Rainbow Prelude (虹のプレリュード, Niji no Pureryūdo) is a manga by Osamu Tezuka, and also the name of one of his books in Kodansha's line of "Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works" books, contains a collection of Tezuka's short stories. The stories included in the book are "Rainbow Prelude", "The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight", a manga version of Shakespeare's "The Merchant of Venice", "Peacock Shell", and "Song of the White Peacock".

Rainbow Prelude
Image of the cover for Rainbow Prelude from the Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works edition.
虹のプレリュード
(Niji no Pureryūdo)
GenreRomance, drama
Manga
The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byKobunsha
DemographicShōjo
PublishedJanuary 1, 1958
Manga
Peacock Shell
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byKobunsha
DemographicShōjo
PublishedJune 1958
Manga
The Merchant of Venice
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byKodansha
MagazineChugaku Ichinen Course
DemographicShōjo
PublishedApril 1959
Manga
Song of the White Peacock
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byKodansha
MagazineNakayoshi
DemographicShōjo
PublishedSummer 1959
Manga
Written byOsamu Tezuka
Published byShogakukan
MagazineShōjo Comic
DemographicShōjo
Original runOctober 5, 1975October 26, 1975

Plot

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Rainbow Prelude

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A young French girl meets and falls in love with Frédéric Chopin, at the time when Poland was occupied by Russian troops.

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