A short story published in the magazine "Weekly Shonen King" in September 1974 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Tezuka Osamu's career as a mangaka. It is a semi-autobiographical manga that depicts Tezuka's main character, Tetsuro Osamu, modeled after Tezuka himself, who desperately lives his life with a passion for manga while the war intensifies day by day at the end of the Pacific War. In the postscript to the Kodansha edition of Tezuka Osamu's Complete Manga Collection, Tezuka wrote that the manga "contains a great deal of fiction", but many of the events depicted in the manga are based on his own experiences, which he also wrote about in his essays and other writings.
Tezuka manga serialised in Hitomi, included in the last volume of Boku no Son Goku (MT-019) of the Tezuka collected manga works reprint by Kodansha.
Compilation of various Astro Boy side stories from different publications that were first published in 1964 to 1981.
The earliest incarnation of what would eventually become Tezuka’s epic masterpiece, Phoenix \[Manga Shonen\] (1954-55) was Tezuka’s follow-up series to the popular Jungle Emperor (1950-54) in Manga Shonen. It began publication in July 1954 and ran until the magazine suddenly folded in May 1955, unfortunately leaving the work unfinished after just eight instalments. In a mythical age of ancient Japan, Nagi Iza, a young boy living on one of the southern islands, is on a quest to find the legendary Phoenix and save his dying father. Believing the magical healing properties of the blood of the mysterious bird is the only way to cure his father, Nagi sets off on a mission to climb up Fire Mountain, a local volcano and the home of the Phoenix.
One morning, when he woke up, Saburo found himself suspended in an empty void, his own room nowhere to be seen. The next day, land and stars would appear, and the day after that, the sea. And on the seventh day, Saburo realized that the world he had been in had already been erased, and now everything was in the process of being recreated. *Note: published in Deluxe Shounen Sunday 1969/11*
Ken Ma, a young man who enjoys mountain climbing, and veteran climber Sasaki headed to the difficult spot "Ushi no Tongue" on Mt. Tarama in order to rescue victims. A serious drama where you can experience the thrill of mountain climbing. (Source: Tezuka Osamu Official, translated)
As a manga tie-in for the then ongoing anime in 1966, this spin-off was serialized for a younger audience. As a little lion cub in the jungle, Leo must find a way to stop an aggressive red rhinoceros from hurting his jungle friends. Watch a boxing match between Leo and a rogue lion, Bubu. Help Leo save a brave hero as he gets revenge on Lubar, an elderly leopard. Finally, learn about Laiya's brother and how a hydra-snake was able to devour their entire family. These chapters of the Shogakukan Sunday Comics were re-released in 1994 with the Complete Manga Works edition of Bouken Ruby (冒険ルビ).
A family lives in one of the most desolate places in the world, Arabia. Fifty years ago, in a forest in Canada, my grandfather heard a warning from a god in the form of a woman. They moved to such a land to escape the reaping of the earth's life by those who sowed the seeds long ago. (Source: Osamu Tezuka Official, translated)
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.
This tells the story of two brothers, one a cop and the other an aspiring songwriter, who find themselves mixed up in the student protests of the late 1960's in Japan that are being led by a Christ-like folk singer.
Story created for Osamu Tezuka's 90th birthday. Inspired by his 1979 work, "Lunn flies into the Wind"/"Run ha Kaze no Naka".
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.
