Introduction : Misreading manga / Philip Brody
Where has Tezuka gone? / Fusanosuke Natsume
Astro Boy: dreams and technologies of postwar Japan / Hiroshi Kashiwagi
Tezuka: an artist who confronted his era / Tetsuro Sakurai
Tezuka and the origin of story manga / Ichiro Takeuchi
Manga history viewed through proto-characteristics / Go Ito
Tezuka's Gekiga: behind the mask of manga / Philip Brody.