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From the same creator of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, teenager Ikuro Hashizawa can transform into the parasitical bio-weapon, Baoh, gaining superhuman strength and other abilities such as firing a corrosive substance. He escapes from the Secret Organization Dress along with a young psychic girl, Sumire, and the two must face various assassins sent by the organization to kill him. Link: [JoJo's Bizarre Encyclopedia](https://jojowiki.com/Baoh_the_Visitor) (Manga) [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=259) (OVA)

Born into a world beyond imagination and imprisoned for a crime he never commited, Young Riku's life couldn't sink any lower… or so he thought. Determined to survive no matter the circumstances, Riku now faces the near-impossible task of outliving a prison sentence in Earth's worst penitentiary.

“Holmes Agency” is a private detective office known as the “Big-Eating” Detective Office. Seiya Takano, who is known for have a huge appetite, gets assigned to this office as the new leader. Ryosuke Noda and Ryoko Izumi, both also having a big appetite work under Seiya. Murder, robbery, and kidnapping - many incidents occur around them. And the three solve each of the many cases in a most surprising way - their appetite results in marvelous speculations! They eat at the murder scene. They eat on the track. They even eat dog food! They keep on eating and eating, not even listening to the witness. Everywhere they go, they eat and eat and eat! And every time after finishing, the criminal appears. KUITAN is the words “Big-Eating” and Detective combined together. “Real Gourmet” plus “Real Mystery”. The big-eating detectives are on the run, solving cases from their deep knowledge about food.

An assassin is retiring after he finishes dodging bullets from his current assignment, all while fantasizing about his future leisurely life, when a strange woman throws a little boy down to him and begs him to, "Save this child!" 14 years later, instead of managing a fancy art gallery he's doing manual labor and raising an increasingly distant teenage boy but he's happy to provide a happy home for his new son until he realizes why Ryuunosuke has been acting so strangely…. Note: Chapter 13 isn't missing, the gap in numbering comes from some inconsistency in how the chapters were numbered before. [Source](https://rooftoplovebl.tumblr.com/post/185131678869)

(from ebookjapan): Takeshi Hongo is the most gifted student in Johoku University's Biology Laboratory. His brilliant mind and exceptional physical abilities are noticed by an evil secret society, Shocker, which plans to take over the world! Takeshi is kidnapped and given an operation to transform him into a human being with amazing grasshopper abilities. However, just before his brain is remodeled, he is saved by his mentor, Dr. Midorikawa, and escapes from the enemy hideout just in time. From this moment on, Takeshi Hongo became a righteous warrior whom Mother Nature had summoned...! Kamen Rider, the quintessential transforming hero, is here! [Official English](https://sevenseasentertainment.com/series/kamen-rider-the-classic-manga-collection/)

One day a boy named Pete finds a map of "Treasure Island" that his deceased father left behind. He starts on a voyage to find it together with "Captain," who was a friend of his father. But his ship is attacked by pirates, led by Bowarl, and the two are caught. When a storm hits the pirate ship, the two are thrown into the sea and washed up on the shore of a solitary island in the southern ocean. To their surprise, this island is the one they have been looking for… The manga that made Tezuka famous. It is an action-adventure drama inspired by Robert Louis Stevenson's book. This is the redone version for the Tezuka 400 Complete Works. When time came to collect NTI for the Complete Works, Tezuka had promised that *All* of his works would get collected, but the original version was presumed lost. Tezuka, wishing to keep on his promise, decided to redraw the entire manga from memory. The version restored characters previously cut (like Peter Pan). The original ending was also restored, making this the definitive version of *New Treasure Island*. Among other alterations, this 1984 version is a 4Koma manga whereas the original was a mix of 2/3Koma. --- **Volume 281 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

One-shot compilation featuring works written and illustrated by Tezuka between 1968 and 1973, that are very highly regarded in Japan and by Tezuka himself. Spans a variety of genres, from SF to Military to Wild West. With themes of hopelessness, discrimination, and the otherworldly. Contains the following: - **Joe's Visitor** (ジョーを訪ねた男, Joe o Tazuneta Otoko) - **The Cliff of Death** (野郎と断崖, Yaro to Dangai) - **The Duel at Grand Mesa** (グランドメサの決闘, Grand Mesa no Ketto) - **Cape Uroko** (うろこが崎, Urokogasaki) - **The Voice of Night** (夜の声, Yoru no Koe) - **The Hole** (そこに穴があった, Soko ni Ana ga Atta) - **Chameleon** (カメレオン) - **The Cat's Blood** (猫の血, Neko no Chi) - **Valley of Bliss** (わが谷は未知なりき, Waga Tani wa Michinariki) - **Illicit Love** (暗い窓の女, Kurai Mado no Onna) - **Catastrophe in the Dark** (カタストロフ・イン・ザ・ダーク) - **Phone** (電話, Denwa) - **Rovanna** (ロバンナよ, Rovanna yo) - **Lovers Under the Air** (ふたりは空気の底に, Futari Kuki no Soko) Also included in some editions are: - **The Execution Ended at 3** (処刑は3時におわった, Shokei wa 3-ji ni Owatta) - **Miraculous Conception** (聖女懐妊, Seijo Kainin, ALT. ENG. - Immaculate Conception) Note: **The Execution Ended at 3** and **Miraculous Conception** are also collected in [Clockwork Apple](https://mangadex.org/manga/407/clockwork-apple). [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/under-the-air?variant=521588539413) --- **Volume 264 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

When Futaro was five years old, his father left his home and his mother got sick in poverty. Also, Futaro has a ugly face, like Quasimodo: he's been discriminated and treated like trash by almost everyone in his neighborhood. Finally, his mother dies because they can't afford medical treatment. Burying her body, Futaro makes up his mind to do **anything** for money…

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause. --- - **Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1986, shared with Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael?** --- **Volumes 372-376 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Honey Kisaragi is a normal catholic schoolgirl. That is, until her father was murdered by the Panther Claw who were seeking the Airborne Elemental Fixation Device. She then finds out that she is actually an android created by him with the Airborne Elemental Fixation Device within her. She is now trying to live a life as a normal schoolgirl and seeking revenge against Panther Claw. Originally was meant to be a magical girl series, but the timeslot the anime version was on was switched; therefore it had to be changed for a 'shonen' demographic. Ultimately, Honey ended up being not a magical girl series (despite frequent misconceptions) but rather an early example of a series with a female lead that would have her exposed before and during battle for a male audience.

A woman is looking in the snow for a white bag she lost and asks a young boy on his way to cram school for help.

After being incarcerated in a youth corrections facility, Saki Asamiya is recruited by a detective named Jin which convinces her that the government could provide clemency for her mother on death row. He trains her to be an undercover youth detective, infiltrating several high schools in Japan to investigate cases of crime, corruption and terrorism: it's the birth of a high school student legend. --- **Note:** Volume count based on the bunkoban.

The Kyosha and Jinma clans are ninja organizations living in the modern age. They were called "super ninja," or "super shinobi." However, these two clans have been fighting a fierce battle to exterminate each other. Why? The unique tag team of Tetsu Kariya and Kazuhiko Shimamoto unleash a painful work!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN Stop the performance – murder is afoot! It will take all of genius prosecutor Miles Edgeworth’s cunning powers of deduction to uncover the truth behind a murder at a masquerade and a rocker’s riotous on-stage demise in this volume of original stories based on the hit Capcom video game!

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur’s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmers—terrible news, if you’re landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with “the reds.” What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/ayako/) --- **Volumes 197-199 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Originally a set of one-shots published in a doujin magazine before being picked up for serialization. It's a time in the future – a time where the creation of life itself has evolved to include biodroids named after the ancient Greeks and cyborg warriors programmed to destroy. The power struggle between the various synthetic life-forms and the humans could mean the end of all life. But there is one, named Typhon, who may be able to prevent that.

It’s not that studio 13 is haunted. It’s that there is a small cat-like creature living there who wants to be left alone, and will only respond to the requests of a small girl, which means that the producer who uses the studio needs to keep them both happy… Also includes the short work "Kibando" in volume 2. --- **Volumes 307 and 308 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A murderous intent without form attacks the yakuza! In the declining yakuza society, the elites bridge the barriers between their organizations and hold a meeting to decide how they will survive as yakuza. In the midst of their excitement, the footsteps of an invisible pair draw closer, bringing the stench of violence with them!

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations. During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate. Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience. There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’s past—and frequently his bed. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/mw/) --- **Volumes 301-303 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Two doctors, the young, passionate and well-liked Osanai and the veteran, ambitious Tatsugaura, are both investigating the mysterious 'Monmow' diesease, found only in one remote village, which causes bizarre bone deformation, making its victims take on a beastlike appearance before their deaths. Osanai is sent to the village by Tatsugaura to see if he can find a cause for the disease while also treating the victims to the best of his ability. But in reality, Tatsugaura is scheming against Osanai and intends to infect him with the disease in order to clear the way of any obstacles of presenting his own research, and thus gaining high prestige and rank in the medical world.

Barbara is a girl living in the streets of Tokyo. She become the muse of Yosuke Mikura, a popular writer, especially with the ladies. Between Yosuka and Barbara starts a relationship which is beneficial for his writings, but can end up in despair when Barbara chooses her freedom above the luxury she can get.

Classic short stories from Rumiko Takahashi. Many are comedies. Volume 1: - **Fire Tripper** (fantasy, romance) A gas explosion sends high school girl Suzuko and toddler Shu 500 years into the past. But she lost Shu on the way, and as a result, Shu ended up in the past 10 years before her, and is 15 years old when Suzuko arrives. - **Maris the Chojo** (comedy, SF) A destructive alien policewoman sees a kidnapped quadrillionaire as her ticket out of debt. - **Those Selfish Aliens** (comedy, SF) - The direct pre-serialization one-shot to [Urusei Yatsura](https://mangadex.org/title/6b9206b3-5c0f-4cf8-a0cc-d2c9e1aa4df9/urusei-yatsura?tab=chapters) Aliens, the government, and fishmen implant bombs in a poor paperboy. - **Time Warp Trouble** (fantasy) Warriors from feudal Japan inexplicably pop into a high-school classroom. - **The Laughing Target** (drama, romance, supernatural, tragedy) When they were children, Yuzuru Shiga and his cousin Azusa Shiga were engaged. Azusa aims to make sure that Yuzuru stays hers, no matter what, but Azusa also has a dark secret… Volume 2: - **Wasted Minds** (Dust Spot) (adventure, comedy, fantasy) Follows a pair of two bickering government agents, both of whom have special abilities. (A five-part mini-series) - **The Golden Gods of Poverty** (gag comedy) An unfortunate boy's scientist parents try to use him to make money, but they only succeed in contacting the Seven Lucky Gods, who happen to also be broke. - **The Entrepreneurial Spirit** A woman leads seminars for a get-rich quick scheme. Volume 3: - **That Darn Cat** (slice of life) Rumiko Takahashi remembers having to take care of her neighbor's cat. - **When My Eyes Got Wings** A couple befriend a sickly child with a secret and his destructive pet bird. - **Wedded Bliss** (comedy, romance) A wedded couple can only let out their tension from working all day by fighting with one another, until their neighbors threaten to have them moved. - **Sleep and Forget** A girl relives a past life involving her lover and an evil witch back from the dead in the form of a dog. - **A Cry for Help** A fairy gives a boy a frightening split personality thanks to the wind-up key she inserts in his neck. - **War Council** Student councils go to war with one another over a stamp. - **The Face Pack** A man can change his appearance at will and leads a "masters of disguise" club. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics Viz Media Out of Print editions. ISBN below for Official English Print Vol 1: 9781947804739 Vol 2: 9781569311943 Vol 3: 9781569312063

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese sailors hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman in the South Pacific. Many years have since passed, and now Zephyrus has resurfaced in Japan, wielding her mysterious power over all men to exact revenge for their crimes against women since the beginning of time. Gohonmatsu Seki is the only man with the ability to resist her allure, but even he seems ill-equipped to save his gender...

Human Metamorphosis, a satirical Manga depicting human society compared to the insect world, focuses on the life of a devious woman. Tomura Toshiko, who is said to be a genius, is a rising star writer. Her novel wins the Akutagawa Prize for the best novel of the year. While she attends the award ceremony, another woman named Usuba Kageri commits suicide in another place. It turns out that Kageri and Toshiko used to live together, and the awarded novel was copied from Kageri's transcript. Toshiko is like a parasite: approaching talented people one after another, squeezing everything out of them and stealing their works for her own fame. Behind her success story, she has her secrets.

A talented nobody feels as if there's no challenge to him in this life. He feels as if life is too easy. But little does he know, his background actually holds more than he ever wished for. Can he face his destiny and accept what has been laid before him?

**"Heed ye scoundrels, I will kill you all."** Gennosuke Inoko is a buraku, a group of people considered to be less than human. Taken in by a dojo and a practitioner of Kenpo, Gennosuke exhibits tremendous skill and a dangerous ferocity. The other members of the dojo conspire against him ending with Gennosuke killing the sensei he thought he trusted. Embittered and lonely, he seeks to eliminate those who wronged him at any cost. Was a very controversial work and many copies were recalled. What has been scanlated on MangaDex is a 2004 release that contains censored dialogue (as represented by Xs and Os) along with an essay giving insight on the controversy. What's also included is a redone version entitled *Heed ye Scoundrels* (alternatively, *Heed my Words*). The official English version that is linked contains the *uncensored* version with the original dialogue and a 2004 essay, as well as the apologies from Hirata himself as well as the (infamous) Hinomaru Bunko. Though, dismayingly, the redone *Heed ye Scoundrels* version is not included. **Links** - Official English (Retrofit Comics) Retail - [Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/Bloody-Stumps-Samurai-Hiroshi-Hirata/dp/1940398916/) - Alternate Official English - [Comix India](https://comixindia.org/product/verite-03/) (Re-lettered English translation of Retrofit Comics along with Hindi translation by Mili Yadav)

This is the story of three high school students who discover a tree of knowledge on a small island in the Sea of Japan, who eat the fruit of the tree and then return to the mainland and attempt to return to their lives! --- **Volume 255 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**