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...

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale ...

The Box Man Enter the strange world of Imiri Sakabashira in which the denizens are zoomorphic creatures that emerge from one another as well as their equally bizarre environs. The Box Man follows its protago...

A depiction of Sci-Fi and S&M novel which was serialized from 1956 to 1958. 1968, Germany, a Japanese student of a rich family, is about to graduate and marry his girlfriend Clara. But, one day, an UFO fal...

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.

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 ...

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...

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�...

A former mangaka falls into poverty after becoming disillusioned with life and abandoning his trade. He unsuccessfully attempts to start a business selling rocks by the riverside to feed his family.

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 ...

In 1945, the road from Manchuria to Japan was hundreds of miles away. The boy learned to adapt to the dangers of starvation, and his body trembled with his dark eyes fixed on the sky. In 1959, the boy, named...

One night, a man with a mysterious trunk of gold comes to stay at a hotel. By the next morning, he has vanished, leaving behind his trunk. The man went by the name of Shunsuke Ohtori - but the name actually ...

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...

Oneshots created in 'gekiga' style. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. A medical student lives a secret li...

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...

Here are the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as gekiga. Originally published in 1972-74, these eleven one-shot...

"Action-Gekiga Presented By Takao Saito Production" There are always assassins in the underworld, and this assassin, Black Angel, is one of the best of the best. Where the assassin comes in, Goro-yan will b...

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitiou...

The Swamp collects work from Yoshiharu Tsuge early years, showing a major talent coming in to his own. Bucking the tradition of mystery and adventure stories, Tsuge’s fiction focused on the lives of the ci...

Aiming for a 200 million dollar prize, skiiers race against each other using their fiery passion to push through the tension and solitude. As the sharp sounds of skis pierce the mountainside, the drama heats...