Tezuka Osamu the best is a collection of stories written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. The majority of these stories were published in the 1970s, particularly through the magazines Weekly Shounen Jump and Weekly Shounen Sunday, although the 1950s and 1980s are also represented.

Immediately after the war, Kazuo Tanaka (age 13), Kimiko (age 17), and Tetsu (age 6) escape from an asylum for vagrant children. Under the guidance of a mysterious old man, they go to the year 1985, 40 years later. They meet their future selves, who have been transformed into unexpected people.

At the end of World War II, when air raids were raging, there was a boy who was passionate about collecting the butterfly Zephyrus.

A Zashiki Warashi (a kind of creature that lives in a Japanese inn) lives in the inn where a boy stayed to study for an entrance exam!
 
Note: published in Gekkan Shounen Jump 1976/01 and later compiled in volume 7 of Tiger Books

This One Shot was published in "Weekly Shonen King" as the second part of "Kami no Toride" in January 1975. The war is finally over, but this time a desperate food crisis has come, and Tetsuro Osamu struggle to survive has begun again.
Osamu steals potatoes from the fields, draws portraits for the occupation soldiers, and receives sweets in exchange for pocket money. For those who have to make it through the day, even the dead bodies of the dead are out of sight. Although the story is light-hearted and filled with gags, it has a sense of reality that could only have been depicted by someone who actually lived during this period. Initially, Tezuka planned to make this a trilogy of "Kami no Toride", but the third part was never drawn.

This is a touching fantasy about a boy's friendship with an old umbrella youkai, the Amefuri Kid.
 
Note: published in Gekkan Shounen Jump 1975/09 and later compiled in volume 3 of Tiger Books

A short story published in the magazine "Weekly Shonen King" in September 1974 to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Tezuka Osamu's career as a mangaka. It is a semi-autobiographical manga that depicts Tezuka's main character, Tetsuro Osamu, modeled after Tezuka himself, who desperately lives his life with a passion for manga while the war intensifies day by day at the end of the Pacific War. 
 
In the postscript to the Kodansha edition of Tezuka Osamu's Complete Manga Collection, Tezuka wrote that the manga "contains a great deal of fiction", but many of the events depicted in the manga are based on his own experiences, which he also wrote about in his essays and other writings.

One day, Tezuka's drawing ability and the fun of his cartoons were recognized, and he unexpectedly became a close friend of the school's number one gang leader. However, when he was invited to Akashi's house, he found out that his family was a famous local gangster family. As the sound of war looms, they develop friendship through "manga"...

As a boy, Tezuka met a young man who claimed to be the god of a snake shrine. This is a fantastical folktale-like short story modeled on the author's own childhood.

Kamiemon, whose street name is Kamiemon, is a rough and tumble samurai whom no one calls by his real name. He is ordered by the governor of Izumi to kill all the foxes, but begins to live with a female fox disguised as his beloved wife Okuzu. This is Tezuka's version of the "Kuzunoha" legend concerning the birth of the great scholar Abe no Seimei.

One day, a mysterious boy visits a boy who does not do well in anything he does... This is a short story in the style of a folk tale set in a rural junior high school.

A story of a strange friendship between Yamataro, a koala bear who lost his parent in an accident and a mountain hunt that was kept by humans, and a steam locomotive named Shiroku. Shiroku, which is a symbol of a power that transcends human beings even though it was created by humans, teaches Yamataro the preciousness of the power of the wild and the dignity of a bear.

A saboteur appears at the construction of a huge dam in the Arab Federation and takes the lives of the people involved. It is Muse, a mare leopard that speaks human language. It is a magical beast guarding the temple of King Azothus, which was discovered at the site. Tadashi Nagano, a Japanese boy, and his dog, Don, fight to the death against this great enemy.

After defeating two hundred aliens, Ushio and Ajishima, members of the Pan-Earth Defense Police League's suicide squad, are forced to return on foot through the desert due to a vehicle explosion. Taking five aliens as prisoners.

Fourth-grade investigator Youkei is the best assassin in the universe. He visits a desolate planet far from Earth and points his gun at an old woman who lives alone in a witch's house. However, a confrontation with her reveals an unexpected past... A sci-fi version of the legend of the cannibalistic demoness Adachigahara.

One day, a boy in a mountain village whose heart was darkened by his parents' divorce, saw a baby antelope stuck in a log on a suspension bridge and decided to took care of him.

Taro, the brother of Yajiro (a mentally handicapped boy), was conducting research to improve the intelligence of animals. His experimental rat Yajiro was released by Yajiro and was named Yaji.

Musa was born at the top of a thousand two hundred year old camphor tree. He was abandoned by his father soon after birth, but caught on a lower branch and encouraged by the camphor tree's voice, he survived and grew up alone.

The three Ezo wolf brothers Roro, Lulu, and Lili chase after their stuffed mother, but two of them die on the way.

The stories are set in the Momoyama through early Edo periods. Ichirui Hanri is an ordinary accountant servicing his master. Though innocent, he is ordered to commit hara-kiri after being entangled in the trouble of his master's house.
 
Just then, a witch named Sudama appears. She concludes a contract with Ichirui Hanri so that she can obtain his soul in exchange for fulfilling three of his wishes.

In Kyoto, in the late 1800s, the son of a local book-binder, Kyujuro Fukakusa sees his father murdered before his eyes and vows revenge. In his quest for justice, he answers the recruitment call of the Shinsengumi (or "The new squad") a newly-formed special brigade of samurai loyal to the shogun. There he meets fellow recruit and proficient swordsmen, the enigmatic Daisuke Kamakiri.
 
Despite the gap in their fighting skill levels, the two forma close bond, but can it survive the age of upheaval that is descending on "The Wolves of Mibu?" 
(Source: eManga)

"Grandoll" is a science fiction story whose theme is the invasion of Earth, featuring a boy's fight against aliens from outer space. As part of their plot to invade the Earth, the aliens send a doll that transforms itself into a human to the Earth. 
A junior high school student Utsuki Tetsuo, commonly known as Tecchin, is an ordinary boy without much willpower or ability to asset himself. One day on his way home from school he finds a girl's dead body on the street. While he goes to the police to report it, the girl's body disappears. Instead, he finds a strange doll there. Tetsuo brings the doll home and repairs the broken part. Then the doll instantly turns itself into the girl who appeared to be dead. It tells him that it is a "Grand doll," and that so is Tetsuo. A Grand doll looks just like an ordinary doll at first glance, but when rubbed on the neck, it turns into a human or a horse. When scratched on the neck, it becomes a doll again. 
It is the aliens from outer space who are scattering Grand dolls around the Earth. Actually, it is part of their plot to invade the Earth. When Tetsuo learns about this, he becomes determined to fight against the invaders with the help of his father, a newspaper reporter, and Yoko, his friend, despite the fear that he may be a Grand doll as well. (Source: tezukaosamu.net)

A special tonic found among Rome's ancient catacombs is consumed by three stray puppies, giving them incredible powers of super strength, amazing intelligence and lightning speed. These three dogs - Ben, Uru and Puchi - swear to defend a boy who has a map of a hidden treasure in the Silk Road, all while fighting against evil organizations and even competing with one another to help their master.

Spirits who were forced to leave Musashino for the construction of a new housing development have taken up residence in an apartment building in human form. They want to take revenge on the humans by taking Takashi, a human boy, and trying to raise him as a wicked delinquent, and hijinks ensue.
 
(Source: Tezuka Osamu, translated)

Mars pioneers were cyborgized by transplanting their brain marrow into mechanical bodies. The bodies were preserved with electronic brains. However, pioneer Yamatoji Akira escaped into his own body and followed him to Earth...

The fierce general of Lydia, Nikias, captures the beautiful Hera from a Gaul village he visited for resources. The village is razed in the wake of this invasion. Hera's brother, Saran, prays to the guardian god Odin for revenge. And then something terrifying happens...

One morning, when he woke up, Saburo found himself suspended in an empty void, his own room nowhere to be seen. The next day, land and stars would appear, and the day after that, the sea. And on the seventh day, Saburo realized that the world he had been in had already been erased, and now everything was in the process of being recreated.
 
Note: published in Deluxe Shounen Sunday 1969/11

When Shinnji Inagaki returns home, a dispute arises when he find that his older brother, who has become a prominent figure in the area, is aggressively pushing forward with land reclamation projects and airport development that are polluting the sea. The appearance of a mysterious young girl further exacerbates tensions with his brother, ultimately driving them towards a decisive confrontation.

In this story, Osamu Tezuka himself appears as the master of ceremonies and listens to a mysterious tale from a child who lost their family in the war.

Folkloric love story between a young man who is an expert drummer and a spirit of the Japanese cypress tree.

Toshio Yamagata, a young elementary school student, sheds tears every time he listens to the record "The Swan of Tuonela". When he listens to this record, a vivid image of a landscape with a large tree and a white wall appears in his mind, and he believes that this place is his hometown. Toshio's older brother investigates this mysterious phenomenon and discovers that the landscape is from the village of Lien Tao in Vietnam. Furthermore, it becomes clear that there are four other children from different countries who have had similar experiences. To unravel this mystery, these five children are gathered in Vietnam, leading to the revelation of a shocking truth.

This is a coming-of-age drama about a lonely high school boy who falls in love with a girl in a poster, and grows up troubled and hurt.

Japan is in the midst of an unprecedented microcomputer boom, where everything can be predicted by microcomputers. Yotanosuke and his good friend Ibu are predicted to be the worst match but...

Yusaku, the son of the village police station, meets a young girl named Neri on the beach and becomes friends with her. However, she has a terrible secret. If she says "I love spiders", she becomes a spider, and if she says "I love lizards", she becomes a lizard...
 
Note: published in Gekkan Shounen Jump 1981/09 and later compiled in volume 7 of Tiger Books

Yumi was born to a mother who died in a train accident, and continued to develop while in a coma. At the age of 17, she awakens with a kiss from Yuichi, a boy who has watched over her since she was a child. In just five days, Yumi grows up to an unbelievable seventeen years...

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