Shin Takarajima (manga)

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"Shin Takarajima" (Japanese: 新宝島, pronounced [ɕintakaɾadʑima] ^ⓘ, "New Treasure Island") is a one-shot manga published by Ikuei Shuppan in 1947. It was written by Sakai Shichima, and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.

It is Tezuka's debut full-length work, and is considered to be the starting point of postwar Japanese manga.

Despite the title of the manga, it is not an adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island novel, but it does borrow many themes from the novel and other adventure novels such as Tarzan and Robinson Crusoe.

A revision of the manga was made by Tezuka in 1984, as part of Kodansha's Osamu Tezuka Complete Manga Works series, featuring 250 redrawn pages compared to the original 190 pages, a slightly different plot, and a brand new ending that features a plot twist.