"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...

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his ...

A collection of stories that revolve around letters. Story 1, Strawberry and Anemone: Tsuzuru does want to kiss his girlfriend, Ichiko. He can’t, though, for a reason more biological than psychological......

A retro-modern romantic fantasy set in the age of the Kotogami! After a fearsome beast burns down her company lodgings, Akari finds herself homeless and out of a job. Luckily, the handsome yokai who rescued...

Masato, adoptive son of the Kuwabara household, has always been surrounded by prosperity... Until one day the head of the family brings home a child named Kenta. Drowning as he is in the despair of having ou...

Northern Song Dynasty, during the reign of King Huizong: Aila, the princess of the Golden Kingdom, is assigned to visit the capital of the Song Dynasty as a goodwill ambassador on behalf of the royal family....

The year is 1949. Japan had been defeated in World War II and was occupied by Allied Forces consisting of American, Australian, British, Indian and New Zealander troops. A young woman meets a young man. Bot...

In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahj...

The remaining 18 volumes of the 400 Osamu Tezuka Manga Complete Works were volumes containing Tezuka's Essays, Public Talks, Lectures, Scenarios, Novels, and even guides on how to draw manga. The volumes ar...

Manga Biography of Osamu Tezuka's life covering his youth, to his tragic passing. This was serialized in the Asahi Shinbun, a famous newspaper, by Tezuka's then chief assistant, Toshio Ban, not long after Te...

Each volume contains different short stories by Osamu Tezuka