Tezuka Osamu THE BEST

In this story, Osamu Tezuka himself appears as the master of ceremonies and listens to a mysterious tale from a child who lost their family in the war.

Folkloric love story between a young man who is an expert drummer and a spirit of the Japanese cypress tree.

One day, a boy in a mountain village whose heart was darkened by his parents' divorce, saw a baby antelope stuck in a log on a suspension bridge and decided to took care of him.

As a boy, Tezuka met a young man who claimed to be the god of a snake shrine. This is a fantastical folktale-like short story modeled on the author's own childhood.

This is a coming-of-age drama about a lonely high school boy who falls in love with a girl in a poster, and grows up troubled and hurt.

A story of a strange friendship between Yamataro, a koala bear who lost his parent in an accident and a mountain hunt that was kept by humans, and a steam locomotive named Shiroku. Shiroku, which is a symbol of a power that transcends human beings even though it was created by humans, teaches Yamataro the preciousness of the power of the wild and the dignity of a bear.

Yusaku, the son of the village police station, meets a young girl named Neri on the beach and becomes friends with her. However, she has a terrible secret. If she says "I love spiders", she becomes a spider, and if she says "I love lizards", she becomes a lizard... *Note: published in Gekkan Shounen Jump 1981/09 and later compiled in volume 7 of Tiger Books*

Japan is in the midst of an unprecedented microcomputer boom, where everything can be predicted by microcomputers. Yotanosuke and his good friend Ibu are predicted to be the worst match but...

One day, a mysterious boy visits a boy who does not do well in anything he does... This is a short story in the style of a folk tale set in a rural junior high school.

Immediately after the war, Kazuo Tanaka (age 13), Kimiko (age 17), and Tetsu (age 6) escape from an asylum for vagrant children. Under the guidance of a mysterious old man, they go to the year 1985, 40 years later. They meet their future selves, who have been transformed into unexpected people.