Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship; one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping, they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isol...

A collection of gekiga stories from various authors from the days of kashihon manga. Considered to be an extremely influential series in the evolution of manga, being one of the first of the gekiga genre, an...

The story of a young boy Kamui growing up to become a ninja. His life of training ends when he realizes that he doesn't want to be a ninja and decides to become a nukenin (outlaw ninja), someone who is not a...

A spin-off work starring Kamui, one of the main characters of Kamui-den. The first 2 volumes were published in a Shounen magazine and ended with the 20th chapter in 1971. The manga changed its artstyle and ...

A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to ...

The typical Kochikame plot involves Ryo-san coming up with a money-making scheme by inventing a new gadget or capitalizing on a fad, achieving great success, calling on Nakagawa's help as things turn sour, a...

In the feudal era of Japan, Ogami Itto is the elite executioner for the Shogun until the ruthless Yagyu clan frames him in an attempt to gain the position. His name dishonored and his wife murdered, Itto and...

At certain period of time in the Shogunate, fighters in the battlefield would have nothing personal against each other, but fighting in name of a different master. This led to a convoluted type of trade in t...

In a prison world, there are few good stories, and this is the world of Kubikiri Asa, the beheader and master samurai under the Shogun. It's a world full of vengeance, greed, and violence. A world of depravi...

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks th...

Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark u...

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering stories from every Garo author up until 1984. 収録作品 　『ざしきわらし』 - 白土三平 　『ねこ忍』 - 水木しげる 　『海原の剣(武蔵�...

Often cited as the origin of the heta-uma (or 'bad but good' ) style of manga art, Penguin Gohan is a classic Garo gag manga featuring the crude, lewd, and gory exploits of a penguin and his family. The ser...

From the pages of history comes the legend of the Samurai Jubei and the book he was pledged to protect. Now that book has been stolen and Jubei must retrieve it before Japan descends into bloody civil war.