Rainbow Prelude

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)
Genre	Romance, drama
Manga
The Curtain is Still Blue Tonight
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Kobunsha
Published	January 1, 1958
Manga
Peacock Shell
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Kobunsha
Published	June 1958
Manga
The Merchant of Venice
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Chugaku Ichinen Course
Published	April 1959
Manga
Song of the White Peacock
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Kodansha
Magazine	Nakayoshi
Published	Summer 1959
Manga
Written by	Osamu Tezuka
Published by	Shogakukan
Magazine	Shōjo Comic
Original run	October 5, 1975 – October 26, 1975

Plot

Rainbow Prelude

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

See also

• List of Osamu Tezuka manga
• The Merchant of Venice, the original play by Shakespeare.

External links

• Rainbow Prelude manga publications page at TezukaOsamu@World