60This One Shot was published in "Weekly Shonen King" as the second part of "Kami no Toride" in January 1975. The war is finally over, but this time a desperate food crisis has come, and Tetsuro Osamu struggle to survive has begun again. Osamu steals potatoes from the fields, draws portraits for the occupation soldiers, and receives sweets in exchange for pocket money. For those who have to make it through the day, even the dead bodies of the dead are out of sight. Although the story is light-hearted and filled with gags, it has a sense of reality that could only have been depicted by someone who actually lived during this period. Initially, Tezuka planned to make this a trilogy of "Kami no Toride", but the third part was never drawn.
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.
A saboteur appears at the construction of a huge dam in the Arab Federation and takes the lives of the people involved. It is Muse, a mare leopard that speaks human language. It is a magical beast guarding the temple of King Azothus, which was discovered at the site. Tadashi Nagano, a Japanese boy, and his dog, Don, fight to the death against this great enemy.
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.
Taro, the brother of Yajiro (a mentally handicapped boy), was conducting research to improve the intelligence of animals. His experimental rat Yajiro was released by Yajiro and was named Yaji.
Musa was born at the top of a thousand two hundred year old camphor tree. He was abandoned by his father soon after birth, but caught on a lower branch and encouraged by the camphor tree's voice, he survived and grew up alone.
Spirits who were forced to leave Musashino for the construction of a new housing development have taken up residence in an apartment building in human form. They want to take revenge on the humans by taking Takashi, a human boy, and trying to raise him as a wicked delinquent, and hijinks ensue. (Source: Tezuka Osamu, translated)
Mars pioneers were cyborgized by transplanting their brain marrow into mechanical bodies. The bodies were preserved with electronic brains. However, pioneer Yamatoji Akira escaped into his own body and followed him to Earth...
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.
"Gachaboi's Record of One Generation" is an autobiographical short story of Tezuka Osamu. In September 1945, Tezuka Osamu meets the god of Manga, who looks like a homeless man in the black market of Osaka. According to the god, he plans to enter the body of Tezuka Osamu and create a Manga craze in Japan. Soon after that, Manga begin to enjoy unprecedented popularity in Japan. Tezuka Osamu becomes a popular cartoonist and establishes an animation studio, Mushi Production. And much to his delight, the animated version of "Astro Boy," produced by Mushi Production, is critically acclaimed in the U.S. When Tezuka Osamu becomes successful, the god of Manga appears before him again and says that few Japanese Manga are of good content. The god's words awaken Tezuka Osamu and he realizes that the god is cautioning him not to become complacent. (Source: tezukaosamu.net)