Goro Inagaki

One of Osamu Tezuka's most adult and sexually-charged works, Barbara (1973-74) was originally serialised as a follow-up to Ayako (1972-73) in Big Comic from July 1973 to May 1974. Barbara is an adult-orientated fantasy tale filled with love and the occult from Osamu Tezuka's reimagining of "The Tales of Hoffmann". Its story deals with the erotic and bizarre experiences of a famous novelist called Yosuke Mikura whose life is tossed upside down by a mysterious girl named "Barbara". The controversial story, dealing with various taboos such as forbidden love, mystery, art, Eros, scandal and occultism, was said to have been impossible to be cinematized at the time of its original publication, but was made into a live-action film for the 90th Anniversary of Osamu Tezuka's birth by his son Macoto Tezka (The Legend of the Stardust Brothers).

Thirteen heroic samurai join forces to bring down a sadistic lord and stop him from ascending the throne and plunging Japan into a war-torn future.

When Ruka was younger, she saw a ghost in the water at the aquarium where her dad works. Now she feels drawn toward the aquarium and the two mysterious boys she meets there, Umi and Sora. They were raised by dugongs and hear the same strange calls from the sea as she does. Rukas dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they

The story follows Shinichi Toneli (Shingo Katori), a clumsy resident of Apt. 301 whose unexpected behavior amuses his neighbor in Apt. 302, Jiro Kasuya (Jiro Sato), who peeps through a hole. The story starts when Jiro's daughter Akane (Chihiro Yamamoto) finds out about her dad's hobby and she joins him peeping through a hole...