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Forest of Piano

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This is a story about a piano, pitifully abandoned in the woods, and a young boy, Kai, who grew up playing it as his favorite toy. While Kai cannot even read sheet music, one day, he meets Shuhei Amamiya, an aspiring child pianist who transfers schools from Tokyo, and their…

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About Niji no Prelude

1977, Manga, 5 ch, 71%

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 containing 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".

(Source: Wikipedia)

Chapters:
1) Niji no Prelude (虹のプレリュード); Shuukan Shoujo Comic 1975/10/05-10/26
2) Curtain wa Konya mo Aoi (カーテンは今夜も青い); Shoujo Shinnen Zoukangou 1958/01
3) Venice no Shounin (ベニスの商人); Chuugaku 1-Nen Course Furoku 1959/04
4) Kujakugai (孔雀貝); Shoujo Club Furoku 1958/06
5) Shiro Kujaku no Uta (白くじゃくの歌); Nakayoshi Natsuyasumi Zoukangou 1959/09/15

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