The story begins with a scientist, Dr. Yorkshire Bell, noting that dinosaurs flourished and became extinct when they advanced beyond their ability to adapt to change. Giant mammals, such as the saber-toothed tiger and the mammoth, came and went the same way… --- **Volume 44 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

When Shizuka comes back after being away for 13 years, the courageous Kosuke she hopes to find has grown into a perverted total coward. But then again, she had changed a lot too, growing into a true brawling queen. Angel by the infamous U-JIN follows the comedy story of our two heroes. Links to AnimeNewsNetwork: [OAV](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=15239) [New Angel OAV (alternate retelling)](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=2580)

In Kitakaruizawa, a human larger-than-life springs forth from the Kobayakawa Research Center in the middle of the night. That same human, in an instant of pain and agony, turns to dust and is swept away by a forceful gale across the landscape, a tremendous sight witnessed only by clan of truck drivers rushing down the late-night highway. The experiment of Doctor Kobayakawa ends in a disappointing failure, yet the elder brother of a young Akio makes the acquaintance of the Doctor, unmistakably a trap, one bearing the danger of a new experiment…

James Block is a former sports star whose criminal endeavors landed him in jail. In prison he meets "Dr. F", a strange old man who tells James about a beam that can turn living things invisible. After escaping from prison, James finds and uses the laser on himself. But, because the beam has not been perfected yet, it only rendered his skin invisible, leaving his insides visible to the outside. Angered at his disfigurement, James takes the name "Alabaster" and begins eliminating the hypocrites and the boastful. He is joined by Ami Ozawa, the granddaughter of "Doctor F", who was rendered invisible after the doctor used his pregnant daughter as an "F Beam" test subject. On their trail is Rock, a vicious FBI agent. [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/alabaster-vol-1?variant=32122232710) --- **Volumes 89 and 90 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

High-school student Yota Moteuchi is so unpopular that his classmates have given him the nickname "Dateless." So it's no surprise when the love of his life, Moemi, is not interested in Yota but instead is in love with Yota's best friend, Takashi. Yota turns to a video rental shop for comfort, but little did he suspect that the shop was magical and that the cute girl on his rented tape would pop out of the television and try to fix his ruined love life!

Tamiko lives with her two brothers, her mother and her grandmother. It's your typical family, or so she naively thought. Yet one day she finds out Akira, her older brother, is not her brother at all but the illegitimate child of the famous actress Hanyuu Kaori. To make things even more confusing, Akira's feelings towards her aren't exactly of the sibling kind and because of his persistence she starts feeling love for him as well. The plot becomes even more complicated when Tamiko's classmate Yukari falls for Akira. Yukari though has a connection with Akira that shocks everyone, including herself…

After being incarcerated in a youth corrections facility, Saki Asamiya is recruited by a detective named Jin which convinces her that the government could provide clemency for her mother on death row. He trains her to be an undercover youth detective, infiltrating several high schools in Japan to investigate cases of crime, corruption and terrorism: it's the birth of a high school student legend. --- **Note:** Volume count based on the bunkoban.

(from MangaUpdates): There exists a horrific newspaper called the Horror Newspaper that foretells of people’s extreme misfortunes.

It is 1880 at the all-boys school, Lacombrade Academy in France. Serge Battour is a cheerful and kind new student who is trying to fit in with the rest of the student body, despite the taboo of his Romani heritage, made obvious by his dark skin. However, his roommate Gilbert Cocteau, known for sleeping with anyone at the school to manipulate them to his advantage, is not helping the situation, especially when he makes it his personal goal to bring about Serge's downfall. Originally serialized in the 1970s, The Song of Wind and Trees is considered by many to be the first true yaoi manga as well as the first shota manga. In 1979, this series was awarded the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shounen/shoujo manga. A bit of warning: the work includes scenes of rape and child abuse.

Shigeo Nagashima plays for his school, Kohnan's, baseball team. However he isn't a very good player. One day, he walks into a mysterious store where he buys a baseball bat. Little does he know that the bat is in fact magical. It enables him to hit every pitch, but on one condition: everytime he uses it, he has to pay money to the mysterious store. Kohnan's team reaches the championship game, where they face another school, Ougane. On the opposing team is Kazuhisa Inao, who has a baseball glove that is also magical, and can throw the fastest pitches. Like Shigeo, he must also pay for this. But, unlike Shigeo (who has to work very hard for every yen), Kazuhisa can afford this cost.

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**

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**

This is a story of "love" and "friendship" encountered by Kaneda Sakae, a high school student who came to Tokyo from Hokkaido in search of "fashion" in the early 1980s. This is a realistic "subculture" coming-of-age story that blows away the pretense of the bubble economy and bustle of the 1980s. A dialogue with Asada Akira is also included at the end of the second volume!

(from ebookjapan): The captain of the baseball team, Tatsushi Fuyoshi, is summoned to the principal's office, where he is suddenly ordered by the principal to discontinue the baseball team, declaring that the club must "win Koushien" in order to survive, and as proof of his determination, he vows to defeat Hinode Shogyo, the 8th best team from spring Koushien , in a practice game in 10 days' time. The nine members start training hard that day, but three days before the game, one by one, they start to drop out...?

(from ebookjapan): The work depicts the daily interactions of an unsuccessful writer, Susumu Karenuma, his divorced wife, and their relatives, who are not punished. Volume 1 contains the oneshot *Take it easy!*: A man gets a little too carried away by the thrill of riding a motorcycle.

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.

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)

Junna Shoutarou, who just entered Tokeizaka high school, falls for the school's madonna, Hibino Makoto. Meanwhile, the school's notorious homosexual, Tokudaiji Hiromi, targets Shoutarou as his new victim. Shoutarou, who under Hiromi's threats, joins the drama club and discovers that Makoto is the drama club's vice president. Perfect–except everyone thinks Shoutarou is gay with Hiromi!

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!

Kusuko has a secret crush on the resident class playboy, Mishima. But with his constant rotation of ever changing girls on his arm, she keeps a safe distance. Mishima takes her stand-off-ish attitude for coldness and confronts her about it; however, they manage to overcome the misunderstandings and even begin dating! The more she gets to know him, the harder she finds herself falling, but one day, she overhears him talking to another girl on the phone…