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Dororo is a thriller manga, which revolves around a ronin during the Sengoku period. He was born malformed, limbless and without facial features or internal organs. This was the result of his birth father daimyo Daigo Kagemitsu forging a pact with 48 sealed demons so that he might rule the world. In return, he promised the demons could each obtain a piece of his unborn child's body. This enabled them to roam free and commit atrocities along the countryside.
After his mother was forced to set him adrift on the river, lest he be killed by his father, the infant was subsequently found and raised by Dr. Honma, a medicine man who used healing magic and alchemical methods to give the child prostheses crafted from the remains of children who had died in the war. The boy became nearly invincible against any mortal blow as a result of the prostheses and healing magic. Grafted into his left arm was a very special blade that a travelling storyteller presented to Dr. Honma, believing it was fated to be within his possession given that ever since the boy had been discovered, the doctor had been visited by goblins. As revealed in a short tale about the blade's origin, the blade had been forged out of vengeance to kill goblins as well as other supernatural entities.
After the doctor was forced to send him on his way because he was attracting demons, the young man learned from a ghostly voice of the curse that had be set upon him at birth and that by killing the demons responsible he could reclaim the stolen pieces of his body and thus regain his humanity. Across his travels, he earned the name "Hyakkimaru" (????) among other names for his inhuman nature. On one such hunt of a demon, Hyakkimaru came across a young orphan thief named Dororo who thereafter travels by his side through the war-torn countryside.Genre(s): Shounen
Updated Time: Apr 19, 2022
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Jiro Tenge (???? Tenge Jir??), one of the eldest sons of the moderately wealthy Tenge family, has become an agent working for the United States, and his secret murders are discovered by Ayako Tenge (???? Tenge Ayako?), his youngest sister. This problem is aggravated by her discovery of terrible incestuous affairs in her own family; the wife of her older brother is actually her mother, who has to frequently have sex with Ayako's father, the family patriarch Sakuemon. To hide these secrets, the family—under pressure from Sakuemon and his eldest son Ichiro—decides to keep Ayako locked up in the basement for the rest of her life.
Despite the efforts of her mother and younger brother Shiro, she lives for nearly two dozen years under the family's house, while great political and social changes occur above her. Ayako eventually leaves the basement after growing into a beautiful and attractive woman, and seeks affection from others while remaining terrified of the outside world. This sets off a chain reaction of events which spells tragedy for the Tenge family.Genre(s): Historical, Mature, Psychological, Romance, Seinen, Tragedy
Updated Time: Apr 22, 2022
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The complete biography of Buddha, as seen by Osamu Tezuka.
Received the Bungei Shunju Manga Award in 1975 and ended in 1984.
The manga Buddha is fiction with many characters who represent various life morals. Example Chapra and his mother show the love of a mother to a son.
From Anime-Planet:
The time is several millennia ago; the place is India. Droughts and famine plague the country, and its people are forced into a strict caste system that rewards only the elite cream of the crop. Across the land animals and Brahmin alike rejoice, for the blessed child with a birthright to become a god is about to be born. His name is Siddhartha Gautama, later to be known as the Buddha. However, Siddhartha's life will not be an easy one. He will experience love and loss, learn about the value of life and influence the lives of many, including Tatta and Pariah, Bandaka the bandit and countless others.
The complete biography of Buddha, as seen by Osamu Tezuka.
Received the Bungei Shunju Manga Award in 1975 and ended in 1984.Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Historical, Mature, Psychological, Shounen, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 31, 2016
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Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the treatment of a young woman named Mari, whose brain was injured sometime earlier as the result of an accident Shinya was responsible for causing. The taxi Shinya drives is equipped with a fifth wheel which makes the car more maneuverable under any kind of road conditions.
Genre(s): Drama, Shounen
Updated Time: Jun 13, 2022
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This is the story of a delinquent who “gives birth” to a formless creature that uses a sex doll as her body.
Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, School Life, Sci-fi, Seinen
Updated Time: Oct 17, 2022
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From Viz:
Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a distant future and a distant past, converging on the present, with characters from one story being reincarnated in another. The 12 stories--over 3000 pages.
Dawn:
The first volume, originally serialized in 1967. This story takes place in 240-270 AD, in the era of Queen Himiko of the Yamataikoku. Using her army, led by feudal general Sarutahiko, to invade Japan, she seeks the Phoenix and eternal youth.Genre(s): Comedy, Drama, Historical, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
Updated Time: Nov 02, 2016
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James Block is a former sports star whose criminal endeavors landed him in jail. In prison he meets "Dr. F", a strange old man who tells James about a beam that can turn living things invisible.
After escaping from prison, James finds and uses the laser on himself. But, because the beam has not been perfected yet, it only rendered his skin invisible, leaving his insides visible to the outside. Angered at his disfigurement, James takes the name "Alabaster" and begins eliminating the hypocrites and the boastful. He is joined by Ami Ozawa, the granddaughter of "Doctor F", who was rendered invisible after the doctor used his pregnant daughter as an "F Beam" test subject.
On their trail is Rock, a vicious FBI agent.Genre(s): Action, Mystery, Sci-fi, Shounen
Updated Time: Nov 03, 2016
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From Dark Horse:
Dark Horse proudly presents another of the crown jewels of international graphic fiction—Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist—who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!—and considered the Walt Disney of Japan, his Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime—a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is!
Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy hearkens back to the classic era of comics and animation, featuring stories that readers young and old will enjoy.Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha, Sci-fi, Shounen
Updated Time: Oct 28, 2020
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Taken From ANN:
Black Jack is the doctor Tezuka wished he could be, one free of the constraints of the modern rules, who can heal and help on his rules. He travels the world helping those who pay him, sometime those he takes mercy on, and always those who move him. Despite not having a valid license, he is still the doctor of last resort, the only man who keeps the reaper at bay. Sometimes though, he's the one who brings the reaper...Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Shounen
Updated Time: Feb 10, 2024
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Astro Boy! Created by the late Osamu Tezuka, a revered animator and cartoonist--who created over 150,000 pages of comics in his career!--and considered the Walt Disney of Japan, his Astro Boy was the first manga series to be adapted to animation and became a worldwide phenomenon, making Astro Boy the Mickey Mouse of anime--a jet-powered, super-strong, evil-robot-bashing, alien-invasion-smashing Mickey Mouse, that is! Exciting, whimsical, and touching, Astro Boy hearkens back to the classic era of comics and animation, featuring stories that readers young and old will enjoy.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mecha
Updated Time: Nov 23, 2021
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Apollo´s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychic scars of his childhood hatred.
Genre(s): Historical, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Tragedy
Updated Time: May 09, 6000
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An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic Crime and Punishment, reworked for younger readers. The setting is St. Petersburg in Czarist Russia, in the days just prior to the Russian Revolution. Rascalnikov is a child from a poor family. He murders an old lady who is a loan shark and flees with her valuables. Judge Polifili, who has been assigned to the case, immediately suspects Rascalnikov because he had recently submitted an essay in a magazine claiming that "the world is divided into those who are geniuses and those who are not. A genius may commit murder but is not guilty if it is for the good of the world." At first, Rascalnikov feels invincible and confident that he can elude the law, but the Judge Polifili obstinately persists in his investigation, and gradually Rascalnikov comes to feel cornered. In the meantime, Sonya, a prostitute, frantically tries to persuade Rascalnikov to turn himself in. All this takes place on the eve of the Russian Revolution.
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Updated Time: May 09, 6000
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Cactus Sam is just your regular, ordinary cowboy, but give him just a sip of milk and transforms from a calm, congenial fellow, into the rootin-est, tootin-est, two-gun shootin-est cowpoke you ever did see... And it just so happens his parents own the local "Milk-Hall." Join "Cactus" on his adventures, as he makes some new friends and battles unsavory characters across the Old West - with his trusty six-shooter in one hand, and a nice, ice-cold cold, glass of milk in the other.
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Updated Time: May 09, 6000
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A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause.
Genre(s): Drama, Historical, Slice Of Life, Tragedy
Updated Time: Sep 05, 2019
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The Diary of Ma-chan is the first manga created by Osamu Tezuka, who wrote and illustrated it in 1946. Running in the Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi Elementary Schoolchildren\'s Newspaper). It follows the life of a little preschooler named Ma-chan, and all of the shenanigans he gets wrapped up in. (from ebookjapan): See what a mischievous boy Ma-chan is! Here comes his memorable debut work, The Diary of Ma-chan! Other works from his debut are also included, such as \"A-Chan and B-Chan\'s Adventure\" and \"Chinnen and Kyo-chan\". We present you works sure to give you a homely laugh! Also includes chapters from Chief Detective Kenichi. --- **Volume 129 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Genre(s): Thriller, Comedy, Crime, Adventure, 4-Koma, Drama, School Life, Police, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Mar 21, 2023
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Tetsu Otani is a junior high school student with a weak heart. Despite the hardships of being so meek at school, he has an intense crush on one of his teachers: Reiko Mizushima. However, one of his least favorite teachers, Kito, intends to propose to her. Since Kito is very violent and often pushes Tetsu around, the thought of him and Reiko together infuriates Tetsu. Before him appears a ghostly white horse, and the next day, Kito is found dead. Tetsu realizes that this horse is the ghost of Bomba, a horse Tetsu's father told him he was charged to take care of during the Pacific War. Now, whenever Tetsu feels intense hatred for someone, Bomba will appear and cause that person to die. ---------- Also includes the 1972 oneshot, "Ma no Yama" or "Devil's Mountain" at the end of the volume as a bonus.
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Updated Time: Dec 13, 2020
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Wansa was designed as the mascot of Sanwa Bank by Tezuka. Wansa is a lucky dog in an unlucky world. With his talent for digging up cash, Wansa somehow persists and overcomes all odds, in spite of the cruel, impoverished landscape he finds himself in. Did not conclude in serialization (its home magazine suspended publication). *The tankobon also contains the following works, all meant for young children, like Wansa-kun*: - **Rabi-chan** - The daily life of a little rabbit named Rabi and his other friends in the forest. Rabi-chan shares similarities with the Tezuka picture book character Mimi-chan. - **Fly, Fly! Run-chan** - A little plane becomes friends with the young boy Kazu, and get into some adventures. - **Pokkachi** - A bubble is saved by the young Hayato and his sister, a scientist. Granted the ability to never pop and fly, Pokkachi gets into many dilemmas with Hayato and his animal friends. - **Triton of the Sea - Fun Kindergarten (Tanoshi Yochien) Version** - Chapters meant to coincide with *Triton of the Sea\'s* anime adaptation. See [here.](https://mangadex.org/title/c573cddf-aac7-4af5-a286-84c4aa37f2a4/triton-of-the-sea) --- **Volume 380 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
Genre(s): Psychological, Animals, Comedy, Survival, Office workers, Drama, Fantasy, Slice Of Life, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 17, 2022
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As a manga tie-in for the then ongoing anime in 1966, this spin-off was serialized for a younger audience. As a little lion cub in the jungle, Leo must find a way to stop an aggressive red rhinoceros from hurting his jungle friends. Watch a boxing match between Leo and a rogue lion, Bubu. Help Leo save a brave hero as he gets revenge on Lubar, an elderly leopard. Finally, learn about Laiya's brother and how a hydra-snake was able to devour their entire family. These chapters of the Shogakukan Sunday Comics were re-released in 1994 with the Complete Manga Works edition of Bouken Ruby (冒険ルビ).
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Historical
Updated Time: May 01, 2020
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A collection of science fiction stories Osamu Tezuka did in boy magazines during the 1960's.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Sci-fi
Updated Time: Oct 10, 2023
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Rainbow Parakeet is a genius actor and a fantastic mimic, but also a thief. He can act out any role to the best of his abilities, while robbing the richest members of the audience during his performances. His methods are a mystery, even to the detectives charged with apprehending him: Police Inspector Senri and his daughter, Police Detective Mariko Senri.
Genre(s): Drama, Mystery, Romance
Updated Time: Jan 27, 2022
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