In a world faced with a flood of overpopulation, the scientists of the world are called together to come up with solutions. Prof. Leeman suggests for man to live in the sea, but is shunned. In an act of desperation, he turns his son into a merman, and sends him into the sea. This boy is found by a mother sea turtle, and is given the name Pippy. Pippy, unaware of his true parentage, grows up alongside others in the ocean, until he has a terrible encounter with humans. Thus, Pippy goes into the human world, and a long journey awaits him. --- **Volume 137 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Wansa was designed as the mascot of Sanwa Bank by Tezuka. Wansa is a lucky dog in an unlucky world. With his talent for digging up cash, Wansa somehow persists and overcomes all odds, in spite of the cruel, impoverished landscape he finds himself in. Did not conclude in serialization (its home magazine suspended publication). *The tankobon also contains the following works, all meant for young children, like Wansa-kun*: - **Rabi-chan** - The daily life of a little rabbit named Rabi and his other friends in the forest. Rabi-chan shares similarities with the Tezuka picture book character Mimi-chan. - **Fly, Fly! Run-chan** - A little plane becomes friends with the young boy Kazu, and get into some adventures. - **Pokkachi** - A bubble is saved by the young Hayato and his sister, a scientist. Granted the ability to never pop and fly, Pokkachi gets into many dilemmas with Hayato and his animal friends. - **Triton of the Sea - Fun Kindergarten (Tanoshi Yochien) Version** - Chapters meant to coincide with *Triton of the Sea's* anime adaptation. See [here.](https://mangadex.org/title/c573cddf-aac7-4af5-a286-84c4aa37f2a4/triton-of-the-sea) --- **Volume 380 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Roppu was a toy abandoned by the child of aliens. He was rediscovered by Roppei, the son of a fisherman. Roppu can fly when the button on his chest on is pressed. Roppu can also create anything, even things thought to be impossible. When the star on his head is pressed, Roppu falls still. Roppu and Roppei have all sorts of adventures, with questionable figures often trying to get their hands on Roppu for their own desires. Volume 2 includes "Bongo" (First Grader version): Bongo is a boy who lives in the jungle and is a master archer entrusted with maintaining peace in the jungle. Bongo learns of a treasure called the Golden Bow, and goes in search of it along with his ally Chap the Squirrel. The two must overcome seven perils to reach it at the Mountain of the Sinking Moon. --- **Volumes 119 and 120 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Akiretasu is a skilled swordsman who gains fame in the Roman Colosseum. Boastful about his strength and status, he catches wind of rumors of a boy far stronger than him - one who slew seven tigers who hails from Japan. The boy, Takeru, happens to be journeying to Rome with a caravan of silk merchants. Akiretasu is intrigued, and sets out to meet him. Both take the same path - the road connecting East and West, the Silk Road! --- **Volume 74 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Teenage delinquent Yaketpachi's has a spectral woman as the closest thing to a female influence in his life: Maria! The manifestation of the women Yaketpachi lacks in his life, Maria needs a body to become corporeal, but the only thing around is a sex doll, which is easily ravaged by a hard life and the target of rough pranks. Yaketpachi and Maria are joined at the soul, but ripped apart by an uncaring society. How much strain can Maria's plastic body take before it cracks beyond repair? Yaketpachi may want to move heaven and Earth to provide a life for Maria, but do teenagers truly know love?Osamu Tezuka brings the battle of the sexes to a paranormal comedy, where Yaketpachi and Maria explore their teenage years in High School, with all the trials and tribulations that come with it. There's the queen bee of the school to tussle with, a dating club that heavily skews towards one gender (and against Yaketpachi), and even rival spirits out to earn their own revenge against their accidental deaths! Yaketpachi's Maria continues to prove to be a love letter to young love, with all the faults and flaws that are inherent. Tezuka brings a healthy dose of real-world sexual education to the drama of a love that can never be between a man and his sex doll. --- **Volumes 268 and 269 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Part of a 'Mangaka Face-Off' that featured Tezuka and Akatsuka. Akatsuka does his own parody of Dororo.

Koji Sunami and Jo Daigo are childhood friends, who together take the exam to get into the prestigious Milky Way Academy. However, Koji passes and Daigo fails. A mysterious man offers Daigo a place in the academy and a high-ranking position, but only if he kills Koji. He accepts, but Koji is helped by a mysterious girl and is revived. He returns ten years later to find Daigo in great power, and is sent by him to the prison planet Chaos. --- **Volumes 131-133 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Tetsu Otani is a junior high school student with a weak heart. Despite the hardships of being so meek at school, he has an intense crush on one of his teachers: Reiko Mizushima. However, one of his least favorite teachers, Kito, intends to propose to her. Since Kito is very violent and often pushes Tetsu around, the thought of him and Reiko together infuriates Tetsu. Before him appears a ghostly white horse, and the next day, Kito is found dead. Tetsu realizes that this horse is the ghost of Bomba, a horse Tetsu's father told him he was charged to take care of during the Pacific War. Now, whenever Tetsu feels intense hatred for someone, Bomba will appear and cause that person to die. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/bomba/) ———- Also includes the 1972 oneshot, "Devil's Mountain" (魔の山, Ma no Yama) at the end of the volume as a bonus. *The English release is based on the Tezuka Bunko version of Bomba. However, Devil's Mountain (and the following one-shots) are excluded: -[Rubbish Poetry](https://mangadex.org/title/ef53217d-a2ec-40f6-8c69-670b5209a1bb/rubbish-poetry) -Spaceship Ringel Rock -Yamanashi -Boy Detective Zunbera -The Stranger -Two Sides of a Human Being -Three Thrills* --- **Volume 93 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

One night in 1968, a strange blue moon dubbed the "Death Moon" is spotted all over the Earth. During this time, Taku Nakazou and his family flee Japan due to his father's involvement in the arms trade. Tasked to go to a remote part of Southeastern Asia, the family later meets two other strangers with extraordinary powers. The new group, while traversing to meet with their "employer", are transported back in time on the Moon. The Reason: to fight in an ancient intergalactic war for the fate of the moon! --- **Volumes 176-178 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

George and Mr. Sandwich go on location to film in the ruins of a kingdom in Africa that existed 3,000 years ago. Also includes ["The Secret Base of the Shari River"](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/12n8t9c/chari-gawa-no-himitsu-kichi): Frank Allen and his nephew John Holcan go in search of a golden statue located in the upper reaches of the Shari River. --- **Volume 138 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. (from: MU) --- - **Won the 29th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 1984** --- **Volumes 326-336 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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. --- **Volumes 180-182 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Hinging upon his fate are those of his loved ones: an unstable childhood friend and colleague trapped between factions of the medical establishment that nurtured him; a fiancee emotionally transformed by Kirihito’s mysterious disappearance; and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circus-act performer with volatile psychological secrets. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/ode-to-kirihito/) --- **Volumes 31-34 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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**

This Manga deals with parenting, depicting the daily lives of mangaka 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. Also includes the 4-koma work "Sorry, Mama": The lively day-to-day family life of the young boy Yabo Onishi, his mother, and his father. Frequently, they are tempted by their desires (represented as their other selves, with devil horns and tails), and sometimes, against their better judgment, they may fall to them. But above all, they value family the most. --- **Volume 273 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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**

*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**

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**