Aya Oosawa, a gyaru high school student, frequents a small record store and develops a crush on the clerk, who has dark hair and wears a hoodie and a face mask. There's one problem— as the title implies, t...

For five hundred years, a giant snake god has lived in the ancient mountain. Miyo, an unlucky woman from the nearby village, is offered as tribute to the great snake. Miyo fears that she will be devoured, bu...

Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India, and Japan. A series of short stories capturing the theme of "because I'm a girl" 10-year-old girls with different nationalities, religions, cultures, and values. "We are like t...

In the fifteenth century, claiming that the Earth revolves around the sun was a heresy that could get believers burned at the stake. Child prodigy Rafal is introduced to the truth about the universe by his m...

The comedy manga centers on the titular Hoshi, a teacher and homeroom advisor in an all-girls school. The story follow the antics of Hoshi's students, including penning absurd chain word games in the class j...

"I want Akazu-sensei to eat my 'first'!" Ookami Hinako had her skirt swiped by the rumored "skirt bandit." Her teacher Akazu Tatsumi happened to be passing by and came to Ookami's rescue. Akazu took Ookami h...

Gorou is an ob-gyn with a life far removed from the glitz and glamour of the entertainment industry - the world of his favorite idol, rising star Ai Hoshino. But when the two are unexpectedly brought togethe...

Winner of the 20th KADOKAWA Rookie Award. After making a doll based upon the feelings of his younger brother who died early on, a weird occurrence happens. What exactly was this mysterious happening...?

Umiko is a 65-year-old woman whose husband had just recently passed away. She went to the movie theater for the first time in decades and there, a shocking life-changing event awaited her. After meeting Kai,...

This game's got me obsessed! It's like it's taken over my life...wait—HARD MODE ACTIVATED. No-no-no-no-no! It has literally taken me and thrown me into the part of Penelope Eckhart. Love is easy as the her...

Note: Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.

One sleepless night, Ko slips out to walk the streets. Life after dark is a revelation! When flirtatious Nazuna invites Ko to spend the night at her place in an abandoned building, he’s stoked! But then he...

High School teacher, Aoki is reluctant to go to the infirmary. Because he does not like the doctor there, Mr. Tengoku for no reason. But one day, he is forced to pay a visit to talk about a student who often...

A man forgets his dog food on the train on his way home, an old woman dying in a hospital bewilders her children with her ramblings, a man recalls the first time he saw up a woman's skirt, and an apartment c...

In the pet shop he calls home, a chubby, homely cat whiles away the hours listening to coos of delight from potential pet parents...but he knows it's not him they're fussing over. Even as his price drops wit...

Yutaka is a businessman who has a hard time eating with others. One day, while having lunch alone in a park, he meets two brothers with a big age gap, Minoru and Tane, who suddenly ask him, “Please teach u...

A high school girl runs into her ex-boyfriend at a train station and the two reconnect.

The manga is based on his real life experiences with his landlady. The manga inspired an anime short in January in 2020 and won the short work prize at the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in ...

The year is AD 2048. Japan is connected to the Eurasian continent by a transcontinental railroad. The capital, Tokyo, has become a crucible of criminals and terrorists. And so, in the metropolitan darkness a...

Official English: INKR, Azuki, Kodansha Nozomi Aizawa has has kept her feelings for her schoolmate Azuma-kun a secret for quite a while, but the time has come for her to finally confess. His response, thoug...

The story centers around Yuna and Akari who have two very different views of love: Yuna is someone who sees love as a dream and Akari is someone who is very realistic about her romance choices. Meanwhile, th...

Sugiri Yukio is a mangaka. To be precise, he hasn't won a prize, his work hasn't been published, nor has he had any experience being an assistant. He's a complete newbie. Thus, at the moment, he just spends ...

One rainy day while Motoi and his friend, Reiichi were on their way home, they encountered a young girl who looked like a foreigner who then led them to a shop by a hill slope. There, they meet the shop owne...

Bronze award at The Eighth International MANGA Award 500 years after the collapse of human civilization, the earth has been drastically changed by war, and to survive humans must use the last remnants of te...

Ten years ago Yaichi's twin brother moved to Canada and married a man called Mike. A month ago, he died. Now Mike has arrived to Japan to meet Yaichi and his daughter Kana. Yaichi has to face his own preconc...