Osomatsu-kun is an all-time classic gag manga that follows the lives of the sextuplets: Osomatsu, Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Ichimatsu, Jyushimatsu, and Todomatsu. While the boys are almost always indistinguisha...

On the 15th of October 1990, World War III breaks out. It only lasts for 40 minutes, but industrial establishments were nearly wiped out by the 1000 megatons of nuclear weapons used in the war. The Earth was...

Winner of the 20th KADOKAWA Rookie Award. After making a doll based upon the feelings of his younger brother who died early on, a weird occurrence happens. What exactly was this mysterious happening...?

A story about people who play one move after another to win at life. Original Webtoon: Daum: All Season Kakao: S1; S2 (a), (b) Official Translations: English: Toomics, Lalatoon German: Toomics, Lalatoon S.C...

This coming-of-age omnibus series will follow the girls at an opera music school; each chapter will center around a different girl. Ohta Publishing indicates on Pocopoco that a "character from Sweet Blue Flo...

A comedic chronicle of the everyday occurrances in a Japanese office building. It follows the exploits of the desk workers Jun, Minako, Reiko, and Hiromi. Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Short story Award in 2004.

A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. Click here for the full list (.txt). Serialized o...

Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India, and Japan. A series of short stories capturing the theme of "because I'm a girl" 10-year-old girls with different nationalities, religions, cultures, and values. "We are like t...

In a school of delinquents, there's one student that hates guys who pick on the weak, and his name is Kunio. He's as strong as they come, but unfortunately he's also lazy and perverted. Can Kunio win all of ...

Bronze award at The Eighth International MANGA Award 500 years after the collapse of human civilization, the earth has been drastically changed by war, and to survive humans must use the last remnants of te...

While visiting the seifa utaki, the foremost sacred grove of Okinawa, the young woman Miwako is drawn into a cave and called into her power while the earth quakes beneath her. Miwako, who was born on Kudaka ...

Morimura Aiko is a junior high-school student who is short for her age. Her father went on a yacht ten years ago and his whereabouts remained in obscurity. Her mother, a designer for hats, left for Paris, le...

Fujimura Kōshien is an incredibly straightforward and simple boy named for the famous Kōshien stadium of high school baseball fame. Along with his teammates, Fujimura fights to conquer his namesake tournam...

A man forgets his dog food on the train on his way home, an old woman dying in a hospital bewilders her children with her ramblings, a man recalls the first time he saw up a woman's skirt, and an apartment c...

Won the 9th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1985.

The main character is Carol, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American teenager from a wealthy family with an interest in Egyptology studying in Cairo. When her mentor discovers the tomb of a young pharaoh, a curs...

Part of the Manga Japan Classic series. Other volumes in the series: 1: Kojiki (ISHINOMORI Shotaro) 2: Ochikubo Monogatari 3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 1 4: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 2...

Note: Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.

In Onnoji, a girl named Miyako finds herself alone when everyone else in the world disappeared. While spending time on the somewhat strange town devoid of people, she realizes there is "something" else there...

Children's manga about anthropomorphic animals; Kaba-chan is a hippo. Winner of the 2nd Shogakukan Manga Award (1956) along with Kozou no Bon-chan

Okamisan is about a woman who becomes the manager of a stable of sumo wrestlers. It received the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

Part of the Manga Japan Classic series. Other volumes in the series: 1: Kojiki (ISHINOMORI Shotaro) 2: Ochikubo Monogatari 3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 1 4: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 2...

The manga is based on his real life experiences with his landlady. The manga inspired an anime short in January in 2020 and won the short work prize at the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in ...

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Short story Award in 2006 together with her One Woman, Two Cats, Oi Piitan!! and other works.