osamu tezuka
Anime & Manga Character Sketches
Osamu Tezuka: Anime Character Illustrations collects the character designs from several of Tezuka’s animation projects. Included are characters from Mighty Atom (Astroboy), Jungle Emperor (Kimba the White Lion), Black Jack, and many more.
Price: £35.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
Anime Character illustrations
The grandfather of manga and anime, Osamu Tezuka created hundreds of unforgettable characters during his 40+ year career as an illustrator and animator. His influence on generations of artists has been immeasurable, and is still felt today across Japan and beyond.
Price: £35.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
apollo’s song
Apollo's Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychological scars of his childhood hatred.
Price: £20.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
Black Jack #1
Recognised as Tezuka's third most famous work after Astro Boy and Kimba, The White Lion, Black Jack is important in the manga pioneer's canon. Black Jack is a mysterious and charismatic young genius surgeon who travels the world performing amazing medical feats.
Price: £11.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
bomba!
A thriller about feelings of hatred inside all of us and a boy who has the power to summon a phantom killer horse. From 2020 Harvey Award Hall of Famer & God of Manga, Osamu Tezuka. Satoshi Otani is a quiet, introverted middle schooler who has a crush on his teacher Ms. Reiko Mizushima. When he learns that Mr. Kito, a violent teacher he despises, has proposed to Ms. Mizushima, his hatred wells forth. With this anger, he mysteriously brings forth a phantom killer horse named Bomba.
Price: £12.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
Book of Human Insects
The Book of Human Insects is recognised as Tezuka's most cinematic title. Reading much like a thriller, this title twists and turns and features Toshiko Tomura, a timeless leading lady. Toshiko possesses the unique ability to mirror the abilities of others, making her a celebrity at the tender age of 20. As a mimic, her past of murder and plagiarism has created a long-list of enemies that is now catching up to her.
Price: £16.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
clockwork apple
A new short story collection from Osamu Tezuka, focused on the common theme of mortality.
Price: £14.50
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
The Crater
A man from the slums faces his doppelgänger from the other side of the tracks; three guests visiting a hot spring are reminded of their past sins by a magical ringing bell only they can hear; stranded on the moon, an astronaut is stuck within a crater, sustained for a century by a mysterious life-giving gaseous fume the moon crater expels.
Price: £26.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
crime and punishment
In Russia, on the eve of the revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikovs’s own published essay - suggesting that people who are “extra-ordinary” are above such things as “right” and “wrong” - draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry … or his own guilty conscience?
Price: £12.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
ode to kirihito: new omnibus
A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Hinging upon his fate are those of his loved ones: an unstable childhood friend and colleague trapped between factions of the medical establishment that nurtured him; a fiancee emotionally transformed by Kirihito's mysterious disappearance; and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circus-act performer with volatile psychological secrets.
Price: £29.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
one hundred tales
Ichirui Hanri is an ordinary accountant servicing his master. Though innocent, he is ordered to commit hara-kiri after being entangled in some trouble in his master's house. Just then, a witch named Sudama appears. She signs a contract with Hanri to obtain his soul in exchange for fulfilling three of his wishes. Hanri gets what he wants...but the price he pays is too high.
Price: £11.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
princess knight: new omnibus
Set in a medieval fairy-tale backdrop, Princess Knight is the tale of a young princess named Sapphire who must pretend to be a male prince so she can inherit the throne. Women have long been prevented from taking the throne, but Sapphire is not discouraged and instead she fully accepts the role, becoming a dashing hero(ine) that the populous is proud of.
Price: £24.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
Record of Glass Castle
IMMORTALITY, AT WHAT COST?
In the Glass Mansion, a family has been frozen in cryosleep for 20 years under the orders of their patriarch. When the oldest son Ichirou awakes, he struggles to accept the reality that he has slept away 20 years of his life. Ichirou plans to exact revenge on those in his family that stole his life from him. As Shirou, the youngest brother, attempts to stop Ichirou, he becomes aware of the dangerous side effect of cryosleep that led to its national ban years ago. How far will Ichirou fall, and will Shirou be able to stop him?
Price: £14.50
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
storm fairy
In Storm Fairy , an empress flees her burning castle to the nearby forest where she encounters a mischievous forest fairy who grants her wish, for a seemingly small price. It’s not until much later, after she’s given birth to her daughter Ruri, that the empress realizes the true weight of her deal with the fairy. Now the princess, with a face as ugly as sin, must live the rest of her life from behind a mask. When a
malcontent discovers Princess Ruri's curse, he plots to overthrow the emperor by masquerading his own daughter as the princess, mask and all. Ruri also meets a lowly ronin and a beautiful fairy who make
it their mission to return her to her rightful place on the throne.
Price: £12.99
Rating: Teen
Condition: New
Swallowing the Earth
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!
Price: £19.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
The Thief Inoue Akikazu
In The Thief Inoue Akikazu, Tezuka, through his thrilling dialogue and phenomenal artwork, masterfully illustrates the horrors that creep at the edge of the human psyche.
Price: £14.99
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New
Under the Air
An injured white-supremacist struggles with the fact that he was brought back to life by a black organ donor; a young man in the wild west seeks revenge for his father’s murder; an escaped convict holds a family hostage in a cave that causes hallucinations; the only two survivors of a nuclear apocalypse dare to explore the outside world―Tezuka’s characters are put to the test when the delicate balance of their minds are disrupted, discovering something dark hidden deep within themselves.
Price: £14.50
Rating: Older Teen
Condition: New