One chapter in the saga of Shima Kousaku, salaryman at Hatsushiba Electric. In this part of the series, Kousaku has just started working at a branch office for the company doing an unexpected amount of meni...

At certain period of time in the Shogunate, fighters in the battlefield would have nothing personal against each other, but fighting in name of a different master. This led to a convoluted type of trade in t...

A watershed work of 80's gekiga shimmering with vulnerability, Talk to My Back explores Japan's fraying suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two maturing daughters and her mos...

The typical Kochikame plot involves Ryo-san coming up with a money-making scheme by inventing a new gadget or capitalizing on a fad, achieving great success, calling on Nakagawa's help as things turn sour, a...

Novel about detective, Nanase Gorou, 25. He works in a private detective agency and solves many variuos, complicated cases. Not only criminal ones, but social ones as well.

An anthology of all-new underground comics from Japan produced in the '80s and '90s by the latest generation of taboo-breaking manga artists! Selected by the former editor of Garo, Japan's standard-bearer of...

Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark u...

A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.

A mostly silent anthology, with a partial English release under the title "Ding Dong Circus" published in 2015.

Personally selected for publication exclusively by Landmark Books by Tatsumi, the stories strip away the gloss of the Japanese Economic Miracle to reveal the stresses, desires and angst of the millions of yo...

Silent and taciturn, a cat demon wanders through the world of humans, encountering creatures as monstrous than desperate. Mixing references to mythology Japanese and surreal quotes, this collection of short ...

A period drama masterpiece recounting the remarkable feats of an outlaw bounty hunter renowned as Rabid Dog. Following the hero as he rescues the weak and battles the mighty, master artist Takao Saito’s dy...

Collection of one-shot stories 1. Akai Hana (Red Flowers) (Published in English in Raw Vol. 1 #7: The Torn-Again Graphix Magazine, May 1985) 2. Ri-san Ikka 3. Tsuya 4. Umibe no Jokei 5. Nijibetamura Jiken 6....

The Swamp collects work from Yoshiharu Tsuge early years, showing a major talent coming in to his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge’s fiction focused on the lives of the ci...

Hitler: The Graphic Novel is a rigorous and lucid biography illuminated with a pulse and freshness that only a full-blooded narrator can still bring about on one of the most complex figures in the history of...

Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship; one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping, they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isol...

In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted ...

In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs t...

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitiou...

This manga is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro). The Ballad of Zatoichi: Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag...

Here are the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as gekiga. Originally published in 1972-74, these eleven one-shot...

This story takes place in 1944. Japan is entering a crucial phase in the war against the United States. Cities and towns in Japan fall one after the other under America's continuous bombing. They even get ho...

With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission...