The story is set in the year Showa 44 (1969), and it centers around Takanori Jingūji, the 27-year-old man who eventually become the head of the Japan Shogi Association in the main March comes in like a lion...

Kadokawa describes Areyo Hoshikuzu's story as a "bromance in the ruins of Tokyo." Kawashima Tokutarou, a drunk in the city's burnt-down rubble, reunites with his old World War II comrade Kuroda Kadomatsu jus...

"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...

Wilted leaves beside the board, empty seats between the towering trees, a passerby who chose to put down a stone in the middle of the board, unbeknownst to him eons have passed… Waking up from his slumber,...

In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted ...

This is the story of several harem girls for a new ruler. The most beautiful is the silver-haired, large-chested Relenia, but she has a lot of rough edges in terms of her personality. She can jump extremel...

Adaptation of a popular novel. Five years after the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed—- Kizou is the dour, misanthropic owner of a used-goods store. One night, out of the blue, the demon Koharu wanders into h...

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the g...

Himeko Hanatsuka, age 12, and Bunji Tsuchiya, age 30. Their relationship status is: "engaged." This story takes place during the Taisho Era, when Western and modern culture was beginning to spread in Japan....

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...

Discover the secret behind the birth of Pokemon! The Shogakukan edition of the Leaning Manga Special series features Tajiri Satoshi, the game creator who created Pokémon! Starting with Pokemon Red and Gree...

Ashigaru, knight, viking, Spartan warrior, assassin, combat merchant… Various foot soldiers from all over the world converge on a once peaceful apartment. Pillaging and violence disrupt the owner's dream o...

Ataru is a ``Sangokushi fanatic'' who runs a Chinese restaurant called Lousoson. The restaurant is deserted, but when a mysterious old man appears, they prepare a celebratory meal for the "Oath of the Peach ...

Sarusuberi recounts short episodes in the later life of Hokusai, the genius ukiyoe artist, and of his daughter, Oei. It was later adapted into the anime Miss Hokusai (2015).

Emanon's wanderings across late-1960s Japan bring her across other lives in small country towns, with each encounter leaving people transformed in her wake. Yet the awareness she brings may not give peace of...

There was once an ordinary and remote village to which a man, who had no relatives, appeared. Since then, everything has changed. Labor became pleasant, people stopped starving and became healthier, resultin...

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The fox who has lived for a millennium will outsmart the humans. In China during the Jin dynasty, it's said that a millennial fox lived in the tomb of King Yan Zhao of Zhou. That fox, Guangtian, goes to meet...

What will the cruel fate of Michi and his friends be, living as they do in the debris left by the war?