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...

In the aftermath of the Crusades, two travelling Arabic minstrels - Farhad and Saud - arrive at the castle of the melancholic Baron Victor. Over a series of four connected short stories, Victor reveals the r...

Back in high school Sono confessed her love to Sato, but she was turned down. Now she lives as a freeloader in an apartment shared with her girlfriend, Hiroko. However, she still hasn't forgotten about Sato...

Which monster girls are featured in this book is mostly obvious from the chapter titles, but the two chapters that don't spell it out feature a dragon girl and a demon girl. A little sister dragon girl and a...

An autobiographical work in which Hideo Azuma tells the story of his inability to cope with the pressures of his job as a mangaka and of his exeriences with alcoholism. The work is split into three sections,...

Sanpaku-eyed Ikariya Emu is a young man who has known poverty and hardship since childhood. After the sudden death of his alcoholic father, he is approached by a loan shark who informs him that he has inheri...