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 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**

"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.

In the near future, almost the entire world lies in the iron grip of a huge conglomerate, the Persona Century Corporation. One day, a mysterious good-looking man appears in Shinjuku, one of the few places not dominated by Persona Century. Shinjuku is a dangerous and lawless place, teeming with rebels and terrorists. The stranger's name is Dark Side - and with the help of a small band of rebels, he will attempt to break Persona's stranglehold on the world.

*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**

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**

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.

U.C.0122. One year prior to the completion of the F91, an organization known as Oldsmobile was active. The Earth Federation Forces had organized a unit to suppress them, but outer space has once again turned into a battleground. A courageous young man fights with a Gundam in order to protect the peace, yet many sacrifices are made… A 2 part Gundam manga from 1991’s Gundam Magazine.

Aya, the ace and captain of her high school swim team, was suddenly attacked by a water demon! Aya's body was instantly mummified as all the water was sucked out of her. The evil spirits that lurk within the school cause a variety of fearsome phenomena. **Note:** Original edition was discontinued, but the reprints are considered complete.

A twisted old man, gifted with extrasensory powers, silently holds sway over an entire block of apartments. The occupants are puppets for him to control. Life is his to give…and to take. But suddenly there is a new voice in his head, and before he knows it, a young girl with her own battery of psychic abilities has arrived to challenge him! Soon, the sprawling complex becomes a battleground between two minds possessing incredible, unimaginable power. --- **Volume 8 of the Katsuhiro Otomo Complete Works**

A one-shot based on *Rockman* that was published in the December 1993 extra issue of Comic BomBom.

Gundam's Amuro, Judau and Char face off against Ideon from Space Runaway Ideon

An adaptation of the 1993 live-action movie Super Mario Bros., this one-shot heavily truncates the story. It was published in Shogakukan's Monthly Corocoro Comic Summer Holiday Special 1993. Daisy requests the help of the Mario Brothers to save her flooded excavation site. She is abducted by Iggy and Spike and taken to an alternate dimension ruled by the tyrant Koopa. Mario and Luigi follow her and soon confront Koopa, who needs a meteorite piece to merge their two dimensions. Fungus-related shenanigans ensue. Can the plumbers stop Koopa from taking over the "surface world" with his de-evolution guns?

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**

*Suspense & Horror version:* "Twisted Knight" Story 1: Satsuki has an admirer who is going to fulfill any of her wishes, no matter what it takes… Even if it means playing with death! "House that Calls the Devil" Story 2: "Paralell Life" Story 3: Why is a boy who was supposed to be dead moving around and why do the teachers seems to be hiding something? *Horror M / Watari Chie Kessakusen version:* "Twisted Knight" Story 1: "Grove of the Yasha 1" Story 2: "Grove of the Yasha 2" Story 2: "Paralell Life" Story 3: "Whispering Nightmare" Story 4: "The Chimes" Story 5: "House that Calls the Devil" Story 6:

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.