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
Vol. 1~20 | Vol. 21~40 | Vol. 61~80 | Vol. 81~88 |
| Vol. | No. | Date | Title | Teaser |
| 41 | 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! |
| 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. |
| 42 | 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? |
| 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... |
| 43 | 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. |
| 44 | 189 | '89 | Vulgar Fellow | Patalliro asks Goldman for help in setting up Bancoran, using their uncanny resemblance. |
| 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? |
| 45 | 194 | '90 | Human Affairs Director, Patariro | [Edo Period AU] Patariro is in charge of choosing a work force of criminal laborers. |
| 195 | '90 | Sumo Wrestler Soaring in Space | Despite argument, 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. |
| 46 | 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. |
| 47 | 204 | '91 | Figaro | Figaro is NOT a normal child. He's much too advanced, and what's this about the demon world?! |
| 48 | 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. |
| 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... |
| 49 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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! |
| 50 | 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? |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 51 | 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. |
| 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? |
| 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! |
| 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! |
| 52 | 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.... |
| 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. |
| Mystery 8 | '92 | The Christmas Eve Affair | Patalliro has decided that the Tamanegi are being too wasteful, so in order to teach 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. |
| 53 | 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... |
| 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? |
| 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... |
| 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. |
| 54 | 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... |
| 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! |
| 55 | 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? |
| 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. |
| 234 | '94 | The Counterfeit Money Rebellion | Someone has gotten to the secret money presses and made counterfeit Malynera bills, but why? And who? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 56 | 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. |
| 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.... |
| 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./td> |
| 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. |
| 57 | 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 58 | 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. |
| 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"? |
| 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.... |
| 252 | '95 | Getta Way | Hewitt shows up in Malynera wearing geta, and Patalliro uses his sharpened deductive skills to figure out why. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 59 | 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. |
| 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!? |
| 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!? |
| 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. |
| 60 | 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. |
| 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? |
Tankoubon List
Vol. 1~20 | Vol. 21~40 | Vol. 61~80 | Vol. 81~88 |
