Rock's manga debut as a young boy detective with shiny dark hair named after Japanese pronunciation of Sherlock Holmes.

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. 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.

Rainbow Parakeet is a genius actor and a fantastic mimic, but also a thief. He can act out any role to the best of his abilities, while robbing the richest members of the audience during his performances. His methods are a mystery, even to the detectives charged with apprehending him: Police Inspector Senri and his daughter, Police Detective Mariko Senri. (Source: Wikipedia)

To learn about his roots, Sharaku must investigate the mysterious ruins that a long-lost civilization called the Three-Eyed Ones bequeathed to him. In his worldwide search, which takes both him and Chiyoko Wato to locations like Arizona, Easter Island, and Mexico, Sharaku deciphers ancient scriptures and uses gadgets he invents to help solve (or start) problems and mysteries. Sharaku is frequently bullied for his childishness, and as such the story is also about how he fights back when the x-shaped bandage that covers his third eye is removed. Behind the bandage is hidden Sharaku's malicious third eye, and the boy's hidden evil genius emerges when it can see. Sharaku's rivalries with teachers or students are occasionally developed into major plot points. **Note:** Winner of the 1st Kondansha Manga Awards (1977) in the shounen category.

Midnight is the story of a taxi driver named Shinya Mito (whose name is literally Japanese for "mid" and "night") and his various passengers, each of whom he helps in various ways. Shinya drives a taxi as a way to earn money for the treatment of a young woman named Mari, whose brain was injured sometime earlier as the result of an accident Shinya was responsible for causing. The taxi Shinya drives is equipped with a fifth wheel which makes the car more maneuverable under any kind of road conditions. *Note: chapter count reflects the original number of chapters serialized, although 14 chapters were not originally included in the collected volumes.*

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 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..."

In a jungle in Africa right on the equator there was a white lion, Panja, who was called the "Emperor of the Jungle." But Panja is killed by a hunter. His wife, the Queen of Jungle, who has been caught by the hunter, gives birth to the son of Panja on a ship bringing them to a zoo. She names her son "Leo" and has him escape from the ship, saying, "Go back to Africa and become the successor of your father." Then a storm comes and the ship is overturned, and sinks with the Queen on it. Leo is washed up on the beach of a port town in the Arabian Peninsula, not Africa. This is where Leo's long adventure begins.

Haight and Andrews are both successful engineers working for a company that is about to make a breakthrough on nanotechnology that will change the course of history, when Haight discovers and develops a new technology that will help people live better and cure a few diseases, Andrews wants to use this technology for military purposes, aware of these intentions, Haight resings from the company taking all the documents and research about his discovery, Andrews angry at this, prepares a trap for Haight and with his five maniac sidekicks they brutally torture Haight and kill his loved ones, to add more misery, they severed both his arms and left him for dead. But he is rescued by a mysterious doctor and his assistant, both men are experimenting with the strange power of "The Zetsmos" the ability of control the ghost inside the body while one is still alive, reports of people that had his limbs severed confirm that they can still "feel and move" their limbs even if they are not there, but with the Natural power of the Zetsmos, the body can assimilate any kind of materia and make it part of the body, it can be wood, paper, water, metal and recreate the limb that was gone. But awakening the Zetsmos is a painful and dangerous process, the bearer have to put himself between life and death to awaken it, But Haight will stop at nothing to hunt down those that made his life a living hell, and he's determined to use the mysterious power to carry on his revenge.

Based on the brilliant maverick doctor created by manga pioneer Osamu Tezuka. This prequel follows Black Jack when he was still a medical student in the 1960s. (Source: Anime News Network)

In 1968, appears in the sky a mysterious ghost moon. Five hundred million years before, on the moon, the Moko Empire is threatened by the Gerdans, a terrible warlike nation. Prince Norman then starts the search for beings with supernatural powers to help him fight his enemies. Taku, a young Japanese boy of our time, is then chosen and teleported at the prince's era to integrate a special fighting units. While our young hero realizes its growing psychic powers, the moon is under alert and the destiny of an empire and maybe...much more are in the hands of the chosen ones!

This is the tale of two friends who are both studying to get into an elite space program. When only one succeeds, the one who fails kills the other to take his place in the program. But the dead man is transported by a mysterious girl and revived to be returned home – only 10 years have passed and the one who killed him is now a man of great power, who in turn exiles his former friend to the doomed planet of Chaos…

Set in Hokkaido in the early Meiji era, the protagonist is a man who is wild and has a sword arm. He was originally an indigenous person, but he respected and interacted with Ainu Aborigines. By the way, “Shumari” is an Ainu word meaning “fox”. He came to Hokkaido to find his wife, Tae, who had fled with his opponent. (Source: tezukaosamu.net)