After living in Transylvania for several years, "Earl Dracula" (as Osamu Tezuka's official website calls him in English) has moved to Japan. In the Nerima... more>> Ward of Tokyo, he and his daughter, Chocola, and faithful servant Igor continue to live in the castle. <<less

One night, Ryosuke Jagata is murdered by a thief after a hidden jewel on his person. His butler and rabbit boy Mimio (Mimi-chan) take quick notice. They soon butt heads with Mustachio, a private detective, who decides to take up the case. Mustachio, wanting more information, comes to the laboratory of Prof. Hoyoku Shikishima, a scientist experimenting with giving animals human souls.... more>>

Meanwhile, the planet Mamango makes the rounds. Said to be a part of the Earth from long ago, it is now steadily coming closer toward the Earth... Shikishima is researching this planet, and what Jagata was murdered over may be connected to this.

The original version of Lost World done in Tezuka's middle school days. Very close to the final version, but has a great number of differences. <<less

These are the adventures of Saburo, who discovers a crack in an underground road to another dimension and gains the power to stop time.

Prince Daisy and Princess Violetta are the twin son and daughter of Queen and King Sapphire and Frantz. In the midst of their peace and... more>> good life, something bad happens. Prince Daisy is kidnapped. Princess Violetta must pretend to be not only herself, but her brother as well, and at the same time attempt to find the whereabouts of her missing brother. <<less

Princess Knight is a fast-paced tale of a heroic princess who can beat any man at fencing, yet is delicate and graceful enough to catch the eye of Prince Charming.... more>>

A mischief-making angel’s prank goes too far when the newborn princess of Silverland ends up with two hearts—one male and one female. Since the laws of Silverland only allow a male heir to ascend the throne, Princess Sapphire is raised as a prince. But will the avaricious Duke Duralumin discover Sapphire’s true nature and snatch the crown for his own son? <<less

Strange things happen on Fossil Island, as Rock, Kodama, and Osamu Tezuka are soon to discover. The island is covered with rocks shaped like people.... more>> Each visitor finds one of these rocks with his or her name on it, and each then enter into separate, bizarre dream worlds. <<less

Sci-fi short stories.

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

This is the original version of Princess Knight that was serialized in Shojo Club from 1953-1956. The 1963 version, serialized in Nakayoshi was completely redone from the ground up.... more>>

Set in a medieval fairy-tale type setting, this is the story of young Princess Sapphire. When Sapphire is in heaven waiting to be born, a mischievous cherub named Tink accidentally gives her a second heart, and the young girl is born with both the brave and adventurous blue heart of a boy, as well as the loving and caring red heart of a girl. Realizing a mistake has been made, God sends Tink to earth with instructions to retrieve the blue boy’s heart. However, Princess Sapphire has been born into the Kingdom of Silverland, where only a male heir can inherit the throne, so retrieving the boy’s heart is no easy task. In order to keep the evil Duke Duralumin from becoming next-in-line to the throne, the king and queen announce that a prince has been born – forcing Sapphire into a life of deception. Sapphire was inspired by the Takarazuka Revue all-female theatre troupe, of which Tezuka was a long-time fan.

Frequent misconceptions (largely from American based or other such sources) place Princess Knight as the first Shojo Manga ever made. Shojo manga has existed for as long as manga itself. Some examples being Katsuji Matsumoto's Kurukuru Kurumi-chan from 1938 and Shosuke Kurakane's Anmitsu-hime from 1949 in addition to a myriad of others. <<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.

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

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

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

Starting with the tale of a prince on the run from a general intent on taking over the world, followed by the story of Wonder-kun,... more>> a boy raised by animals on a deserted island trying to protect his friends and home from a corrupt industrialist. <<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

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…

This is a collection of loosely interconnected stories where the main characters are all animals, especially the tiger who is the hero of the first... more>> book. <<less

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur´s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large... more>> estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmer´s terrible news, if you are landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with the reds. What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? <<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

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.

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

Rainbow Prelude is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, and also the name of one of his books in Kodansha's line of "Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works" books containing a collection of Tezuka's short stories. The stories included in the book are "Rainbow Prelude", "The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight", a manga version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", "Peacock Shell", and "Song of the White Peacock".... more>>

Chapters:

1) Niji no Prelude (虹のプレリュード); Shuukan Shoujo Comic 1975/10/05-10/26

2) Curtain wa Kon'ya mo Aoi (カーテンは今夜も青い); Shoujo Shinnen Zoukangou 1958/01

3) Venice no Shounin (ベニスの商人); Chuugaku 1-Nen Course Furoku 1959/04

4) Kujakugai (孔雀貝); Shoujo Club Furoku 1958/06

5) Shiro Kujaku no Uta (白くじゃくの歌); Nakayoshi Natsuyasumi Zoukangou 1959/09/15 <<less

Long, long ago, humans lived almost the same as beasts... If you got hungry, you could just find something to kill and eat it. If... more>> someone attacked you, kill them too. Everything was kill to survive, kill to survive. Then people started acting smart and making laws. The laws kept them from doing pretty much everything they wanted to do. Beasts, on the other hand, still have no laws, or etiquette. I predict the day will come when an almost mutant breed of humans will appear, sinking to the level of beasts for freedom... Here, I will call them "Vampires..." <<less