In this forest, there is a bear only children can see. If you can escape the forest after spending one day with that bear, you can become whatever you desire. A young girl sets foot into the dense forest of legend and what she encounters there was…
One day, penguins are spotted in the suburban town that fourth-grader Aoyama calls home. The penguins make their sudden appearance in a residential district nowhere near the ocean and disappear just as mysteriously. Where could they have come from, and where did they go? Aoyama is determined to get to the bottom of it! This is the slightly curious, unforgettable tale of that summer.
Meet our hero, a regular guy in Japan with a bad attitude and not many friends, he lives with his mother, studies history at university and leads a boring and dull life, that is until one day his whole world goes up in flames, literally, he finds out that everything he knew was a lie and now he has to deal with monsters, magic and mayhem. He's got some new powers, but he doesn't know how to use them or where they came from and to make matters worse, he has to find out who his ancestors were and what kind of blood he's got in his veins Sounds like a nightmare, right? Well, buckle up because it's about to get wild!
From Sura's Place: The 12 animals of Zodiac are given powers to rule the time. However, the dog commits suicide, thus removing himself from his role. The rat and the cow attempt to find the 13th animal, the cat, to replace the dog. However...
Families that went missing decades ago... started to resurface.
From Ivyscan: Hime wants answers. How could her father, an expert driver, die in a car accident caused by his own carelessness? What about the mysterious note he left behind? What exactly is going on? Hime intends to find out! Includes side stories: The Act of the Star Theater Going Through the Time
*Tezuka completely redrew this from memory for the Tezuka 400 when this version was presumed lost. It was later rediscovered and collected in the Tezuka bunko.*The young Pete jumps aboard a ship captained by a friend of his late father. With a treasure map he left behind in his hands, he and the captain embark on an adventure to hunt it down. However, pesky pirates - like Bowarl and his crew - get in the way, also seeking the treasure for themselves! What sort of island is Treasure Island? And who will get the treasure first?Sakai is credited for the 'story' of this edition due to the many cuts and alterations he made, including the ending of the manga. Tezuka was not pleased with his edits, and did not consider it a work he did by himself. When collected in the Complete Works, the original was presumed lost, so Tezuka redrew the whole work from memory, restoring the cuts (such as Peter Pan). This edition is more of a 2/3koma compared to the 1984 definitive edition, which is a 4Koma.
Heian-era Kyoto. Rumours swirl of the beautiful Kaguya-hime, who sets her suitors impossible tasks to complete but is a favourite of the young Emperor. The Emperor's bodyguards, the Takiguchi, have been decimated by a massacre known as "The Fifteen Nights of Blood", of which there was only one survivor; the mysterious Tsukuyomi, who intervenes in a fight between the Takiguchi and the Hokumen, the forces of the ex-emperor Giten-no-Kimi. Tsukuyomi is the only known survivor of the Fifteen Nights of Blood, and searches for vengeance for their brother's murder. Yet Tsukuyomi is not what they seem in many ways - and when they meet Princess Kaguya, it becomes clear that there is far more than meets the eye to the intrigues of the Imperial Court.
The setting of Devil Survivor 2 spans the whole country of Japan. It tells the story of Japanese high-school students who receive emails from a website foretelling their friend's deaths. Mysterious creatures invade the country, and the students enter a pact, enabling them to summon demons from their cell phones with a special Devil Summoning App.
In the future, computers control all aspects of human life, even birth. No one questions Superior Domination, the new social order, except the Mu, a mutant race with telepathic powers who are forced into exile by the System. On a distant colony mistakenly believed to be Terra by its inhabitants, Jomy’s world is turned upside-down when the Mu ask him to become their leader. Can Jomy, with his emerging telepathic powers, lead the Mu back home, back to Terra? In 1978, this series won the very first Seiun Award for manga, and subsequently, in 1980, also won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen/shōjo manga
When Darkness Comes"This school is dangerous." It is a land which is uninhabitable. It is a land where the dead cannot exit, and it is a land where they gather. There, an independent high school is built. It is a place where the living and the dead intermingle, and it is where Eunbi, who is given the fate of a psychic, is admitted into. "Don't be scared. No matter what happens, I'll definitely send you home, somehow." Eunbi listens to the stories of the dead and solves cases whilst wandering on the path of ghosts hidden in the school with Seonwoo, who she met by chance before entering the school. It's too late when Jamin High School's secret is revealed "Ah, I forgot to tell you. This is a two-story building. If you ever see a staircase leading to the third floor, don't ever go up."
Tezuka, poet Kodama Tanima, and reporter Rock visit Fossil Island, tended to by Gansaku, the elderly owner of the only inn on the island. On the night of their stay, they are visited by curious and fantastical dreams of all sorts relating to the rocks on the island. What worlds will these dreams bring them to?Also includes two shojo short serials:- **Robin-chan** (ロビンちゃん): Ruri is a girl who resides with a baron, longing for the return of her missing brother. One day, a young man named Robin comes by ship to the baron's mansion. This young man could very well be the key to finding her brother...- **The Maidens of Tatsugafuchi** (龍が淵の乙女, Tatsugafuchi no Otome): The tale of two sisters who disguise themselves as samurai in their search for the Munen no Tama, the crest of their family.---**Volume 73 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
