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 popular Ogawa romance depicts the love and hate of twin sisters who are being played by a strange destiny. The twin sisters Maho and Mio, who were born in 1945 as daughters of painters, are 17 years old...

Set in post-World War II Japan, this is a story of young Haruomi, an heir of the prominent Morimura family. Stripped of his aristocratic title while facing a repossession of his estate, Haruomi finds himself...

In the recesses of mountain... there's a bus stop at outskirts of a village, it's called "Hinamizawa bus stop". Rika, a female high-school student, together with her junior, Mion visit this place. Twisted re...

A manga diary by the legendary Tetsuya Chiba about his current life and how his family escaped from China back to Japan post-World War II.

1950s Japan. Ex-soldier, Seishirou, is working as a waiter in a cabaret near an American military base, passing his days in a stagnant cycle. One day, he is approached by Jim, an American soldier who speaks ...

Japan in the early Showa era. Kujiro is called up as a soldier by chance and ordered to infiltrate a religious organization. Kujiro, who is investigating a mysterious organization that predicts the future, f...