Alabaster, not your regular or I say typical Tezuka Manga or Story. As you have already read or seen Osamu Tezuka's other works like Astro Boy, Black Jack, Dororo, Buddha, etc. You can grasp the magical world of aestheticism, science fiction, and drama of his craftsmanship. But what makes Alabaster different from any regular stories of Tezuka is the framing of our anti-hero, Alabaster as the Hater of Beauty. As African-Amerian, James Block, being a professional sportsman, becomes the victim of racism. And this changes everything for him, he begins to hate his skin color. The story takes a great turn of events when this unfortunatevictim of racism meets a mad scientist in jail and he gets to know his invention 'Invisible Ray Gun' by which any object can get invisible. Hating his skin color, he makes his mind to invisible himself but this decision backfires by leaving him to be half invisible; up to his outward skin, leaving his veins and skull visible. And abhorring his new gory look he generates a tendency toward hating anything beautiful. This gives birth to crimes like mass murder, terrorism, animal cruelty, and assassination.
Later, we get to meet a character called Ami, the granddaughter of that mad scientist, being raised by a lawyer. This kid is no ordinary kid but a result of mad research in which her mother becomes the victim leaving her fully invisible to the core. And to live with this extraordinary power, she has to put on makeup like a clown and become the victim of bullying. She becomes the foil for Alabaster, suffering the same torture of society but having a different view of its punishment.
Through Cosmic Conspiracy, they meet and commit the crime of murder and terrorism throughout the world. And they build an organization for these crimes.
Some may find this Manga as not par as Tezuka's another works but the characters like these are very few in the world of Tezuka. You can compare Alabaster to Black Jack and Hyakkimaru, they suffer the same pangs of society's term of 'irregular' or 'monster' but what differentiates Alabaster is his radicalism. As for me, I didn't hate the story but we have already seen these kinds of the story very much everywhere. But still, I find it very interesting, the approach of Osamu Tezuka's view upon the creation of an Anti-hero who loathes everything which discards him as irregular. I advise you to don't criticize this work just because you have already read or watched Astro boy or Dororo. This is a very different work with very criticized views. But I think you may, I repeat, you may find it interesting if you forget about other work and enjoy one of Tezuka's brilliant works.