TEZUKA Osamu

  • Kenjuu Tenshi
    The rogue cop Ham Egg is plotting to take over a small town on the border region between New Mexico and Arizona. Only one thing stands in his way: a Native American sharpshooter known as "Monster". Aiding Monster are two other young sharpshooters, Anna and Jim, who combat Ham Egg and his gang to end corruption and liberate the town.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • 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?
    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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  • Lion Books
    A collection of short stories by Osamu Tezuka.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Yuusha Dan
    In the wilderness of Hokkaido, the Ainu people of Japan live in harmony with nature. Kotan Nakamura is a young Ainu boy living peacefully until he meets a tiger one day. This tiger, Dan, has escaped from a train that was carrying him to a zoo. Together, they discover mysterious ruins hidden underneath the ground.

    Within the ruins, Kotan and Dan discover an old man named Upopo living there. He tells the boy and the tiger about three keys to a fantastic treasure. As it so happens, the evil Sekkoku Kou is also searching for the treasure and shoots Upopo. Before he dies, Upopo gives one of the keys to Kotan.

    Now, Kotan and Dan find themselves involved in an ugly battle as numerous villains track them down to try to get the three keys so they can claim the treasure.
    Updated: 2021-08-26
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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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  • 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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  • Angel no Oka
    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.
    Updated: 2021-08-25
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  • Marvelous Melmo
    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, Totoo.
    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Maa-chan no Nikkichou
    Ma-chan's Diary is a significant Tezuka work, because it was his first manga. He authored it in 1946 and it ran in Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi Elementary Schoolchildren's Newspaper).

    It follows the life of a little preschooler named Ma-chan, who lives in post-war Japan. It is presented in the 4-koma (4 panel) format and is 73 strips long.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Tiger Books
    Collection of various short stories.
    (Source: M-U)
    Updated: 2021-08-25
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  • Flying Ben
    A special tonic found among Rome's ancient catacombs is consumed by three stray puppies, giving them incredible powers of super strength, amazing intelligence and lightning speed. These three dogs - Ben, Uru and Puchi - swear to defend a boy who has a map of a hidden treasure in the Silk Road, all while fighting against evil organizations and even competing with one another to help their master.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • MW
    Gurai is a Japanese Catholic Priest, who is unable to give up his lifelong sexual relationship with Yuki, a beautiful and sadistic young master criminal. Yuki's malicious crimes have become more and more extreme over the years, claiming many innocent lives, and Gurai is tormented by guilt at his inability to stop them...

    (Source: ANN)
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Dämons
    Haight and Andrews are both successful engineers working for a company that is about to make a breakthrough on nanotechnology that will change the course of history, when Haight discovers and develops a new technology that will help people live better and cure a few diseases, Andrews wants to use this technology for military purposes, aware of these intentions, Haight resings from the company taking all the documents and research about his discovery, Andrews angry at this, prepares a trap for Haight and with his five maniac sidekicks they brutally torture Haight and kill his loved ones, to add more misery, they severed both his arms and left him for dead.
    But he is rescued by a mysterious doctor and his assistant, both men are experimenting with the strange power of "The Zetsmos" the ability of control the ghost inside the body while one is still alive, reports of people that had his 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 materia and make it part of the body, it can be wood, paper, water, metal and recreate the limb that was gone.
    But awakening the Zetsmos is a painful and dangerous process, the bearer have 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.
    (Source: MU)
    Updated: 2021-08-25
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  • Kirihito Sanka
    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.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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