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. 41~60 | Vol. 61~80 | Vol. 81~88 |
Vol. | No. | Date | Title | Teaser |
21 | 77 | '83 | Fifty Pieces of Gold | Patalliro has a huge pile of gold and the Tamanegi are very suspicious of how he got it. |
78 | '84 | Master Thief | An old Malyneran diamond shows up in an English museum, and Patalliro goes to steal it back. |
79 | '84 | Tamanegi Youth Corps | The oldest Tamanegi decide it's time to start training their children to be the next generation of Tamanegi. |
80 | '84 | The Eight Years' Wonder | A strange boy is attacking all young bishounen in London. What's his secret? |
81 | '84 | Patalliro's Introduction to Important Family Ceremonies | The Tamanegi find some noticable gaps in Patalliro's education. |
82 | '84 | Maraich | A girl is looking for her father who disappeared in South America many years ago. Ban is exhausted, so Maraich takes the case for him. |
22 | 83 | '84 | The Most | Patalliro dreams that he is his ancestor, and is a servant of the great devil Astaroth. |
84 | '84 | The Forest of Blank Trusts | Astaroth and Beelzebub continue their underhanded war, and Astaroth and Patalliro are trapped in the forest. |
85 | '84 | Solomon's Ring | Astaroth searches for an advantage in his fight against Beelzebub. |
86 | '84 | Magic War | Devils and angels fight for the soul of a recently departed pope. |
87 | '84 | Behind the Cathode-Ray Tube | The makers of cheap horror thrill shows decide to try for the real thing. Astaroth isn't pleased. |
23 | 88 | '84 | Campus Demon | Astaroth is still in hiding in the human world. This time at an all-girls school. |
89 | '84 | Portrait | A two-hundred year old protrait leads to trouble for Astaroth and his servants. |
90 | '84 | The 6th Travels Alone | Patalliro the 6th is seperated from the others and meets a most unexpected old man. |
91 | '84 | Edelweiss | Patalliro wakes up just in time to meet Maraich's half-sister. |
92 | '84 | Extensive Inheritance | A man that Bancoran helped many years ago leaves his fortune to him, but there are complications. |
93 | '84 | A Day in the Life of the Princess | Roman Holiday a la Mineo Maya. |
24 | 94 | '84 | Strayed Tamanegi | New Tamanegi are joining, so Patalliro gives them a cautionary tale. |
95 | '84 | Penpal | Patalliro told his penpal that he is 17 and gorgeous. Now she's pulling a surprise visit. |
96 | '84 | Happiness Machine | To get out of work, Patalliro invents the happiness machine, which makes everything appear wonderful to those who've swallowed it. |
97 | '84 | Mecha-Pata | Patalliro's next scheme is a robot version of himself, but the plan backfires when the robot gets sent on vacation in his place. |
98 | '84 | Hewitt's Misfortune | Patalliro bargains with Hewitt to test his newest invention for CIA work: a flying suit. |
99 | '85 | Lord Trouble | Patalliro sells a diamond by mistake, and tricks Super Cat into stealing it back for him. |
25 | 100 | 85 | The Snowman Repays a Favor | Patalliro does an unselfish deed, and earns unending gratitude in return. |
101 | '85 | Happening | Patalliro is cured from Fugu poisoning by an alien medicine. Bancoran takes up bonsai. |
102 | '85 | Operation Obliteration | The KGB is after Bancoran again, and this time they've kidnapped Hewitt in their search for secrets. |
103 | '85 | Season of the White Flower | Something has crashed to earth in Malynera, and a strange white flower is blooming. World peace is a good thing, right? |
104 | '85 | Hidemaro | Hidemaro has decided that Maraich is his Big Brother, and he won't be disuaded. |
105 | '85 | Invitation | Hidemaro's strange resistance to Bancoran has the MI-6 agent in a slump. |
26 | 106 | '85 | Pata and the Section Chief and the Female Director | Sanders pulls Patalliro into his plot to investigate a private invention company. |
107 | '85 | Lady Julie | Director Julie was so impressed by Bancoran that she bribes Sanders for his services. |
108 | '85 | Kaleidoscope | MI-6 has been infiltrated again? Bancoran sends for the kaleidoscope so that he can see into his underlings' real hearts, but what does Patalliro see in Bancoran's heart? |
109 | '85 | The Reijutsu Affair | Ghosts are haunting the diamond processing center, and it's up to Tamanegi #44 to save the day. |
110 | '85 | The Griffin Etching | While stuck in rural France by a storm, Patalliro notices an etching by the famous Griffin in his host's home. |
27 | 111 | '85 | Wedding Bell | Someone is mugging fashion models for their wedding dresses, and Patalliro notices a pattern. |
112 | '85 | A Certain Experiment | Patalliro wants to build a robot that can give birth, and a too-clever safe-breaker gives him the chance. |
113 | '85 | It's Not a Joke | There are some disturbing coincidences between baby Jesus and his historical namesake... |
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. |
28 | 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. |
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! |
29 | 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. |
123 | '86 | Challenge to Dumont | Maraich knows where Dumont will strike next, and he takes steps to capture the thief. |
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! |
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. |
30 | 127 | '86 | Malynera Disappears | Malynera is gone without a trace, sucked into the Bermuda Triangle. |
128 | '86 | Dumont vs. the Cat Army | Dumont's henchman makes a mistake when he injures the housecat of their next victim. |
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 | 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. |
31 | 132 | '86 | Time, Stop! | Patalliro finds a way to cheat the Time Warp and stop time. Very useful for bank robberies. |
133 | '86 | Spidertama | One of the Tamanegi spares the life of a spider, and it grants him one wish. |
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. |
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... |
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. |
32 | 137 | '86 | Mikhail Bomb | The S--- agent Ice Mikhail is working with Dumont?! |
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. |
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. |
33 | 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. |
34 | 148 | '87 | The Angel's Soldiers | Patalliro invents a machine for telepathy, which leads him to discover a mysterious figure and 6 psy kids. |
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. |
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. |
35 | 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. |
155 | '87 | Pink Sigh | Patalliro's newest invention swaps people's faces, and he's determined to give it a test run on Bancoran. |
36 | 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. |
37 | 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. |
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. |
162 | '88 | Martial Arts Chiropractic 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? |
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. |
38 | 164 | '88 | Hewitt is Greatly Troubled | A S-country spy 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. |
39 | 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. |
171 | '88 | Sigma | While having lunch Patalliro and Maraich overhear two men talking about finding Maraich, and one of them is an assassin! |
172 | '88 | Ropony | Patalliro invented a robotic pony for his Tamanegi, but a diamond buyer makes him an offer he can't refuse. |
40 | 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. |
Tankoubon List Vol. 1~20 | Vol. 41~60 | Vol. 61~80 | Vol. 81~88 |