"Which will come first: my resignation as a teacher or burning out past my limit?" Through the day-in and day-out responsibilities of his work, Nishiya is a teacher trying his best to be kind and caring to his students. However, as the days of long, grueling work hours, complaints from parents and guardians, and attempts to guide students falls on deaf ears pass, he finds himself gradually succumbing to fatigue no matter how much he reminds himself that this is the path that he chose. Sometimes...he even loses sight of who's sake he's living for. It is on one of those days, when the school district is rocked by a string of incidents, in which stray cats are slaughtered by human hands. And among the parents and guardians, a rumor is spreading that the culprit isa student who only attends school during exam week, a student named Hayasaka--.

A mysterious being named Goa makes his intentions of dominating the Earth known to newspaper reporter Murakami and his son Mamoru. Mamoru takes a photo of Goa. Later, Mamoru acquaints himself with Magma, a self-proclaimed 'rocket man'. However, Magma was actually created to protect the Earth, and destroy Goa. --- **Volumes 186-188 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

End of the 20th century. Japan GNP became number one to lead the world economy. However, do not think Japan is easily enjoying prosperity. Far-left forces and a communist terrorist group are in Japan trying to bring down Japan's economy and take over the government. Japanese government was concerned about this, the Metropolitan Police Department Ministry of Public Security has established a new special public security service, which specializes in terrorist countermeasures. License to kill is given to the investigators to protect the security of Japan in shadows. Angel is a tough, beautiful cop in this special force, assigned to protect the country. Link: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=511) (OVA)

Follows the story of Iwaki Shouzou who works as a mercenary in South America. Iwaki is informed of the death of his gang boss dad and discovers his former Yakuza henchman is involved in a double-cross.

This is a collection of short stories that Tezuka wrote about transformation and its many forms. (from DMP): The world is nothing but a series of metamorphoses, from changing who you are internally to be a better person to the actual act of growing from a baby to an adult to the elderly. In the world of Osamu Tezuka, transformations show the darkness of humanity. One machine turns humanity's cast-offs into easily-hunted prey. A dancing farmer is turned into a put-upon vagrant only supported by his cat. A giant oaf turns out to be the sweetest and effeminate best friend you could hope for. --- **Volume 88 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

It’s not that studio 13 is haunted. It’s that there is a small cat-like creature living there who wants to be left alone, and will only respond to the requests of a small girl, which means that the producer who uses the studio needs to keep them both happy… Also includes the short work "Kibando" in volume 2. --- **Volumes 307 and 308 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

This is the story of three high school students who discover a tree of knowledge on a small island in the Sea of Japan, who eat the fruit of the tree and then return to the mainland and attempt to return to their lives! --- **Volume 255 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A plane crashes and 8 people survive – and they shouldn’t have save for the fact that the mountain has an unusual magical property and the survivors were all hit with rocks from the mountain during the crash. As long as they keep those rocks, they stay alive. But the guardian of the mountain sends two people after the survivors to get the rocks back, in the disguise of two children killed in the crash. Originally under the title "Dust 18" (and was meant to be 18 chapters). It was not popular during serialization, and thus was not able to properly conclude. It was later reworked and touched up as "Dust 8" when it was collected in the Tezuka 400. (Tezuka's afterword) --- **Volumes 91 and 92 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A sapient rabbit named Mimio is born in an university lab experiment. However, Mimio thinks he is human. So he escapes and finds refuge under John, an orphan kid scientist who is constructing a train capable of penetrating the earth's core, thus allowing for safe transportation. Initially, the train runs fine but it stops at the Earth's core. When they get out, they are swept away by groundwater... What lurks below the surface? Will Mimio and John survive? --- **Volume 253 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Yamada Kiyoshi, a struggling family man with a strong sense of justice oversteps his bounds and attempts to stop a public disturbance. Unfortunately for him, he's caught himself in the crosshairs of a violent personality...

A sequel that takes place four years and eight months after *Rockman ZX*.

This is Hanawa Kazuichi's debut work from 1971. The story revolves around an incorrigibly bad son whose mother takes him to a sadistic acupuncturist to "cure" him. It also includes interviews with Yamano Hajime and Kamosawa Yuji.

Midnight. Awakened by the echoing sound in my room, I was met with a frightening pair of "legs." Since then, as if wishing to merely make its presence known, it remained in my room without letting itself be seen. In the same way it was spreading its encircling net, little by little it encroached on my life until at last it appeared before me. Its true form was that of an exceedingly beautiful "nameless monster." Desperate resistance was futile as the monster dropped its hand towards me. I could not escape or resist. Hiding it from my skeptical lover and friends, thus opened the curtain to our strange life together. Quietly, the senses I had as a human were dying as my normal life continued to collapse. The moment I knew what was awaiting me, I was presented with an important decision. At the same time the monster first appeared before me, the public was disturbed by a string of bizarre murders. It was then that I began to wonder whether they and my beautiful yet eerie roommate were connected.

"The Moon" is a giant robot created by the millionaire Baron, spending 2.5 trillion yen (at that time). Baron proclaimed that **"God is Dead"** and created The Moon as a replacement, to serve as a new power to bring justice in a world of wickedness. He entrusts the operation to kids with a pure heart, as he believes only children are the ones able to enact true justice. Note: Volume count based on the bunkoban.

Military deserter Date Hiroki finds himself tasked with preventing the assassination of the great General Macarthur, in a plot that could potentially result in the execution of the Emperor of Japan.

(from ebookjapan): Inspired by Arabian Nights, Michiko Satonaka presents 12 mysterious one-shots. An idol whose ambition backfired, a woman who lived the moment of destiny twice, a woman who obtained the magical power to make three wishes come true, and even an android old woman in ancient China...? Love, friendship, humor even.... A masterpiece collection of one-shots challenging new frontiers!

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese soldiers hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman rumored to exist on an island in the South Pacific. The tales of this bold enchantress seducing men to their dooms are both chilling and fascinating. Over twenty years pass, and Zephyrus resurfaces in Japan, seemingly unchanged, to wield her mysterious power over men once more. The one man immune to Zephyrus' charms is simple drunkard, Gohonmatsu Seki, son of one of the wartime soldiers. Employed to spy on Zephyrus, what will Gohonmatsu uncover about her ultimate plot to create international discord and consume the world of men? What brought this woman to conspire for decades against patriarchal society -against an entire gender- and can anything be done to stop her plans? [Official English](https://emanga.com/collections/osamu-tezuka/products/swallowing-the-earth) --- **Volumes 259 and 260 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

**"Tokyo swallows and digests tens of millions of human beings, then expels them. And here is some of the excrement: her name is Barbara."** (from ebookjapan): Yosuke Mikura, a popular and indulgent novelist, meets a shabby girl named Barbara at a train station. Ever since she's been staying at his house, MIKURA's inspiration has been brilliant and he finds himself on top of the world. ...Is she a demon or a goddess?　 A mysterious tale of an artist's glory and pain! [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/barbara?variant=32122317702) --- Link to the Live Action Film Adaptation's Trailer on **[YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2vKPj8gxkA)** --- **Volumes 145 and 146 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

*Reads from Left-to-Right* (from ebookjapan): Unicorns are legendary animals that bring happiness to those who have an honest heart. The unicorn child Unico, who lives with a young girl Psyche, is driven out of the mythical land by the trickery of Venus, the goddess of beauty. Wandering through time and space, Unico repeatedly encounters and parts with various people... A fancy fairy tale that will light a warm fire in your heart! --- **Volumes 285 and 286 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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. Now available in a fancy new omnibus, both volumes in one: <https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B014VZ3I5S/> --- **Volumes 75 and 76 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

One day, Nana, who has always wanted to get married, has a fateful encounter. Unfortunately, she had to endure violence since the marriage, so she decided to kill her husband and put his corpse in a freezer, but things aren't always like one want as she finds out when he comes back…

Hyakkimaru is boy befallen and surrounded by tragedy. Before he was born, his father Daigo aspires to rule Japan and does so by making a pact with 48 majin. His side of the bargain? 48 of the body parts of his soon-to-be born son. Hyakkimaru, now a disfigured and horrid looking infant that can no longer be called human, is cast away by his family. Years later, Hyakkimaru, now a young man, makes it his life goal to hunt down the 48 majin and restore his body parts, having already gained some by the time we see him. Along this journey, he comes across a brat in danger who goes by Dororo. After being rescued, Dororo becomes a pest that Hyakkimaru can't seem to shake. With Dororo's cunning, and Hyakkimaru's wit, the two head off into a long and perilous journey. --- **Volumes 147-150 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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! --- **Volumes 271 and 272 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**