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Osu!! Karate Club 237 02-15 10:21
The series began as a fairly humorous and lighthearted satire of Japan\'s teenage delinquent-gang subculture told from the perspective of Matsushita Tadashi (who also narrates these early Karate Bu stories), a 2nd year student at Kangokou High and a constant target of Kangokou\'s numerous bullies who beat him up routinely after school. He is almost always accompanied by his best friend Saitou Takaki, who is also constantly harassed.
As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka\'s youth gangs for training and producing the city\'s most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club\'s current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters.
Along with the manga\'s change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star.
Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game.
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The Osamu Tezuka Story 3.3 02-12 03:33
Manga Biography of Osamu Tezuka\'s life covering his youth, to his tragic passing. This was serialized in the Asahi Shinbun, a famous newspaper, by Tezuka\'s then chief assistant, Toshio Ban, not long after Tezuka\'s passing. Ban interviewed as many surviving family, friends, and colleagues of Tezuka\'s as well as gathering other research materials.
The content is divided into three arcs (per volume) covering a period of Tezuka\'s life, which are as follows:
- **Volume 1 - The Appearance of Osamushi, 1928~1945** (オサムシ登場, Osamushi Toujou) - Covers Tezuka\'s youth, his developing talents during his school days, fascinations with bugs, manga, and animation, and his trials and tribulations during the war.
- **Volume 2 - Dreams of Manga, 1945~1959** (漫画の夢, Manga no Yume) - Covers the immediate struggles of the Post-War period, his time in medical school and the decision between being a physician or a mangaka, his debut and career throughout out the 50s. Also covers the emergence of the assistant system, the many assistants that would later become famous mangaka themselves (Matsumoto, Ishinomori, the Fujios, etc.), the obsession with movies and the influence they have on manga, and the gradual shift toward animation.
- **Volume 3 - Dreams of Anime, 1960~1989** (アニメの夢, Anime no Yume) - Covers his time entering animation interning at Toei, the founding of his Anime Studio, Mushi Production, the culture of the studio, the anime adaptation of Astro Boy (Tetsuwan Atom) and the emerging anime production philosophies, the collapse of Mushi Production, the \"Dark Tezuka\" period, Tezuka Productions, Black Jack, the events leading to the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works, later anime productions, and his tragic passing.
[Official English](https://www.stonebridge.com/catalog-2020/The-Osamu-Tezuka-Story)
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