The Crater

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The Crater
Cover of The Crater volume 1 from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition
ザ・クレーター (Za Kureetaa)
Genre	Horror, Mystery, Science Fiction
Manga
Author	Osamu Tezuka
Publisher	Akita Shoten Publishing
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Shōnen Champion
Original run	August 10, 1969 – April 1, 1970
Volumes	3

The Crater (ザ・クレーター, Za Kureetaa^?) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka that began serialization in 1969.

1 Plot
2 Characters
3 References
4 See also
5 External links

[edit] Plot

"The Crater" is a collection of self-contained short stories that follow a wide range of themes. From Horror to Mystery to Science Fiction, each story focuses on different characters in different settings. Some stories have happy endings, but others do not, and only two characters appear in more than one story: the boy Okuchin and Osamu Tezuka himself.

In a similar tradition as The Twilight Zone, each story has a kind of message presented to the reader via unique stories. In Episode 2, "The Octagonal Mansion", the character Ryuichi Kuma is undecided over what to do with his life until he discovers an Octagonal Mansion that allows him to start his life all over again. In Episode 8, "The Bell Rings", three people are haunted by their past sins with the tingling of bells that will not let them forget. When it ended, "The Crater" had a total of 17 Episodes.