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**

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)

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 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**

"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.

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**

Young Kazuya happens upon a baby on the mountainside. This baby - Triton - is no ordinary baby. Triton is the last of his kind, but is raised alongside Kazuya in the city as a human. However, the truth is made known to Triton after he accidentally kills someone. Triton's clan was in conflict with the Poseidon clan. He must also procreate and increase his kind's size with the other surviving member of his race, a mermaid named Pippy. With the help of dolphins who are allied with the Triton clan, Triton must defeat the children of Poseidon who threaten to harm him and those he loves. [Official English](https://emanga.com/collections/osamu-tezuka/products/triton-of-the-sea-vol-1?variant=32122740166) --- **Volumes 189-192 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations. During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate. Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience. There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/mw/) --- **Volumes 301-303 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

On his way home from school, the shy young boy Tecchin finds the body of a young girl lying in the street. He alerts the police, only to come back to find she has been replaced with a life-sized doll. Tecchin takes the doll home and repairs it. She comes to life and tells him that they are both Grand Dolls, alien beings bent on world domination.

The blade arts of the "Devil" tasked with striking down evils threatening a peaceful Edo! Heizou Hasegawa, upholding the role of chief officer protecting against crime and arson! In 1783, the heart of the Tenmei era, a vastly feared man, renowned as Devil Heizou Hasegawa, held the office of chief director for the department charged with sustaining safety in the region, suppressing the most vile of thieves and criminals…

Welcome to the 82nd Precinct, also known as the Crocodile Precinct, filled with cops that never let go once they sink their teeth into something! Leading them is Mika Hino, a female cop who's as dangerous as she is beautiful. Follow her on her adventures in this sexy action suspense series!

Lupin VIII is a manga written by Ken Takigawa (滝川健市) and illustrated by Eiichi Saito (斉藤栄一) under the joint pen name おりはるこん (Orichalcum), serialized in Futabasha's Monthly Hyakuten (100-ten) Comic manga magazine from 1982 to 1983. It is based off the cancelled TV series Lupin VIII.

Rainbow Parakeet is a genius actor and a fantastic mimic, but also a thief. He can act out any role to the best of his abilities, while robbing the richest members of the audience during his performances. His methods are a mystery, even to the detectives charged with apprehending him: Police Inspector Senri and his daughter, Police Detective Mariko Senri. --- **Volumes 341-347 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

This is a no-holds-barred story about an ex-biker gang leader turned cop, Kenji Date. Operating under the nickname Hyena, Date rubs pretty much everybody within the police force the wrong way as he goes about his business ridding the city of all its scum. Bad Police also contains two separate short stories at the end of the volume: **Bomber** The Chinese leader, Deng Xiaoping, had promised to rid Hong Kong of its criminal organizations. One of the places they migrated to was Japan. Kamon Shou is a delinquent who just got released from Youth Detention after spending two years there and is about to feel first-hand the effect the Hong Kong mob has on Japan. **Artemis** Ginko is a detective working for the famed Holmes Detective Agency, an agency that takes on the most dangerous of jobs: ones that even the police wouldn't even think about doing. She gets hired by Ms. Nancy to retrieve her seven year-old son, Tom. Tom was taken away by her father-in-law's mafia organization in hopes of cultivating Tom to become the next leader.

It is the 21st century, and technology has progressed further than humanity itself could imagine. 2003, Tobio, the son of the head of the Ministry of Science, is killed in an accident. Mad from his grief, his father, Dr. Tenma, orders immediately the construction of a new, robot Tobio - a child of science. While initially delighted at seeing his son reborn, gradually Tenma grew fed up at the fact that this new Tobio could not age and grow. In this newfound frustration, he sold him off to a robot circus. There 'Tobio' was given the new name Atom (Astro Boy). Later, he would be taken in by Professor Ochanomizu, who serves as his guardian. Human-robot conflict occurs over and over again, and is a major driving force. Atom never gets appreciation for his work in stopping plots and conspiracies on the international and even intergalactic scale solely because he is a robot. The authorities doubt him because he is a robot. And as a robot, he has difficulty fully connecting with not just the humans around him (like his school friends), but even his robot family. Atom's serialization was unfinished, as the magazine it was in ceased publication. While there was content for Atom after this, the narrative never properly concluded. [Official English](https://www.darkhorse.com/Search/Browse/%22astro+boy%22/PpwNwkt8) --- **Volumes 221-238, 240-242, 251 and 252 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

It all begins when a girl, Yumi, narrowly avoids a car accident thanks to the intervention of a magician named Tohru, who had a very promising career ahead of him. As a result of this event, Tohru suffers from a severe hand injury, cutting short his dreams of making it big in Hollywood. After 8 years they run into one another again, but Tohru's become a common criminal, and Yumi a rookie police officer.

Ryo Saeba is a "sweeper" in the city of Tokyo. He works as a troubleshooter - cleaning the streets of vermin and helping out desperate people. Sometimes he's a bodyguard, other times he's an assassin but whatever Ryo does, he does it well. In fact, his only flaw is his hormones - he loves the ladies maybe a little too much and sometimes turns into an idiot when he's near them! Thankfully, he's got people like his partner, Kaori Makimura to keep him in check. ___ Official Indonesian: Akasha (2020; Complete Edition)

Jun Jun, independent private eye, solves hi-tech crimes and busts criminals using her feminine wit and charm, and also with the help of her homemade gadgets. An occasional enemy is Dr. Nekura, AKA the most evil genius in the world, who's desperate to prove he's better than everyone (especially Jun Jun).

Shichiro Oshima wakes up from the artificial hibernation 100 years in the future, sleeping though the wrath of nuclear war. He wakes up to find Japan to be a primeval jungle, with little to no remnants of Earth's past. After being rescued, Shichiro learns that the Earth is being under attack from alien invaders from all reaches of the universe. So he decides to become a member of the Earth Defense Force under codename Number 7 to fight for the liberation of Earth. --- **Volumes 193-196 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Lupin III Ore no Juudan wa……. Suteki….. Daze (My Bullets are Nicer…) is a one-shot chapter printed during the airing of Lupin III Part 2. It was advertised as a competition between the manga and the anime to see which could make the better version of the same story (Episode 26 of Lupin III Part 2).

Lupin III Gaiden is a one-shot side story of Lupin III. This chapter was written to celebrate the 1970 World's Fair in Osaka, Japan. This chapter was included in Lupin III Collection of Unpublished Works.

Arsène Lupin III is the grandson of the master thief Arsène Lupin. With his cohorts Daisuke Jigen and Goemon Ishikawa XIII and his love interest Fujiko Mine, he pulls off the greatest heists of all time while always escaping the grasp of Inspector Zenigata.