An autobiographical manga that tells the story of the author's trip to Thailand in order to undergo sex reassignment surgery, describing the process of transitioning from male to female. But the path to woma...

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...

A short autobiography by Kobayashi Makoto about his experience serializing 1, 2, no Sanshiro in Weekly Shounen Magazine from 1978 to 1983. Note: Nominated for the 2nd Manga Taisho Award in 2009.

A dramatization of the real life of Yaeko Yamamoto. Over 100 years ago, Yaeko broke traditional Japanese stereotypes, gender, and honor to become a gun-warrior in defense of her homeland of Aizu.

At once heart-rending and eye-opening, this true-life memoir is a shocking yet intensely moving first-person account of one woman’s experience of growing up in Japan’s yakuza society. Born into the fami...

Kobayashi Doumu. 40 years old. Job: Mangaka. After three years of working on the calorie-filled gourmet manga, "Meshi ni Shimashou", he is now "splendidly" overweight! "I should just use my need to lose we...

The author, a high-school teacher, recounts his 12 years on "night patrol" in Yokohama City, where he comes face to face with youth dealing with issues ranging from self-mutilation to drug abuse.

Jun, a high school girl, laments the cold relationship between her family due to the debt her mother made. Feeling lonely in her everyday life, she ends up asking a truck driver she met at her part-time job ...

Based on 2007 TBS documentary, a couple is getting married in a church; the bride, however, has breast cancer and is given only one month to live.