"If you were doing paperwork all day long, you'd think you were dying too!"

There are two collected versions of Patalliro being published: The tankoubon version (90 volumes at last count), and the condensed bunko version (48 volumes, ongoing). The tankoubon version also has AU stories with the Patalliro characters and unrelated horror and sci-fi short stories. These summaries will just include the Patalliro stories.

Tankoubon List

Bunko List Vol. 1~15 | Vol. 31~45 | Vol. 46~47
Vol.	No.	Date	Title	Teaser
16	Patalliro's Magic
	114	'85	Pink Diamonds are the Color of First Love	Someone is using Hewitt's address as their own for a black market diamond sale.
	115	'85	Maraich in Danger	A duke becomes completely obsessed with Maraich.
	116	'85	Many Suns	The cabinet minister has died, and Patalliro needs to impress the foreign dignitaries with the wake. Unfortunately, his aunt has arrived with her horde of dodecatuplets.
	117	'85	A Certain Bizarreness	Someone has replaced Maraich's tarot deck with a possessed one that accurately fortells bad events.
	118	'85	Witch Medicine	Patalliro meets a young orphan running away from his evil grandmother, and offers to help him poison her.
	119	'85	Stubborn Guy	The Tamanegi have finally found a tutor who can survive Patalliro.
	121	'86	Malynera's Offense and Defense	Malynera has been infected with the "Bad Luck Germ".
	122	'86	Bon and New Year's	Old Man Time is easily beating Patalliro at Word-Gags. Time for desperate measures.
	124	'86	The Lower Half Rebels	Patalliro's lower half has had enough. It sounds the call.
	125	'86	Hello From Fairyland	Fairytales have come to life, and they're out to kill Patalliro!
	Article by composer Tarou Kida: "Patalliro! and my family"
17	The Crime Artist Dumont
	120	'85~86	Dumont, Enter Stage Right	A new criminal arrives on the scene, and his escapes from sealed rooms seem to be stumping even MI-6!
	123	'86	Challenge to Dumont	Maraich knows where Dumont will strike next, and he takes steps to capture the thief.
	128	'86	Dumont vs. the Cat Army	Dumont's henchman makes a mistake when he injures the housecat of their next victim.
	127	'86	Malynera Disappears	Malynera is gone without a trace, sucked into the Bermuda Triangle.
	126	'86	Gigolo	Patalliro gets an ardent suitor, but he's too young to have a girlfriend! He bribes Maraich to seduce the girl away.
	136	'86	The Blue Scallop	Patalliro gets an idea to turn the S--- agent's plot to kidnap Maraich to their advantage, with the help of some drag club queens, but it doesn't work out as planned.
	137	'86	Mikhail Bomb	The S--- agent Ice Mikhail is working with Dumont?!
	Article by artist and sound producer Ken Morioka, "Patalliro! is a Strange Mirror"
18	Leave the Demon Extermination To Me
	129	'86	Inexhaustible Dragon King	Maraich receives a mysterious lens, and Bancoran brings it to Patalliro for investigation. With it you can see the shape of the ghost/spirit everyone has hanging over their shoulder.
	130	'86	Demon Barber	Frustrated in his dream to be a barber, a young man gives in to his evil impulses at night.
	131	'86	[Edo Period AU] Hords of Man-Eating Demons	[Edo Period AU] A two-parter set in Edo with Patariro. Demonic cats have taken over the town, and Patariro sends for the best ghost buster in Japan.
	133	'86	Spidertama	One of the Tamanegi spares the life of a spider, and it grants him one wish.
	138	'86	Let's Meet in a Dream	Tamanegi 61 gets sucked into Patalliro's dream, and now he's pale and suffering every time he slips back into sleep.
	139	'86	Demon-Hunting	Patalliro's best diamond buyer, Sir Rothschild, has a demon problem in his family.
	140	'86	Demons Hunting	Patalliro has a money-making scheme and forces Tama #44 to pretend he's a demon-hunter.
	132	'86	Time, Stop!	Patalliro finds a way to cheat the Time Warp and stop time. Very useful for bank robberies.
	134	'86	You Too Can Become a Millionaire with Small Change	While on a plane to London, Patalliro demands both coffee and tea in his cup, and the mixture causes him to fall into a coma. He ends up in a land where one dollar is a fortune.
	Article by talent Miku Hanyu, "The Message That Patalliro! Gives Us"
19	Patalliro vs. Rashanu
	135	'86	Showdown of the Century	Rashanu refuses to sell a piece of land to Patalliro for mining because of a curse. Of course Patalliro doesn't believe in such things...
	141	'87	On Sunday, the Murderer Was...	One of Bancoran's friends and colleagues is murdered in the line of duty, and he gets Patalliro to pose as the son of a gangster to infiltrate the enemy.
	142	'87	Year 8 Light Ray	The six original Tamanegi have turned into sweet-bean jelly and Patalliro goes back into the past to face off against his eight-year-old self.
	143	'87	Valentine for You	Four young Tamanegi are sent to the London embassy and create both the Bancoran Fanclub and endless trouble for our noble MI-6 agent.
	144	'87	Kusa (Grass)	Patalliro is up to his old tricks when a strange convergence of phone lines gives him an "opportunity" to help MI-6. "Kusa" refers to an ancient ninja tradition where they would sneak into an enemy camp and blend in for several decades until they could strike the most damage.
	145	'87	Blue Tamanegi	Patalliro has read a book on saving money, and suddenly life has become unbearable for the Tamanegi. They hatch a complicated plan...
	146	'87	Five Stars of Pataran	Patalliro decides that since hotels and restaurants have guidebooks, dentists should have one too. But when the Black Dentists Association gets angry over their 2 and 3 star ratings, they're out for Patalliro's blood.
	147	'87	One Ordinary Day	Patalliro's room has been broken into and trashed during the night and he turns into Dr. Shibaitaroka to investigate.
	149	'87	Purple Rain	The Malynera diamond mines produce a lot of inferior stones, which are only useful to industrialists. He tries to tip the buy-sell scales in his favor by having Maraich seduce a buyer.
	Article by manga researcher Tomoko Yamada, "Those Complications which Compel Us to Laugh"
20	The Angel's Soldiers
	148	'87	The Angel's Soldiers	Patalliro invents a machine for telepathy, which leads him to discover a mysterious figure and 6 psy kids.
	150	'87	Lolicon Hewitt	Patalliro tries to make Hewitt face his sickness, but while desperately searching for a diversion Hewitt may have stumbled onto a real conspiracy.
	151	'87	His Name Is...	All Angel wants is to enjoy his quiet vacation in a nameless European country. He isn't expecting two strange characters to burst into his hotel room.
	152	'87	The Poacher	Patalliro is acting much stranger than usual, but his televangelist appearances may be a step too far for the Tamanegi.
	153	'87	A Certain Tragic Event	Mi-chan shows up with a residence tax for Patalliro.
	154	'87	Another Tale at the Echigoya	[Edo Period AU] One of Patariro's distributers is being haunted for an unfortunate accident involving an unraveling kimono and a suicide.
	Article by mangaka Mitsuaki Suzuki, "An Inconsistent Man"
21	Glass, Masked Patalliro
	160	'88	Glass, Masked Patalliro	For the 1,800th anniversary since the founding of Malynera, Patalliro is determined to put on an interesting performance. One of the Tamanegi recommends that he read "The Glass Mask." To their shock, Patalliro likes it, and takes up the role of the main character, Maya Kitajima.
	155	'87	Pink Sigh	Patalliro's newest invention swaps people's faces, and he's determined to give it a test run on Bancoran.
	156	'87	New Year's Counterattack	Old Man of the New Year is back again with his tricky puns.
	157	'87~'88	The Day the Mermaid Came Out	Tamanegi #72 is skipping out of work and fishing when he catches something unexpected.
	158	'88	Xanadu	Xanadu is an extremely popular master of disguise, and his shows are always over-run with fans. But does he have a hidden agenda?
	159	'88	Patalliro's Scheme	Bancoran truly lost his temper and beat up Patalliro for getting in his way, and Patalliro has a scheme to get even.
	161	'88	Eye of God	Patalliro's newest invention magnifies things in outer space, and he's auctioning it off to the scientific community. Until someone points out that it could be used for truly nefarious purposes.
	163	'88	Conscience Denied	There is a tiny, tiny sliver of Patalliro's soul which is good, and it has started taking over his body when the evil is asleep.
	Article by Nobunaga Shinbo, "What if Patalliro and Maya Kitajima faced off...!?"
22	Spy Cat's Come-Back
	162	'88	Chiropractic Martial Arts of Spy Cat!	Spy Cat has staggered back up from his low lifestyle once more, this time with a deadly version of chiropractics! But can he stay sober and woman-free long enough to win the tournament?
	164	'88	Hewitt is Greatly Troubled	A S-country spy escapes Hewitt's trap because of his lovely, 9-year-old daughter. Will she seduce Hewitt into becoming a traitor!?
	165	'88	Bancoran's Illness	Maraich has had enough of Bancoran's infidelities, and Patalliro has a scheme to help him. But they may have gone too far...
	166	'88	Speed-Comprehension	Patalliro writes a rule-book for speed-comprehension. Based on speed-reading, it allows you to know the rest of a conversation simply by how a person inflects the opening words.
	167	'88	Living National Treasure	Malynera has a few living national treasures -- artists who keep the culture alive and enjoy fame and recognition. One of them is a potter, and he'll do anything to keep his privilaged position.
	168	'88	Malynera Ten	Patalliro has found some pets in the castle garden, and the Tamanegi realize that they are "ten", an endandered species from Malynera.
	171	'88	Sigma	While having lunch Patalliro and Maraich overhear two men talking about finding Maraich, and one of them is an assassin!
	Article by Hiroshi Takano, photographer for Rojo Penguin, "His Highness Patalliro of Mayan Civilization"
23	Japonesque
	169	'88	Germ Empire	Diamonds are mysteriously disappearing from the mines one by one, and when they see one of the diamonds walking off on its own, Patalliro gets worried. A quick peak under the microscope reveals the culprits.
	170	'88	Grieved Super Cat	Super Cat falls in love with a human girl, and begs Patalliro to turn him into a human.
	173	'88	Japonesque	The Dr. Shibaitaroka personality has taken over once more, and Patalliro moves to Japan to work on his inventions in private. Unfortunately, the boy living next door starts to get tangled up in those same inventions, which may work a little too well.
	Article by Ikeda Narushi, an actor, "For a Long Time: Patalliro!"
24	Invention Pata-chan
	172	'88	Ropony	Patalliro invented a robotic pony for his Tamanegi, but a diamond buyer makes him an offer he can't refuse.
	176	'89	Invention Pata-chan	A conservative Christian buyer from America hires Patalliro to invent something to break up his 17-year-old daughter and her boyfriend.
	177	'89	Goblin	Patalliro has hired a distant relative of Bancoran's chief as a maid for the British branch of his embassy, but the girl never even moves. Time to stir things up...
	178	'89	Friend of the Rose	One of the Tamanegi has a little sister who wants with all her heart and soul to be a bishounen, and to live in a shounen-ai-like boarding school.
	180	'89	Lips Are Sealed	Patalliro's cousin Emilia has a problem, no matter what he says, it always comes out wrong. Patalliro gives him a device to turn back time...
	181	'89	The Flexibility Ring	One of the requirements of being a Tamanegi is to be 175 cm, but Tamanegi-in-training #1/2 has been hiding his lack of hight with heels. Patalliro feels sorry for him, and gives him a ring in secret.
	182	'89	The Ultra Crystal Ball	Lolicon Hewitt hasn't been getting any lately, so he turns to Patalliro for help.
	183	'89	Monster Circle	Patalliro has the unique experience of being bullied, and so helps another child out of the goodness of his heart...
	Article by Harutoshi Fukui, writer, "Sense and Nonsense Happily Coexisting"
25	The Appearance of Bancoran's Look-Alike
	174	'88	The Invisible Man Is Revealed!	The Tamanegi scientists discover a way to leech color from a person, turning them invisible. Maraich thinks this is the perfect opportunity to teach Ban a lesson.
	175	'88	Meeting the Ghost Busters!	Famous ghost busters Torauma and Binbougami have followed a ghost to Malynera, and this ghost eats your sense of humor!
	179	'89	Brat	Patalliro has been eating more than is normal, even for him, and he tricks the Tamanegi into joining him in gluttony. What's going on?
	184	'89	Once Upon a Japan	A young man of Japanese decent comes to Patalliro to beg him to take him on as an apprentice.
	185	'89	The Luck Machine	Patalliro choses Tamanegi #9 to help him test his new luck machine, but #9 is the kind of guy to tak advantage of the oportunity.
	186	'89	Mr. Demon, Hi!	A certain gentleman pays Patalliro to call up a demon to scare his no-good son straight, but things don't go as planned.
	187	'89	Love-lens	Tamanegi #42 has been turned down once too often, and is in a funk. Patalliro gives him contact lenses that make anyone he glances at fall in love with him. Anyone.
	188	'89	Inventionless Pata-chan	One of the Tamanegi has a pretty little brother who's being held hostage by a moneylender and he comes to beg Patalliro for a loan.
	189	'89	Vulgar Fellow	Patalliro asks Goldman for help in setting up Bancoran, using their uncanny resemblance.
	Article by Megumi Ogata, artist, "The Wisdom to Turn a Crisis into a Laugh"
26	Patalliro's Decision
	190	'89	Some Kind of Mistake	Bancoran has been shot on a mission and is dying in the hospital. Suddenly, near-lethal things start happening around Patalliro. Haunted!?
	191	'89	Patalliro's Children	There are consequences to cheating death. Patalliro goes to the spirit world to try to sort things out.
	192	'90	The Name of the Game Is "Impossible Crime"	Bancoran is at his wit's end to solve a murder, so he calls in Patalliro.
	193	'90	Strong Persuasion	Tamanegi #000 is a weak, delicate bishounen, and he's been mistakenly assigned to Patalliro duty for a week. Will he survive the experience?
	195	'90	Sumo Wrestlers Soaring in Space	Despite arguement, Patalliro choses "sumo" as the national sport on a survey about Malynera. So of course the evil, invading aliens chose Malynera as Earth's representatives in a show-down sumo tournament.
	196	'90	Suite Room	Patalliro decides to save money by staying at an acquantance's, but he's out of town. They do find one inn, however, and the inn has only one vacancy. So what's the catch?
	197	'90	The Word Problem	Somewhere in Japan a school's top student suddenly starts spouting "X"s. And it spreads....
	198	'90	The Demonic Ring	Patalliro isn't impressed by the magician and his son, so the son pulls out the ultimate trick.
	199	'90	The Legend of Mt. Patalliro	A Japanese real estate man tries to swindle Patalliro, but discounts the legend of the demon bound inside Mt. Patalliro.
	Article by ROLLY, musician, "Becoming Splendid, A Patalliro-like World"
27	Miracle Child Figaro
	200	'90	Curse	Ban and Maraich discover an assassin is targeting Patalliro, but Patalliro is dead to the world, spaced out under some strange curse.
	201	'90	Matryoshka	Patarillo is left a letter by a rich, crafty old man. Can he find the clue to the inheritance?
	202	'90	Catch Him in the Bean Sprout Field	Maraich comes to stay with Patalliro because he is too frightened to tell Bancoran that... he's pregnant again.
	203	'90	Love Child	There are complications during the birth.
	204	'91	Figaro	Figaro is NOT a normal child. He's much too advanced, and what's this about the demon world?!
	Article by Nanase Aikawa, "Nanase Aikawa's greatest personal ambition"
28	Leave It to Patalliro
	194	'90	Human Affairs Director, Patariro	[Edo Period AU] Patariro is in charge of choosing a work force of criminal laborers.
	207	'92	Patariro Weird Tales: Sphere of Scales	[Edo Period AU] A new boy is working at the Echigoya, and when a special rock with a fish-spirit is found, he vows to take care of it.
	210	'92	Patariro Weird Tales: The Strange Report of the Inma Tea Shop	[Edo Period AU] Spirit Investigator Bancoran invites Patariro to a bordello with him, but what's his real purpose?
	214	'92	The Mystery of the Goblin	[Edo Period AU] The daughter of a rich man is under some kind of spell, and Patariro knows who did it, but not why.
	224	'93	Master-thief Young Crow	[Edo Period AU] There is a thief in Edo robbing from the rich and giving to the poor, but how can he be in two places at once? Is there more than one?
	205	'91	Germophobe	Tamanegi #3000's obsession with cleanliness is beginning to inconvenience everyone, but Patalliro has a plan.
	206	'91	Previous Reincarnations Machine	There is a serial killer targeting specific women, and Patalliro suspects influences from a past life.
	208	'92	Playing with Toy Blocks	The tamanegi want to know why Patalliro always picks on them, and he explains that it's the natural order of things. After all, as king he's on the top of the pyramid. Until the pyramid gets reversed.
	209	'92	At the Museum	A famous artist asks Bancoran's aid to steal back his painting from the museum, and Bancoran calls in Patalliro.
	211	'92	The Heroic Tamanegi	There's a rat problem in the palace, and Patalliro makes poison balls to take care of the problem, but Tamanegi #92 eats one by mistake. There's no antidote and the clock is ticking, so he no longer fears death...
	Article by Tooru Tezuka, "A manga that has 'substance with no substance' and a manga that has 'no substance with no substance'"
29	Patalliro Mystery
	Mystery 1	'91	The Puzzle of the Greek Icon	Bancoran is up to his old tricks again, and Maraich has left him again. Patalliro brings him along to a convention of rich men and their art prizes to cheer him up, but...
	Mystery 2	'91	Sapoo's Secret	A young man stumbles into the London branch of the "Malynera Private Detectives" office, and begs for help in finding a woman named Sapoo.
	Mystery 3	'92	Dracula's Mirror	Patalliro is being a cheepskate again and staying with Count Dracul and his wife while attending a convention. But that night the wife commits suicide!
	Mystery 4	'92	A Week Has Seven Days	A woman named Samantha has been murdered and the culprit must be one of her six boyfriends, one of which is a tamanegi. But why did she have six boyfriends, and who was the murderer?
	Mystery 5	'92	The Devil's Lure	Tamanegi #71 has been given the key to a random stranger's house, but just as he arrives at the house the master is murdered! The man's brother accuses #71 of the murder.
	Mystery 6	'92	Patalliro's Verdict	A rich, paranoid American vacationing in Malynera is murdered, and Patalliro must solve the mystery.
	Mystery 7	'92	The Evil Eye	A countess has fallen from a balcony and died, and the only witness is her 7-year-old granddaughter, who says she saw a ghost. Hewitt is on the case!
	Mystery 8	'92	The Christmas Eve Affair	Patalliro has decided that the Tamanegi are being too wasteful, so in order to tech them the value of being parsimonious he takes them begging on the streets of London.
	Mystery 9	'93	Girard's Inheritance	A mathamatician named Girard who fled Germany during WWII has hidden a dangerous secret in his house, but died without telling anyone the location. Patalliro is called in to help find it.
	Mystery 10	'93	Dojison	Tamanegi #155 has been violently murdered. Is there any connection to his sudden recent friending of "Dojison" Donason?
	Mystery 11	'93	Pata-Bother	Patalliro drops in on Maraich with a strange story about the murder of a despot in central Africa.
	Article by Alice Arisugawa, "The Tyranical Great Detective"
30	King of Puns
	212	'92	King of Puns	Someone is murdering mob bosses in America, but no one knows how they're doing it. Their blood vessels seem singed...
	213	'92	Hewitt, Fainting in Agony	Hewitt begs for Patalliro's help to find the girl he met on an airplane ride. Patalliro has another idea...
	215	'92	What is this?!	Has Tamanegi #77 lost his mind? He's asking Patalliro for a raise! He desperately needs to impress the mother of the woman he wants to marry.
	216	'92	Redial	Bancoran has been too good lately. Maraich tries hitting redial whenever he comes home, but all he gets is the time recording. What is Bancoran hiding?
	218	'92	All Friends	Bancoran's friend Richard Barton is in love, and Bancoran finds himself playing matchmaker. Unfortunately, Vanessa is in love with Bancoran....
	225	'93	The Ruling Family Is Eternal	Patalliro wants to set up a class to teach about the ruling family of Malynera to jr. high boys, and unfortunately he assigns #30 to be the teacher. #30 has a weakness for young boys...
	229	'93	Infinite Patalliros	Little things have been disappearing around the palace, like slices of cheese and diamonds, and the Tamanegi think they're starting to see things...
	230	'93	Ryuki vs. Mister?	While trying to help MI-6 with a case, the Tamanegi bring a very unexpected guest back from the past...
	231	'93	Lots of Boys	Maraich becomes inexplicably attractive to hordes of young boys. It's up to Patalliro to find and solve the problem!
	232	'93	Sunrise, Sunset	A desperate man tries to pull an insurance scam on his priceless fish, but unfortunately pulls it while Patalliro is staying with him in the hopes of purchasing the fish. Can Patalliro figure it out?
	Article by Arimasa Osawa, "With Respect and Compassion"
Tankoubon List Vol. 1~15 | Vol. 31~45 | Vol. 46~47