A collection of short stories: The Distant Dawn - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 Issue 34 The Steel Queen - Weekly Shounen Jump (Shueisha) 1975 April 28th Extra Edition Escape from the Wastelands - W...

Set in the Soviet Union, the mysterious girl named Belka and the quiet boy Shchenok help a Socialist Party member to escape from the secret police. Their aim is to infiltrate into a certain mansion that hold...

In the women's prison, there is a beauty salon that is open to the general public. If you make an appointment, a prisoner will cut your hair for you. The minds of the customers are filled with anxiety about ...

This is one of the best-known titles by Yamagishi Ryouko. It shocked the public immensely when first published, because the story depicted how the legendary regent of Japan, Prince Shoutoku - who supported t...

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his ...

Won the Kodansha Publishing Culture Award in 1974.

It's the 2060's, and Japan has perfected "The MRI System," a piece of neurotechnology that, when given the brain of a person who died within the past 48 hours, can analyze the visual memories contained withi...

Working retail is tough enough with regular human customers, but what about when they're owls, wolves, koalas…and a woolly mammoth? Welcome to the Hokkyoku Department Store, where new employee Akino's cust...

Out of nowhere, a Japanese elementary school is transported out of the world they know, and into a nightmarish wasteland. Have they gone to another planet, or is this toxic world actually a vision of Earth's...

A lively boy named Daizaemon in traditional Japanese clothing comes with various kinds of animals to the capital of Tokyo. He has a funny habit of dancing whenever he hears music. He visits a friend of his l...

This volume includes ten of Junji Ito’s short stories, as selected exclusively from the Shōgakukan publisher catalog and presented and accompanied with a gallery of six color illustrations. Stories: 1: A...

A young man who can see people’s sins in the form of youkai gets employed at a sort of odds-and-ends agency run by supernatural beings. Based on a novel with the same name

Memory.... Does it represent all a person has? A railway accident changed Sumi's life... Aiming to be like his brother, Haru, he applied to a special agency for intelligent creatures ── RE614. What kind...

Long ago, there existed a land divided into four countries: Sou, Kou, Do, and Ah. The King of Ah took on a wife from Kou and soon thereafter one from Do, creating a shaky alliance between the three nations....

On Kabuchi-jima, an island ruled by Princess Kaguya, ten children were raised as sacrificial victims. Several of the children thought they had escaped their fate when they escaped the island. But nearly a de...

Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish...

Yutaka Kanzaki, a wine critic whose reviews have enough clout to move the industry worldwide, has died—leaving behind a wine collection worth over two billion yen. Only the one who can name his favorite bo...

Kariudo no Seiza won the 6th Kodansha Manga Award (1982) for general manga.

In the year 1863, a time fraught with violent social upheaval, samurai of all walks of life flock to Kyoto in the hope of joining the Mibu-Roshi—a band of warriors united around their undying loyalty to th...

Serge Battour is the son of a French viscount and a Romani prostitute, and despite his kind nature and academic talent, is shunned by his family and his peers due to the color of his skin. He begins to atten...

Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya falls head over heels for an employee at a local CD shop. He's got an air of mystery about him, great style, and an impeccable music taste. Little does she know—thi...

With the cooperation of a spiritual girl and a cat who understands human language, a detective with an “eye to see the truth” challenges the truth of the violent incident! Look at the detailed touch and ...

Published by Kodansha in 2002 and awarded the prestigious Tezuka Cultural Prize, Fumiko Takano’s The Yellow Book is one of those rare works which you enjoy reading in order to feel the tender familiarity t...

Long long ago, there were two neighboring nations who were on bad terms."The grass from your nation keeps getting into mine every single day". "The sound of futons getting hit in your nation is annoying". Th...