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...

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...

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her ...

The shogunate installed by the Tokugawa is abiding order, the people live in peace and in a relative prosperity. However, the dark part of the human heart does not cease to arouse their cupidity : it is the...

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 ...

Eight short stories: 1. Box Seat About the silent exchange between a man and a woman on the train. 2. Kanojo to Kare (Boy and Girl) (3 parts) A seductive beauty gets entranced by the strait-laced school bo...

Official English: INKR In 17th century Japan, a rebellion in the Aizu territory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty-one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now ...

The closing stages of Sengoku (Warring States) Japan. A setting commonly explored in Japanese manga through vivid scenes of gory battles, samurai, and feats of bravery, honour, and loyalty. Iwaaki Hitoshi da...

Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge--the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to ...

Christie Holmes is a prodigy. At ten years old, she’s as familiar with the sciences and classics as any older student at Cambridge or Oxford. And her facility with logic is reminiscent of her uncle, the em...

In the fifteenth century, when the French and English were at war, there appeared a woman claiming to be a visionary of God. She was Joan of Arc.

Manga adaption of H.P.Lovecraft's "The Haunter of The Dark" and "Dagon" The story is set in Providence, Rhode Island, which is author H. P. Lovecraft's home town and a common setting in his books. Robert Bl...

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.

The prequel to Black Jack, Osamu Tezuka's classic series about a brilliant maverick doctor who practices without a license. This story follows Black Jack when he was still a young, unorthodox medical student...

What is a young shopkeeper to do when a foreign customer leans over and asks her "This Harun... you know...?" Moreover he goes on to eat all the daifuku they have in stock?! Follow the Demon King's groom as ...

An adaption of various short stories written by Yamada Fuutarou. First story: "Kunoichi Kokihei" This story begins the year before the Battle of Sekigahara, in the pleasure quarters of the capital. Kagerou,...

//www.nanoda.com: Setsugetsuki is a drama set in the Sengoku jidai (戦国時代) or Warring States period, so called because Japan was divided into many small, petty fiefdoms constantly at war with each ot...

Tokugawa Iemitsu struggles with his fear of death and finds salvation in the young samurai Samon of the Yagyû clan. But their relationship triggers a battle for power and respect, stirring tension between t...

The Edo period has ended, and former samurai Haruyasu is adrift in a strange new world. Not even the promise of rebellion can cure him of his desire for death. But after an assassination gone wrong, Haruyasu...

Adaptations of Edogawa Ranpo's detective stories featuring genius detective Akechi Kogorou and his apprentice, young prodigy and leader of the Shounen Tanteidan (Boys' Detective Agency), Kobayashi Yoshio....

Toshikane Yagyu, later known as Renyasai, heads for Edo in order to become the Owari Tokugawa clan’s combat instructor. A comic about genuine sword techniques by one of the masters of period dramas! ...

(from ebookjapan): Prince Ousu (later Yamato Takeru), who has been on an expedition to Nukuni in his father's name, is troubled by a nearby bandit, Kawakami Takeru, and his attempt to capture a fortress. H...