The Drifting Classroom
漂流教室
Sixth-grader Sho Takamatsu storms out after a fight with his mother, then watches his entire Yamato Elementary vanish from the city in a violent tremor. The school and everyone inside it reappear stranded in a barren, lifeless wasteland, cut off from any adult help once the panicked staff turn on the children. As hunger, sickness, and the scheming caretaker Sekiya tear the survivors apart, Sho tries to hold the kids together and reach back toward the mother he left behind.
Buddha
ブッダ
Osamu Tezuka retells the life of Siddhartha, the Shakya prince who renounces his throne to seek an end to suffering and becomes the Buddha. Set across an ancient India ruled by rigid caste and the warring kingdoms of Kosala and Magadha, the story follows him alongside invented companions like Tatta, a low-caste boy who can possess animals, and the slave Chapra. Tezuka weaves real scripture with original characters into a sweeping account of one man's path toward enlightenment.
Devilman
デビルマン
Akira Fudo is a timid teenager living in Miki Makimura's home when his childhood friend Ryo Asuka warns him that an ancient race of demons is set to reclaim the Earth. Ryo's plan is to fight fire with fire: at a chaotic Black Sabbath, Akira fuses with the demon Amon and gains its powers while keeping his own human heart, becoming Devilman. Now able to match the demons on their own terms, Akira hunts the creatures hiding within human society as suspicion and fear begin to spread among people.
The Rose of Versailles
ベルサイユのばら
Raised as a man by her general father to head the Royal Guard, Oscar François de Jarjayes commands the soldiers who protect Marie Antoinette at the court of Versailles, with her childhood companion André Grandier always at her side. As the young Austrian queen navigates palace intrigue and France slides toward revolution, Oscar is caught between duty to the crown and sympathy for the commoners. This shoujo classic weaves real figures of the French Revolution through the lives of its two central women.