First Grader Version
After the Lyrica Magazine was discontinued, Sanrio returned the rights to all creators to allow them to publish elsewhere if they chose. Osamu Tezuka continued Unico, but in a new magazine and format. Instead of comics geared towards young girls, now they were for young children and published in First Grader Magazine (Shougaku Ichinensei). Unico was published in the magazine from April 1980 to January 1984. Like the original comic, they have also republished the First Grader version over the years.
