1959 Manga

From Del Rey To resolve a clash over succession, the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa has devised the ultimate contest. Two rival ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, will meet in a battle to the death. The victor will rule Japan for the next thousand years. But in the midst of this bloody war, an unlikely romance blooms between Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan. Gennosuke and Oboro are the next leaders of their clans and their fates are inextricably bound with that of their families. In the colossal fight, the star-crossed lovers are faced with a fatal choice between true love and destiny. Can romance conquer a four-hundred-year-old rivalry? Or is their love fated to end in death? The first installment in the long-running Ninja Scrolls novel series.

Kitaro is a yokai boy born in a cemetery, and aside from his mostly-decayed father, the last living member of the Ghost tribe. He is missing his left eye, but his hair usually covers the empty socket. He fights for peace between humans and yokai, which generally involves protecting the former from the wiles of the latter. Written between 1959-1964, this manga is the original Kitaro story which a few years later, would become the template for the more well-known and popular manga/anime; "Gegege no Kitaro"

The story involves a character named Yū being rescued by a cargo ship captain who knew his father, after a struggle at sea with others. As it was one of the earliest serializations in Weekly Shounen Magazine, its remains uncollected and never had a volume release.

The story involves a character named Yū being rescued by a cargo ship captain who knew his father, after a struggle at sea with others. As it was one of the earliest serializations in Weekly Shounen Magazine, its remains uncollected and never had a volume release.

When Sankichi Nakamura arrives to school late one morning, he discovers that there is somebody already sitting in his chair that looks exactly like him. After failing to convince the teacher that the boy in the seat is an impostor, he is sent on his way home. Upon arriving home however, the same impostor is already there with Sankichi's mother pretending to be Sankichi. Before long it is revealed that the impostor is actually Plastic Boy, an alien life form on the run from the police that can bend and contort his body into any shape he wishes. His plan? To seek refuge in Sankichi's house by literally replacing poor Sankichi! Written in 1959 and published in Issue 4 of "Tetsujin Comics" this short story was written shortly after the the much longer "Plastic Man" which was published the previous year in 1958. This now hard to find title was written by Mizuki Shigeru under the pen name "Azuma Shinichiro"

In a Snowy Mountain in the coldest part of Manchuria, one Winter's morning in 1781. The Dragon Lodge party ran into the Horse Spring Banditry who were there to unearth a buried casket. They were waylaid yet by the Peking Overland Convoy. All three parties had designs on the metal casket, supposedly housing a poniard, which was an heirloom of the Martial Brotherhood. A monk arrived on the scene and the invited the parties to the eyrie on the summit. The lord of the eyrie happened to be away summoning help to fight Fox Volant of the Snowy Mountain, who was scheduled to arrive on the summit at noon. While waiting, each one in the parties began recounting incidents which took place some twenty years before. The excitement, intrigue and action in these incidents are well dramatized, with one event firmly intertwining with others in the past, developing into a vendetta involving the offspring of several families. Source: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Press

Includes the following chapters:

A short story about Pokko-chan, who helps out a shop owner.

From Del Rey: To resolve a clash over succession, the shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa has devised the ultimate contest. Two rival ninja clans, the Kouga and the Iga, will meet in a battle to the death. The victor will rule Japan for the next thousand years. But in the midst of this bloody war, an unlikely romance blooms between Gennosuke of the Kouga clan and Oboro of the Iga clan. Gennosuke and Oboro are the next leaders of their clans and their fates are inextricably bound with that of their families. In the colossal fight, the star-crossed lovers are faced with a fatal choice between true love and destiny. Can romance conquer a four-hundred-year-old rivalry? Or is their love fated to end in death? The first installment in the long-running Ninja Scrolls novel series.

*Note: this manga was published in both Ribon and Hitomi.*

*Note : this manga was serialized across 3 magazines : Shoujo, Ribon and Shougaku 4-Nensei.*

Adaptation of the eponymous TV show that ran on OTV between 1958 and 1960. *Note: this manga never received a tankoubon release but chapter were included in one Ribon furoku.*

*Note: this manga never received a tankoubon release.*