The Bottle (ザ・ボトル, Za Botoru) is a Japanese shonen manga one-shot manuscript written and illustrated by Hirohiko Araki. It was mentioned in the 1978 Issue #1 of Weekly Shonen Jump as a final candidate for the 14th Tezuka Award.
Araki submitted the work using the pen name Toshi Arakino (荒木之 利, Arakino Toshi).[1]
Summary
The Bottle was a story written by Araki when he was seventeen years old. It seemingly featured a character dressed in old western attire. As it did not win the Tezuka Award, its contents were never released to the public. However, Hiroshi Motomiya, who was a judge for the Tezuka Award at the time, stated that he would be interested in seeing an original story from the artist of The Bottle.
Gallery
The Bottle among other Tezuka Award submissions
Tezuka Award comments
Comment from Hiroshi Motomiya
Weekly Shonen Jump 1978 Issue #1
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