Ever since he was born, Tanzaburo dreamed of becoming a Kamen Rider. Even as a 40 year old adult, he continued to dream about becoming one and he would train and exercise regularly. One day, "Shocker" appeared and attacked a convenience store to rob them. Springing to action, Tanzaburo put on a plastic Kamen Rider mask and faced the criminals. Instead of being seen as a hero, he was made into an internet laughing stock! Determined to end the fake Shocker's schemes by investigating, Tanzaburo takes to the streets as Kamen Rider!

Kamen Rider, the righteous warrior who shouts out "Henshin!" and continues to fight evil. The heroes created by the genius Shotaro Ishinomori are brought back to life by the hard-working Muraeda Kenichi! In this epic hero battle story, the 10th rider "ZX" fights alongside the previous riders against the mysterious organization "BADAN" that is invading the world!

Mitsuru Sugaya's debut work, based off of the 1971 Kamen Rider tokusatsu series. The version on Mangadex is scanned from the 2005 reprint.

A collection of Various one-shots from different authors for both Kamen Rider and Super Sentai.

Manga adaptation of the film by Tetsuya Egawa. Controversial due to its poor quality. Egawa received a permanent contract dissolution from Toei after the first chapter came out.

(Kamen Rider, the righteous warrior who shouts out "Henshin!" and continues to fight evil. The heroes created by the genius Shotaro Ishinomori are brought back to life by the hard-working Muraeda Kenichi! In this epic hero battle story, the 10th rider "ZX" fights alongside the previous riders against the mysterious organization "BADAN" that is invading the world!) “Kamen Rider SPIRITS” is a manga series adapted from the famous Kamen Rider series with content focusing on the first 10 Kamen Riders in Japan's Showa period (Showa) and their battle with the Badan Empire under with the help of a multi-governmental task force called “SPIRITS”. The manga's setting takes place immediately after the Kamen Rider Super-1 series, and is different from the TV Special "Birth of the 10th! Kamen Riders All Together!!" in 1984. In particular, this manga also contributes to supplementing and correcting missing details in the original series such as why Riderman is still alive after the Pluton warhead explosion in the series "Kamen Rider V3", or why Electronic Wave Humanoid Tackle was never recognized as a Kamen Rider. Initially, the series was published in the manga magazine "Magazine Z" and had to stop for a while because "Magazine Z" decided to cancel publication. Later, the manga was revived by "Monthly Shounen Magazine" under the name "Shin Kamen Rider SPIRITS" and continues to be published to this day. Since volume 3, Shin Kamen Rider Spirits has been published with a special edition, comes with a rare cover, and a separate volume of colorized version for a specific arc in the manga. The first arc which was fully colored was chapter 1 from the original run ("Skyscraper's Gale"). (P/S: Although there are differences in the presence or absence of the booklet and the cover design between the regular and special editions, the main contents of the manga themselves are the same.)

Seinen One-shot compilation containing 15 one-shots, published between 1968 and 1976, with an emphasis on themes of eroticism and SF. Chiefly contains works published in Gekiga magazines.

The legendary hero left behind by the eternal master is back! Mitsuko visits a Western-style house in search of her father and finds Android Jirou!　Kikaider fights fiercely against Green Mantis, Gray Cyborg, and Orange Ant!

A shojo one-shot compilation that chiefly features one-shots from the 1960's and ones published in Kodansha shojo magazines, with a theme of celebrating girlhood and girls from all walks of life. - **Tomboy Banzai** (おてんばバンザイ, Otenba Banzai): A gag one-shot in three parts about a thrill-seeking tomboy and her encounters with a group of petty yakuza. - **Clattery Classroom** - **The Silver Eyes**: Horror manga is all the rage at Sumi's school. One day, her teacher asks her to check up on her friend, who has been absent from school for some time. Before she knows it, Sumi ends up in a horror manga of her own! - **Will You Listen to Swan Lake With Me?**: Ishinomori's whimsical take on Swan Lake. - **Manga School** - **Little Red Riding Hood** - **New Masterpiece Fairytale Little Red Riding Hood** - **The Modern Girl's Mentality**: A whimsical commentary on all the hottest trends and pastimes of modern girls. - **Summer Break! Operation Cupid**: A boy gets asked by his friend to set him up with a girl, whose friend asks her to set her up with the boy. What does Cupid have in store for these youth? - **MY Friend**: - **First Love, Ah, First Love, First Love!**: The woes of a girl experiencing her first love. - **Miss Resist**: The story of a girl in a literal rebellious phase, acting contrary to what's said to her. - **Lala-chan**: A three-chapter gag manga about a girl and her trials and tribulations in love. *Note: CDJapan link only for MY Friend, which is bundled with other Ishinomori shojo oneshots from different one-shot compilations.*

On Feb 9th, 1989, legendary manga author Osamu Tezuka died after a prolonged hospital stay due to Stomach Cancer. Months later, Asahi Journal ran a Special issue as homage to Tezuka's legacy. In this issue, a bunch of his contemporaries, as well as some of his own assistants, drew up tribute pages to mourn their fallen colleague. This listing is for the translated tribute pages.

Jun of Ishinomori's Fantasy World Jun returns, this time as a younger boy. While he may be younger, the sights he sees are as fantastic as ever, taking one on trips throughout different worlds as he tries to make sense of things. Serialized in two magazines, including Sanrio's shojo magazine Lyrica.

The loneliness and sadness of a boy, Sabu, who has awakened to paranormal abilities.... In prehistoric times, humans had the mental ability to speak with their hearts and minds instead of words. Following the development of language ability, the ability that should have degenerated is revived!? A transfusion of blood from a girl awakens the psychic powers of a boy, Mutant Sabu, and he is born! The short series about a hero with unusual abilities is now ready to begin! ---- - **1966 7th Kodansha Children's Manga Award winner, shared with Ishinomori's very famous other work Cyborg 009**

Remi Tachibana is a girl who adores mysterious phenomena like UFOs - as well as the works of Shotaro Ishimori (Ishinomori). One day, while she gushes over UFOs to Ishimori, a young man named Shun Kuroki comes in, wishing to become Ishimori's assistant. Remi and Shun take an immediate liking to each other, and Shun gets accepted. However, a series of strange phenomena begin to occur. Shun also appears to be hiding something as well... Soon, Remi will find herself in a bizarre tale straight from the SF manga she loves! Ishinomori's attempt at an authentic long-form shojo manga, a SF romance set within the lush mountains of Akita.

Ishinomori is riding on a train to Sendai when he sees a boy near him with a blue kaleidoscope. Reminded of how he used to like them, he asks the boy for it. With his glimpses into it, he begins to have a proper understanding of what made him the mangaka he is... A one-shot compilation focusing on Ishinomori's life and his relationship with manga, including his relationship with Osamu Tezuka. In addition to the leading one-shot, also includes: - **My Norakuro** - An essay manga where Ishinomori discusses the impact Norakuro left on him in the post-war period. - **The Tale of the Little Crow** - The story of the life of a little crow who is nursed and taken care of by a group of siblings against all odds. - **There Was a Death Mask of Beethoven in my Room** - Ishinomori reminisces about his relationship with Beethoven and music, as well as his time at Tokiwa-so with Fujio Akatsuka. - **Tokiwa-so Charmela** - Ishinomori and Akatsuka (as Akamori and Ishizuka) once more star as the focus, this time covering their experiences with the changing times, highlighted with the advent of instant ramen. - **Tokiwa-so Monogatari** - A silent reflection of Ishinomori's memories at the legendary apartments. - **The Medaka in the Stream** - Further along in time, Ishinomori is now a father of two. Concerned about his sons' wellbeing, he tries to instill values in them by having them appreciate nature. - **The Day Osamu Tezuka Died** - A short manga in which Ishinomori thinks back to many things regarding Tezuka - and what him and the rest at Tokiwa-so best known him as. - **Like the Wind... ...The Bug That Ran By My Back**: After Tezuka has passed, Ishinomori assesses his interactions and relationship with Tezuka, as well as considering what it means to have a present and future without him. A two-part one-shot.

πnapple is a spy organization frequently at odds with the robot espionage group Mad Machine. With two serializations - one in a magazine for middle schoolers, and one in a magazine for adults - join 00Goro (or Ippei Shirakawa in the adult magazine serialization) and his fellow members as they deal with various plots that threaten the peace. The serialization for middle schoolers has a lighter tone, is clean, and more gags, whereas its adult serialization is more melancholic and can be suggestive at times. Also includes the following otona (adult) manga: - **5SS**: Read as 'Five Six Seven', this serial covers the sometimes naughty, sometimes deadly, sometimes humorous exploits of three members of a time patrol, led by 5. - **Pink Tiger**: A biologist finds himself interested in a certain 'specimen' at the bar he frequents - but this specimen proves to be a little too much for him. - **Super Express Hatoko-Chan**: An episodic work about Hatoko, a newspaper reporter who often finds herself in whimsical and naughty situations as she strives to obtain manuscripts and gather reports.

In the era of cavemen, a boy with white skin is born on the night of a storm. He is immediately outcast as a cursed child, doomed to bring disaster to whoever he comes across. This boy is set to be sacrificed to the Dragon King (a Tyrannosaurus), but is saved by an ape woman, Kitty, and is given the name Ryu. Ryu grows up as her child, and soon encounters the world of the cavemen again - with Kitty dying in a skirmish between them and the Dragon King. Ryu soon learns that Kitty is not his birth mother, though she is somewhere out in the world. Faced with this mystery, Ryu ventures on a journey to seek her - all while dealing with discrimination from other cavemen, and the ever-present danger of the prehistoric era. The first part of the Ryu Trilogy. **Links:** - [Anime Adaptation on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1463)

A series of 5 'picture book' manga for very young children, Ishinomori crafts his own tales that fit right at home with well-known Japanese folklore, gracing them with dozens and dozens of gorgeously done two-page spreads. - **Child of the Stars** - Hikaru is a boy of mysterious parentage, said to have come down from the stars. One day, Hikaru comes to face an oni with his own reason for attacking Hikaru, one connected to Hikaru's past. - **The Dragon's Whiskers** - Taro's mother is ill, but legend has it that if she drinks a boiled dragon's whisker, her illness will be cured. Taro goes on his quest to obtain this whisker. - **Tale of the 1000 Year-Old Cedar** - A tengu father suddenly finds himself responsible for several human children. A yamauba offers to care for the children by becoming their mother, but he refuses. Frustrated, the yamauba is set on making him suffer... - **Aim For It! Saburota** - Saburota's father was killed by a whale ('the white monster'), and his mother dies from the shock. Now orphaned, Saburota aims to become a great harpooner to avenge his parent's deaths. - **Kon Kon Kon** - A young boy who doubts kitsune ends up crossing paths with one, as he suddenly ends up in different worlds, much to his confusion...

A fairly close manga adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. A tale of the rise and fall of a society farm animals form after they overthrow their owner. Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; one where animals overthrow the human race, and the fruits of their labor are made theirs to keep. Though he dies not long after, the animals are emboldened with his vivid visions of a potential future - and one day, through a fierce uprising, they take ownership of the farm from Mr. Jones. Manor Farm - now renamed Animal Farm - maintains itself under an ideology known as Animalism, built upon Old Major's dream and stances regarding humans. However, tension is high, and different parties have their own intentions about the fate of Animal Farm...

(from ebookjapan): Sawako Matsumoto works for Manhattan Trust, one of the largest banks in the United States. This Sawako has returned as the vice president of the Japan branch. Corporate competition between Japan and the U.S. unfolds in the banking industry. This best-selling work depicts the turbulent period of the Japanese economy in the 1980s. Winner of the Shogakukan Manga Award and the Grand Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association Award. It has also been made into an Anime! --- - **Won the 33rd Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 1987, which it shared with Ishinomori's other famous work, Hotel** - **As mentioned in the description, Manga Intro to the Japanese Economy Won the 17th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize in 1988**

(From ebookjapan): On a stormy night, Isamu witnesses a black phantom ship flying in the sky. He follows a man who has descended from the vessel and ends up at the Terada residence. There he finds four men terrified by a threatening letter from a man claiming to be Daisaku Arashiyama. Gradually, Isamu's family's past is revealed. Is the phantom ship a friend of justice or an ally of evil? The manga that inspired the 1969 anime film "Flying Phantom Ship", Ishinomori's early masterpiece with its SF elements and poignant adventure action!

(from ebookjapan): The word "Mezzon," meaning "middle child," has been turned into the name of an organization that stands in the middle of the world's two major powers and protects peace - and it has become the name of an organization that protects peace. Kenji, a curious boy, saves his brother, Mezzon J, a member of the Japanese branch of Mezzon, from a difficult situation and becomes a member of Mezzon. Mezzon Z" was born! Just as Kenji becomes accustomed to handling the Mezzon uniform with its various secret weapons, his older brother, Mezzon J, goes missing. In order to rescue him, Mezzon Z heads to the "Island of Superhuman Brains," but...? A near-future spy action manga!

A bizarre string of crimes plague Japan - all connected through one man, a man wearing a helmet like a skull. Who is this man, and why does he inflict terror throughout the country? Done as a special one-shot in 1970, this one-shot served as the foundation for Kamen Rider.

Kazada Saburou, an ordinary high school student, awakens as a psychic. As a powerful esper who "transforms into two stages" from Sanagiman to Inazuman, he and his friends fight against the giant enemy "Bamba." A masterpiece of hard science fiction that depicts the battles of psychic boys on a grand scale.

(from ebookjapan): The man with the bright red guitar on his back is a machine...? Dr. Komyoji, an authority on robotics, developed the artificial human "Jiro" in memory of his late son. He was equipped with a special "conscience circuit (Geminy)"! However, due to a plot by a wealthy professor Gil, who was also a supporter of his research, the laboratory explodes and Dr. Hikaruji goes missing. When the father sends a message to his daughter, Mitsuko, asking her to find "Jiro," who has disappeared with the circuits incomplete, what will happen to her? Here comes the Ishinomori hero, struggling with the meaning of his own existence! --- Links to ANN: **Live Action - Tokusatsu** [Live Action](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2963) [Live Action (sequel)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2965) [Live Action (spinoff)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3957) [Live Action Movie](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=9751) **Anime** [Anime](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=964) [OAV (sequel)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=494) [Kikaider vs. Inazuman (OAV)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2659) **Manga** [Manga](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=19212) [Manga (remake)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=5660) [Manga (alternate ending)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=19211)