"If nothing changes whether one laughs or cries, then in this lifetime, I refuse to cry." This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best i...

Sorry, I know you must've been lonely. Don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long." Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district — where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From ar...

Kocho, the Tayu of the Yoshiwara red-light district a beautiful and lustrous "prostitute" but behind the scenes is a ninja the time is 1635 in order to condemn the "stray ninjas" who nest in the world of pea...

Consists of a collection of oneshots: 1) Covetous You and Insensible Me (Hoshigariana Kimi to Futsutsukana Boku) Never one to get close to strangers, Kai finds himself helpess in the enchanting gaze of a fo...

A collection of oneshots about everyday life in Edo (former name of Tokyo).

There is laughter and history! A walking tour of the Tokaido! Office worker Kitagawa has moved to a super cheap property in Tokyo. However, it was a property with a reason, where ghosts appeared! Kitag...

The story of a young boy Kamui growing up to become a ninja. His life of training ends when he realizes that he doesn't want to be a ninja and decides to become a nukenin (outlaw ninja), someone who is not a...

A spin-off work starring Kamui, one of the main characters of Kamui-den. The first 2 volumes were published in a Shounen magazine and ended with the 20th chapter in 1971. The manga changed its artstyle and ...

The rogue ninja Kamui is struggling to free himself from the iron fist of his own clan. As a ronin, he should not exist. In his flight from his clan he meets another ronin kunoichi named Sugaru. Sugaru, want...

My lover has lived 150 years ago. In that place, called the end of the Edo period, we are fighting desperately for Japan tomorrow. It is a new member of the group Shinsengumi named Sanosuke Harada. A gentle ...

In the feudal era of Japan, Ogami Itto is the elite executioner for the Shogun until the ruthless Yagyu clan frames him in an attempt to gain the position. His name dishonored and his wife murdered, Itto and...

They suffer between Love and Duties. Includes several stories, all based loosely on other works: Swan Ninja Art Anecdotes (Swan Lake, ballet) Edo Love Dance (Carmen, opera) DOLL (Nutcracker, ballet) La...

It is currently the Taiheimeji Era. It is a reign ruled by the Tokugawa shogunate. Inside this shogunate, there is a group of warriors that support the government. They are the Manyuu Clan. In this current e...

"To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!" Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must s...

A demon boy who lacks horns on his head wields the cursed blade "Onikirimaru", the one weapon that can slay a demon, in a never-ending battle with the demons that haunt Japan during the age of the samurai. B...

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Wo...

1) Koibito wa Bodyguard (My Lover Is a Bodyguard) 2) Ana ga Attara Iritai (If There's a Hole, I wanna Enter) While mountain climbing, three men fall down a dried up well. While they are unable to move, the ...

140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, man slayer! His killer blade helped close ...

In the red-light district of Yoshiwara, during the Edo period, Akane is a young orphan from the military nobility. Following the mysterious murder of her parents, she decides to walk into the lion's den by g...

Kounosuke Ryuudo is a samurai who is stuck in perpetual poverty. Looking for a job is fruitless, as he cannot wield a blade. Quite literally, in fact. One day, after being accosted by some criminals and wish...

Early on New Year's morning, the ronin Senou Souichirou appears in Edo's Katagi tenements. Initially, the inhabitants regard him with fear and suspicion: Kankichi, the carpenter's son, thinks he may not be h...

With the setting of Edo, we have that the more a wealthy a city grows, the more people will gather, and as a side effect more seeds of discord can easily be found. On one hand we have Shusuke, a slacker "al...