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Using Tezuka's characters, the very best artists were allowed to let loose and adapt his characters into short stories.
Set in Continental Europe, it depicts the adventures of British aristocrat Dorian Red Gloria and his alter ego Eroica, Europe's most wanted international art thief. His nemesis — Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach, a German NATO intelligence officer — has tried for years to catch the man who claims each crime scene with a card signed "From Eroica with Love." Things are just getting started when a trio of telepathically linked teenagers becomes aware of Dorian's identity and plans to capture him. But their plot goes awry as the master thief branches out — no longer content with stealing great art, he's moving on. Now the trio must foil his attempts to kidnap their leader, Caesar, as they try to save the great art treasures of Europe! (Source: CMX) *Note: Includes 24 extra chapters.*
The adventures of Falco, a monk in a German monastery in 14th century.
Slapstick homosexual comedy. The protagonists are three British men: Justin (a rock singer), Heath (a macho pianist) and Virgil (a hedonistic poet). Heath and Virgil are gay, and they are forever making passes at the androgynous Justin, who complains about it all the time but eventually stays with them because they all belong to the same tribe called "Vin Rose", the descendents of men created from the rib bone of Eve instead of Adam. The story is about the three transported to the weird, crazy world of Vin Rose, which is populated with historical and/or fictitious characters, most of them either gay or lesbian. Includes 4 one-shots: Apple Honey (アップル・ハニー) Toki yo Kaere! Natsu no Hi (時よかえれ！夏の日) Ege-Umi no Washi (エーゲ海の鷲) Includes 3 bonus chapters: Good Company (グッド・カンパニー) Prisoner 69 (プリズナー69) Uchuu Hansen Musashi (宇宙帆船ムサシ)
El Halcon is a prequel series to 7 Seas, 7 Skies. Set from 1581 to 1586 with flashbacks further into the past, this is the story of Tyrian Persimmon. Born to a Spanish mother with an English husband in this era of conflict between the two contries, Tyrian favors Spain. His father suspects that Tyrian is not his son because he doesn't look like the man at all, and regularly beats him. His mother's lover is discovered to be a Spanish spy and flees the country. Tyrian is determined to join the navy and eventually rejoin Geraldo. At the age of 19 he begins to make his ruthless way up the ranks of the English navy. (Source: Translated Treasures)
Tyrian’s stepfather, a notorious womanizer, decides to remarry, and his victim is a sickeningly sweet and innocent girl named Juliet. But the girl is kidnapped off of Tyrian’s ship, first by pirates and then by more pirates in the form of our dashing Luminous Red Benedict. The neatly woven threads of conspiracy which have been supporting Tyrian’s life begin to unravel, and he flees to Spain at last. Captain Red redoubles his pursuit. Conflict between Tyrian Persimmon (ancestor of one Major Klaus Heinz von dem Eberbach) and Luminous Red Benedict (pirate ancestor of Dorian Red Gloria).
A hardboiled espionage action story featuring Major Eberbach. Can he elude the pursuit of the genius assassin from the KGB? (Source: Eroica Fans)
Miriam's father considers Miriam Blue Lake to be the most beautiful in the world, and that is why he gave that name to his daughter, a romantic and dreamy fifteen-year-old girl whose life will change forever when a handsome boy, with big blue eyes, looks out his window. Because together with the awakening of love, secrets will also come, and Miriam will have to consider what is the future that she wants to live. (Source: Arechi Manga, translated)
One of the few Aoike stories set in Tokyo with all Japanese characters. The pretty occult doctor Anri (a young female) has a guardian being called "Ushiro". A handsome physician, Dr. Kaga, tries hard to show Anri up as a quack, but is attracted to her at the same time. An occult comedy.
Two men work together to reveal the outrageous falsification of the history of a German town, Hammelburg, which took place eight hundred years ago.