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... more>> 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. <<less

Publisher Hayakawa is celebrating its 70th anniversary with two manga anthology reprints. One collection is dedicated to mystery works while the other compiles sci-fi stories printed over the publisher's long career.... more>>

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Black Jack is a genius surgeon who never acquired his license due to his clashes with the medical establishment. He is hired out by anyone willing to pay his exorbitant rates and is perceived as a heartless rogue because of his enigmatic nature and antisocial manner but that is not the whole story.... more>>

Note: 8 previously-sealed chapters were republished and were never officially nor unofficially translated.

Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1977 which was tied with . <<less

To learn about his roots, Sharaku must investigate the mysterious ruins that a long-lost civilization called the Three-Eyed Ones bequeathed to him. In his worldwide search, which takes both him and Chiyoko Wato to locations like Arizona, Easter Island, and Mexico, Sharaku deciphers ancient scriptures and uses gadgets he invents to help solve (or start) problems and mysteries.... more>>

Sharaku is frequently bullied for his childishness, and as such the story is also about how he fights back when the x-shaped bandage that covers his third eye is removed. Behind the bandage is hidden Sharaku's malicious third eye, and the boy's hidden evil genius emerges when it can see. Sharaku's rivalries with teachers or students are occasionally developed into major plot points.

Winner of the 1st Kondansha Manga Awards (1977) in the shounen category (tied with ). <<less

500 Million years ago the Moon was populated but under threat. Their leader, Prince Norman, decided to reach through space and time to recruit people... more>> with immense psychic power to defend his home, but will they be in time? <<less

Invited to Nazi Germany during World War II, Dr. Asagumo is asked by Hitler to collaborate with him on the research of the new weapon... more>> "Big X". Concerned about the possible effects of the completion of Big X, Dr. Asagumo intentionally delays the progress of the research, conspiring with his co-researcher, the devious Dr. Engel. Immediately before Germany is defeated by the Allies, Dr. Asagumo implants a card inscribed with the secret of Big X in his son, Shigeru, and is then shot to death by the German army. Twenty years later, the card is discovered in the body of Shigeru, who is then living in Tokyo. Soon, an organization claiming alliance with the Nazis appears, steals the card, and completes the Big X project. Dr. Engel's grandson has joined the Nazi Alliance. The completed Big X is then revealed to be a drug that can expand the human body without limitation. Recovering Big X from the enemy, Shigeru's son Akira fearlessly challenges the Nazi Alliance and Hans Engel, who are plotting to conquer the world. <<less

In the future, birds have taken over Earth and replaced human kind as the dominant species. With the assistance of bird-like aliens, the birds of Earth gained increased intelligence and began to attack humans. Now humans are treated as livestock by the birds who have moved on to create their own society with laws, currency, countries, and class systems. Ironically, the birds are following the same path as humans did.... more>>

Now, the meat-eating predatorial birds and the insect and grain eating birds have begun a war amongst each other that has no end in sight. As they fight, aliens begin to consider what species should replace the birds as the dominant species of Earth in this science fiction thriller. <<less

Maa-chan's Diary is the first manga created by Tezuka Osamu. He authored it in 1946, and it ran in Shokokumin Shinbun (Mainichi Elementary Schoolchildren's Newspaper). ... more>>

It follows the life of a little preschooler named Maa-chan, who lives in post-war Japan. <<less

The first story is of an alien boy crashed to Earth and hiding from his pursuers, with a little help from two boys he meets.... more>> The second half is about a boy raised by the creatures of the forest, who act remarkably human… <<less

Kenichi is the chief detetive of the national Boy Detectives' Street Society. Together with his talking bird Donguri, he solves many mysteries.

A collection of short stories that Tezuka did for a boy’s magazine in the early 1960s.

This is the tale of two friends who are both studying to get into an elite space program. When only one succeeds, the one who... more>> fails kills the other to take his place in the program. But the dead man is transported by a mysterious girl and revived to be returned home – only 10 years have passed and the one who killed him is now a man of great power, who in turn exiles his former friend to the doomed planet of Chaos… <<less

About legendary child ninja hero Sasuke Sarutobi from 16th century...

Tezuka himself is a main character in this one, about a manga-ka who finds himself in a science fiction story about robots and transforming creatures.

Each volume contains different short stories by Osamu Tezuka

Musashi Miyamoto, a young, ambitious boy, dreams of becoming a great manga filmmaker. This is the story of his trials and tribulations as he works... more>> toward that goal in 1950s Tokyo. <<less

Sci-fi short stories.

Tezuka teaches about biology in short installments.

A collection of short stories with a diverse range of topics.... more>>

The first batch of short stories was serialized from 1956 to 1957 in Omoshiro Book, the second batch 1972 to 1973 in Shuukan Shounen Jump. <<less

This is a short story collection anchored by the tale of a young medical student who becomes a manga-ka after meeting an unusual vagrant…

Two separate tales set in Africa – one the story of two filmmakers who discover a lost city while they are looking for locations to... more>> film, and another about two explorers searching for a gold statue that might involve people from the moon and might also involve a Tarzan-like boy named Monster. <<less

Roppei is a fisherman’s son who discovers a toy robot on the bottom of the ocean named Roppu. Roppu is a powerful robot and can... more>> do many amazing things, but will only answer to Roppei and is still just a toy <<less

What is the secret of the mysterious gold trunk, said to bring change to the human race whenever it appears? This one is more of... more>> an illustrated novel than a manga. <<less

This is a short story collection, anchored by the tale of a young man with a tape recorder who is confronting a local man about... more>> his culpability in a mining accident 20 years ago… <<less

Komasuke is a young boy being raised by a thief in the 19th century who stole him from his rightful parents, and he’s trying his... more>> best to reform the woman who is raising him. But he is also the son of a time traveler from the 22nd Century, who has left for him a legacy until they can be reunited. <<less