Dororo

Tezuka's classic thriller manga featuring a youth who has been robbed of 48 body parts by devils and his epic struggle against a host of demons to get them back. Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a samurai general in Japan's Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 devils in exchange for complete domination of the country. Knowing the child to be deficient, Kagemitsu oders the newborn to be thrown into the river. The baby survives and, in time, searches the world for the 48 demons. Each time he eliminates one, he retrieves one of his parts.