Midway through the Twenty-first century, an integrated global computer network manages much of the world’s affairs. A proposed major software upgrade—an artificial intelligence—will give the system an unprecedented degree of independent decision-making power, but serious questions are raised in regard to how much control can safely be given to a non-human intelligence. In order to more fully assess the system, a new space-station habitat—a world in miniature—is developed for deployment of the fully operational system, named Spartacus. This mini-world can then be “attacked” in a series of escalating tests to assess the system’s responses and capabilities. If Spartacus gets out of hand, the system can be shut down and the station destroyed . . . unless Spartacus decides to take matters into its own hands and take the fight to Earth. (From: Dark Horse) Adapted from James P. Hogan’s classic science-fiction novel by the award-winning Yukinobu Hoshino, The Two Faces of Tomorrow is hardcore science-fiction manga at its best. (From: MU) Licensed in English by Dark Horse as *The Two Faces of Tomorrow*.

The Mighty Atom Club magazine was launched after the grand success of the 1963 anime, "Mighty Atom" (Astro Boy). It was a part of the official fan club: "Mushi Productions Tomo no Kai (Friends Association)". It disbanded after Mighty Atom's initial airing on TV in late 1966. Based on Tezuka Osamu's manga series "Jungle Emperor" from 1950, one-shots started to appear in the magazine in March of 1966 (Vol. 20-28). Drawn by Tezuka's associates, these eight stories would later air as episodes from the first and second anime series. The Jungle Emperor chapters were never re-printed and stay exclusive to the original magazines.

Jun is an intelligent and resourceful girl who spends her time creating all kinds of inventions. She creates a robot, Kichinosuke, who follows her everywhere and becomes her close friend. She falls in love with Zero, a motorcycle enthusiast who prefers to travel the roads rather than study. Their mutual love of mechanical objects brings them closer together and Jun is determined to have Zero as her boyfriend. Unfortunately for Jun, he doesn’t even seem to notice her feelings!

Once upon a time, there was a lazy princess of all. There were only three things that interested her, shopping, sleeping, and her childhood friend, Mars. Will Mars answer the princess’ feeling? And will this fairy tale close with “happily ever after”?

Shin Kazamatsuri was a motorcyclist. His father, Dr. Kazamatsuri is a scientist who hopes to find a way to cure the incurable, strengthening the human body through genetic alteration. Shin becomes a volunteer for his father's experiences but unfortunately his partner, Dr. Onizuka has other plans in mind for his research while Shin needs to protect the people he loves from the mysterious organization known as The Foundation and CIA of Dr. Onizuka's obscure plans …

When the clock strikes midnight, the door opens. This is when the phantom awakens, wandering, looking for the most beautiful dancer. Loosely based on "The Phantom of the Opera."

The first two chapters of this manga serve as an intro and show us Godzilla ravaging Tokyo in 1991. He is soon joined by King Ghidorah and the two fight. The next chapter shows a team of scientists and the discovery of Godzilla's mutated cells. In the following chapters we see Godzilla destroy the city, and the Futurians appear to propose a plan to rid humans of Godzilla. They are quick to reveal their true identity as disguised Xiliens who want to conquer the world with King Ghidorah. The dragon begins to fly towards the Earth, but finds itself faced with Biollante who now lives in space debris. During combat, King Ghidorah strikes Biollante with its gravity beams. Biollante absorbs the essence of its power and then becomes a plant-like King Ghidorah clone. But even with Biollante's enhancements, it is still defeated. The Futurians' saucer is destroyed and their plan fails forcing them to live incognito among humans. The next chapter is devoted to a group of fishermen sailing peacefully by telling the story of Yamata no Orochi, until Godzilla arises before them. Orochi appears and does battle with Godzilla. Wanting to get a good look at the monsters, one of the sailors began to go towards them. But, he got too close to the edge of the boat and fainted causing him to fall into the water. When he wakes up, the fight is finished and he and his friends find themselves shipwrecked on a raft. The following chapters are humorous adventures and show us "behind the scenes" with a stuntman born and bred to embody Godzilla on the screen. The final chapter features a small Godzilla who is captured by soldiers of the US Navy who want to take him home, but an adult Godzilla appears and reduces their ship to pieces.

Classic 1976 manga adaptation of the 1974-1984 Japanese action figure series, Microman (aka Micronauts in the west). A young boy meets tiny super-powered heroes and joins them to fight a giant alien menace–the Acroyear–piloting his own miniature giant (?) robot!

Part of a game guide that covers 3 games (Zelda, Dragon Quest and Hydlide), each with a small manga story.

Mini-manga from The Hyrule Fantasy strategy guide.

Covers the first 3 Zelda games: *The Legend of Zelda*, *The Adventure of Link*, and *A Link to the Past*. There's a small comic introduction for each. Only the 29 comic pages are posted here, not the 205 of the whole encyclopedia.

Read from Left to right. From Wikipedia: Candy Candy is primarily a love story. Candy's first love was a character named Anthony Brown, but the series is remembered by the majority of fans as a result of her heartbreaking separation from her true love and soul mate, Terence "Terry" Grantchester. A recurrent story arc in the series is the "Prince of the Hill", a mysterious boy Candy met as a child and never saw again. His identity is revealed in the last pages of the manga. --- **Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo in 1977** Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media Komputindo as **Candy Candy**

King Bowser, a nasty dragon-like creature, wants to marry the pretty Princess Toadstool of the Mushroom Kingdom, a fantasy world where such things like Kinopi (Mushroom) people live. Bowser then threatens the Princess into marriage with him by turning the residents of the Mushroom Kingdom into stone. As the Princess heads to get her revenge on the tyrant, the Mario brothers, two plumbers who've somehow winded up in the Mushroom Kingdom, venture out to stop Princess Toadstool before she creates even more trouble, all the while defeating Bowser in the process. **NOTE: Chapter 13.5 was not included in Viz's Super Mario Adventures reprint.**

The Super Metroid comics, drawn and written by Benimaru Itoh, were released in Nintendo Power issues 57 to 61 in the summer of 1994. They contain a highly paraphrased version of the game's storyline, and the introduction of new characters such as Old Bird, Chairman Keaton and Armstrong Houston.

The official Nintendo “Wonder Life Special” guide for Donkey Kong (Game Boy), aka DK94, contained a short comic by Kotobuki Shiriagari about Mario and DK Junior having a little adventure together.

Small 8-page Star Fox comic that was part of the No.4 1993 issue of Dengeki Super Famicom pack-in booklet.

This short manga comes from a Famicom Manga pack-in booklet included with the May 1987 Ninensei edition of Shogakukan’s Shogaku Gakushu Zasshi magazines. It's sort of tutorial for the game, teaching you things about how to play it through a light choose-your-own-adventure/puzzle format. It’s pretty simple, as it’s aimed at 8-year-olds.

Repliroids, which were developed to protect humans, began to attack humanity as being superior to humans. However, the doctor who developed the Repliroids foresaw the worst and left the Repliroid named Rockman X, which is constantly growing to protect humanity, as a last trump card... Will X and Zero be able to defeat Sigma, the most powerful enemy who regards humans as Irregulars and wants to eliminate the human race?!

A sci-fi retelling of Wagner's "Ring of the Nibelungen", starring Captain Harlock. The series was first serialized from 1990 to 1991 in Chuukosha Fan, a used car magazine (!). A sequel was published for free directly on Shinchousha's webpage from 1997 to 2000, making it probably the first online manga.

Based on the shoot 'em up of the same name. A kingdom is under attack, and great rewards are promised to any who come to its aid. Four bounty hunters (Gain the Battler, Chitta the Witch, Miyamoto the Samurai Dragon, and Bornnam the Necromancer) come to the rescue.

The Shape of Happiness is a tankobon of manga adaptations of Nintendo properties, released in March 1989. The ninth, tenth and eleventh stories in this anthology are based on the original Metroid. It was never officially released in English. The one-shots were written and illustrated by Sakura Tamakichi . Tamakichi would later team up with manga writer Kentaro Takekuma and serve as the artist for *Super Mario Adventures* under the pen name Charlie Nozawa.

*A work that was not collected in the Tezuka 400 released in 1978 due to Tezuka losing the originals, but collected in the Tezuka bunko.* More-or-less a direct adaptation of the classic Walt Disney animated feature film of the same name. (from ebookjapan): In the deep mountains of Australia, a life was born. The fawn, named Bambi, grows up together with the animals of the forest. One night in the forest, Bambi encounters a stag with magnificent antlers. As he follows it deep into the forest, he is surrounded by terrifying wolves....... A fantastic work by Osamu Tezuka, based on the Disney animated masterpiece!