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

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

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.

A disgraced executioner pushes his son across Edo Japan in a cart of hidden blades.