Side-by-side stories detail the experiences of Yoshiro Tanaka and a bloodthirsty demon, whose stories collide when Yoshiro plays a mysterious tape from the subway.

When Guts comes across a seemingly innocent country village that turns out to be a den of terrible secrets, the horror within it may be more than Guts can endure.

Upon being captured by the Knights of the Holy Iron Chain, Guts manages to escape and take the Iron Chain's leader hostage.

Now that the Band of the Hawk's former leader, Griffith, has opened a path to the realm of the demon lords of the Godhand, the Hawk's berserker champion, Guts, does everything he can to save his lover, Casca, from the awful violations of Hell itself.

Guts and Casca flee with Griffith, who they have just rescued from the King's torture chambers. Before long, what's left of the Band of the Hawk must face off against the Knights of the Black Dog, led by the merciless Wyald.

His judgment clouded by the loss of his companion, Griffith finds solace in the arms of the King's daughter. When the King finds out, he sends Griffith to the dungeon and torture chamber, leaving the Band of the Hawk open to attack from Midland's army.

When Griffith made a pact with the demon lords of the Godhand and brought forth the Invocation of Doom, the first battle cost Guts his arm and stole the sanity of Guts's lover, Casca. As Guts seeks revenge, he finds a dragon-slaying sword that may give him the power he needs to complete his quest.

As the Band of the Hawk continue to aid Midland in its struggle against the kingdom of Chuder, warriors Guts and Casca fall from a cliff into a raging river. As Guts tends to Casca's wounds, Casca reveals how she was inducted into the Band of the Hawk and reveals her deep feelings for the group's leader, Griffith.

After being rescued by Himura Rikuo, Kudo Kazehaya lives at the Green Drugstore with his hero and Kakei, the store's proprietor. But the store gives out more than medication--Kakei sends Kazehaya and Rikuo out to use their secret powers to overcome paranormal missions.

Cartoonist Osamu Tezuka (1928-1989) is the single most important figure in Japanese post-World War II comics. During his four-decade career, Tezuka published more than 150,000 pages of comics, produced animation films, wrote essays and short fiction, and earned a Ph. D. in medicine. Along with creating the character Astro Boy (Mighty Atom in Japan), he is best known for establishing story comics as the mainstream genre in the Japanese comic book industry,...