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 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 ...

Taking place during the turn from the Taisho to the Showa period, this story centers around an unsuccessful science fiction author who masquerades as the dead son of an industrial magnate. With his new famil...

Pink is a manga about a Japanese girl named Yumi, a beautiful girl in her early 20's. During the day, Yumi works as a regular office lady , but by night, she works as a prostitute. Yumi needs her two jobs to...

Kadokawa describes Areyo Hoshikuzu's story as a "bromance in the ruins of Tokyo." Kawashima Tokutarou, a drunk in the city's burnt-down rubble, reunites with his old World War II comrade Kuroda Kadomatsu jus...

Hachiro and Karen has been friends since they were children... During the day, she is a sweet and timid young girl but every night Karen turns into a demon (oni) and tries to go out and eat someone. Yet, whe...

This is the story of Kumiko, granddaughter of the last Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu. She was born in the year before Great Kanto Earthquake (1922 / Taisho 11), and survived the turbulent times of 3 different pe...

The Showa writer, Kyutaro Yamada was a medical student- Yamada, a young man who never went to the battlefield, continued to write about the state and problems of Japan at that time, sometimes sharply and som...

V1) Tenkyuugi no Umi Yuki has decided to become a suicide attack pilot. He is to be adopted into the town’s distinguished Narishige family and take the place of the oldest son and heir, the young master, M...