TEZUKA Osamu

  • Magma Taishi
    The alien invader Goa plots to conquer the Earth. He first warns the Murakami family (father Atsushi, mother Tomoko, and son Mamoru) of their invasion, and demonstrates his powers by transporting them to a prehistoric jungle and destroying a Giant Dinosaur (in reality, Agon, the title monster of a Godzilla-like TV series) before their very eyes. But they will not agree to surrender to Goa, so hope comes in the form of Magma, an armored, golden giant with long hair and antennae. He and his human-sized wife Mol, both created by the wizard Earth (who sure enough lives deep beneath the Earth), are sent to defend our world against Goa. They befriend Atsushi and Mamoru, the latter has Magma emotionally touched, as he wanted to have a child with his wife Mol, so Earth creates a duplicate of Mamoru, named Gam (who wears a helmet with antennas). Earth gives Mamoru a whistle, with which he can call Gam (when blown once), Mol (when blown twice) and Magma (when blown thrice) in times of crisis. So when Goa unleashes his various daikaiju, chances are, Magma, Mol, and Gam will fly to the rescue.

    Ambassador Magma is known as the first color tokusatsu TV series in Japan.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • Lion Books
    A collection of short stories by Osamu Tezuka.
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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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  • 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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  • Hi no Tori
    "All things are born and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire called the Phoenix is the eternal spirit of life, death and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom, or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes.

    (Source: ANN)

    Note: This is an incomplete series due to Tezuka's death.
    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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  • 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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  • Ode to Kirihito
    Two doctors, the young, passionate and well-liked Osanai and the veteran, ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious "Monmow" disease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beast-like appearance before their deaths.

    Osanai is sent to the village by Tatsugaura to see if he can find a cause for the disease while also treating the victims to the best of his ability. But in reality, Tatsugaura is scheming against Osanai and intends to infect him with the disease in order to clear the way of any obstacles of presenting his own research, and thus gaining high prestige and rank in the medical world.
    Updated: 2020-12-26
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  • 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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  • 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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  • Don Dracula
    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 have taken up residence in an old-Western style house.
    While Chocola attends Junior High School, Earl Dracula is desperate to drink the blood of beautiful virgin women; an appropriate meal for a vampire of his stature. However, each night that Earl Dracula goes out on the prowl he finds himself getting involved in some kind of disturbance which leads to him causing various trouble for the local residents. With nobody in Japan believing in vampires, his very presence causes trouble amongst the people in town.
    (Source: Wikipedia)
    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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  • 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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  • 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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  • 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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  • Metropolis
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    • Mecha
    In a super-advanced city in the near future where humanoid robot technology is very sophisticated, the boy detective Kenichi is caught up in the conflict as the powerful politician Duke Red, distraught over his child's death, hires a scientist to create a replacement, an exquisitely beautiful sex-changing robot child named Mitchy. Note that this original 1949 manga supplies only part of the plot for the recent Metropolis movie, and does not feature Rock, whose role in the film was adapted from Phoenix, Nextworld and other Tezuka manga.
    Updated: 2021-08-25
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  • Hidamari no Ki
    The story of friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate (source: Wikipedia)
    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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