Don’t mess with Ayu – she’s one of the top-ranked Karate club members in the region, although she does have one weakness; snakes. After one fight where she is unconscious because her opponent knows her...

Mukai Taiyo is a junior high school student who supports his family, comprising five members, together with his mother who is running a small local restaurant. At first, he earned money by secretly betting o...

Part of the Sekai Meisaku Comic series. Volumes in series: 1: Wakakusa Monogatari (KITAJIMA Yoko) 2: Jane Eyre (MAKI Miyako) 3: Hatsukoi (OKAMOTO Atsuko) 4: Hamlet (KASUYA Noriko) 5: Orlean no Shoujo 6:...

Note: Do not mistake this series with another by the same title. (from oryo-books): An American Football story of the class struggle between middle and high school students set in Yokohama.

Won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award in 1974.

Ashura is an unrelentingly dark drama that follows the struggles of a young boy who did whatever it took to survive during a time of war and famine in medieval Japan.

Joe Yabuki is a young man living in the slums of Tokyo. But, one day he meets Danpei Tange, a former boxer, who discovers his potential in boxing and tries to make him into a champion. Due to petty crimes, J...