Six stories drawn by former assistants of the legendary Osamu Tezuka (creator of BLACK JACK) are based on real life stories of real medical professionals to celebrate the character's 40th anniversary, with Black Jack and Pinako acting as the side characters of those stories

Upon meeting The Quintuplets of Witches in an unexpected turn of events, Uesugi Raiha, who lives with her father and her black cat Fuutarou, became Magical Girl Raiha - the protector of peace in her city?!

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Jeanne d'Arc is *the* 15th century national heroine of France. From Napoleon to the present, French politicians of all leanings have invoked her memory. She was beatified in 1909 and canonized as a saint in 1920. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Akio Morita, the co-founder and former chairman of the Sony corporation. Morita is responsible for egging on the amazing growth of the Japanese electronics industry over the last 50 years. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. With two trips into space, Chiaki Mukai is Japan's most traveled astronaut. Her last mission was on the space shuttle Discovery, researching weightlessness with veteran U.S. astronaut and Senator John Glenn. In the tests, she found it easy to do somersaults, but had trouble touching the cabin floor. ''Some things that can easily be done on Earth cannot be easily done in space,'' she says. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Takashi Yanase is the creator of one of the most famous Japanese anime that has existed: Anpanman. This character, like many popular manga heroes, is *extremely* popular with children and is found on numerous products in Japan. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga (Educational Manga) features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Osamu Tezuka's prolific output and his pioneering techniques and genres earned him such titles as "the father of manga" and "the god of manga." He is widely credited as the most influential animator in Japan and, indeed, his career parallels the rise of the Japanese animation industry.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Thomas A. Edison was one of the greatest inventors the world have known. With only three months of formal education he became not only a great inventor, but one of the most important industrial leaders in history. Edison obtained 1,093 United States patents, the most issued to any individual. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Fukuzawa Yukichi, founder of Keio University and one of the first experts on the West in modern Japan, is generally looked on positively as having played an important role in the modernization of late 19th-century Japan. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.

This new line of Edu-Manga* features Astro Boy, one of Japan's most popular icons among children, who journeys alongside the reader. He provides for kids not only a history lesson but also a richer understanding of the life lessons these historical figures share with us. Florence Nightingale is most remembered as a pioneer of nursing and a reformer of hospital sanitation methods. For most of her ninety years, Nightingale pushed for reform of the British military health-care system, and with that, the profession of nursing started to gain the respect it deserved. Unknown to many, however, was her use of new techniques of statistical analysis, such as when, during the Crimean War, she plotted the incidence of preventable deaths in the military. She developed the "polar-area diagram" to dramatize the needless deaths caused by unsanitary conditions and the need for reform. With her analysis, Florence Nightingale revolutionized the idea that social phenomena could be objectively measured and subjected to mathematical analysis. She was an innovator in the collection, tabulation, interpretation, and graphical display of descriptive statistics. *Note: Edu-Manga is a term coined in Japan which means Educational Manga.