The Vampires | |
Ja Kanji: | バンパイヤ |
Ja Romaji: | Banpaiya |
Type: | Manga |
Author: | Osamu Tezuka |
Demographic: | Shōnen |
Magazine: | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
First: | June 1966 |
Last: | May 1967 |
Volumes: | 4 |
Type: | Drama |
Studio: | Mushi Production |
Network: | Fuji TV |
First: | October 5, 1968 |
Last: | March 29, 1969 |
Episodes: | 26 |
is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began published weekly during 1966 to 1967.
Toppei Tachibana, a mysterious teenager, visited Mushi Production and persuaded its president, Osamu Tezuka to let him work at his studio. Tezuka later discovered that Toppei is more than he sees: he is a vampire, which is a species that can transform from humans to a variety of animals, and he is a werewolf. Toppei came to Tokyo to search for his father, Professor Tachibana. After Toppei accidentally murdered Professor Atami, an old friend of Tezuka, Rokuro Makube, an evil teenager who is also the ward of Mika Onishi's family, blackmailed Tezuka to control Toppei to his advantages.
Meanwhile, Toppei's vampire community was planning a revolution against normal humans, and Rock sided with them to help him to manipulate the world. As chaos threatened the world, Toppei, Tezuka and Toppei's younger brother Chippei must work together to stop the vampires.
While the manga has yet to be fully translated, an excerpt was included in Tezuka's Shakespeare Manga Theater from Ablaze Publishing. https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/press-release/2023-02-13/ablaze-licenses-4-manga-titles-by-legendary-creator-osamu-tezuka/.194866