A collection of Japan's representative manga artists featuring standalone one-shots and excerpts from famous works. Organized by the Japan Cartoonists Association and overseen by Osamu Tezuka 

Volume 1. Natsukashi no Manga (なつかしの漫画) [Edited by Osamu Tezuka] 
1. Osomatsu-kun: Seizoroi Smog Ikka (おそ松くん せいぞろいスモッグ一家) [Fujio Akatsuka] 
2. Mangaka Zankoku Monogatari: Hidamari (漫画家残酷物語 陽だまり) [Shinji Nagashima] 
3. Chirpy (チーコ) [Yoshiharu Tsuge] 
4. Shiroi Shounen: Mutant Sub (白い少年 ミュータントサブ) [Shoutaro Ishinomori] 
5. Ashita no Joe (あしたのジョー) [Asao Takamori & Tetsuya Chiba] 
6. Kokoro (心) [Tatsuhiko Yamakami] 
7. Shin Obake Q-taro: U-ko Nanka Daikirai (新オバケのQ太郎 U子なんか大きらい) [Fujio Fujiko] 
8. Kaigun Kenjuu Senhappyaku Gojuuichi (海軍挙銃1851) [Leiji Matsumoto] 
9. Tetsuwan Atom: Black Lux no Maki (鉄腕アトム ブラックルックスの巻) [Osamu Tezuka] 

Volume 2. Gag Manga (ギャグ漫画) [Edited by Fujio Akatsuka] 
1. Gag Guerilla (ギャグゲリラ) [Fujio Akatsuka] 
2. Sennin Buraku: Ahirugaoka 77 (仙人部落 あひるヶ丘77) [Ko Kojima] 
3. Shin Manga Bungaku Zenshuu (新漫画文学全集) [Sadao Shouji] 
4. Akabee (赤兵衞) [Hiroshi Kurogane] 
5. Kizappe Koudou no Bigaku: Peepee no Peesuke (キザッペ行動の美学 ペエペエのペエスケ) [Yoshiji Suzuki] 
6. Yoraba Kirudo: Puuman (寄らば斬るド プーマン) [Shigehisa Sunagawa] 
7. Ponkotsu Oyaji: Chinko Nee-san (ポンコツおやじ チンコ姐ちゃん) [Ichirou Tominaga] 
8. Tsuruhime Ja! (つる姫じゃ〜っ！) [Yoshiko Tsuchida] 
9. Agyaakyaaman (アギャキャーマン) [Yasuji Tanioka] 
10. Watashi no UFO (私のUFO) [Kunihiko Hisa] 
11. Manga no Gotoki Uso Nariki: Manga no Techou (漫画の如きウソなりき 漫画の手帖) [Kyuusoku Iwamoto] 
12. Gokurakunin (極楽人) [Masahiro Nikaido] 
13. Muguchi na Boo-shi (無口なボオ氏) [Takashi Yanase] 
14. Jiro-san Karasu (ジロさん鴉) [Noboru Baba] 
15. Bake Bake 5 (ばけばけ5) [Kazuo Maekawa] 
16. Chiisana Koi no Monogatari (小さな恋のものがたり) [Chikako Mitsuhashi] 
17. Oh Jarrys!! (Oh☆ジャリーズ‼︎) [Ryuuzan Aki] 
18. Harenchi Gakuen (ハレンチ学園) [Go Nagai] 
19. Takukami Midare Nikki (卓上みだれ日記) [Taku Shiraki] 
20. Pikora Pikora (ピコラ・ピコラ) [Haruko Tachiiri] 
21. Fuku-chan (フクちゃん) [Ryuuichi Yokoyama] 
22. Mappira-kun: Obake Dazo (まっぴら君オレはオバケだぞ) [Yoshirou Katou] 
23. Sukatan CO (スカタンCO) [Sanpei Satou] 
24. Gyatoruz (ギャートルズ) [Shunji Sonoyama] 
25. Todoroki-sensei: Masura wo Hashuttsu Ottokai (轟先生　ますらを派出夫会) [Kaoru Akiyoshi] 
26. Shounen Saiyuuki (少年西遊記) [Shigeru Sugiura] 
27. Doraemon (ドラえもん) [Fujiko Fujio] 
28. Atomic no Obon (アトミックのおぼん) [Yukio Sugiura] 

Volume 3: Shoujo Manga (少女漫画) [Edited by Riyoko Ikeda] 
1. Suleika (ズライカ) [Riyoko Ikeda] 
2. Kekkon Shitai Onna (結婚したい女) [Minori Kimura] 
3. Futari ga Deaeba (ふたりが出会えば) [Minori Kimura] 
4. Wasurena Kusa wo Anata ni (忘れな草をあなたに) [Machiko Satonaka] 
5. Sylvester no Hoshi kara (ジルベスターの星から) [Keiko Takemiya] 
6. Kurenai ni Moyuru Tomo (くれないに燃ゆるとも) [Toshie Kihara] 

Volume 4: Gensou Manga (幻想漫画) [Edited by Shoutarou Ishinomori] 
1. Fantasy World Jun: Kaigara no Oto (ファンタジーワールドジュン 貝がらの音) [Shoutarou Ishinomori] 
2. Kitsunegahara (キツネが原) [Yousuke Takahashi] 
3. Yotsuya Kaidan (四谷快談) [Osamu Tezuka] 
4. Glass-ya Doori de (ガラス屋通りで)[Keiko Takemiya] 
5. Jojo Series: Tenrankai no E (ジョジョシリーズ 展覧会の絵) [Emi Kurata] 
6. Okisotouge no Nyuudou-chan (百鬼峠の入道ちゃん) [Chizuko Beppu] 
7. Yasuragi no Yakata (やすらぎの館) [Fujio Fujiko] 
8. Nire Yashiki (にれ屋敷) [Hideko Mizuno]
 

Volume 5: Seishun Manga (青春漫画) [Edited by Shinji Nagashima] 
1. Tanoshikarishi Hibi (愉しかりし日々) [Shinji Nagashima] 
2. Hitori de Aruku Hi no Natsu (ひとりで歩く日の夏) [Mori Masaki] 
3. Amagiri (雨霧) [Shintarou Miyawaki] 
4. Osen (おせん) [Shouhei Kusunoki] 
5. Yasashii Hito (やさしい人) [Shinichi Abe] 
6. Asakusa Sanmon Opera: Daisho Kou (浅草三文オペラ 代書向) [Tsuguo Kougo] 
7. Semi no Shigure (蝉の時雨) [Moribi Murano] 
8. Autobike Shoujo (オートバイ少女) [Oji Suzuki] 
9. Mimi Kaki Ippai no Shiawase (耳かき一杯の幸せ) [Eiichi Muraoka] 
10. Okasu (犯す) [Katsuhiro Otomo] 
11. Kanashiki Tenshi (悲しき天使) [Kazuhiko Miyaya] 
12. Otoko Oidon (男おいどん) [Leiji Matsumoto] 

Volume 6: SF Manga (SF漫画) [Edited by Leiji Matsumoto] 
1. Yamabiko 13-gou (ヤマビコ13号) [Leiji Matsumoto] 
2. Cambyses no Kuji (カンビュセスの籤) [Fujio Fujiko] 
3. Mado (窓) [Shoutarou Ishinomori] 
4. Mezame no Toki (めざめの時) [Hideo Azuma] 
5. Super Girl (すーぱーがーる) [Hideo Azuma] 
6. Hidari Kiki Izan (左ききイザン) [Moto Hagio] 
7. Chikyuu SOS (地球SOS) [Shigeru Komatsuzaki] 
8. Toshi M1 (都市M1) [Go Nagai] 
9. Adachigahara (安達ヶ原) [Osamu Tezuka]

Fujio Akatsuka's most popular work, serialized in Shounen Sunday and other magazines! The six children, Osomatsu, Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Ichimatsu, Jyushimatsu, and Todomatsu, along with Chibita, Iyami, Hatabou, and many other unique characters, all cry and laugh together!
 
This series helped establish Akatsuka's reputation as a gag comic artist, long before his other popular manga, Tensai Bakabon. Osomatsu-kun has appeared in numerous special issues of Shounen Sunday. Akatsuka has also included several manga adaptations of routines from Charlie Chaplin movies in the series.
 
Note: Won the 10th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1964.

Tiny schoolgirl Chiiko develops a crush on older boy Saly and believes herself to be his girlfriend, although Saly is already involved in a love triangle with a girl called Tonko.
(Source: The Anime Encyclopedia)

In this 1977 science fiction short story, a soldier in the army of Cambyses II is wandering an endless desert, lost from his company. Just as he is about to accept death, he sees a glimmer of light in the distance — and when he follows it, he finds himself in a large building full of strange machines he has never seen before, and occupied by one young girl. They cannot communicate; her words are as gibberish to him as his are to her. The girl nurses him back to health, treating his wounds and feeding him. But when Sark attempts to leave, bringing provisions with him, the girl turns on him violently… 
 
(Source: Brickme)

Childish goings-on for Fukuo Fuchida (also known as Fuku-chan) a small boy who attends nursery school with his "girlfriend" Kumi and hangs out with his playmates Namiko (whose parents own a china shop), her younger brother, Kiyo, naughty twins Doshako and Garako and the school bully Gan-chan.
 
(Source: Anime Encyclopedia)

At the height of the popularity of delicate girls' manga with beautiful heroines, the main character is a dirty princess with a bald head and a hairpin, wearing a spiky kasuri kimono, and who doesn't wash her face and hates taking baths. The story is set in both Hagemasu Castle, where Tsuruhime lives with her father, the chief retainer, the maid Ine-san, and her pet vultures, and in Terakoya Elementary School, where she spends time with Ohana and other classmates and teachers. 
 
(Source: Shueisha, translated)

A simple domestic drama about expectations, fidelity, and escape. A couple purchase a beautiful white bird with a red beak. It is said that the bird will grow attached to its owners and never fly away. While the girlfriend is working as a hostess, flirting with men for money, the boyfriend decides to draw a portrait of the new family member, and disaster strikes. 
 
(Source: Drawn & Quarterly) 
 
Note: Published in Monthly Manga Garo No. 19 (March 1966).

In the distant year 2003, Japan is a technological utopia, and robots are everywhere. One such robot, Tobio, was built by the brilliant Dr. Tenma to replace his dead son. But when it soon becomes apparent that Tobio is an imperfect copy of his departed child, Dr. Tenma throws him out. He is rescued from the scrap heap by the benevolent Professor Ochanomizu, a crusader for robot civil rights. Now the little robot, renamed Astro Boy, is given a mission to defend Japan and the world from all manner of sinister threats. Using his seven super-abilities and 100,000 horsepower worth of strength to battle evil, Astro hopes to set an example to the world of the good which all robots are capable of.

This is the legendary Go Nagai's breakthrough work. Harenchi Gakuen is an elementary school whose teachers and students are all perverts. Boys peep girls changing. Girls pull up their skirts and show off their panties. Actually, it's not as evil as you imagine. They're like cubs playing together. It's only pre-school eroticism, nothing sexual. In spite of that, Harenchi Gakuen became a sensation. Parents, teachers, and politicians hysterically attacked the comic's immorality. 


Joe Yabuki is a troubled young man who runs away from an orphanage. Wandering through the Tokyo slums, he meets former boxing trainer Danpei. Joe is later arrested and goes to a temporary jail where he fights Nishi, his future best friend, ​and leader of a group of hooligans. He and Nishi then go to a juvenile prison miles away from Tokyo. There Joe meets Rikiishi, a former boxing prodigy, and a rivalry develops between them. They face each other in a match in which Rikiishi dominates Joe until the latter hits him with a cross-counter, resulting in both being knocked out. This inspires the other prison inmates to take up boxing. Joe and Rikiishi vow to fight again. 
(Source: Wikipedia)

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