In this collection of hauntingly elliptical short stories, Oji Suzuki explores memory, relationships, and loss with a loose narrative style, filling each tale with a sense of unfulfilled longing. He plumbs t...

If I could describe it in a few words, I’d say “poetic”, “lonely”, and “deliberate”. There’s a touch of the sadness that comes at the end of summer, the transition into cold and quiet. It fee...

Ichiro is trying to become a mangaka but is not succeeding, yet Sachiko loves and supports him. The two live together in a transient and unfulfilling relationship, and the collapse of their affair is depicte...

Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; o...

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 ...

Novel about detective, Nanase Gorou, 25. He works in a private detective agency and solves many variuos, complicated cases. Not only criminal ones, but social ones as well.

Hitler: The Graphic Novel is a rigorous and lucid biography illuminated with a pulse and freshness that only a full-blooded narrator can still bring about on one of the most complex figures in the history of...

"When I talk about ‘warped manga from a warped mind’, I always think of this incoherent story. The Human Clock is a lot simpler to summarize than to understand. The hero is Yubi Chizuo again; he’s 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 ...

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...

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...

A collection of Yoshiharu Tsuge one-shot stories featuring an assortment of Tsuge's "dream" stories as well as his tales of travel. All originally published between 1972-1975, the stories represent a period ...

Collection of short stories including: • Nejishiki A man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding ...

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...

Japan's samurai past is riddled with stories of great fighting prowess and deeply ingrained systems of honor and discipline. But behind the stern demeanor was a society coming apart at the seams. Clashes in ...

An anthology of all-new underground comics from Japan produced in the '80s and '90s by the latest generation of taboo-breaking manga artists! Selected by the former editor of Garo, Japan's standard-bearer of...

Seinaru Shisou is a collection of Jun Hayami's one-shot stories which showcases the breadth of his talent. It includes some of the ero-guro stories he is most famous for, as well as non-erotic and horror sto...

A watershed work of 80's gekiga shimmering with vulnerability, Talk to My Back explores Japan's fraying suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two maturing daughters and her mos...

"If nuclear power plants cannot run without people who work under radiation exposure, shouldn't they be treated more favorably and given more respect, even if they are not the 'Fukushima Fifty'?" -Susumu Kat...

A silent oneshot consisting of seven different stories. From Garo 1966-06.