Japanese comics pioneer Tezuka's monumental account of the life of the Buddha continues. Little is known about the life of the sixth-century-B.C.E. spiritual leader, so Tezuka devotes much of the narrative to characters he created as well as figur...

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In Volume 8: Jetavana, the Buddha has travelled back to his home in Kapilavastu to summon more followers. He delivers his final sermons in Jetavana, the forest of Buddhist lore where the Buddha is said to have spent the last several years of his l...

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In Volume 2 Siddhartha is born to a fanfare of miracles in the wild. His birthplace Kapilavastu forever threatened by the expanding Kosalan empire recieves providence in his powerful birth which proves the end of his mother's life.

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Dr. Osanai Kirihito has uncovered a fatal medical condition that transforms humans into dog-like beasts. In pursuit of the Monmow Disease, Dr. Kirihito catches the disease himself, and becomes his own patient. Christian dogmas of charity, redempti...

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For Devadatta - the title character in this third volume of the award-winning graphic novel series - life is an endless string of deserved and undeserved pain. Will he be able to love the world when all it gives him are reasons to hate it? Showing...

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In the Forest of Uruvela, the Buddha undergoes the ritual trials all ascetics must endure - immersion in thorns, fire, and deadly insects, total isolation and reaching the brink of death, to name a few. Yet the world needs his aid, therefore he mu...

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by Keiko Takemiya The future. Despite hundreds of years of peace, mankind has exhausted the Earth with its enormous cities - mere hubs for advanced mechines. It is the age of Superior Domination (S.D.) where children are no longer the offspring of...

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Comics godfather Osamu Tezuka tells the story of Buddha's life in a masterpiece of epic proportions that's executed with religious devotion. In an almost Machiavellian rise to power, Devadatta takes in bandit-warrior Tatta as a protég&eacut...

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by Keiko Takemiya The future. Despite hundreds of years of peace, mankind has exhausted the Earth with its enormous cities - mere hubs for advanced machines. It is the age of Superior Domination (S.D.) where children are no longer the offspring of...

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by Osamu Tezuka In a continuing effort to show Western audiences the more literate and adult side of Osamu Tezuka's manga graphic novels, Vertical proudly presents Apollo's Song, the story of Shogo, a troubled young man who has no faith in love. W...

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by Osamu Tezuka Prince Ajantasattu, the headstrong young man, must come to terms with a prediction that he will murder his own father. The prince plans instead to assassinate the Buddha, blaming him for making his father believe the 'bogus' prophe...

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by Keiko Takemiya Andromeda Stories is a 3-volume sci-fi tale set in a world that invokes the Star Wars series, and examines the themes of man versus machine, family, myth, and the inescapable grip of destiny."

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by Kazuaki Yanagisawa Based on the first spin-off story from The Guin Saga. An evil dragon and seven powerful magi scheme to control Guin by using the plague and other calamities to lure him out of Cheironia. Aided by a priestess and an elder mage...

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Machines have infiltrated the peaceful Cosmorian Empire and assumed the identities of Emperor Itaka and several key officials. When royal twins are born to the Empress Lilia, one is covertly spirited away from the mother in defiance of an ancient ...

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by Kaoru Kurimoto & Kazuaki Yanagisawa This intensely action-packed manga tour of The Guin Saga world takes place outside of the main storyline and offers a glimpse to Guin's destiny."

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by Keiko Takemiya In this final chapter of the epic space opera, King Ithaca and the entire government of the Cosmoralian Empire have been transformed into cyborg minions of a machine army determined to destroy all indigenous biological life. The ...

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by Kazuaki Yanagisawa The twenty-five-million copy bestselling Japanese heroic fantasy goes manga! Never has a story been more suited to the form than the pulse-pounding saga of the leopard-masked warrior who cannot remember his own past! King Gui...

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by Osamu Tezuka The Buddha travels back to his home in Kapilavastu to summon more followers. He delivers his final sermons in Jetavana, the forest where the Buddha is said to have spent the last several years of his life teacihng. The final sermon...

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Daigo Kagemitsu - who works for a samurai general in Japan's Warring States period - promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 devils in exchange for complete domination of the country. Knowing the child to be deficient, Kagemitsu orde...

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by Aranzi Aronzo The Complete Aranzi Hour is a massive 252-page, full-color collection of humorous adventures starring the popular Aranzi Aronzo characters from The Cute Book, Cute Dolls, and Machine Gun. The volume contains page after page of whi...

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