In post-apocalyptic Japan, a nameless mahjong player ascends a massive tower, facing formidable opponents in life or death gambles.

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**

The story of a young karate practitioner.

(from ebookjapan): Kazuhiko Shimamoto unleashes Ultraman on fire! **"If you can't win, what's the point! Even if you lose your life!"** "Ultraman G" serialized in "TV Magazine (Kodansha)" from October 1990 to November 1991 issue by Kazuhiko Shimamoto, a hot-blooded mangaka, is back in a new edition after 26 years! Your fighting spirit will be violently shaken by the figure of the hero who stands up again and again even after being wounded and falling down! The cover illustration is newly drawn just for this new edition. Shimamoto's manga adaptation of Ultraman G, also known as Ultraman: Towards the Future. Scanlation done by Florida Man Scrubs who had given his blessing to upload it, visit his website [here.](https://floridamanscrubs.wordpress.com/)

When Futaro was five years old, his father left his home and his mother got sick in poverty. Also, Futaro has a ugly face, like Quasimodo: he's been discriminated and treated like trash by almost everyone in his neighborhood. Finally, his mother dies because they can't afford medical treatment. Burying her body, Futaro makes up his mind to do **anything** for money…

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**

It is foretold that every 3,000 years the Choujin, or Overfiend will come. This prophesied being will unite the three worlds of the humans (ninjinkai), demons (makai), and the half-human animal spirits (juujinkai). This is support to usher in a period of great peace and prosperity. But, it can be that one demon's peace may not have the same meaning to a human.

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.

A series of natural disasters has reduced the world to rubble, with the survivors doing whatever they must to survive in a world gone mad. But one young boy, Kakugo, gifted with amazing martial arts and a superpowerful suit of armor by his late father, has been charged with making the world (or at least his school) a safer place. But his brother has a matching set of skills and equipment, and he's on a mission to bring peace to the world… by wiping out humanity!

Part of the "Myths and Legends" series, depicts the endless life of human beings since ancient times on a grand scale without a single line of dialogue. In the primitive times, when man did not even have language, a woman wanders in the savanna, between the jungle and desert. She expresses all her emotions with her whole body and lives in the world of the weak and the strong, creates two mud dolls. However, she is killed by a hunter who stabs her with a spear, and the mud dolls, bathed in her blood, transform into two infants...

Amazon, a wild youth in the jungle, is remodeled by the ancient Inca science. With the "Bracelet of Gigi," the key that opens the door to the hidden treasure, on his arm, he protects the treasured ordnance and weaponry, as well as the future of mankind! The enemy is Gorgoth, a ten-faced demon who plans to conquer the world with the "Bracelet of Gaga," an opposing key!

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 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**

The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation (from ebookjapan): Joe, a young boy, was kidnapped by mysterious men and turned into a cyborg through surgery at a secret base. He was called 009 (zero zero nine). At the base, there are fellow cyborgs with amazing abilities from 001 to 008. They were all created as prototypes for a revolutionary new product of the "Black Ghosts," merchants of death! From the war-mongering gang, the nine cyborgs and their developer, Dr. Gilmore, escape to X Island, but...? A milestone in the history of Japanese SF manga begins! --- - **Won the 7th Kodansha Children's Manga Award in 1966, which it shared with Ishinomori's other work, Mutant Sabu**

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)

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**

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**

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.

It all seemed like another regular day for the photojournalist Wakatsuki Tetsuya when something big happened. ALIEN INVASION! This brings his journalist's blood to a boil and he goes to check it out. It is there he meets, standing in a pool of blood and corpses, the alien girl Kahm, who looks exactly like a human if you take away the pair of horns growing from the sides of her head. There they fight and Tetsuya wins and takes her sword. Kahm retreats but soon comes back to retreave the sword and save Tetsuya from Japan's unavoidable fate….being wiped off the face of the earth! On her spaceship, Tetsuya learns that Kahm is not only a princess but also the heir to the thrown of the Santovanku Empire! Well, one comidic fight leads to another and now Tetsuya and Kahm are on their way to Kahm's father to declare their marriage?! --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/glc09bk88pgot7u) - [OAV on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=3718)

"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.