Rainbow Prelude
- Name
- Rainbow Prelude
- Creator
- Osamu Tezuka
- Genre
- romance anime and manga
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• Name — Rainbow Prelude • Ja Kanji — 虹のプレリュード • Ja Romaji — Niji no Pureryūdo • Genre — Romance, drama
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• Type — Manga • Title — The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight • Author — Osamu Tezuka • Publisher — Kobunsha • Published — January 1, 1958
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• Type — Manga • Title — Peacock Shell • Author — Osamu Tezuka • Publisher — Kobunsha • Published — June 1958
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• Type — Manga • Title — The Merchant of Venice • Author — Osamu Tezuka • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Chugaku Ichinen Course • Published — April 1959
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• Type — Manga • Title — Song of the White Peacock • Author — Osamu Tezuka • Publisher — Kodansha • Magazine — Nakayoshi • Published — Summer 1959
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• Type — Manga • Author — Osamu Tezuka • Publisher — Shogakukan • Magazine — Shōjo Comic • First — October 5, 1975 • Last — October 26, 1975 Rainbow Prelude is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, and also the name of one of his books in Kodansha's line of "Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works" books, contains a collection of Tezuka's short stories. The stories included in the book are "Rainbow Prelude", "The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight", a manga version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", "Peacock Shell", and "Song of the White Peacock".
Rainbow Prelude
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