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Neo-Tokyo, biker gangs and a psychic child; Otomo's six volumes the film only sketched.

Major Kusanagi and Section 9 in Shirow's dense cyberpunk pages, with footnotes.

Childhood friends and a cult leader who copies their game; Urasawa's conspiracy epic.

Urasawa remakes an Astro Boy story as a murder mystery about robots and war.

A robot boy built by a grieving scientist; Tezuka, the god of manga, from 1952.

Guts, the Band of the Hawk and the Eclipse; Miura's dark fantasy, unfinished at his death.

Luffy and the Straw Hats chase the One Piece across 100-plus volumes; the best-selling comic ever.

Two brothers, a failed transmutation and a military state; Arakawa's tightly plotted twenty-seven volumes.