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. 41~60 | Vol. 81~88 |
| Vol. | No. | Date | Title | Teaser |
| 61 | 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! |
| 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. |
| 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.... |
| 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. |
| 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.... |
| 273 | '96 | Bloodbath Maniac | [Edo Period AU] There's a killer loose in Edo. Introduction of Rorikon Huuittonosuke. |
| 62 | 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. |
| 277 | '96 | Mystery Zone | Patalliro ponders the story of the invincible man, and terrifies Maraich with a tale without an ending. |
| 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? |
| 279 | '96 | Coin Killer Patacoran | While impersonating Bancoran, Patalliro lands in more trouble than he bargained for. |
| 63 | 280 | '96 | The Food in Malynera | For the first time in his life, Patalliro tries good food, and he's addicted. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 64 | 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. |
| 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? |
| 65 | 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? |
| 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? |
| 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.... |
| 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.... |
| 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'? |
| 66 | 298 | '97 | A Tsutakazura Tale | The Tsutakazura boys really, really can't take their alcohol, much to the distress of their Tamanegi boyfriends. |
| 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? |
| 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.... |
| 67 | 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. |
| 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". |
| 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. |
| 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.... |
| 68 | 319 | '98 | White Maggot | A pretty and neurotic Chinese genius is planning to set off a nuclear explosion in London. |
| 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.... |
| 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. |
| 322 | '99 | The Problem Solver | 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. |
| 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! |
| 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. |
| 69 | 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... |
| 330 | '99 | Bancoran vs. Beelzebub, Part One of Two | Beelzebub sends his minions after Patalliro, but they underestimate Patalliro's oddities. What is Bancoran's tie to one of the demons? |
| 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! |
| 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... |
| 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... |
| 70 | 335 | '99 | Bancoran vs. Beelzebub, Part Two of Two | Beelzebub's interest has been caught, and 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-! |
| 337 | '99 | The Chronicle of the End of the Greater Edo Thief
(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? |
| 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. |
| 71 | 342 | 2000 | 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. |
| 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.... |
| 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.... |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 351 | '00 | Saiyuki | |
| 72 | 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. |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| 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.... |
| 73 | 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? |
| 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.... |
| 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. |
| 364 | '01 | God Hand | A Junior Tamanegi division is created, but something seems a little off about their megalomaniac trainer.... |
| 365 | '00 | Loincloth Health Regime | Patalliro decides to try different foodstuffs in loincloths to find the best one for improving health.... |
| 74 | 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!? |
| 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? |
| 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. |
| 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.... |
| 371 | '01 | Men and Women | |
| 75 | 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. |
| 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. |
| 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? |
| 375 | '02 | Patalliro Daughter | |
| 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.... |
| 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. |
| 378 | '01 | The Cat-Eared Boy | The Tamanegi adopt a cat-eared boy and Patalliro quickly grows jealous of all the attention he gets. |
| 379 | '02 | Patalliro The Secret Conversation | |
| 76 | 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. |
| 381 | '02 | So-Called Thoroughness | |
| 382 | '02 | The Dancing Corpse | |
| 383 | '03 | Contraption | |
| 384 | '03 | Dirty Money | |
| 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. |
| 386 | '01 | If You Make Someone Take Poison | |
| 77 | 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... |
| 391 | '97 | Story of a Young Homo | |
| 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. |
| 393 | '00 | Sado? | |
| 78 | 394 | '04 | 800 Priestesses | |
| 395 | '04 | Left Behind | |
| 396 | '04 | Another Strange Tale of the Shinsengumi | |
| 397 | '04 | The Duke's Ring | |
| 398 | '04 | Trade Genius | |
| 399 | '04 | Cook of Darkness | |
| 400 | '04 | Camellia Chapter, Tale of Genji | |
| 401 | '04 | Once Again, The Tale of Genji | |
| 402 | '05 | Counterattack Toward the Empire | |
| 403 | '01 | The Bath Room Mystery | |
| 79 | 404 | '05 | Strange Fruit | |
| 405 | '05 | Dealings With the Demon World | |
| 406 | '05 | Midas | |
| 407 | '05 | Fake Pata | |
| 408 | '05 | All Kinds of Tamanegi | |
| 409 | '05 | Pata-chan in Disguise | |
| 410 | '06 | Xanadu | |
| 80 | 411 | '06 | Heirless Patalliro | |
| 412 | '06 | Positive Mind Circuit | |
| 413 | '06 | Horror Castle | |
| 414 | '06 | Nuhhehho | |
| 415 | '06 | Patalliro's Marriage | |
| 416 | '06 | The Memory Glass | |
| 417 | '06 | A Person of Positive Mind | |
| 418 | '07 | Magic Book | |
| 419 | '07 | Spiritual | |
Tankoubon List
Vol. 1~20 | Vol. 21~40 | Vol. 41~60 | Vol. 81~88 |
