This is a touching fantasy about a boy's friendship with an old umbrella youkai, the Amefuri Kid.
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<i>Note: published in Gekkan Shounen Jump 1975/09 and later compiled in volume 3 of Tiger Books</i>

Tezuka Osamu the best is a collection of stories written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka. The majority of these stories were published in the 1970s, particularly through the magazines Weekly Shounen Jump and Weekly Shounen Sunday, although the 1950s and 1980s are also represented.

This is the second story of "The Lion Books" series. A boy meets a lonely little umbrella ghost wearing Geta. He promises the ghost that he will give it a pair of rain boots in exchange for three wishes. The boy, however, grows up completely forgetting the promise. One day, when he happens to remember the ghost, he rushes back to that bridge in his hometown, to the Rain Boy...This is a moving, sweet hometown fantasy about a gentle ghost and a forgotten promise.

This is a collection of loosely interconnected stories where the main characters are all animals, especially the tiger who is the hero of the first book.


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