Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and di...

Toranosuke fell in love with the servant Kaoru. For twenty years, they slowly developed their love for each other, thus a Showa couple of clumsy husband and muscle brained wife was born. They spend a lot of ...

It is 1926, the first year of the Showa era. Urabe Kanoko has left her hometown after it turns against her for having the ability to hear lies when spoken. She collapses from hunger after arriving in a town ...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the ...

Nemuko, a college student, is told by a fortune teller with spiritual powers that she will die 3 years later. A few days later the fortune teller is arrested for fraud. But on a news program, the fortune tel...

Kyousuke wants to be a cop. Because of that, he always tries to do the right thing and help others out. Well, while saving a girl from some bullies, they end up liking each other. Not to soon after, she need...

In The Unwomanly Face of War, Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in...

The trouble and fun began when ordinary teenager Tenchi Masaki inadvertently released the legendary demon Ryoko from his grandfather's shrine. Turned out Ryoko was actually a marooned space pirate! Since the...

The tomboy Benio is forced to marry lieutenant Shinobu, who is from a wealthy family. At first Benio doesn't get along with the distinguished way of life at all. When Shinobu is sent to fight in Russia, Beni...

Tokyo, 1952: The bizarre case of a missing doctor and his supernaturally pregnant wife captures the imagination of novelist Sekiguchi Tatsumi, so he enlists the help of an old friend, Chuuzenji Akihiko, a bo...

Kyoto, 1966. The young Hamaguchi is working for a textile manufacturer whilst dreaming of becoming an artist, when an incident at the zoo involving the boss's daughter forces his hand. He moves to Tokyo at t...

Not only does Jee Yool have high school to worry about, she has her love life to worry about, too! The guy she likes, Hyun Kyum, doesn't see her (or any other women) as more than a friend and some guy she's ...

Two twin sisters contracted a mysterious bacteria from a trip and suddenly gained enormous power. One psycho sister began trying to kill the other because they both loved the same man, while the other sister...

Set in Italy in the year 19XX about the heated rivalry between two mafia members, where one finds out the biggest secret about the other. What does he ask in return for his secrecy? (Source: Manga Mogura RE)

It's 1936 and young Japanese girl Haru is arriving in Shanghai where she befriends local cheerful boy named Shin with beautiful silver eyes. But as Second Sino-Japanese War draws near, their lives are certai...

There's a new student at Harukaze High School. He's a complete ditz, only eats rice, says strange things and is an android built to conquer the world. Would you believe he's one of the normal students? Haruk...

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the g...

Kuuki no Soko is a collection of short stories drawn by the genius mangaka, Tezuka Osamu, between 1968 and 1970, and is known in Japan as a true masterpiece. Belonging to Tezuka's most mature period, it tou...

This debut work won the 32nd Akatsuka Award.

The year 1910. Iwamoto Kodou is a young boy who has successfully carried out many curious missions under the military's directive. His destinations lead to encounters with the strange, weaving tales of histo...

Takano Shoko is a beautiful girl born between a rebellious critic and a famous geisha in Yanagibashi. When her father disappeared, Shoko lost her mother in an air raid and became a vagrant child, becoming th...

Dr. Araki was a Hiroshima survivor whose parents had died in the blast. As an adult, he moved to Nevada to work on Gamma bomb tests for the U.S. government, but during a countdown Araki spotted teenager Rick...

The story, set in the United Kingdom in 1901, centers on a photographer. In the first chapter, the photographer is on his way to deliver a finished portrait to a client when he encounters a flying object fro...