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715011030/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3137066 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref> on October 9, 1999 under Manga Bunko Line;<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606402 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 (1) (漫画文庫) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715023303/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606402 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606410 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 (2) (漫画文庫) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715001221/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=2606410 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref> and on October 9, 2009 under the Osamu Tezuka Bunko Complete Works line.<ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3737136 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 (1) (手塚治虫文庫全集) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000308/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3737136 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3737144 | script-title=ja:リボンの騎士 (2) (手塚治虫文庫全集) | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715015949/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3737144 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref> A Kanzen Fukkoku-ban edition, along with a "Special Box", was published on May 29, 2009.<ref name=nakaandfukko>{{cite web | url=http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3647722 | title=完全復刻版 リボンの騎士（なかよし版） スペシャルBOX | publisher=Kodansha | access-date=July 7, 2014 | language=ja | url-status=dead | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140715000452/http://bookclub.kodansha.co.jp/bc2_bc/search_view.jsp?b=3647722 | archive-date=July 15, 2014 }}</ref>

The fourth serialization was a [[science fiction]] story originally written by Tezuka, with the drawings done by Kitano Hideaki.<ref name=orig/> It was serialized in the magazine ''[[Shōjo Friend]]'' in 1967, concurrently with its broadcast on television as animation.<ref name=orig/> Kodansha encapsulated its chapters into two volumes released on May 3, 1967, and June 3, 1967.<ref name=works/> A [[tie-in]] to the anime series, Tezuka himself admitted that it was "a commercial flop, an ill-conceived" version.<ref name=dacey/>

Six volumes of ''[[Nakayoshi]]''{{'}}s 1963 ''Princess Knight'' were released between May 18, and July 27, 2001 in the United States in a bilingual (English/Japanese) edition by [[Kodansha International]].<ref name=works/><ref name=firstrans/> A preview of the 1953 manga was released in the July 2007 issue of [[Viz Media]]'s magazine, ''[[Shojo Beat]]''.{{efn|''Shojo Beat''{{'}}s third volume and seventh issue contained a 25-page excerpt of some chapters and a contextual essay.<ref name=dacey/><ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-04-18/pw-comics-week-interviews-shojo-beat | title=PW Comics Week Interviews Shojo Beat Editor-in-Chief | author=Koulikov, Mikhail | date=April 18, 2007 | website=Anime News Network | access-date=July 18, 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=http://shojobeat.com/manga/25.php | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071012203127/http://shojobeat.com/manga/25.php | archive-date=October 12, 2007 | title=Shojo Beat Vol. 3, Issue 7 | website=Shojobeat.com | publisher=Viz Media | access-date=July 18, 2015}}</ref>}}<ref name=firstrans>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2007-05-17/viz's-princess-knight-is-first-translation-of-original-run |title=Viz's Princess Knight is First Translation of Original Run | author=Loo, Egan | website=Anime News Network |date=May 17, 2005 | access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref> At the 2011 [[San Diego Comic-Con]], [[Vertical (company)|Vertical]] announced that it had licensed the 1963 version{{efn|Specifically, Vertical translated the 1977 reprint published under the Complete Works Edition line.<ref name=yuricon/>}} for an English-language translation in North America.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2011-01-27/vertical-adds-princess-knight-drops-of-god-manga |title=Vertical Adds Princess Knight, Drops of God Manga (Updated) | author=Manry, Gia | website=Anime News Network |date=September 11, 2013 |access-date=September 15, 2013}}</ref><ref name=comicon>{{cite web | url=http://manga.about.com/od/recommendedreading/tp/2011-Comic-Con-Best-And-Worst-Manga.03.htm | title=2011 Comic-Con Best and Worst Manga Panel | author=Aoki, Debora | date=2011 | work=About.com | publisher=InterActiveCorp | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120123035839/http://manga.about.com/od/recommendedreading/tp/2011-Comic-Con-Best-And-Worst-Manga.03.htm | archive-date=January 23, 2012}}</ref> Vertical published it in two parts; the first on November 1, 2011, and the second on December 6, 2011.<ref name=vertical1>{{cite web | url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/212675/princess-knight-part-1-by-osamu-tezuka/ebook | title=Princess Knight, Part 1 by Osamu Tezuka | publisher=[[Penguin Random House]] | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213776/princess-knight-part-two-by-osamu-tezuka/9781935654315 | title=Princess Knight, Part Two by Osamu Tezuka | publisher=Penguin Random House | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150722100138/https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/213776/princess-knight-part-two-by-osamu-tezuka/9781935654315 | archive-date=July 22, 2015}}</ref> In the following year, Vertical licensed ''The Twin Knights'',<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2012-10-12/vertical-adds-tezuka-twin-knight-kyoko-okazaki-helter-skelter-manga | title=Vertical Adds Tezuka's Twin Knight, Kyoko Okazaki's Helter Skelter Manga| author=Hodgkins, Crystalyn | date=October 12, 2012 | website=Anime News Network | access-date=April 21, 2014}}</ref> which was released on July 30, 2013.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/226513/the-twin-knights-by-osamu-tezuka/ | title=The Twin Knights by Osamu Tezuka | publisher=Penguin Random House | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref> Both series were rereleased by Vertical in [[ebook]] format; first, ''The Twin Knights'' on July 22, 2015,<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532233/twin-knights-by-osamu-tezuka/9781942993230 | title=Twin Knights by Osamu Tezuka | publisher=Penguin Random House | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref> and then both ''Princess Knight'' volumes on August 12, 2015.<ref name=vertical1/><ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/532212/princess-knight-part-2-by-osamu-tezuka/ebook | title=Princess Knight, Part 2 by Osamu Tezuka | publisher=Penguin Random House | access-date=January 5, 2018}}</ref>