In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her a...

As the title suggests, this is a manga centering on Date Masamune, an infamous legend that stands above countless others in the fantastic era of Feudal Japan. The focus of the work is Masamune’s struggles ...

Koike Keiichi's take on the Story of the Navajo People. This short story was published in 野生哲学 アメリカ・インディアンに学ぶ (管啓次郎. May 2011. ISBN 9784062881074)

A collection of eight short stories. 1. Witch of the Flower Forest (Hana no Mori no Majo-san) The quiet old lady who lives alone has long being rumoured to be an evil witch. Two siblings are determined to d...

Easy Going Scans The story begins with the eradication of Qing-cheng martial art faction by a group of martial art fanatics from Wudang, whose master and disciples only has one belief – to become the stro...

The Shinsengumi were a special police force in Japan in the 19th century. Tasked originally with protecting the Shogunate, they eventually dedicated themselves to restoring order in Kyoto. Hijikata Toshizo i...

A historical story set during the early Edo period focusing on young samurai Rintarou Nakatani and his friends.

The most feared / respected legendary warlord Oda Nobunaga, who disappeared from history just as he was about to unify Japan. He was born in war, raised for war, and grew into war. Nobunaga was a true "Child...

Based on the TV version of the Sengoku Basara franchise.

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 ...

The time is Taishou. What is the whereabouts of a close love triangle between a painter with a rare talent, his wife, and his disciples? Painters and disciples, daughters and fathers, brothers and sisters, c...

The Caterpillar is an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. The Caterpillar is a haunting psychosexual tale of Lt. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns ho...

In the Manga Nakamura Tenpuu (Legend of Tempu) series 1) Takeki Tabibito

Easy Going Scans At the end of the age of shogunates, a great man is given a second chance to restore a crumbling, feudal Japan. Toward the end of the Edo Period, samurai and visionary Sakamoto Ryouma led...

When a demon appears in the dark night of Edo, the maiden Kiyomitsu Matoshi, the 15th Zanma swordsman, who cuts away the evil heart, and the 15th generation Zanma swordsman, Beni Tsubomi, appear!! Great Edo ...

Housen is a painter of erotic art in the Edo period, who stumbles into a murder mystery involving women who have hooked up with one of his patrons. With the help of Tsubaki, a girl he runs into on the street...

"If nothing changes whether one laughs or cries, then in this lifetime, I refuse to cry." This collection consists of six historical short stories which tragicomically depict people trying to do their best i...

Acclaimed creator Kaoru Mori (Emma, Shirley) brings the nineteenth-century Silk Road to lavish life, chronicling the story of Amir Halgal, a young woman from a nomadic tribe betrothed to a twelve-year-old bo...

Adapted from a bestselling book of the same name by writer Lee Jung Myung, the series is based in the late Joseon era. The story revolves around two talented artists, Shin Yoon Bok and Kim Hong Do, and their...

Three (3) short samurai stories with seven (7) chapters from Hirata Hiroshi in The Perpetual Cycle of Revenge. Stories Include: 1. The Great Hell Castle (Chapters 1-5) 2. The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: ...

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

In the Kuro Hakubutsukan (Black Museum) series: Vol 1 - Springald: The Black Museum holds criminal memorabilia from the many cases that have been investigated by Scotland Yard. In this fictional re-imaginin...

The Outsider: Extra Works Edition: 1. The Outsider by H.P. Lovecraft In this work, a mysterious man who has been living alone in a castle for as long as he can remember decides to break free in search of hu...

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...