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"I want this woman from your kingdom as my slave." "The woman in your hold is my sister, Morgana, the one and only princess of the kingdom. Our most prized possession… To pay for her crime, she is yours from this day forth. In a world where only the strongest survive and in a kingdom where women are looked down upon, Morgana Aton is the vampire princess who refuses to be silenced. Strong, passionate and fearless. Her heart set on finding and assassinating the man who killed the late king, her father. Only to fail and be taken as a prisoner by the Alpha King himself. Kian Araqiel, the Alpha King who is feared throughout the land. Learns his mate is a vampire in the Sanguine Empire. Only for her to attempt to kill him. Angered and hating the fact that he is mated to a blood sucker, he takes her as a prisoner and brings her to his kingdom. But did he really think he could defy the power of the mate bond, especially when she is a constant temptation that he tries to fight? In a game of passion and hate will they overcome their differences and unite to face a greater threat that now looms upon them?

79 Chapters

THE LOVE DOCTOR: HIS SUBMISSIVE

"PLEASE FUCK ME DOCTOR". ANN BEGGED AS SHE CRAVED FOR HIS TOUCH IN-BETWEEN HER SPLAYED LEGS. //DARK ROMANCE// WARNING! THIS BOOK CONTAINS STEAMY SCENE IN EVERY CHAPTER, IF YOU ARE BELOW 18 AND YOU FEEL INSUCRE ABOUT READING EROTIC BOOK, PLEASE DON'T READ. IT CONTAINS HIGH SEXUAL CONTENT!!!...THOSE WHO WISH TO CONTINUE, PLEASE DO BECAUSE YOU WIL REALLY ENJOY IT, IT'S WORTH IT! … I am Ann hamburger. A sex maniac. I mean, I love having sex. And I am a fan of one night stands. My parents and ex boyfriend thinks I am cursed but my body is just highly sensitive. It was all fun to me but I got to thinking that they might be right. So my best friend introduced someone to me—A sex doctor . Marcus Morris. She says he is my last hope. My question is, am I really cursed? Can a sex doctor help me stop being a sex maniac? Well flip through this pages and read the story of my life. The shades of Ann...

7.1

138 Chapters

My Bully's Love

We have been neighbors our whole lives and were best friends when we were kids. Now he is my bully who claims that I am his to torment. There is only one little problem, I have been in love with him since I was sixteen. For two years, Jace Palmer has tortured me with his cruelty in the halls of our high school, but how do I make him stop when it's those same actions that excite me more than they should. Especially when he slams me against my locker and whispers, "You've been a bad girl, Ella."

9.5

215 Chapters

The CEO's Ten Million Dollar Wife

One night of boldness leads to a marriage of convenience. Just a plain agreement. No commitment but a lot of sex. She is liking the setup until the 'right one' came back. Without a fuss, she left, bringing the memories and another heartbeat. ********** Dumped by her two-year relationship for the reason of her being prude and frigid, Alexzia Montes proves she was otherwise. With four glasses of wine in her system, she delved into a passionate night with a stranger she randomly picked. "Do I need to pay you? How much?" she outrightly asked. "Can you afford me?" he snickers. "Just tell me how much" she stubbornly retorted. She is getting pissed by his arrogance. "500 billion dollars" he briefly replies with raised challenging brows. "What?" she mumbles in disbelief. "My present net worth is more or less 500 billion dollars" he unconcernedly replied. Stunned, she becomes quiet. "That's why you look familiar..." she frustratedly whispers, facepalming herself. The man she often sees on tv and in newspapers but hasn't met in person. The only person in the country who has a five hundred billion net worth. "CEO Lucien Wright..." she whispers in despair, almost indistinct. Of all people, she had chosen the cold and ruthless CEO of Wright Group of Companies. How could she afford him? He could even buy her, body and soul. "I need a wife, a bait for my girlfriend to come back. Name your price" he casually announced, handing her the documents. "Once she is back, you will sign the divorce paper and peacefully leave. I will pay you, just name the amount" he added. The offer is tempting Alexzia. She needs ten million dollars and it's an impossible plight but she has an easy way out, being a Ten Million Dollar Wife to CEO Wright.

9.9

95 Chapters

The Luna and her Quadruplet Pups

“What’s wrong, Jane, can you not feel me?” Ethan demands, slɑmming his into mine so I feel sure he’ll leave a bruise. “Am I not giving you hard enough?” Still I don’t respond. All I can do is imagine him with Eve, kissing and making lóve to her, giving her all the things he used to give me. I can see their writhing bodies in my mind’s eye, tɑngling the sheets of the Alpha’s bdd. It makes me feel sick to my stomach to know my husband was with the other woman mere hours ago, how does he even have the energy to use me this way when Eve was pleasuring him all night long? *** My husband seeks nothing but to claim me as roughly and thoroughly as he possibly can - and remind me of my proper place. This is what I have to look forward to: a lifetime of pain… unless I finally do what I’ve been planning over the last few months, and ask Ethan for a divorce.I didn’t even know it was possible for an omega to leave an Alpha until recently. Legally, we have almost no rights, but I could request a divorce. Now it is the time. *** Ethan and Jane were childhood sweethearts. However, he is alpha and she is omega. It was almost impossible for them to be fated mate. Ethan did not give up but chose Jane to be his wife and luna. But Fate sure knows how to run with a bit. This young couple messes up their first marriage by lack of trust. Divorce is easy. But what about finding out you were pregnant after divorce?What if you had quadruplets?

9.1

226 Chapters

Of Pillows and Pampering

“Marry me? Aren’t you scared of death?”Rumor has it Eliljah Moses is a jinx to everyone close to him, that his ill fate was the reason both his sisters and three fiancees had all died.Sally Summers married him with no expectations, and was ready to embrace death should it come for her.Initially she thought she would have to care for him, but little did she expect to be pampered to the nines by him.In his words, “She’s my woman, only I can bully her.”He also said, “Whoever dares to touch my woman, I’ll be sure to make their lives a living hell.”He even said, “My woman will bear me a pile of children!”

9.6

1225 Chapters

Where Is The Tezuka Osamu Museum And What Are Its Hours?

3 Answers2025-08-25 19:25:03

I've been meaning to gush about this place for ages — the 'Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum' is in Takarazuka, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan. It sits in the city that intimately ties to Tezuka's life and work, and you can usually reach it with a short walk or a quick local bus ride from Takarazuka Station. The museum is delightfully compact but filled with original manga pages, rotating exhibits, and those little interactive corners that make you feel like a kid again watching 'Astro Boy'.

Practical bits: the usual public hours are 10:00 to 18:00, with the last admission commonly about 30 minutes before closing. They traditionally close on Tuesdays (if Tuesday is a national holiday they close the following weekday instead), plus a year-end break around December 29 to January 3. My best tip is to check the museum's website before you go — special exhibitions, school holidays, or maintenance can change hours, and sometimes they run timed-entry slots that are wise to reserve in advance. If you love manga history, budget an hour or two for the exhibits and another little chunk of time for the gift shop — their prints and quirky merch are irresistible.

How Are Tezuka Osamu Works Preserved And Restored Today?

3 Answers2025-08-25 08:04:37

I've spent too many rainy afternoons wandering the exhibits at the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum in Takarazuka, so I can talk about preservation with a bit of a museum-goer’s eye. Tezuka’s originals—those scratchy pen lines and marginal notes—are kept in climate-controlled vaults and shown behind glass so the paper isn’t baked by light. The museum and Tezuka Productions collaborate to catalogue, photograph, and digitize manuscripts; high-resolution scanning creates masters that can be used for prints, books, and online exhibits without touching fragile originals.

On the animation side, preservation is messier and more technical. Film and tape elements are hunted down: original camera negatives if they survived, interpositives, broadcast tapes, even collector VHS or 8mm recordings when studio elements are missing. Restoration teams clean physical damage, scan at high resolution, and then do frame-by-frame digital restoration—removing scratches, stabilizing jitter, correcting flicker and color fading. Recently labs have started using machine-learning tools to de-noise and upscale frames, but human eyes still guide color timing and line repair. Rights holders—mainly Tezuka Productions—coordinate restorations and release remastered Blu-rays and streaming versions, often after negotiations about funding and access.

It’s not all smooth sailing: acetate decay, lost negatives from old studios, and tight budgets mean some material is gone or survives only as poor copies. Still, between museum care, studio archives, academic interest, fan collectors, and modern digital tools, Tezuka’s legacy is in much better shape than it would have been a generation ago. Next time I visit the museum I always linger by the display of original pages—those little corrections in the margins make all this effort feel worth it.

How Did Tezuka Osamu Influence Modern Manga Storytelling?

3 Answers2025-08-25 17:50:23

I get a little giddy thinking about how Tezuka rewired what manga could do. Back when I first dove into his pages — dog-eared copies of 'Astro Boy' and a battered volume of 'Black Jack' I found at a flea market — it felt like someone had opened a door and let cinema stroll into comics. He borrowed film techniques: montage, pans, close-ups, and timing that reads like editing. That made each panel feel like a camera angle and every page like a scene, which is something I still try to emulate when I sketch thumbnails for stories late at night over instant coffee.

What I love most is how he treated characters and themes. Tezuka didn't keep heroes flat; he introduced moral complexity, grief, and big questions about life and death long before many mainstream comics dared. 'Phoenix' is a good example — it’s mythic, layered, and refuses easy endings. That legacy shows up everywhere now: serialized long-form arcs, recurring motifs, and creators who aren’t afraid to mix genres. You can trace the DNA of Tezuka in medical ethics stories like 'Black Jack's' influence on doctors-as-heroes, in sci-fi empathy from 'Astro Boy', and even in the dramatic animal allegories of 'Kimba the White Lion.'

On a practical level, he popularized the 'star system' — reusing actor-like character designs — which made readers form attachments and recognize emotional beats. Modern manga borrows that familiarity while pushing visual language further, but the roots are clearly his. Thinking about it makes me want to re-read his works and sketch panels that play with light and silence the way he did; it's a reminder that great storytelling blends craft and compassion.

What Inspired Tezuka Osamu To Create Astro Boy?

3 Answers2025-08-25 07:58:07

Growing up, I used to flip through battered manga volumes at the corner bookstore and always felt oddly comforted by that mix of childlike wonder and serious questions — which, looking back, is exactly what drew Tezuka Osamu to create 'Astro Boy'. He loved movies and Western animation: you can see the influence of 'Pinocchio' and 'Bambi' in the way his characters feel alive and morally complex. Tezuka borrowed cinematic framing, rapid cuts, and emotive close-ups from film to make his panels breathe like scenes, and that desire to bring film-style storytelling into comics pushed him toward a heroic, visually expressive character like 'Tetsuwan Atom'.

Beyond stylistic influences, the historical moment mattered. Tezuka lived through the war years and the dawn of the atomic age — the name 'Atom' itself is a nod to that era. He was fascinated and worried about technology: robots could be terrifying tools, but in his hands they became mirrors reflecting what it means to be human. His medical education also shaped his humane outlook; having studied medicine, he thought a lot about life, death, and ethics, and those themes pulse through the stories. So 'Astro Boy' isn’t just a cool robot kid — he’s Tezuka’s hopeful, sometimes anxious answer to postwar Japan’s moral puzzles, a blend of Disney heart, cinematic technique, scientific curiosity, and deep humanism. I still get a little misty when I reread those early strips — they’re nostalgic and weirdly urgent at the same time.

What Recurring Themes Did Tezuka Osamu Explore In Comics?

3 Answers2025-08-25 08:27:57

There’s a tenderness in Tezuka Osamu’s stories that hits me every time I go back to them, like finding an old mixtape in a drawer. When I first dove deep into his work it was because of 'Astro Boy' and then I wandered into 'Phoenix' and 'Black Jack'—and what kept me reading was how often he returned to the same big questions: what makes someone human, the ethics of science, life and death, and the cost of war. He blends childlike wonder with heavy moral weight; one page can feel like a bedtime story and the next like a courtroom drama.

He was a doctor by training, and you can feel that in the medical moralism of 'Black Jack' and 'Ode to Kirihito'—stories that force you to choose between rules and compassion. Meanwhile 'Phoenix' is obsessed with cycles: rebirth, immortality, and the way civilizations rise and fall. Robots and artificial beings keep asking us to extend empathy beyond blood—'Astro Boy' isn’t just about tin and circuits, it’s about rights, prejudice, and parenting. Tezuka also hated blind nationalism and militarism; 'Message to Adolf' and 'Dororo' show how war chews up identity and innocence.

On top of themes, he used recurring devices—his star system of characters popping into different tales, cinematic paneling, and genre hopping—that let him probe the same ideas from new angles. I still find something new each reread: a panel that suddenly looks like a Bible scene, a hospital corridor that feels like a battlefield. It’s the kind of work that keeps me turning pages late into the night, wondering what compassion would actually cost us.

Are Tezuka Osamu Copyrights Public Domain In Japan?

3 Answers2025-08-25 13:59:11

I've been diving into Tezuka's work for years and I still get that giddy feeling flipping through old pages of 'Astro Boy' or rereading the slow-burn of 'Phoenix'. Legally speaking, his creations are not public domain in Japan right now. Japanese copyright for individual authors lasts for the life of the author plus 70 years; Tezuka Osamu died in 1989, so his works remain protected until the end of 2059 and will enter the public domain on January 1, 2060. That calendar-style expiration (becoming public domain at the start of the year after the 70th anniversary of death) is something I check whenever an old favorite might become free to share widely.

Another thing that trips people up is how rights are managed in practice. Tezuka Productions and other rights holders actively license and protect his catalog, and trademarks for characters or logos can persist even after copyrights expire, so commercialization can still be restricted. Also note that collaborative works, works-for-hire, or posthumously published materials can have different legal treatments. If you’re planning a project—say a fan comic or a reprint—reach out to the rights holders or a rights-clearing professional; I learned that the hard way when I almost reprinted some short stories for a zine and had to backtrack.

For sheer fan excitement, though, the idea of Tezuka entering the public domain in 2060 makes me daydream about creative reimaginings and accessible scholarly editions. Until then, supporting official releases is both the safest and the most rewarding route for fellow fans.

Which Voice Actors Portrayed Tezuka Osamu Characters Internationally?

3 Answers2025-08-25 12:58:23

I still get a little giddy thinking about the sheer number of actors who’ve put their voices to Tezuka’s characters — it’s like a hall of fame that stretches across decades and countries. If you’re looking for standout, well-documented examples: the original Japanese voice of 'Astro Boy' (the 1963 TV series) was Mari Shimizu, and she’s legendary in that role. Jumping forward to the international film world, the 2009 CGI movie 'Astro Boy' brought in big-name English-language performers, with Freddie Highmore as Astro and Nicolas Cage in a major supporting role; that film also featured veteran actors in other parts, which helped push Tezuka’s creations into mainstream international awareness.

Beyond those headline names, Tezuka’s characters have been voiced by countless local stars in dozens of language dubs — from French and Italian television versions of 'Kimba the White Lion' (known as 'Jungle Emperor' in Japan) to Spanish and Portuguese releases of 'Black Jack', 'Dororo', and 'Princess Knight'. If you’re researching a particular character or language, sources like studio credits, IMDb, and the fan-curated sections of dubbing databases are great for tracking down country-specific voice casts. I love how each dub gives a slightly different flavor to Tezuka’s work — sometimes a subtle change in tone or delivery makes a character feel refreshingly new.

How Did Tezuka Osamu Change Anime Character Design Conventions?

3 Answers2025-08-25 23:37:29

Growing up with late-night reruns and grainy VHS tapes, I fell in love with how characters could feel huge emotionally without being photo-realistic. Tezuka Osamu did that trick better than anyone: he simplified faces into bold, readable shapes and gave them those enormous, glassy eyes that communicated everything from wonder to anguish. That big-eye look wasn't just cute — it became a visual shorthand for empathy. I still catch myself tracing how a single tear or a tiny shift in an eyebrow in 'Astro Boy' could say more than paragraph-long exposition in other stories.

Beyond faces, Tezuka changed how scenes were told. He brought cinematic framing into comics and animation — quick cuts, dramatic close-ups, angled compositions — so characters felt like actors in a movie. When his studio moved from page to moving pictures, those simplified, high-contrast designs were perfect for TV production: easier to redraw, easier to animate on limited budgets. The result was a set of conventions that prioritized expression and motion over anatomical detail, letting creators focus on storytelling beats. Even today, whether I'm sketching or watching modern series, I notice how many creators inherit his mix of childlike forms with surprisingly adult themes, like in 'Black Jack' or 'Phoenix'. Tezuka made it okay for characters to be visually simple and narratively complex, and that openness changed the medium for decades — and for me, it unlocked a whole world where stylization equals emotional truth.

Which Films Adapted Tezuka Osamu Manga For Live Action?

3 Answers2025-08-25 04:48:35

I've been digging through Tezuka stuff for years and one thing that always fascinates me is how often his stories cross media — not just anime and manga but live-action too. If you want the short list of notable, straight-up live-action film/tokusatsu adaptations, start with 'Dororo' — there’s a well-known theatrical/live-action film version from the 2000s (the 2007 film directed by Akihiko Shiota), and it’s a solid example of Tezuka’s samurai-dark-fantasy being reinterpreted on screen.

Going further back, Tezuka’s influence hit tokusatsu and television early: 'Ambassador Magma' (originally 'Magma Taishi') was turned into a live-action tokusatsu series in the 1960s (it was even packaged abroad as 'The Space Giants'), so that counts as a live-action adaptation of his manga universe. Beyond those two clear cases, many of Tezuka’s works were adapted as television movies, TV specials, or straight-to-video live-action projects rather than major studio theatrical films — 'Black Jack' being the headline example there, since it spawned multiple live-action TV specials and films over the years.

If you’re hunting a complete filmography, I usually cross-check Tezuka Productions’ database, the Japanese Movie Database (JMDb), and IMDb; they help separate theatrical releases from TV dramas and stage plays. The trick with Tezuka is that a title might have several kinds of live-action incarnations (stage, TV, tokusatsu, V-cinema), so knowing whether you want a theatrical movie or any live-action version matters. Happy to sift through and make a more exhaustive list if you want a decade-by-decade breakdown.

Where Can Fans View Tezuka Osamu Original Artwork Today?

3 Answers2025-08-25 10:52:04

There's something oddly comforting about seeing the real scratch marks and pencil erasures on a page that once belonged to Tezuka. If you can make the trip, the Tezuka Osamu Manga Museum in Takarazuka is the pilgrimage spot for originals — they keep a rotating selection of original pages, production notes, and even recreations of his workspace. I spent an afternoon there tracing the evolution of a single panel from rough sketch to inked final, and the museum's reading room lets you dive into physical volumes that feel like time travel.

Beyond Takarazuka, the Kyoto International Manga Museum also displays original works from time to time and houses an extensive archive that researchers and fans can access. National and university libraries in Japan sometimes hold manuscripts as part of special collections, and the National Diet Library has digitized materials you can view online if you're not in the country. Tezuka Productions, the studio that manages his estate, organizes exhibitions and posts curated images on their official channels, so I check their site before planning visits.

If you can't get to Japan, don't write it off — museum catalogs, artbooks, and high-quality reprints capture a lot of detail, and the official Tezuka online resources have scans and background essays. For a real hit of nostalgia, find an exhibit schedule, book a train ticket, and take your time: seeing an original Tezuka page in person still gives me the same little thrill as when I first saw 'Astro Boy' as a kid.