A young craftsman meets the daughter of a painter he admired.

The story is about a young boy named Arashi Ishino who is obsessed with video games. He would spend all his time trying to beat the games and conquer the local arcades. He would meet competitors like Satoru ...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the ...

From the appearance to the voice, a shop whose business is to assume the client's identity and act in their place, Gekkousha.

A collection of short stories. 1. The Moonlight One midwinter night, some female prostitutes picked up a child, Kiyohito, in the red light district. He is forced to take clients at age 14; and in two years, h...

Spring, 1906. Ginjiro Tsukishima, owner of the Nihonbashi "Tsukishimaya", has amassed a fortune in stocks and is playing lavishly with his money in the brothels of Asakusa and Shin-Yoshiwara. However, a yea...

In 1940s Japan during the war, long-time friends Aoi and Takahiko part ways as Takahiko is enlisted. For years, Aoi stayed in their hometown with the looming worry that his friend might not come back. He nev...

The 18-year-old Taro Sato, who had no dreams or goals and was leading a lazy life, is scouted by chance to be a driver for a yakuza boss. Taro is at the mercy of the yakuza gang leader's life, which has sudd...

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10â...

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...

The Chidori Art School, where boys studying drama gathered in 1935. Keitaro Chidori, a boy who makes the hardest efforts than anyone, toward the dream of wanting to stand in the middle of the stage and to be...

Shiro reluctantly joined a special boys' boarding school where only the Crown Prince and selected schoolmates are allowed. But then he immediately got into trouble with a beautiful boy in the restroom and wa...

This monumental manga became the driving force behind Shonen Jump, the tough kid boss of the neighborhood, Mankichi Togawa, uses his fighting skills and charm to find friends as he takes on the bad guys and ...

Chiyo meets a wealthy nobleman who seems to be the grim reaper. A story about being able to save people who are destined to die.

12-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.

In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an ...