A new world of "Dazai" drawn by gorgeous writers. A masterpiece of Osamu Dazai's masterpiece short story, which has been loved for a long time, is translated by up-and-coming manga artists into Manga (comics...

Ishinomori is riding on a train to Sendai when he sees a boy near him with a blue kaleidoscope. Reminded of how he used to like them, he asks the boy for it. With his glimpses into it, he begins to have a pr...

This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

Works submission period for Silent Manga Audition second round: September 2013 - March 2014. Grand Prix: 1. Father's Gift by Ichirou (Brazil) Semi-Grand Prix: 2. New Haircut by MAGE (Indonesia) 3. Time ...

Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realiti...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "L...

The massive tsunami caused from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake mercilessly hit 30 beaches up and down the Oshika Peninsula, affecting the lives of the the people who lived by the beach. This story tells of a fis...

One of the volumes of an educational biography manga about Shotaro Ishinomori

Rising Stars of Manga (RSoM) was an annual comic anthology published in English by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008, as well as the name of a contest. It was originally semi-annual, but switched to annual beginnin...

In Rising Stars of Manga: United Kingdom and Ireland, Tokyopop has awarded 9 aspiring artists and writers a unique opportunity to be published and receive a well-deserved jump start on their creative careers...

What will the cruel fate of Michi and his friends be, living as they do in the debris left by the war?

Highly recommended by Ryoichi Ikegami! "The man, sometimes with a sharp glance, quietly gazes at us living in the present..." In downtown Tokyo just after the defeat in World War II - in a burnt-out area w...

Manga Biography of Osamu Tezuka's life covering his youth, to his tragic passing. This was serialized in the Asahi Shinbun, a famous newspaper, by Tezuka's then chief assistant, Toshio Ban, not long after Te...

The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787...