Aventure 21

Also known as: アバンチュール21, 21st Century Adventure, Adventure 21

by Osamu Tezuka

Remake of Tezuka's 1948 one shot ''The Mysterious Underground Man'' The parents of Isami Nishitani were killed aboard world's first stratospheric rocket ship Luna Park I when the ship exploded. Isami's father was a chemistry professor who left behind a ear of a rabbit which would make the brains of a human work considerably faster. Prof. Frankenstein succeeds in the experiment which transforms the the ear into a human being. Isami, intent on revenging his parents, volunteers as test pilot for earth-penetrating train Luna Park III invented by the designer Sullivan along several other people , including his pet rabbit who was transformed into a human being.