Akko and her mother have been living together since their father became the captain of a luxurious cruiser. One day, Atsuko accidentally broke her favourite mirror. She made a grave for it. On the same night, the sky brightens and Akko recieves a gift, a compact mirror, from the mirror spirit for her kind-heartedness. Whenever she sings the magic words, the magical compact mirror will alow her to transform into anything she hopes to be.
Follow the madcap adventures of Japan's most outstanding idiots as they attempt to re-create their world in their own ludicrous image. (Source: Amazon).
Fujio Akatsuka's most popular work, serialized in Shounen Sunday and other magazines! The six children, Osomatsu, Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Ichimatsu, Jyushimatsu, and Todomatsu, along with Chibita, Iyami, Hatabou, and many other unique characters, all cry and laugh together! This series helped establish Akatsuka's reputation as a gag comic artist, long before his other popular manga, Tensai Bakabon. Osomatsu-kun has appeared in numerous special issues of Shounen Sunday. Akatsuka has also included several manga adaptations of routines from Charlie Chaplin movies in the series. ***Note:** Won the 10th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1964.*
An avant-garde comedy by gag manga legend, Fujio Akatsuka. The stories revolve around a young boy Gon, his dad, and the other crazy personalities in town.
A series of short episodic stories (two pages long for each) revolving around a mischievous girl named "Jajako". Every strip features her in some sort of strange or silly situation, usually causing trouble for various adults in her life, one often being her mother. Source: MU
Santaro is a young man who's obsessed with cute girls and winning them over. He sets his sights on a girl named Chiyoko, and aims to be her boyfriend by driving away whatever competition he has.
The main character, Atsuko Kagami nicknamed Akko, is a girl who cherishes a mirror that has been passed down from generation to generation. However, the mirror breaks due to an accident. When she is sad about it, the Queen of the Mirror Land appears and gives her a transformation compact device as a thanks for taking good care of the mirror until this time. So Akko takes on the role of escorting a prince who comes incognito to learn about the human world. The compact device, which can also be used as a smartphone, is full of functions needed to protect the prince in addition to transformation. What will happen to Akko and the prince in this adventure?
Moretsu Ataro is one of the four classic gag manga written and illustrated by Akatsuka Fujio. However, of the four it is probably the least popular. However, Ataro is also of the four slightly more plot focused than the others. While episodic, major changes to characters do happen throughout the series, one such that happens early on, and contributes the main premise of the manga, is the titular Ataro's father, Batsugoro, dies. However, his ghost is still remaining, as to assist Ataro in running the family's vegetable stand and protect it from various thieves or other antagonists. Aside from the main plot side characters also get a decent amount of time spent, such as Nyarome, a talking stray cat, whom would later become more popular than even Ataro and appear in some of Akatsuka's other works.
Osomatsu-kun tribute manga by Masayuki Izumi portraying sextuplets as young adults.
A period drama based gag manga about two crows, Karappe, the titular character, whom is weak to his unending affection for human girls, and Karaten, a cowardly, yet very passionate crow-tengu, as the two travel across the mountainous countryside of old Japan. The series was initially credited to Fujio Akatsuka, but later production shifted to Don Sasaki, under that of which the art style took a noticeable change.
