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Two young doctors, the passionate and well-liked Osanai and the ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmo' disease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai, caught between the allure of his urban medical world and the rural peace offered by the remote village, does his best to help the victims retain their humanity in the face of a medical establishment which views them only as guinea pigs and oddities. Meanwhile, Tatsugaura schemes against Osanai and tries to infect his rival with the disease in order to gain fame from researching the results.
Genre(s): Drama, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Seinen, Tragedy
Updated Time: Jun 01, 2022
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This is a collection of loosely interconnected stories where the main characters are all animals, especially the tiger who is the hero of the first book.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Supernatural, Tragedy
Updated Time: Feb 20, 2024
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A fantasy story for kids featuring a girl named Melmo, who can change her age as she wishes by eating special candies.
Melmo's mother dies in a traffic accident, leaving young Melmo and her younger brother Totoo. Anxious, Melmo's mother in heaven asks God to prepare some magical candies, and hands them to Melmo.
There are two kinds: Melmo can grow 10 years older to become any sort of adult she wishes by eating a blue candy. By eating a red one, she can become 10 years younger.
Using these miracle candies, Melmo disguises herself as a nurse, schoolteacher, policewoman, and overcomes troubles together with her brother, TotooGenre(s): Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Shoujo
Updated Time: Oct 22, 2016
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Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story "The Book of Human Insects." The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic...
Genre(s): Mature, Psychological, Seinen, Tragedy
Updated Time: Sep 16, 2022
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Genre(s): Action, Horror, Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Shounen, Supernatural
Updated Time: Feb 26, 2023
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The story revolves around a mysterious place called "Angel's Island" that resides somewhere on the ocean seas. Living on Angel's Island are a species of merpeople that can live in both the sea and on land. They have the form of a human, but can breath in water as well as on land. Luna is a princess of this species of mermaid living on Angel's Island, but is exiled for breaking some of their rules. As punishment, she is placed inside a sea shell, and set adrift across the sea. Meanwhile Eiji Kusahara, the son of a wealthy Japanese family, meets Soleiu (Luna's older sister) and they try to discover the mysteries behind Angel's Island.
Genre(s): Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Shoujo
Updated Time: Apr 20, 2022
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Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. Tezuka is called in one night to sew up Ibuya after an illicit duel; a few weeks later, Ibuya finds himself the only thing standing between Tezuka and a gang of swordsmen sent by the head of medicine for the Shogunate ...
Hidamari no Ki received the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1984 for general manga.Genre(s): Action, Drama, Historical, Mature, Seinen, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Jun 09, 2022
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Story about the history of a valley and the animals that lived there.
6. The Golden Scale
One day, a young boy heads out to catch a haul of fish, so that he can afford to get good bread for his mother. While there he finds a golden fish who, in exchange for not killing it, offers him a golden scale which will grant any wish. Choosing delicious bread as his prize, the boy returns home successful. If he could get bread from one scale, what would he get with another?
8. The Devil Invites Himself to the Ball
The fox of danube, the head of the revolutionary army has infiltrated the ball and is plotting something. Who is this mysterious exactly? And what is his relationship with Lily?Genre(s): Adventure, Drama, Shoujo, Tragedy
Updated Time: Aug 31, 2020
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After living in Transylvania for several years, "Earl Dracula" (as Osamu Tezuka's official website calls him in English) has moved to Japan. In the Nerima Ward of Tokyo, he and his daughter, Chocola, and faithful servant Igor continue to live in the castle.
Genre(s): Comedy, Fantasy
Updated Time: Apr 28, 2024
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Haight and Andrews are successful engineers working for a company on the verge of developing a history-making breakthrough on nanotechnology; however, when Haight discovers a new technology that will help people live better and cure a few diseases, Andrews decides to use this technology for military purposes. Aware of his intentions, Haight resigns from the company taking all the documents and research about his discovery with him. Andrews becomes angry at this and prepares a trap for Haight. Andrews and his five maniac sidekicks brutally torture Haight and kill his loved ones, then sever both his arms and leave him for dead.
Luckily Haight is rescued by a mysterious doctor and his assistant. Both men are experimenting with the strange power of "The Zetsmos," which is the ability to control the ghost inside the body while one is still alive. Reports of people that had their limbs severed confirm that they can still "feel and move" their limbs even if they are not there, but with the Natural power of the Zetsmos, the body can assimilate any kind of material and make it part of the body (such as wood, paper, water, metal, etc.) and recreate the limb that was gone.
However, awakening the Zetsmos is a painful and dangerous process; the bearer has to put himself between life and death to awaken it. But Haight will stop at nothing to hunt down those that made his life a living hell, and he's determined to use the mysterious power to carry on his revenge.Genre(s): Drama, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural
Updated Time: Sep 11, 2018
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Having been torn from the earth in ancient times, Planet Mamango is now re-approaching the earth after a lapse of 5 million years. One night, a private detective named Ban Shunsaku encounters a murder, and meets boy researcher Shikishima Kenichi, who holds the key to solving the case. Shikishima discovers that a stone from the Planet Mamango generates huge amounts of energy. Making a rocket out of the energy stone, Shikishima sets up an exploration team and departs for Planet Mamango. The rocket heads straight for Planet Mamango under the command of Shikishima, along with Captain Butamo Makeru, Ayame and Momiji, who are cabbages created by the captain, a rabbit named Mii, and Ban Shunsaku. In due time, the rocket lands on the Planet Mamango, where the group finds a “The Lost World,” an ancient environment where dinosaurs walk about and ferns and cycads cover the ground.
Note: The most widely available version (including the english one) is the 1948 one, directly published by Fuji Shobou. This is a remake of an unfinished series Tezuka wrote for the Kansai Kyouron Shinbun in 1946, which has been lost. He remade the series once again in 1955 for Bouken Ou under the title "Zenseiki Hoshi", but this version too has been lost.Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen, Tragedy
Updated Time: Jan 30, 2023
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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): Drama, Historical, Mature, Psychological, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen, Supernatural, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 25, 2016
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Midorimaru Matsunoki, the only son of lord Matsunoki Mumeharu, retainer of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, becomes involved in his father's secret plans about construction of a new castle. Soon after encounters a female peasant school teacher, Tae, who becomes his lover. Circumstances even come to affect the beautiful female noble Yayoi, who hates (and loves) him, and his beloved sensei, samurai Fujinosuke Murasaki, the main constructer of the castle, in ways no one would have anticipated...
This is a fast-paced story with overt characterization that reflects on the fairness of love and war.Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama, Historical, Romance, Shounen, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 25, 2016
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Kuuki no Soko is a collection of short stories drawn by the genial writer between 1971 and 1972, is known in Japan as a true masterpiece.
Belonging to the most mature Tezuka's period, it touches many genres: from pure science fiction to the Nazi era. We find stories of spying, lawsuits against animal testing as far as stories about the more complex dynamics of the human mind.
And the human mind is the leitmotif of the entire volume, namely the duality present in every one of us, and then, mercy, love, understanding, living with the cruelty and violence until somenthing happen in our mind and we discover a side of us unknown to ourselves ... and we are not always adequately prepared to reagins ...Genre(s): Mature, Mystery, Psychological, Sci-fi, Seinen
Updated Time: Dec 11, 2022
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An evil dinosaur-wizard-alien named Goa plans to take over earth and get rid of all the humans living on it. Earth, the creator of earth, makes three "Rocketonians" to stop him: the golden giant Magma, his mostly absent throughout the whole series wife Mol, and their son Gamu, who is made in the image of the main character, Mamoru (a human boy).
Genre(s): Action, Mecha, Romance, Sci-fi, Shounen
Updated Time: Oct 26, 2016
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In a jungle in Africa right on the equator there was a white lion, Panja, who was called the "Emperor of the Jungle." But Panja is killed by a hunter. His wife, the Queen of Jungle, who has been caught by the hunter, gives birth to the son of Panja on a ship bringing them to a zoo. She names her son "Leo" and has him escape from the ship, saying, "Go back to Africa and become the successor of your father." Then a storm comes and the ship is overturned, and sinks with the Queen on it. Leo is washed up on the beach of a port town in the Arabian Peninsula, not Africa. This is where Leo's long adventure begins.
Genre(s): Action, Shounen
Updated Time: Apr 13, 2020
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Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a seemingly homeless drunk woman who can quote French poetry. Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura's shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no benevolent guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings - all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane.
Genre(s): Drama, Mature, Psychological, Romance, Seinen
Updated Time: Apr 22, 2022
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On his way home from school, the shy young boy Tecchin finds the body of a young girl lying in the street. He alerts the police, only to come back to find she has been replaced with a life-sized doll. Tecchin takes the doll home and repairs it. She comes to life and tells him that they are both Grand Dolls, alien beings bent on world domination.
Genre(s): Sci-fi, Shounen
Updated Time: Oct 26, 2016
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Zephyrus is a mysterious beauty, with an irresistible sexual power over men. Even if you see her face only once you will dream of her for the rest of your days. She is using this power to take a slow and complex revenge on society and all men for their past sins. Her plans for destruction go smoothly until she encounters the "primative-minded" alcoholic sailor Seki Gohonmatsu, who seems to be the one man in the world immune to her powers. As her schemes start to unravel, she begins to appear in more than one place at once working on different projects, as if there may be more than one Zephryus.
Genre(s): Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Updated Time: Apr 22, 2022
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Using Tezuka's characters, the very best artists were allowed to let loose and adapt his characters into short stories.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Seinen
Updated Time: Oct 30, 2022
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