TEZUKA Osamu

  • Yakeppachi no Maria
    This is a bizarre sex education Manga staged in a school, featuring a rowdy boy called Yakeppachi and a girl named Maria, who is the ectoplasm of Yakeppachi. Yakeno Yahachi, a rowdy boy known as "Yakeppachi" gives rise to a pretty girl named Maria while in a trance, and her personality is identical to Yakeppachi. Actually, she is the "ectoplasm" of Yakeppachi. "Ectoplasm" is a hazy stringy and fog-like substance that is generated from the spirit medium at a seance, also referred to as an "astral body." Taking on the form of a doll given to her by Yakeppachi's father, the ectoplasm Maria begins to go to school with Yakeppachi.
    The whole school is thrown into a state of confusion except the classroom teacher Akita, who is the only person to understand that this is a supernatural phenomenon. The plot thickens when, after finding out about the secret of Maria, a juvenile gang group ("Group of Tateyoko") that has been keeping an eye on Yakeppachi, start to follow him, thinking to stage an attack. Another enemy of the pair is Yukisugi Midori, girl leader of the "Group of Tateyoko," who is offended by the fact that Maria is popular with the boys, and tries to attack with the intent to hurt her...
    (Source: Tezukaosamu.net)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • The Devil Invites Himself to the Ball
    A Ball, a beautifull young girl and a fox.
    A great short story from the man who brought us Buddha and astroboy!
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Swallowing the Earth
    The story opens in 1942 as the battle for Guadalcanal rages in the South Pacific during World War II. When two Japanese soldiers, Adachigahara Kitaro and Seki Ichimatsu, run across a dying American soldier who is repeating the word “Zephyrus” over and over and clutching a photograph of a strikingly beautiful woman. From that moment on, the two are ensnared by the beauty with whom all men fall in love with at first sight. Twenty years after the end of the war, the two still can’t get the lovely Zephyrus out of their minds, and when they discover a woman with an uncanny resemblance and the same name is in Japan they send Seki’s son, Gohonmatsu – a Neanderthal-like perpetually-drunken sailor whose only goal is to drink all the liquor in the world – to find out more about her.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Shin Takarazima
    The manga that made Tezuka famous. It is an action-adventure drama inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's book.
    One day a boy named Pete finds a map of "Treasure Island" that his deceased father left behind. He starts on a voyage to find it together with "Captain," who was a friend of his father. But his ship is attacked by pirates, led by Bowarl, and the two are caught. When a storm hits the pirate ship, the two are thrown into the sea and washed up on the shore of a solitary island in the southern ocean. To their surprise, this island is the one they have been looking for....

    The Western-style art and fast-paced storyline attracted much attention, and it became a best seller with 400,000 copies sold, laying the groundwork for the manga craze and its modern style.

    The original version of "New Treasure Island" was based on Tezuka Osamu's manuscript, but substantial modifications were made by Sasaki Shichima, who cut nearly 60 pages and also changed some of the lines. When publishing "The Complete Works of Tezuka Osamu," Tezuka Osamu remade it based on his memory to make it closer to his original.

    Was adapted into animation.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Mitsume ga Tooru
    This is a science fiction story in which a boy with supernatural powers, Sharaku Hohsuke, probes into circumstances surrounding events in history. He is also a descendent of the "three-eyed tribe." A second-year student in junior high school, Sharaku Hohsuke never goes without a large bandage on his forehead. He is an innocent boy, like a little child.
    But once the bandage comes off, his third eye appears and he suddenly turns into a devil-like being, displaying horrifying psychic power.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Apollo no Uta
    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.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Alabaster
    • TEZUKA Osamu
    • Complete
    • 10 chapters
    "Alabaster" is a criminal science fiction of suspense depicting the dark side of the human psyche that envies beautiful things.
    James Block is a young black man with sinister intentions. When he is in prison, a strange old man tells him about the "F" laser beam that makes humans and any other living things invisible. After he has been released from prison, James receives the F laser beam. But because the beam is imperfect, he becomes semitransparent with an ugly figure. From that time on, he calls himself "Alabaster" and hates anything beautiful.
    Using the F laser beam, he begins to eliminate hypocrites and those who boast of their beauty. When living things are exposed to the F laser beam long enough to become transparent, they die. Meanwhile, Dr. F, who told Alabaster the secret of the F laser beam, had previously used his daughter as a guinea pig to investigate its effects. The daughter, who was pregnant at the time, gave birth to a girl. The girl, who was named Ami, is completely invisible. Alabaster approaches Ami and begins to use her for his dark purposes.
    (Source: tezukaosamu.net)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Mako To Rumi To Chii
    This Manga deals with parenting, depicting the daily lives of cartoonist Ohsamu Tetsuro, who strongly resembles Tezuka Osamu himself, and his family.
    The story begins with the birth of his first son. The son is named Makoto (nicknamed Mako) and grows to be a healthy 2 year-old, basking in the love of his orderly mother and careless father. The son is followed by two daughters named Rumiko (nicknamed Rumi) and Chiiko (nicknamed Chii). This story focuses on the increasing hustle and bustle inside the Ohsamu family.
    (Source: tezukaosamu.net)
    Updated: 2021-09-08
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  • Grand Doll
    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.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Manga Seibutsugaku
    Tezuka teaches about biology in short installments.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Clockwork Apple
    Short story collection of a variety of more mature Tezuka work. The story "Clockwork Apple" was borrowed from the book, before the movie was made, but has very little to do with the book either as Tezuka admits to writing it without reading Clockwork Orange.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Castle of Dawn
    Midorimaru, an uncouth prince, becomes involved in his father's secret plans, and soon after encounters a peasant school teacher, Tae. As war approaches, circumstances even come to affect the beautiful noble Yayoi and enemy ninja in ways no one would have anticipated. (Source: M-U)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Tetsu No Senritsu
    The Melody of Iron
    Dan Takuya has both of his arms severed and is left for dead. He learns to control new arms made of iron with telekinesis and goes out for revenge. (Source: MU)
    White Phantom
    A woman is haunted by a shadow of her dead lover.
    Revolution
    A man's finds that after his wife wakes up from giving birth that she no longer remember's him.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Tokei Jikake No Ringo
    Short story collection of a variety of more mature Tezuka work.
    Chapter 1
    A Nazi faces a firing squad, but does he have a way out of it.
    Chapter 2
    Alone in space a man and a robot fall in love, but tragedy happens. Can miracles happen?
    Chapter 3 - ClockWork Apple
    A bustling town is suddenly quiet. Where are all the people? Has it been cut off from the rest of the world?
    The story "Clockwork Apple" was borrowed from the book, before the movie was made, but has very little to do with the book either as Tezuka admits to writing it without reading Clockwork Orange. (Source: MU)
    Chapter 4
    A man and a cabbie share horrifying stories with each other on the way to their destination.
    Chapter 5
    Chic hipsters fall in love but one of them is hiding a secret.
    Chapter 6 - Yellow Dust
    Vietnam vets hold a class of children and there teacher hostage.
    Chapter 7 - Curtains
    An assassination attempt but who is really behind it all?
    Chapter 7 - Return Ship
    Humans traveling space encounter another ship in dire need of help. Given the situation will man be his at best or at his worst?
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Tonkaradani Monogatari
    A series of one-shots from Tezuka.
    1. The tale of Tonkara valley
    2. Sing Penny
    3. Silk hat story
    4. Ribbon Knight - Tink and the golden egg
    5. Duckling with the white neck
    6. The Golden Scale
    7. Why mother lost her leg
    8. The Devil Invites Himself to the Ball
    9. Why mother lost her eyes
    10. Mignon
    11. The spring of crane
    (Source: MU)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Buddha
    In ancient India, the lives of the people are plagued by drought, famine, constant warfare and the injustices of the strict caste system. The intertwining lives of many unhappy souls are drawn together by the birth of the young prince Siddhartha, who embarks on a spiritual journey, becomes Buddha, "the Enlightened One," and attempts to bring about a spiritual rebirth of the people in this desperate age.

    (Source: ANN)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Kuuki no Soko
    "Under the Air" is a series of short stories focusing on the greed and despair of people jostling for space on the surface of a little planet called Earth.
    The first episode, entitled "Man Who Visits Joe," features a white male racist who has received an organ transplant from a black man without his knowledge and tries to hide it. The last episode, entitled "Couple under the Air," depicts the tragedy of a couple who have grown from babies to adults on life-sustaining machines after all other humans have become extinct. Many episodes of this series are critical of civilization.

    (Source: tezukaosamu.net)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Lost World
    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. -ANN
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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