1950sのベストマンガ

When a 2nd moon suddenly looms overs Japan, the brave Professor Uetsuto volunteers to take a rocket up to the mysterious moon to investigate. Unfortunately the Professor meets a horrifying fate and is sent plummeting back to Earth. The circumstances surrounding the Professor's fate are far too suspicious to ignore and his son, a student in biological science, decides to get to the bottom of the controversy himself. Professor Uetsuto's devious rival, Professor Dorai, has other plans though and will stop at nothing to ensure the mystery of Professor Uetsuto's "demise" remains a secret. Published in 1957 by Togetsu books, this was Mizuki Shigeru's very first Manga.

A 4-koma gag manga about an hippopotamus royal family. I was released accross several magazines from Sheisha "X Nensei" series.

These are the adventures of a young man named Tarou, who is an extra on the movie Ryuusei Oujo, and his daily life. There is once again a second half, which is the tale of a group of high school boys during world war II who defend their homes using kendo skills while their fathers are at war, one of whom eventually find himself in the military as well.

Set in the Qing dynasty during the reign of the Qianlong Emperor (r. 1735–1796), the novel follows the quest of the Red Flower Society, a secret organisation aiming to overthrow the Qing government, and their entanglements with an Islamic tribe in northwestern China. The “book” in the title refers to a Qur’an that was stolen from the tribe while the “sword” refers to a sword given to the protagonist, Chen Jialuo, by his first romantic interest, Huoqingtong. Historical figures such as the Qianlong Emperor, Zhaohui (兆惠), Heshen, Zheng Xie and Fuk’anggan also make appearances or are mentioned by name in the novel. One of the female protagonists, Princess Fragrance, is loosely based on the Qianlong Emperor’s Fragrant Concubine. This novel was Jin Yong’s debut, and it quickly established him as one of the new masters of the wuxia genre.Alternative English titles of the novel include Book and Sword: Gratitude and Revenge and The Romance of the Book and Sword.

Takahashi Makoto's The Rows of Cherry Trees is quite old—it's from 1957. It centers around three members of the table tennis club at an all-girl school. The story begins with the school tournament, where Yukiko faces off against first her rival, then her crush.

In a mythical age of ancient Japan, Nagi Iza, a young boy living on one of the southern islands, is on a quest to find the legendary Phoenix and save his dying father. Believing the magical healing properties of the blood of the mysterious bird is the only way to cure his father, Nagi sets off on a mission to climb up Fire Mountain, a local volcano and the home of the Phoenix.

Adaption of "The Black Cat" by Edgar Allan Poe

Book rental version. Manga adaptation of the TV show. From 1958 to 1959, all seven chapters were published by Suzuki Publishing. Kyuji Inoue is in the 1st to 4th chapter (first arc), and Kazuo Murayama is in the 5th to 7th chapter (second arc).

Tokyo University Professor is suddenly awoken in the middle of the night by what appears to be an enormous 6 sided dice sitting in his garden. Perplexed by this sudden appearance, the professor, with the help of some locals, set about cracking open the dice to see what's inside with ghastly consequences. Curiosity soon turns to despair as the Professor realizes that he has just unleashed a grudge bearing water demon from the Himalayas that has come to Tokyo in search of his blood!

Cyrano de Bergerac, a nobleman serving as a cadet in the French Army is a man of many talents, with a large personality and an even larger nose. An amazing swordsman, he is equally gifted in the areas of poetry and music. However, his brash attitude soon puts him at odds with Chancellor Richelieu and the Compte de Guiche – a couple of ne’er-do-well noblemen who are plotting to overthrow the king. Meanwhile, Christian, a swordsman from the country, is in Paris. As his friend, Ligniere, is showing him around the city, the pair cross paths with the lovely Roxanne. Although the chivalrous Christian drapes his cloak (along with every other stitch of clothing) over a series of puddles to let Roxanne pass unsullied, he is much too shy to approach her directly.

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"

Written by Leiji Matsumoto in 1953, before his debut as a professional mangaka, and published by Mandarake in 1998, Boukenki's the author's first approach to the pirate genre. The protagonist, Captain Kingston, is Captain Harlock's first prototype.

The first story is a retelling of the story of Aladdin, with a couple of the names changed – but with a Hope/Crosby movie thrown in with a touch of Cinderella. The second story is yet another Ham Egg story, this time involving an abducted girl taken back to the ice age and a time machine that transports him into the future, when the human race is leaving to colonize Venus.

An undiscovered gem, quietly left behind by a master of otome drawings in Osaka's Hinomaru Bunko, the birthplace of gekiga! Flower-selling girls, longing for Paris, and the "golden rule of girls' manga", essential to every girl's dream! Takahashi Macoto's debut work.

This is a two-story collection featuring a story about a pot of gold, and another about an early attempt to open up Japan 40 years before the Perry Expedition.

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.

There are always assassins in the underworld, and this assassin, Black Angel, is one of the best of the best. Where the assassin comes in, Goro-yan will be there! This is a hardboiled story about two clients who are both connected to Black Angel. The story of Sakamaki and Black Angel can be traced to...?

A collection of some of the earliest one-shots done by Hideko Mizuno, with shared elements of dance and the fantastical. The Red Shoes (赤いくつ, Akai Kutsu, story by Chiaki Saeki): The tale of Nais and Ruby, a brother and a sister who face turmoil when tragedy strikes close to home, and the titular pair of red shoes, said to give anyone who wears them flawless dancing ability. Something for Misa (ミサにあげるもの, Misa ni Ageru Mono): A modern-day Cinderella story. Misa Shiratori longs to do ballet like her late mother, but her sisters always give her a hard time. Then, an opportunity to perform ballet on the greatest stage in the country presents itself to the sisters. Who will be the one to steal the show? Night of the Blue Star (青い星の夜, Aoi Hoshi no Yoru): Toshiko, a girl in poverty, has always longed for the pair of red shoes at her local store. On the day of her town's star festival, Toshiko encounters a puppy being harassed by some children. This puppy takes an unusual liking to her... Also collected in Starry Fantasy.

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

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"

Chiba Tetsuya's first shoujo work, included in Rika no Hitomi tankobon.

Original 1957 title: *Yoru Hikaru Inu*. Retitled in 1958.

A collection of gekiga stories from various authors from the days of kashihon manga. Considered to be an extremely influential series in the evolution of manga, being one of the first of the gekiga genre, and also to have been influential in bringing about the "cool Japan" phenomenon.

Children's manga about anthropomorphic pigs among others. Winner of 1st Shogakkan Manga Award. Only available in anthologies rather than proper volumes.

Ueda's manga debut.

In 1955 and at the age of 19, Kazuo Umezu made his debut with The Siblings in the Forest (Mori no Kyodai), a retelling of Hansel and Gretel in step with the cartoonish style that was popular at the time. (From Umezu Kazuo´s website.)

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? Source: MU

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

THIS thrilling story of a small detachment of the People's Liberation Army took place in 1946, in the early period of the War of Liberation, when the people's forces represented by the Communist Party, and the Kuomintang reactionary forces were in a temporary stalemate on the northeastern China battlefront. A group of defeated Kuomintang bandit leaders, their soldiers gone, sought refuge deep in the dense mountain forests. There, joining hands with professional brigands and landlord tyrants, they staged sudden raids on defenceless villages. Their savage burning, killing and plundering brought untold sufferings to the people. It also damaged the land reform, which was consolidating the rear and mobilizing manpower and material for the War. In the bitterly cold winter, a small detachment of the PLA was sent to round up these murdering brigands hidden somewhere in the boundless mountain forests. After a number of battles of wits and after surmounting unimaginable difficulties, the small detachment at last destroyed the bandit force which was several times its size. Several beautiful fairy tales are interwoven in these episodes about the courageous PLA. Source: Foreign Language Press Peking

Collection of short stories by Osamu Tezuka

Includes the following chapters:

There is a world called Larue, congruent with our own and yet existing just outside of space and time – yet from time to time some people will interact with it…

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.

A historical manga about ninja and samurai, a self-declared manga about a delightful period.

Shigeru Mizuki's debut work as a manga artist and was released as a rental manga. Dr. Uetsuto departs via rocket to investigate a second moon that appeared in the night sky, but the rocket is sabotaged by his rival Dr. Dorai, so it crashes and Uetsuto's corpse sinks to the bottom of the sea. However, right before the crash, Uetsuto came into contact with a mysterious being named Guraya who enters his body like a parasite, causing Uetsuto to later resurrect and with superpowers. Uetsuto becomes the mysterious hero Rocketman and battles against Dr. Dorai's giant robot Neo-Dorai. (from gegegenokitaro.fandom)

Children's manga about anthropomorphic animals, Bon(Pon?)-chan is an elephant. Winner of the 2nd Shogakukan Manga Award (1956), along with Oyama no Kaba-chan. Most likely published in the early to mid 1950s.

12 years have passed since the end of the war. Mayumi Sugimoto, who lost her father in the atomic bombing, lived with her sick mother in the suburbs of Hiroshima. However, her house was burned down and her sick mother died, leaving her alone and she went to live with her aunt in Tokyo. All Mayumi has left is her mother's keepsake ring. But the ring holds a big secret. It can tell her where is the treasure hided by her father. A man named Kurohara is pursuing Mayumi, hoping to steal the ring. When Mayumi returns to Hiroshima to visit her best friend Sachiko, who has been hospitalized due to radiation sickness, she was kidnapped by Kurohara's men and her ring is stolen. Mayumi is in the depths of despair after her best friend Sachiko dies and her ring is stolen from her. Then, a mysterious man with a bandaged face appears before her...

Ran from February 1958 to April 1969 in Heibon.

Put out as a series of ~50 pages serials + a special in the November 1958 issue of Hinomaru.

The story of Miyamoto Musashi and Yoshioka Seijuro.

The adventures of Buddhist reformer Nichiren.

A sumo themed adventure series that ran in Shounen Gahou from August 1956 - 1960 March. It was released as a free e-book for Shonen Gahosha's 70th anniversary.

A retired thief comes out of retirement to stop a scientist – who was his last victim – from deploying a bomb that will destroy all the air on Earth. The other tale is an anti-war parable set in World War III, about two bomber pilots who become friends after they duel with each other and both crash. Kodansha JP print version also includes the one-shot Sekai wo Horobosu Otoko, originally published at Adventure King in 1954.

A collection of gekiga stories from various authors from the days of kashihon manga. Considered to be an extremely influential series in the evolution of manga, being one of the first of the gekiga genre.

This is a poignant jidaigeki manga about Super Manbe, a skilled samurai with a strong sense of justice and a kind heart, who goes on an unusual journey to exterminate a group of villains. Manbe subdues a rampaging horse with his bare hands and then makes the acquaintance of Senkichi, a horse boy who hates samurai. Later, Senkichi's horse is almost taken by the arrogant samurai Shigebei Nagashima, but Manbe rescues him...? (from ebookjapan)

This volume also contains the short works "Kaseki no Mori no Tenshi" ("The Angel of the Petrified Forest" ) and "Tsuki no Hikari ga Yureru Toki" ("When the Moonlight Shimmers" ).

Chippo-kun is an unusual kitten. He protects mice – because they raised him! The series was first serialized in 1957, then revived in 1973.

3-koma manga featuring Penguins. *Note: never received a tankoubon release.*

In 1956, shortly after his debut, Umezu Kazuo published this mystery novel as a new book from Osaka publisher Mishima Shobo. It was the first in a series of rental books starring the boy detective Misaki Ichiro. Even during the heyday of hard-boiled manga, the story is already overflowing with the supernatural, and the seeds of the author's later works can be seen. Misaki Ichiro appears unexpectedly in a rainy town, where he meets a strange old man known as the town's lord. The old man has taken out a photograph Ichiro had been carrying, and there is something spider-like in the photograph... *The e-book version does not include the "Forest Brothers and Sisters" and "Bottomless Town" Readers.

*Note: this manga never received a tankoubon release; but chapters were included in 2 furoku booklets.*

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

Hasegawa Machiko, who loved Kabuki and period dramas, first tried her hand at serializing a topknot manga with "Shin Yajikita Douchuuki/New Journey of Yaji and Kita". It is an adaptation of "Tokai Dochu Hizakurige" by Jippensha Ikku, written in the Edo period, and depicts the amusing journey of Yaji-san and Kita-san from Edo to Ise. While incorporating episodes reminiscent of the original work, Machiko's unique humorous and fun journey unfolds, and the Sazae-san family also appears along the way. They will stop by real cities like Odawara Hamamatsu Okazaki (Sources New Journey of Yaji and Kita of Hasegawa Machiko Memorial Museum

Children's manga about anthropomorphic pigs among others. Winner of 1st Shogakkan Manga Award. Only available in anthologies rather than proper volumes.

A collection of gekiga stories from various authors from the days of kashihon manga. Considered to be an extremely influential series in the evolution of manga, being one of the first of the gekiga genre, and also to have been influential in bringing about the "cool Japan" phenomenon.

Original 1957 title: *Yoru Hikaru Inu*. Retitled in 1958.

Chiba Tetsuya's first shoujo work, included in Rika no Hitomi tankobon.

There is a world called Larue, congruent with our own and yet existing just outside of space and time – yet from time to time some people will interact with it…

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.

A collection of some of the earliest one-shots done by Hideko Mizuno, with shared elements of dance and the fantastical. The Red Shoes (赤いくつ, Akai Kutsu, story by Chiaki Saeki): The tale of Nais and Ruby, a brother and a sister who face turmoil when tragedy strikes close to home, and the titular pair of red shoes, said to give anyone who wears them flawless dancing ability. Something for Misa (ミサにあげるもの, Misa ni Ageru Mono): A modern-day Cinderella story. Misa Shiratori longs to do ballet like her late mother, but her sisters always give her a hard time. Then, an opportunity to perform ballet on the greatest stage in the country presents itself to the sisters. Who will be the one to steal the show? Night of the Blue Star (青い星の夜, Aoi Hoshi no Yoru): Toshiko, a girl in poverty, has always longed for the pair of red shoes at her local store. On the day of her town's star festival, Toshiko encounters a puppy being harassed by some children. This puppy takes an unusual liking to her... Also collected in Starry Fantasy.