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The immortal heavenly emperor's daughter is reborn! Awakening in the body of a girl that's considered as trash, the immortal heavenly emperor's daughter opens her eyes to the perception of a new world. The girl once considered as a piece of trash now begins her counterattack! Along the way, she encounters a variety of beautiful men. The gears of fate start to turn. What will await along the path of cultivation for the wicked consort?

Teenager Kurikura Kansuke lives in a small village with his family but tragedy strikes one day when his younger sister, Ayame, is brutally murdered. Six years later, Kansuke, in his search for his missing older brother, finds multiple women who all call themselves Kurikura Ayame. Kansuke learns that out of grief for Ayame, his brother created dolls, each with a part of her corpse and enhanced for combat. Kansuke vows to find his brother and stop the mindless violence.

A collection of one-shots done during the 1970s, all regarding some aspect of Tezuka's early life. Includes a reflection of his time at the famous Tokiwa-so. - **Record of the Life of Gachaboy** (がちゃぼい一代記, Gachaboy Ichidaiki, ALT. ENG. - The God of Manga): A reflection on Tezuka's career up to that point. Tezuka encounters the God of Manga right after the war, who nicknames Tezuka "Gachaboy". He is determined to see Tezuka become a great mangaka, no matter what - and restore manga's presence in Japan. - **Paper Fortress** (紙の砦, Kami no Toride): Right at the end of the war, Tezuka is doing manga in private in high school. He meets a girl who fully understands his situation, and they get along well. In a society where manga, dancing, and even informal relationships are forbidden, how will Tezuka, crazy about manga, keep on? - **Hungry Blues** (すきっ腹のブルース, Sukippara no Blues): Directly following *Paper Fortress*, Tezuka is now a hungry, desperate student with little luck on his path in manga. Things change when he comes across a young lady who works for a newspaper, and he manages to land a serial for it. However, in an era rife with turmoil and starvation, Tezuka's own stomach may prove to be a serious intrusion in not just his manga-making career, but his very life. - **Tokiwa-so Monogatari** (トキワ荘物語, ENG. - The Tale of Tokiwa-so): Part of a series recounting memories within the famous apartment complex, Tezuka showcases its history through commentary from the building itself! - **The Letter that Came** (という手紙がきた, Toiu Tegami ga Kita): Tezuka receives an ominous letter that may put him in hot water. - **Animal Tsurezuregusa** (動物つれづれ草, Doubutsu Tsurezuregusa): Two reflections on animals Tezuka had encountered in his early years - the first a horse, the second two tanuki. An excerpt of *Dotsuitare* featuring Tezuka is also included at the end. This excerpt is a compilation of scenes/segments of Tezuka's scenes. --- - **Animal Tsurezuregusa won the 21st Bungeishunju Manga Award in 1975, along with Tezuka's, very famous, Buddha** --- **Volume 274 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

The year 1910. Iwamoto Kodou is a young boy who has successfully carried out many curious missions under the military's directive. His destinations lead to encounters with the strange, weaving tales of history that have yet to be told.

A warm, tender, and sad story about Nene, who loved to eat.

At the risk of his own life, a young man sets foot in the ruins of a devastated old world. His name is Akira, and in order to claw his way out of the hellhole that is his birthplace of Slumtown, the boy became a hunter. In the wastelands he happens upon a strange woman, standing perfectly still, stark naked. She is beautiful, but it seems that only he can see her. She exists incorporeal, tantalizingly beyond any touch, and she tells him her name is Alpha. Alpha won’t show even a sliver of her real intentions, but with a wide smile, she brings Akira his first commission as a hunter. Akira takes the task, if only to become a stronger hunter, and having entered a contract, their dramatic lives in the hunting profession was set to begin. From Stories of the Boy Hunter as recorded by the Eastern Hunters’ association. Written post-collapse of scientific civilization.

The first of two early works one-shot compilations by Kimura, this collects works from her latter half of high school through college, with one one-shot from her 20's at the end. Common themes include waiting, loneliness, and the psychology of children. - **Rain** (雨, Ame) - A boy is falsely accused of tearing a classmate's photo, but things don't seem to favor his truth. This boy is no stranger to lies and falsehoods, however... - **Tommy** (トミィ) - Tommy is a boy whose father perished during the war. Though the truth is hidden from him, Tommy begins to notice something is off.... - **Balloon** (風船, Fuusen) - A largely silent one-shot about a girl who longs for the embodiment of joy: balloons. - **Tunnel** (トンネル) - A recollection of one's time when he was a young boy, and a tunnel that only he felt fear toward. - **Carrot** (にんじん, Ninjin) - A reflection on one's dislike for carrots when he was a young boy, and a certain incident regarding that. - **Mamoru-kun is Dead** (まもる君が死んだ, Mamoru-kun ga Shinda) - A whole town investigates what happened to one young boy, while also reflecting upon the wrongs done to him. - **A Joyful Tale** (こうふくな話, Koufuku na Hanashi) - Kimura reflects upon the aspects of her younger self that she has now lost. The only one-shot not in a shojo magazine, instead serialized in *COM*. - **The Wingless Bird** (翼のない鳥, Tsubasa no nai Tori) - The tale of Joey, a country boy who has always wished to fly since he was very young. Joey departs from home, wanting to find out a way in which he can fly, but he discovers much more in the wide world he explores.

The final goal is to be the master of time. But in order to become the master, you must kill and steal. The universe has given powers to a select number of people. The only problem is, you can get your powers taken away... along with your life. The keepers of time will need to protect their powers or pay the ultimate price.

A new era has arrived, and humanity has started a new adventure. Everyone has game-like abilities. Cultivation and magic cultivation have become two different career directions in the early part of the story. The protagonist learns about the upcoming new era during a blind date and, after communicating with the blind date partner Tang Qingrou, discovers the fact of being a reborn person. **Original Webtoon:** [KuaiKan](https://www.kuaikanmanhua.com/web/topic/13128/), [AC.QQ](https://ac.qq.com/Comic/comicInfo/id/656324), [BiliBili](https://manga.bilibili.com/detail/mc36497), [IQIYI](https://www.iqiyi.com/manhua/detail_20kupbhtked.html) **Official Translations:** English ([Mangatoon](https://mangatoon.mobi/en/they-say-im-the-future-king?content_id=3716667), [Webcomics](https://webcomicsapp.com/comic/They-Say-I-m-The-Future-King/677ce36762661d5c27388ef2)), [Japanese](https://jp.piccoma.com/web/product/120909), [Korean](https://page.kakao.com/content/62818459)

The "mysterious school comedy" centers on the unusual members of a high school literary club. Tooko Amano, a high school senior who calls herself the "literary girl" as the club president, is actually a supernatural creature (youkai) that devours stories, she tears pages from books to munch on them. Her club subordinate is Konoha Inoue, a second-year high school boy who writes stories every day for Amano to eat. He once wrote an award-winning novel, but he wrote it under the pen name Miu Inoue so readers thought the author was a mysterious 14-year-old bishoujo novelist. The stress from the novel's fame and its movie and television drama plans turned Inoue in an introverted recluse. Adapted from the "Bungaku Shoujo" series of light novels

Tatsuki Ryou tells some of her unsettling previsions for the future, and as of 2025, many of them have been met...

Kenichi is the chief detective of a boy's detective organization. With his assistant Donguri, a mynabird, Kenichi will face all sorts of cases all around the globe. --- **Volumes 134 and 135 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

*Unrelated to Rainbow Parakeet* A shojo one-shot compilation with themes and elements of dance, music, and theater. Lune Kordok is a young man who has come to Warsaw in pursuit of attending its conservatory, in a time where Russians aggressively make their presence known. He makes friends with both Joseph, a man who works at a second-hand shop , and the young Frederic Chopin. However, Lune had died two months prior of pneumonia. What is Lune's true nature, and how will he affect the two other men? In addition to the above (serialized in Weekly Shocomi, 1975/10/05-10/26), also includes: - **The Curtains Are Also Blue Tonight** (カーテンは今夜も青い, Curtain wa Konya mo Aoi); Shojo, New Year's Special Issue 1958/01 - Chitori, a young theater actress, has a deep fear of the color red. The color red keeps appearing before her, and it seems to be set deliberately - who is after her, and why does she fear red so much? - **The Merchant of Venice** (ベニスの商人, Venice no Shounin); Middle School First Year Course Supplement 1959/04 - Tezuka adapts Shakespeare's famous comedy with a modern flavor and even more humor. - **Peacock Shell** (孔雀貝, Kujakugai); Shojo Club Supplement, 06/58 - A young architect washes up on a certain island that has closed itself off from the rest of the world. He falls in love with Lima, the princess of the island, as he finds himself involved in its affairs. This all intertwines with the legend surrounding four rocks near the island - a peacock-colored shell is underwater near one of them, and should it be found, love will be secured.... - **Song of the White Peacock** (白くじゃくの歌, Shiro Kujaku no Uta); Nakayoshi Summer Vacation Issue 1959/09/15 - Yuri Ogawa never knew what happened to her father, who went missing during the war. However, one day, she and her mother are introduced to a white peacock that he kept on the battlefield. Yuri wants to be a pianist, and she and her peacock become big stars... --- **Volume 87 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

In 2022, a new law was enacted for the protection of children - the Juvenile Welfare Law. With severe punishments for minors, this law greatly reduced the rate of juvenile crime...not! As juvenile crimes get more twisted and bizarre, only the government's designated Juvenile Detectives can step in and solve the case. One day, Juvenile Detective Kokorono Koro is called to the scene of a strange and bloody murder...

Shirotae will return. With that belief, Shouko does her best to understand the young man's multiple personality disorder. What are Shirotae's origins? How come his entire family are magic users? And how does one go to this alternate dimension, the Lake Nation?

Revolves around a student who happens to intrude upon a NEET detective and became her assistant.

"What is the boundary between game and reality?" The world is in danger. Strange juggernauts called "Angels" have started to appear all around the planet, presenting riddles called "Paradoxes" to whoever happens to be in the near vicinity. Answer right and your land will receive God's blessing. However, if you fail to solve the paradox be prepared to receive divine punishment...

Teora is a traveler who visits mysterious festivals all over Japan. At the festival she visits this time, where “girls search for a bell out of a large amount of food”, unexpected turmoil ensues…? ___ **Individual Chapter Buy Links:** - [BOOK☆WALKER](https://bookwalker.jp/series/458551/) - [Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B0CW18SYNQ) - [ebookjapan](https://ebookjapan.yahoo.co.jp/books/815092/)

*A work of two parts: the second never finished due to the magazine suspending publication.* **Part 1 (Vol 1-3)**: **"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…*"** A young boy, Toppei, visits Osamu Tezuka at his anime studio, Mushi Pro, one morning imploring Tezuka to hire him. Tezuka hires Toppei, who makes himself an active part of the team, but as time goes on, the Mushi Pro staff begin to pick up on Toppei's bizarre tendencies... **Part 2 (Vol 4)**: A certain fellow has made it out of the events of Part 1, now set on using a newly introduced species, the Weko, to attain domination. The Weko, the natural foil to the Vampires, are a dying species. Past and present are interweaved, explaining the history and sightings of the Weko, as one of them finds himself wrapped up in that man's scheme... Tezuka's parody of Shakespeare's Macbeth. --- **Volumes 142-144, 320 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A high school girl that's always beckoned by death x a rich detective, teaming together to solve challenging cases!

High school student Ooishi Kyou is afraid of women. Suddenly, five girls confessed to him. Among them, four are creatures called Koibami - beings that devour human romantic feelings. If he has his romantic feelings eaten by these girls, he will never be able to love again. However, he cannot abandon the feelings of the one who confessed to him for real - Kyou decides to find the one he truly loves among the five!

A pair of twin brothers were raised in poverty - but in reality, they're princes, being raised as such to protect them from a witch's curse... Contains other gag one-shots in the second half. --- **Volume 323 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

A white snake who is a divine messenger and a childhood friend with a mystery. Entangled obsessions in a Japanese-style fantasy. Tsubaki, a high school student with a predisposition for bad luck, has a one-sided love for his childhood friend Sakuya, who is both beautiful and talented. Then, one day while leaving school they are randomly attacked on the street. In the ancient capital Kyoto, a lovestory defying fate unfolds.

One day, Nana, who has always wanted to get married, has a fateful encounter. Unfortunately, she had to endure violence since the marriage, so she decided to kill her husband and put his corpse in a freezer, but things aren't always like one want as she finds out when he comes back…

Starts with the story of a scientist kidnapped by Martians to help them with their experiments. The second story, [Rocket King,](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series.html?id=156880) is a gag one-shot about a professor and a young boy traveling through Egypt when they stumble across a mystery. --- **Volume 339 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

The fourth year of the Kowa era. Some time has passed since the last Emperor of the Holy Britannian Empire, Lelouch vi Britannia, was defeated by the unrivaled hero Zero. The world, which has had a long history of conflict and hatred, has moved towards the future, hand in hand, with dialogue instead of force, with compassion instead of hatred, since the death of the evil Emperor Lelouch, who plotted to conquer the world. There have been small-scale incidents such as the kidnapping of Zero and Nunnally a few years ago known as the "Confusion in Hashvess", but these were quickly resolved by the Black Knights and Glinda Knights, under the direction of the United Federation of Nations. Yes. The world has changed. It has been reborn into a world where peace is the norm, and not conflict. However... Even though the world has been reborn into peace, conflict has not been eradicated. There are those who cannot live without conflict, those who want to gain wealth through conflict, and those who want conflict in the first place. As long as people live and society is formed by people, conflict will never completely disappear. The unrest happening here in Krygyzstan was one of them.

In a world faced with a flood of overpopulation, the scientists of the world are called together to come up with solutions. Professor Leeman suggests for man to live in the sea, but is shunned. In an act of desperation, he turns his son into a merman, and sends him into the sea. This boy is found by a mother sea turtle, and is given the name Pippy. Unaware of his true parentage, Pippy grows up alongside others in the ocean, until he has a terrible encounter with humans. Thus, Pippy goes into the human world, and a long journey awaits him.

When Naoya Toudou is goaded into playing a childish fortune-telling game called "Persona," the last thing he expected was to summon a girl pleading for help. The girl's wails overwhelm Naoya's senses, leading him to awaken in a strange place that exists between consciousness and unconsciousness where a mysterious entity resides. Introducing themselves as Philemon, they grant him the ability to wield a "Persona"—a being that exists as an "other self"—before he wakes up in the school's infirmary. Though Naoya's friends also recall meeting the same entity, they think nothing of it as they head to the hospital to see their sick friend, Maki Sonomura. During their visit, Sonomura disappears in the middle of her surgery and the patients within the hospital suddenly become hostile. Cornered, the group members each call forth their Personas, who fend off the rest of the assailants much to their surprise. Concerned for their friend, the group sets out to find Sonomura all while gathering more information about the ominous situation they are in.