Read 20th Century Boys

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

A Japanese surgeon in Germany saves a boy who becomes a serial killer; Urasawa's thriller.

Light Yagami and the notebook that kills; the manga the anime followed closely.

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.

Miyazaki's seven-volume manga of the toxic jungle and the princess who understands it; darker than the film.

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

A boy in Hiroshima on 6 August 1945, drawn by a survivor; the manga on the bomb.