The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/ayako/) --- **Volumes 197-199 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Mitsuki loves singing, but a malignant tumor in her throat has prevented her from pursuing her passion. However, Mitsuki's life turns around when two fun-loving Shinigami appear to grant her a temporary reprieve from her illness–and give her singing career a magical jump-start. Includes a short story called Ginyu Meika in volume 2. Akiyoshi Kiryuu attempts to practice for an upcoming piano competition; however, his practice continually gets interrupted by a girl named Kanon, who claims to be the spirit of a tree.

(from amazon.jp): Moonlight Mask, Messenger from the Moon The Treasures of the Paradisian Kingdom, Part I ~Who is Moonlight Mask? The hero of justice "Moonlight Mask", who appears dashingly on a motorcycle and slays the wicked, is back! In 1958, the TV drama was produced by Seikosha Productions, and it was an instant hit, and "Moonlight Mask Games" were played by children everywhere. It was such a monster program that "children disappeared from public bathhouses" during its airing time. Although "Moonlight Mask" has been adapted into manga by many mangaka, it was not until three months after the start of the TV program that the story was told in the form of a manga. The popularity of Jiro Kuwata's version, which was serialized in Kodansha's "Shonen Club" three months after the TV drama started, was overwhelming and contributed greatly to the increase in the magazine's circulation. The biggest reason for this was that Kuwata was good at what he did. The thrilling action scenes produced by Kuwata's sharp touch, was his forte. The expression transcended live-action and was a great hit with children, winning as much support as much as that of TV version. This book is a complete edition (9 volumes) that includes all chapters of Kuwata's version without omission. Some of the chapters are made by Kuwata's close friend and assistant, Koji Kusunoki, when Kuwata was too busy at that time. The complete edition of the book is a must-have for any fanatic. The message of "Let's make peace" is also included. Dr. Yanagi, a scientist, succeeds in developing a powerful weapon called the "H-O super bomb. However, he receives a threatening letter from the mysterious "Dokuro Mask," a monster, threatening to rob him of the weapon. However, a threatening letter arrives from the mysterious "Dark Mask," warning of the weapon's robbery. Sensing the danger, Dr. Kikugoro goes to the famous detective Shukujuro But it is already too late, and the detective has already left for India on another case. But it is too late, and the detective has already left for India on another case. The evil hand of the Dark Mask looms. "Moonlight Mask," a messenger from the moon, appears to save the doctor. --Moonlight Mask Makes His Debut.

In the near future on the starship Galaxy, Sheryl Nome lived with her parents Abel and Sally. The government tracked her parents down who were rebelling against mandatory human enhancing implants and Sheryl was the only one who got away alive. Barely surviving on her own on the streets, Grace O’Connor, a manager at a talent agency brings her in to make her a star. Several years later Sheryl is enrolled into the Erato Music School where she meets Amagi Lilies, a brilliant singer and they become friends. However, tragedy strikes and Lilies dies trying to save Sheryl. To make sure her parent’s sacrifice was not in vain and to keep her promise with Lilies, Sheryl enters into the entertainment world to become the greatest singer in the universe.

Sugar .... personified?

A heartwarming romcom about a boy who can't help but want to punch girls, and the heroines.

A letter comes to the three Kohda sisters in Kamakura, bringing the news of their father's death. A father they hadn't seen since he divorced and left home 15 years ago. Despite feeling indifferent about their father, Yoshino, the middle of the three, and Chika, the youngest, go to Yamagata to attend his funeral on oldest sister Sachi's request. There, they meet Suzu, their young and reliable half sister. --- - **Won the 2013 Manga Taisho Award** - **Won the Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Excellence Prize for Manga in 2007**

Several years after the tragic event in 1989, Akira Yuki plots his revenge in taking on the most monstrous nuclear menace known to mankind-Godzilla! However he's not the only one whose targeted the King of Monsters. The intergalactic tyrant SpaceGodzilla has also aimed his sights on Godzilla! Not only that, but the entire world as well!<br /><br />Two Godzillas, one earth, who will remain and hold the crown?

1782: Anna and Lef Fyodor defied the current tsar by siding with the peasants, and paid with their lives. Before they did, they entrusted their only daughter, Rosalinda, to a farmer couple. The only thing left connecting Rosalinda to her past is one amulet: "To my beloved Anna, Lef Fyodor." 12 years later, Rosalinda - given the name Rota by her foster parents - has a deep, fervent love for singing. A chance encounter during an errand has her cross paths with Adrian, a young Cossack. Adrian and Rosalinda get along well, and he even teaches her to read! However, this is the start of the unfolding drama surrounding the instability of their homeland - and Rosalinda's past being revealed to her, all while she aspires to become a great singer. A thrilling tale of drama, mystery, and romance set in late 18th century Russia from the great Hideko Mizuno! (*[Fire!](https://mangadex.org/title/d15267de-2481-4a74-bb3c-7b7504f245d9/fire)*, *Honey Honey's Wonderful Adventures*)

*A work of two parts: the second never finished due to the magazine suspending publication.* **Part 1 (Vol 1-3)**: **"Long, long ago, humans lived almost the same as beasts… If you got hungry, you could just find something to kill and eat it. If someone attacked you, kill them too. Everything was kill to survive, kill to survive. Then people started acting smart and making laws. The laws kept them from doing pretty much everything they wanted to do. Beasts, on the other hand, still have no laws, or etiquette. I predict the day will come when an almost mutant breed of humans will appear, sinking to the level of beasts for freedom… Here, I will call them *Vampires…*"** A young boy, Toppei, visits Osamu Tezuka at his anime studio, Mushi Pro, one morning imploring Tezuka to hire him. Tezuka hires Toppei, who makes himself an active part of the team, but as time goes on, the Mushi Pro staff begin to pick up on Toppei's bizarre tendencies... **Part 2 (Vol 4)**: A certain fellow has made it out of the events of Part 1, now set on using a newly introduced species, the Weko, to attain domination. The Weko, the natural foil to the Vampires, are a dying species. Past and present are interweaved, explaining the history and sightings of the Weko, as one of them finds himself wrapped up in that man's scheme... Tezuka's parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth. --- **Volumes 142-144, 320 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

*Unrelated to Rainbow Parakeet* A shojo one-shot compilation with themes and elements of dance, music, and theater. Lune Kordok is a young man who has come to Warsaw in pursuit of attending its conservatory, in a time where Russians aggressively make their presence known. He makes friends with both Joseph, a man who works at a second-hand shop , and the young Frederic Chopin. However, Lune had died two months prior of pneumonia. What is Lune's true nature, and how will he affect the two other men? In addition to the above (serialized in Weekly Shocomi, 1975/10/05-10/26), also includes: - **The Curtains Are Also Blue Tonight** (カーテンは今夜も青い, Curtain wa Konya mo Aoi); Shojo, New Year's Special Issue 1958/01 - Chitori, a young theater actress, has a deep fear of the color red. The color red keeps appearing before her, and it seems to be set deliberately - who is after her, and why does she fear red so much? - **The Merchant of Venice** (ベニスの商人, Venice no Shounin); Middle School First Year Course Supplement 1959/04 - Tezuka adapts Shakespeare's famous comedy with a modern flavor and even more humor. - **Peacock Shell** (孔雀貝, Kujakugai); Shojo Club Supplement, 06/58 - A young architect washes up on a certain island that has closed itself off from the rest of the world. He falls in love with Lima, the princess of the island, as he finds himself involved in its affairs. This all intertwines with the legend surrounding four rocks near the island - a peacock-colored shell is underwater near one of them, and should it be found, love will be secured.... - **Song of the White Peacock** (白くじゃくの歌, Shiro Kujaku no Uta); Nakayoshi Summer Vacation Issue 1959/09/15 - Yuri Ogawa never knew what happened to her father, who went missing during the war. However, one day, she and her mother are introduced to a white peacock that he kept on the battlefield. Yuri wants to be a pianist, and she and her peacock become big stars... --- **Volume 87 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Ichiro Kitamura ("Icchi") is a young man who, due to a near-death experience he had when he was little, has to attend night school. On his way back from school one night, Ichiro encounters something truly out of this world - a procession of ghosts! A conversation with a reporter in the city reveals that Ichiro is not the only one to have come across paranormal encounters as of late. Then, Ichiro happens to see a girl at the train station, but she, too, has ties to the ghosts... --- **Volume 247 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

The story starts with a 5-year-old Lynn travelling with her Japanese mother to England to meet her father. On their way there Lynn and her mother get into a tragic car accident in which Lynn's mother dies. After getting out of the hospital Lynn moves to live in a manor owned by her father who is an English nobleman. The motherless little girl tries to adjust to high society life and get the approval of her elder step sister, Sara, whose mother has also passed away. At first Sara seems cold and distant towards her new younger sister, because she fears that Lynn's open and cheerful personality will win over the attention of their father as well as the handsome young man who lives nearby, but…

Alan meets Hayden, a free-spirited youth one night. The pair hit it off, but Alan's new feelings challenge his fundamentalist upbringing, and disrupts his family life. Hayden, meanwhile, plans on leaving the city soon…

A blind princess and her maid flee a revolution.

A boy is taken to a nightmarish world, where he stumbles upon twisted visions of humanity's inner demons. What will his trip entail? Will he be able to return to his former self, or is his new form in the world he now inhabits irreversible?

A collection of short stories by Yoshihiro Tatsumi. - **Just a Man** (男一発, Otoko Ippatsu) - **Occupied** (はいってます, Haittemasu) - **Forked Road** (わかれみち, Wakaremichi) - **Sasori** (さそり) - **Shiku** (飼育) - **Abandon the Old in Tokyo** (東京うばすて山, Tokyo Ubasuteyama) - **Kemono Namida** (けもの・なみだ) - **Click Click Click** (コツコツコツ, Kotsu Kotsu Kotsu) - **PAPER CRANE -A Letter to I.S.-kun-** (ORIZURU -S君への手紙-, ORIZURU -S-kun e no Tegami-) - **Saikai** (再会) - **Beloved Monkey** (いとしのモンキー, Itoshi no Monkey) - **Goodbye** (グッドバイ) - **Daihakken** (大発見, ENG. - A Great Revelation) Several of the stories in this collection were published in English by Drawn & Quarterly in the compilations Abandon the Old in Tokyo and Goodbye in 2009. (Source: Wikipedia)

The story is set 300 years before *Donten ni Warau*, during the Tensho Period. At Lake Biwa, the largest lake in Japan, the battle with Orochi ensued.

You’re the only one in this life where I can’t die.A storyteller that will touch your soul is born.A sci-fi about the lives of a doctor who gives blood and a vampire who doesn’t age.The new doctor, Tadayuki, suddenly underwent a transformation.He desperately wanted blood like a vampire, and his aging process had slowed dramatically.Tadayuki attacked his senpai Juji, and disappeared after telling Juji that he had died.But Juji sought out Tadayuki and offered him a helping hand, telling him, “I’ll examine you and give you blood, too.”They never could have imagined that it was the beginning of a secret they would keep for decades.

The story of a couple, long-haul trucker Mickey and waitress Bonny. With their childlike purity, they meet and seek happiness. The adult love scenes will move your heart. (From Limerent Void Scans)

Seinen (and one Josei) One-shot compilation focusing on insincerity, revenge, and the two-faced nature of men. Includes the following: - **The Record of Peter Kürten** (ペーター・キュルテンの記録, Peter Kürten no Kiroku, ALT. ENG. - The Tale of Peter Kürten) - Manga biography on the infamous serial killer also known by the moniker *"The Vampire of Düsseldorf"*. Peter Kürten, a former prisoner-of-war, forms an idealistic couple with his wife and is a devoted unionist at meetings. In actuality he is a sexually perverted serial killer nicknamed the Vampire of Düsseldorf who taunts the police with escalating murders. After one of the murders, the police force a fake confession from another man, causing Peter to angrily reveal the truth to his wife, who gives him up to the police. At trial it is revealed that Peter is actually a criminal with a history of incest, bestiality, arson, and murder. When his lawyer tries to defend him by claiming madness, Peter angrily exclaims that his actions are revenge against the bourgeois. Peter is executed by guillotine. (Tezuka based the story on the work of Shunsuke Tsurumi) - **Sensual Nights** (もの憂げな夜, Monouge na Yoru) - A wealthy Japanese playboy visits Vietnam to seduce a woman who has supposedly stopped aging while waiting for her sweetheart who was taken away by soldiers. As he is in the middle of preparing to have sex with her, his contact tells him that the woman's man was taken away by the Japanese army during the Pacific War, causing a deep hatred of Japanese people in her. He panics, but recovers when the woman reacts by offering him her body. When she fights back against his attempts at intimacy, he tells her that her lover is likely dead and forces himself on her. The man then sees a sight of a wrinkled old woman that startles him so much he jumps out of the window. The woman he had seduced was actually the daughter of the unaging woman and her sweetheart, and his contact was her fiancé. - **Lord Iechika Mogami** (最上殿始末, Mogami-dono Shimatsu) - Piipii, a meager farmer, dreams of being a samurai so he can support his wife and their four children. One day he is employed by a lord to be his double, and Piipii's family is secretly killed. Piipii trains to be a lord, grooming and dressing himself to be the spitting image of the lord. As a test, the lord tells him to give the order to open the castle gates. Piipii rides back to visit his family, only to learn about their deaths. On the lord's wedding day, his double is supposed to replace him during the wedding ceremony to protect him from any attempts on his life. During the switch, Piipii murders the lord and consummates the marriage with the lady Sasa instead. When she learns of his identity, the lady has an affair with a syphilitic beggar, and kills herself. The disease spreads to Piipii and Sasa gets her revenge. - **The Lady of the Rhine** (ラインの館にて, Rhine no Yakata nite) - A Japanese woman accompanies her husband on a business trip to Düsseldorf. She catches him having an affair, and when she confronts him, he leaves her. As she desperately searches for him in the streets, the woman is hit by a car and is hospitalized for a month. When she recovers, she visits her benefactor Lady Rathwood, the owner of a castle they had visited earlier. As she lives with Lady Rathwood, the woman learns of her hatred for men and her hatred for her husband is kindled. One day she discovers that the car she was hit with belongs to Lady Rathwood and she witnesses Lady Rathwood taking off the disguise of the woman who seduced her husband. Lady Rathwood calls her husband to the castle and gives the woman a knife, telling her to take her revenge. The woman refuses and goes back to her husband. - **Fire Mountain** (火の山, Hi no Yama, ALT. ENG. - The Thief Akikazu Inoue) - Time is during the Second World War. The ruffian Akikazu Inoue (whose first name could also be read as Showa) went to the Sobetsu village in Hokkaido, became an assistant of Mr. Masao Mimatsu, an observer of Showa Shinzan, which rapidly generated. The description that Mikami lived for the observation and protection of Showa Shinzan was based on a true story. --- **Volume 265 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A wolf aims to raise a young dog, but is it possible for a dog adapt to life in the wild like a wolf can?