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.
Bunko List Vol. 1~15 | Vol. 16~30 | Vol. 46~47 |
Vol. | No. | Date | Title | Teaser |
31 | Welcome to a Strange World |
217 | '92 | The Maelstrom | Patalliro borrowed 5 million dollars from G-country a year ago, and now it's due. But paying it back is going to be tricky, since he's spent it! |
219 | '32 | The Black Goat's Tail | Patalliro's chef learns how dangerous it is to make wishes on black goat tails given to him by mysterious old crones. |
220 | '93 | Dressmaker of Darkness | A man named Godard has the art of clothing design down so well that his expensive clothes become addictive. |
221 | '93 | Godard's Ghost | Maraich has turned into a cat and the Tamanegi into a menagerie of animals, due to some suspicious underwear. |
222 | '92 | Unending Journey | Patalliro travels for 2.5 million years to a far gallaxy to return an alien pet he unwittingly stole. |
223 | '93 | Unlucky Lottery | Patalliro works up a scheme to help Bancoran flush out a criminal hiding in Malynera. Just buying a ticket gets you ten thousand yen, but if you're unlucky enough to have your number called... |
226 | '93 | The Ghost/Cockroach Alliance | Patalliro overhears the cockroaches planning an alliance with the ghosts to take over the earth, and now his life is in danger. |
227 | '93 | East to the Sewers, West to Eternity | The sewers of Malynera connect to everywhere on the globe. Patalliro has discovered aliens living in the sewers beneath America, but his new friends are in danger. |
228 | '93 | The Murder of Claris | Claris has been murdered, and all clues point to one young man, but Patalliro is suspicious... |
233 | '94 | From the Ocean's Depths | It's been one year since Tamanegi 49 was half-eaten by a shark, and it seems that his ghost is hauntng the castle. |
Article by Hirokatsu Kihara, a collector of the bizarre: "From 'fear' to 'laughter', my Patalliro shock" |
32 | The Circumstances of Love in Malynera |
234 | '94 | The Counterfeit Money Rebellion | Someone has gotten to the secret money presses and made counterfeit Malynera bills, but why? And who? |
236 | '94 | The Icecream War | Two icecream companies are duking it out on Malynera soil, and the presidents' children are bearing the brunt of it. |
238 | '94 | Michael and Janet | Patalliro is called in by the CIA to use his expertise to judge which is better: a German cyborg soldier or a French bio commando. But there's more to the story.... |
243 | '94 | Gags Again, With or Without Truth | The Tamanegi make a bet with Patalliro that he can't go an entire day without telling or doing a gag. So he solves the mystery of the company president look-alike for the tamanegi's younger sister as a straight tale. ... Right? |
245 | '94 | The Hidden Wise Ruler | The Tamanegi find a discrepency in the monthly accounts. A large sum of money has been set to automatic withdrawal for more than ten years. Tracing the money leads them to... a famous inventor who is Patalliro's older half-brother? The young man challenges Patalliro to prove he is worthy to be king of Malynera. |
247 | '94 | Ama-Ban | Tamanegi Beta Centauri 3 is also known as "Ama-Ban", short for "Amateur Bancoran". But his love 'em and leave 'em skills aren't quite perfected yet.... |
248 | '94 | Kingdom of Snow | Patalliro travels to see his ailing aunt. During his visit, his cousin is charged with the murder of the cabinet minister who was locked in a power struggle with his mother. Can Patalliro figure out who the real killer was? |
251 | '95 | Space Bobbles | Aliens crash-land in Malynera just as Patalliro is giving a tour of his space program to some rather suspect third-world nations. And then their tech disappears in the middle of the night.... |
253 | '95 | Beautiful Helene | Patalliro visits a jeweler in London who is being possesed by a diamond. What is it trying to tell them? |
254 | '95 | The Cafeteria Lady | The Pettango military building has a much loved (if rough-mouthed) cafeteria lady who is keeping her occupation a secret from her son. But he's coming on a suprise visit! The military branches work together to help her stage a cover for the night. |
250 | '95 | Having Met | [Edo Period AU] A murder in one of Patariro's inns, and Bankoran is going to haul him in as the criminal if he can't solve the mysterious words scrawled in blood by the victim: "Aimite"? |
Article by Tomoko Nakajima, member of Othello: "In Love, I Don't Want Any 'Promises'" |
33 | Patalliro Martial Arts Register |
235 | '94 | Mr. Hubert's Calamity | The organization which has always insured Patalliro's diamond shipments is mysteriously refusing to ensure shipments to Asia, saying it's too risky. Patalliro investigates to see what has changed. |
237 | '94 | The White Lizard | The Street Fighters of the world are gathering in London to have a match to determine their no. 1, and the prize money is being provided by the criminal organization the White Lizard. Bancoran goes undercover. |
237 | '94 | The Strange Sword of "Muramasa" | [Edo Period AU] Patariro ends up with a demon-possessed sword that everyone wants to get their hands on. |
239 | '94 | Bluff | One of the Tamanegi has speculated and lost 2 million dollars ofthe London embassy's money, and Bancoran decides to help him trick it out of Patalliro through poker. |
240 | '94 | The Shinsentai: Evil Memorandum | The new corps of the Tamanegi that Patalliro has created has gotten out of hand, terrorizing the people of Malynera. Is their instructor to blame? |
241 | '94 | Buffalo Dojo Bloody Tide of Illicit Love | Maraich goes to visit his old knife teacher, who is turning 100, and there he meets the son of the former instructor of the Tamanegi Shinsentai. |
242 | '94 | The Shinsentai: The True Particulars | The truth comes out about the two battling instructors and the reason for the Shinsentai terrorizing the populace. |
244 | '94 | Demon Mystery | Patalliro must solve a demon's murder, or else the demons of Patalliro will kill him and everyone in the palace. |
246 | '94 | The Great Detectives' Crime | Patalliro attends a meeting of the Great Detectives Fan Club. A man is murdered, and everyone is claiming to be the culprit-- except Patalliro. Veeery suspicious, thinks the police investigator. |
249 | '95 | Special Investigator | A thief is caught in Malynera, and when an Interpol investigator shows up to question him, the man is murdered in a locked room which no one entered. Patalliro knows who must have done it. |
252 | '95 | Getta Way | Hewitt shows up in Malynera wearing geta, and Patalliro uses his sharpened deductive skills to figure out why. |
Article by novelist Reito Nikaido: "Patalliro, Still Shining All the More!" |
34 | Customs and Manners of the Tamanegi |
255 | '95 | Cenerentola (Cinderella) | The Tamanegi are being tricked one after another, despite their iron determination, falling for a young prostitute named Cener who uses them to collect money for him. But who is behind Cener? |
257 | '95 | Light Blue Julian | One of Maraich's old master's former students has reappeared, determined to break into the assassin's trade by making a name for himself fighting Maraich. And to ensure Maraich's cooperation he has kidnapped Figaro!? |
264 | '95 | Close Contact of the Phantasmic Kind | One of Patalliro's properties is haunted by a terrible ghost-- So terrible that Tamanegi 44 flees Patalliro's wrath rather than exorcise it. ...Or is there more to it? |
265 | '95 | Cocktail House | Patalliro finds himself with an inconsolable Maraich; Bancoran has fallen in love with a rent boy at the Cocktail House! Bancoran spends every night there, without fail. Patalliro knows Bancoran has more refined taste than that, so he goes to find out the real story. |
266 | '95 | Diet Bizarre | Patalliro purchases the secret essence of holy men's diets and uses it as a base for a diet regimen, with Maraich as the guinea pig. But he didn't count on the side effects... |
267 | '95 | Fairy Eyes | More men from Maraich's past, this time fellow assassins from his time in the Diamond Syndicate. Fairy Eyes, so called because of his mismatched eyes, has been spotted in disguise at a church orphanage. Once the most cruel and uncaring of whom he killed on his way to his objective; can Maraich let this situation go by unchallenged? |
268 | '95 | The Riddle at London Embassy | Two young men fleeing an upset boy brandishing a knife run into the London Embassy for shelter, and when the Tamanegi close the panic doors it's obvious no one could have escaped. But one of the young men is nowhere to be found! |
270 | '96 | The Problem With Assessments | Patalliro discovers that his palace is overflowing with Tamanegi (400!), and issues an ultimatum: No more! But when it's pointed out that it's unfair to the trainees struggling so hard, he agrees. New Tamanegi can enter, but only the top rank, and for every Tamanegi added, someone in the bottom ranks gets the boot.... |
272 | '96 | The Miracle Hand | One of the Tamanegi runs into a boy suffering from an unknown ailment, and the simple touch of his hand seems to take away the boy's pain. He's not able to duplicate this miracle on any of his friends, but he falls more and more in love with the boy.... |
278 | '96 | Extra-Dimensional Trouble | Following an earthquake, one of the new Tamanegi disappears inside the palace. Everyone remembers a similar, unsolved case from five years earlier. It turns out they were both sucked into another dimension. Can Patalliro save them before a monster gets them? |
Article by theater chairman and essayist Wefu Wakagi: "Unexpected Developments" |
35 | Patalliro Investigation Department |
256 | '95 | Sea Turtle Soup | Patalliro is called in by a former Tamanegi to help solve the murder of a Sea Turtle lover drowned in his own tank. |
258 | '95 | The ABC Murder Case | Patalliro destroys the palace during an experiment, and the president of the company he is thinking of hiring to rebuild it spontaneously combusts. Patalliro smells a rat. |
259 | '95 | At Izmir | Bancoran and Maraich win a family holiday, and Patalliro tags along. But they aren't the only male couple with a miracle baby!? Just what IS Figaro!? |
262 | '95 | X File | A spaceship crashes to earth and Patalliro is called in to help investigate. But something is killing everyone off one by one! |
263 | '95 | The Imperfect Crime | A mafia man has sealed himself in a huge block of cement to avoid facing charges pressed by the CIA, and Hewitt calls in Patalliro. |
269 | '96 | The Tamanegi's Obstruction | Somehow Patalliro's project to construct a satellite missile program keeps getting destroyed, and he begins to suspect sabotage. |
271 | '96 | Good Character | While pestering the vice-director of the street-cleaning department of Washington D.C., Patalliro becomes involved in helping him to clear his lover of a murder accusation. |
277 | '96 | Mystery Zone | Patalliro ponders the story of the invincible man, and terrifies Maraich with a tale without an ending. |
279 | '96 | Coin Killer Patacoran | While impersonating Bancoran, Patalliro lands in more trouble than he bargained for. |
281 | '96 | The Busy Corpse | A Dog Lover is murdered in nine different ways, while locked in a panic room that can't be locked from the outside. Patalliro is called in to solve the crime. |
Article by Mitsutoshi Kyo (assistant professor at Keio University): "Solitary Patalliro" |
36 | Greater Edo Specialty: Patariro |
260 | '95 | The Picture Scroll of Beautiful Boy Homosexuality in Greater Edo | [Edo Period AU] The beautiful boys have been disappearing from the tea houses in the pleasure district! Bankoran comes to borrow Patariro's Tamanegi for surveillance. |
261 | '95 | The Picture Scroll of Beautiful Boy Homosexuality in Greater Edo, Part the Second | [Edo Period AU] A new problem related to the pleasure district of Edo. Maraihi (otherwise known as Sakunosuke) begins to investigate a black market trail leading to a tea house, and sees some very *cough* interesting things. |
273 | '96 | Bloodbath Maniac | [Edo Period AU] There's a killer loose in Edo. Introduction of Rorikon Huuittonosuke. |
320 | '98 | Demon Tenement | [Edo Period AU] Patariro is also in the landlord business, but who are his new tenants!? |
280 | '96 | The Food in Malynera | For the first time in his life, Patalliro tries good food, and he's addicted. |
285 | '97 | The Chronicles of Setekura Prosperity | Patalliro introduces the Setekura (seitenkan: sex change) Machine. Only 1 million yen a go! |
286 | '97 | It's Only a Gag, But Patalliro is Deep | The Tamanegi are fed up with being unable to follow Patalliro's puns, and he gives them a lecture. |
287 | '97 | Human-Sucking Demon | There is something lurking in the palace, and the Tamanegi are disappearing one by one.... |
288 | '96 | Paradox | Only Patalliro would hear an old Chinese adage about "What would happen if a spear that could cut anything were to be used against a shield that cannot be pierced" and decide to actually build the things to test the theory, only to realize that to actually use them would create a paradox that would destroy all of existence. And only his Tamanegi would lose the spear.... |
289 | '97 | Angie | Patalliro attempts to stop a disasterous meeting between Maraich and a pretty young thing with papers of international importance whom Bancoran has invited to stay at his apartment. |
Article by author Hiroshi Aramata: "A Collection of Patalliro-esque Conversation" |
37 | Patalliro's Tragedy |
274 | '96 | The Killer of East Kalimantan | Patalliro, unable to escape going to the opening of the new-half cafe, tries to use Hewitt as a distraction tactic. Unfortunately, Hewitt seems to inspire Bat-mama's daughter to murder.... |
275 | '96 | Patalliro's Tragedy | Patalliro has never loved cross-dressers, but this deep-seated horror is new. What exactly happened on that trip back to Malynera when he was separated from his Tamanegi? |
276 | '96 | East Kalimantan Again | Patalliro is confronted with the very source of his new horror for cross-dressers. But his detective instincts override the brain-numbing horror when one cross-dresser is nearly murdered in front of him. |
290 | '97 | Love's Wild Warrior | Not one, but TWO alien spaceships have crashed down near East Kalimantan. Can Patalliro end a generations-long conflict between two planets with the help of the Bancoran Bacteria? |
295 | '97 | East Kalimantan Yet Again | A young cross-dresser doesn't have the unique skill needed to join East Kalimantan, and somehow gets adopted by the London Embassy staff, to Patalliro's horror. When he encourages Lemon into summoning a demon, he isn't expecting the result.... |
297 | '98 | East Kalimantan Destruction Strategy | Patalliro tries everything to put East Kalimantan out of business, including hiring assasins, but nothing seems to be working. Can he collaborate with a competing cross-dressers' bar, if it means getting rid of Bat-mama and her collection of eccentric young 'ladies'? |
282 | '96 | The Apprentice's Tale | A young man wakes up in a vat and is told that he is a kind of modern-day Frankenstein, put together by Patalliro from various corpses. He is entered into the Tamanegi as an apprentice, to the disgust of those who worked hard to join.... |
283 | '96 | Keukegen | A Tamanegi tries to commit suicide after being cruelly rejected when his lover discovers his early baldness. But Patalliro's solution might just be worse than the original problem.... |
284 | '97 | Maraich War | Maraich has been discovered by a famous painter, who wants to use him as a nude study, but Bancoran refuses to allow it. Patalliro cooks up a scheme to kidnap Maraich, so that he can profit from the money the painter offers Maraich. |
Article by animation director Rintarou: "Weird Tale 'Patalliro Parody Song'" |
38 | Tsutakazura Boys Opera Troupe |
291 | '97 | Pretty Boy Export Scheme | Patalliro realizes a new way to make money: loan out Malynera's pretty boys for a hefty fee. This scheme can't possibly backfire.... |
292 | '97 | Neo-Romance Chushingura | The Tsutakazura Boys Opera Troupe is putting on its first performance (with a nice role for Patalliro, of course!). Will Patalliro be able to resist improvising? |
298 | '97 | A Tsutakazura Tale | The Tsutakazura boys really, really can't take their alcohol, much to the distress of their Tamanegi boyfriends. |
296 | '97 | A House Crawling in Darkness | Running away from work, Patalliro find himself in the middle of nowhere, and asks for a room for the night at a very strange house.... |
299 | '98 | Cruel Man | Maraich is horrified because he seems to be losing Bancoran to... A WOMAN!? Who is this girl that Bancoran can't seem to take his eyes off of? |
300 | '98 | Space Vampire | The Space Vampires are invading earth, set to suck all our souls dry, but their literal-mindedness may be their undoing.... The Purple Tamanegi are introduced. |
301 | '98 | The Purple Tamanegi | Migel passes the difficult exam to become a member of the Purple Tamanegi: a lower branch of Tamanegi, teens who are sent abroad for a year as lovers, to spy and report back to Malynera. Can he do it? |
310 | '98 | The Difference Between "Beauty" and "Beastly" | Patalliro thinks he has received an invitation to the elite "Beauty Boys Club" and rushes off to their headquarters. But a closer reading of the fax by the Tamanegi reveals that it's actually the "Beastly Boys Club". |
302 | '97 | Misprint (short) | For a few minutes only, reality has hiccuped, and every word with a "ka" in it becomes a "ki". Can Patalliro make a fortune during this extremely rare, once-in-10-billion-years event? |
303 | '97 | Wish Upon a Star (short) | Patalliro makes a wish upon a star for unlimited wishes, but soon it gets out of control.... |
304 | '97 | Mr. Anderson (short) | "Anderson" is a common name. Perhaps too common, as suddenly a criminal named Anderson is on the loose and hundreds of the wrong Andersons get in Patalliro's way. |
305 | '98 | Demonic Wallet (short) | A wallet that slips out of anyone's possession within moments of getting picked up. Can Patalliro win against it? |
306 | '98 | Demon Town (short) | In a case of mistaken identity, Patalliro and his Tamanegi look exactly like demons depicted in a village's old scrolls.... |
Article by author Yu Nagashima: "A child singing praises to the freedom of adults" |
39 | Patalliro The Arranged Marriage Interview Scheme |
293 | '97 | Lucky Girl | The girl of Patalliro's dreams literally falls out of the sky. She jumped out of her plane!? Is she suicidal... or just too lucky for her own good? |
294 | '97 | Again | It seems Patalliro is being haunted by a beautiful ghost. Can he get the spirit he loves a body? |
307 | '98 | Don't Lose, Hewitt | Hewitt's gone and fallen in love with another girl, this time the youngest in a family that he's got a mission to protect. But is everything as it seems? |
308 | '98 | There Will Always Be Secret Weapons | The inventor employed by MI-6 is so destructive that Bancoran finds himself sending the inventions on to Patalliro... with unanticipated results. |
309 | '98 | Meeting of the Assassination Club | Patalliro finds himself out-smarted in a business deal by a rich young man, and uses his assassination club to wreck his vengeance. |
327 | '99 | Shojirie | Patalliro's normal cook is out sick with a cold, and the replacement is a whiz at cooking up dishes that look normal but contain no real meat. Patalliro is impressed by the mimicry. But will the new cook become too obsessed? |
328 | '99 | Go-rin-pics | Patalliro comes up with a clever plan to host a new international sports competition. But he intends to do everything possible to see that Malynera wins all of the prizes -- even booby-trap the race course... |
329 | '99 | Cigarette Smoke | Patalliro discovers one of his Tamanegi is very good at stacking the deck, and takes him along to a nest of tricksters to try and win some money. But all is not as it seems... |
353 | '00 | Patalliro's Grandmother | Patalliro's grandmother is broken, he tells us. Step back. Patalliro has a grandmother!? Once the Tamanegi get over the shock, Patalliro goes to America to help celebrate his frightening grandmother's 90th birthday. What happens to her at the party? |
311 | '98 | A Day In the Anti-Universe | Patalliro wakes up one morning and it's pitch black. Everything is completely wrong! Where is he? |
312 | '98 | Hanako-san | The legendary Hanako, ghost which lives in the toilet of Japanese schools everywhere, has infested the palace?! Patalliro investigates. |
313 | '98 | Living Spirit, Dead Spirit | Patalliro and the Tamanegi are debating which is more frightening, a living spirit or a dead spirit, when one chimes in with a chilling tale from his childhood in Japan. |
314 | '98 | Pata-Flash | One day Patalliro is struck by lightning and develops extra-ordinary powers. But does he understand the consequences? |
315 | '98 | Dental Care | Patalliro discovers that it's much easier to brush your teeth if you take your skull out first. |
Article by musician Toru Takeuchi, "Patalliro and Rock and Me" |
40 | Assassin From the Demon World |
330 / 335 | '99 | Bancoran vs. Beelzebub (originally published in several chapters) | Patalliro poses a possible future threat to Beelzebub, so he sends his assassins after the young king. While attempting to assassinate Patalliro, one of Beelzebub's minor demons with past ties to Bancoran attempts to kill Bancoran instead. Bancoran resists thanks to the professor's special bullets, but it arouses Beelzebub's interest enough that Bancoran becomes the target instead of Patalliro. Can the professor, Patalliro, and the Tamanegi protect an incredulous Bancoran from the hordes of Hell? |
336 | '99 | Demon's Servant | Astaroth bribes Patalliro with the lure of his ancestor's millions, and Patalliro gleefully signs over his soul. Only he's horrified to learn that he's being sent to the East Kalimantan-! |
342 | '00 | Dawidh's Talisman | Astaroth calls on Patalliro's services to steal Dawidh's Talisman from the high security of the Vatican. |
343 | '00 | Disaster for a Prince of Hell | Mephistopheles goes after Patalliro on Beelzebub's orders, but in a comedy of mistaken identities, ends up putting on a drag show at the East Kalimantan.... |
344 | '00 | Demonic Transformation | Knowing that Mephistopheles is out for blood to avenge his humiliation, Patalliro creates the perfect defense. |
345 | '00 | Where's Patalliro? | Tensions between Beelzebub and Astaroth escalate. |
Article by author Minako Fuji: "Otherwise Known as -- The Bishounen Killer" |
41 | The Tamanegi Army In Chaos |
319 | '98 | White Maggot | A pretty and neurotic Chinese genius is planning to set off a nuclear explosion in London. |
321 | '99 | White Maggot's Crime | Is the White Maggot really tamed? Someone attacks both him and Maraich and it's up to Patalliro to figure out how it was done. |
320 | '98 | The Problem Solver | Number Yaoyorozu is always called "The Problem Solver", but one day he may go too far in finding ways to make a buck.... |
352 | '00 | Hell Party | Patalliro feels that something strange is going on amongst the Tamanegi and bribes Maraich to go in undercover as a Tamanegi recruit to figure it out. |
356 | '00 | Miscalculation | Bat is set to open up a school to train new cross-dressers for East Kalimantan, and plans to build it right next to the embassy in London. Patalliro plots to ruin his plans. |
357 | '00 | The Black Sea Scrolls | Ancient scrolls have been found by one of the Tamanegi in a cave near the Black Sea, and Patalliro dreams of profits. But then they lose contact with the Tamanegi -- What's happened? |
358 | '00 | The Dreaded Pi-Life | The dreaded Pi-Life is terrorizing Malynera, and a spy trying to find out the truth about Malynera's nuclear arsenal intends to turn it to his advantage. |
363 | '01 | The Man Who was Called the God of Death | Patalliro works to learn the truth about the general called "The God of Death", before selling any nuclear power supplies to his country. |
316 | '98 | Crap Change (short) | It would be the luckiest day in Patalliro's life, but all he wants is to get to a toilet and his good luck keeps interfering. |
317 | '98 | Illusions are a Favorite (short) | Patalliro doesn't care for the magician entertaining him, until real monsters get loose and he's impressed by the "realism" of the illusions. |
318 | '98 | An Auspicious Sign (short) | Patalliro finds a tea stalk floating in his tea cup, and the results are so favorable he demands more stalks, and more, and more.... |
Article by critic Yoshihiro Yonezawa: "How Exactly Did Patalliro Become the Eternal Gag Superhero!?" |
42 | The Diary of Echigoya Patariro of Edo |
354 | '00 | The Wanyudou Demon | [Edo Period AU] Bankoran invites Patariro along as his baggage boy on a trip to Kyoto. They get lost along the way and stop a mother's suicide, then bring the demon who murdered her son to justice. |
355 | '00 | Amefuri Kozou | [Edo Period AU] Bankoran and Patariro return from their journey to Kyoto. Along the way a young boy begins traveling with them without Bankoran's knowledge and they fight the goblin younger brother of the rain god. |
367 | '01 | The Alphabet Group | [Edo Period AU] Tradesmen are being murdered in Edo, alphabetically by their trade. Can Bankoran and Patariro stop the Alphabet Group before they strike again? |
346 | '00 | I'll Change My Name | Consult a proper medium and change your name to something auspicious to bring yourself good fortune. Patalliro decides to cash in on this scheme.... |
362 | '01 | 3D Maraich | Patalliro has a scheme to build a hologram device. The Tamanegi in Malynera are on to him, so he decides to test it on a poor, lovelorn Tamanegi in the London Embassy.... |
370 | '01 | Haunted House | A former study-abroad student in Malynera is now marrying a king, and the foreign press is swarming Malynera to look for juicy gossip. Tamanegi Baryshnikov went to school with her, but he's refusing to talk. Well, except to tell ghost stories.... |
372 | '01~'02 | The Deeply Bizarre Woman | 75 Tamanegi have disappeared--one by one, but it takes everyone a long time to make a connection between that and the strange woman who bought 75 buns from the vendor outside the palace. |
337 | '99 | The Chronicle of the End of the Thieves of Greater Edo (short) | [Edo Period AU] Patariro decides to make a profit by selling thieving permits to the thieves of Edo. He certainly didn't expect the law enforcement to believe the permits, but now he has to face Bankoran's rage. Can he think of a solution? |
323 | '98 | The Rain-Man (short) | Everyone knows Rain-Women, women who bring bad weather with them wherever they go -- but a Rain-Man? Still, there is a boy in America who claims to have never seen the sun. Patalliro doesn't believe it, and invites the boy to come live in Malynera, but soon the island may sink beneath all of the rain! |
324 | '98 | Rotating Neck (short) | One of Patalliro's customers asks him if he might know a young man who could marry a young lady of his aquaintance, with a reward for finding such a young man. The only problem is that the young lady's kneck stretches out at night. Patalliro quickly finds the Tamanegi with the heaviest sleeping habits.... |
325 | '99 | Kingdom of Riddles (short) | Patalliro's plane crashes in the jungle and he and the Tamanegi will be eaten by cannibals unless he can correctly answer their riddles! |
331 | '99 | Cleaning, GO! (short) | One of the Tamanegi is possessed by a cleaning demon, and when they try to exorcise it, it moves into Patalliro! |
333 | '99 | Perpetual Cycle (short) | Animals and plants are perpetually cycling CO2 and oxygen, so what is this connection Patalliro discovers between animals and these new aliens? |
334 | '99 | Spirit Summoning (short) | Patalliro realizes he can make a profit from Tamanegi 44's spirit powers, but 44 warns him that the consequences would be terrible... |
338 | '99 | Antenna (short) | One morning Patalliro wakes up with the ability to replicate any electronic device near him. But why? And how do they stop it before it's too late? |
339 | '99 | How To Manage Anywhere In the Great Outdoors (short) | Patalliro decides to test a new line of Tamanegi wigs which carry anything you'd need in the great outdoors. |
340 | '99 | Money Travels All Over the World (short) | Most suspiciously, Patalliro pays the Tamanegi a year's wages in cash, in advance. ... Where does it keep going? |
341 | '99 | Regressive Therapy (short) | One way to cure phobias is to find out what in a past life caused them. Patalliro decides to test the theory on the Tamanegi by putting them into a trance. |
347 | '99 | Metamorphosis (short) | Patalliro wakes up one morning a beautiful boy. Knowing no one will guess it's him, he sets out to make as much mischief as possible.... |
350 | '00 | The Capsule Enigma (short) | Patalliro creates a pill which will make him invisible to cross-dressers. The only problem is that it's to be taken rectally, and it's... rather large. He orders the Tamanegi to be his guinea pigs, but they take things into their own hands. |
Article by sociologist Yamada Masahiro: "The King of Capitalism" |
43 | The World is Full of Conspiracies!? |
360 | '00 | The Church of Convenience | Patalliro finds a religious sect that seems to be scamming people for their money, but how are they accomplishing their miracles!? |
361 | '01 | Overthrow-Method Murderer | Patalliro kills a weapons collector with one of the man's own toys. Was it a set-up? |
364 | '01 | God Hand | A Junior Tamanegi division is created, but something seems a little off about their megalomaniac trainer.... |
366 | '01 | The Day the Cross-Dressers Came Out | The cross-dressers have come out, and one by one the world's governments crumble. Can Malynera remain standing!? |
368 | '01 | Patalliro Breaks a Bone | Patalliro discovers the old chief of MI6 destitute and homeless, and decides to use him to cause trouble for Bancoran. |
369 | '01 | The Chief's Counterattack | Patalliro's plot was successful in getting the chief his title back, but Bancoran still runs the office. The chief decides to put a stop to it, and Patalliro is only too happy to help him. |
374 | '02 | Food Fighter | One of the Tamanegi convinces Patalliro to put his eating skills to use by entering the Grand Asian Eating Contest Championship. Can Patalliro beat Korean champion Yon Han-Som? |
376 | '02 | The Rip-Off Embassy | Patalliro uses his embassy in London to rope in unsuspecting British subjects and charge them for trespassing, as well as squeeze every penny he can from his Tamanegi, but someone has a plan to get retribution.... |
326 | '99 | Anti-Tamanegi | One of Patalliro's "useless" inventions is secretly stolen and exploited by one of the Tamanegi, who robs from banks all across Europe. |
332 | '99 | The FBI's Crime | Patalliro sneaks off with the CIA's shredded paper, determined to put it back together and make a profit... |
Interview with rock singer and author Otsuki Kenji |
44 | Spy Cat vs. The Demon Cat King |
385 | '03 | Melancholy Change-Up | Whenever Maraich is melancholy or upset, he lets off waves of energy that over-charge Figaro to the point that he can no longer hold onto his shape as a baby. Here it works to his advantage as he tries to save his father's life from the demon cat king. |
387 | '03 | The Demon Cat King's Reverse Single | Figaro pointed the Demon Cat King at Patalliro during their last battle, so he is out for revenge in Malynera. |
388 | '03 | Sardine Soup | A drug smuggling ring is using cat food to smuggle drugs, so Bancoran calls Patalliro in. Only one problem: Patalliro doesn't remember the phone call. |
389 | '03 | MIVI | A member of the cat society is murdered and the only clue is written out in match sticks: MIVI. Patalliro immediately goes to Bancoran for information on how MI-6 might be involved. |
390 | '04 | Olive Oil | Spy Cat's mother has gone missing and he asks Patalliro's help because he thinks she might go to Malynera for their excellent olive oil, which she uses every day. But Patalliro finds her in an even more interesting place... |
378 | '01 | The Cat-Eared Boy | The Tamanegi adopt a cat-eared boy and Patalliro quickly grows jealous of all the attention he gets. |
373 | '02 | Narkissos (Narcissus) | Patalliro's praise of one particular Tamanegi single him out for bullying. He eventually tries suicide by drinking one of Patalliro's noxious medicines, but instead ends up with a terrible case of narcissism that even Bancoran can't cure. |
377 | '02 | Baby Patalliro | When Patalliro was born, the good sorcerers gave him presents of wisdom, luck, health, and wealth. But the sorcerer who was not invited cursed him with death. As his protectors squabled, the new super-genius worked quietly to save himself. |
380 | '02 | The Country of Demons | The Tamanegi accidently let loose an ancient Japanese demon which quickly invites its friends to try to take over the country. |
392 | '98 | Hell's Circus | A rather demonic clown appears, and then an ominous black cloud which stirs the nightmare memories of a young man in the Malynera Air Force. |
348 | '99 | The Food Supply Problem | Nearly all of Malynera's food is imported, so Patalliro decides to cut costs by using the power of imagination and suggestion to feed the Tamanegi. |
349 | '00 | The Legend of Momotarou | Patalliro decides to tackle the problem of exactly how and why Momotarou came out of a peach. |
359 | '00 | Patalliro of the Land of Mirrors | Patalliro buys a magic mirror, and the Patalliro inside the mirror is his complete opposite. The Tamanegi decide they like mirror Patalliro the best.... |
365 | '00 | Loincloth Health Regime | Patalliro decides to try different foodstuffs in loincloths to find the best one for improving health.... |
Article by comedian Tekken: "I and 'Patalliro!'" |
45 | Riddle-Solver Patalliro |
381 | '02 | So-Called Thoroughness | |
382 | '02 | The Dancing Corpse | |
375 | '02 | Patalliro Daughter | |
383 | '03 | Contraption | |
384 | '03 | Dirty Money | |
404 | '05 | Strange Fruit | |
407 | '05 | Fake Pata | |
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