Munakata is an anthropology professor who studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that most presume to be entirely fictiona...

A DECADE-SPANNING JOURNEY INTO DARKNESS. Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumor of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the bo...

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Wo...

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...

Although a 19th-century philosopher once said that "God is dead" (It was Nietzsche) the Rakia story has God descending to Earth in the 21st century and assuming the form of a girl. ("Rakia" is the Hebrew wor...

Yamato works for his father’s company, is subordinate to his older sister, and harbors a secret affection for his sister’s fiancé, Sakaguchi. The day before his sister’s wedding, Yamato privately conf...

Set just before World War II: Having honed his swordsmanship to a fine art, dashing young Kumomaru leaves his native Japan to see the world and test himself against the evil forces brewing an apocalyptic wor...

Through the ordinary small events of his professional and personal life, a forty-year-old man lets himself go on impromptu escapades at random along the paths that the big city offers. This vagrant impulse s...

A 3000 year old god decides she wants to quit being a god so she becomes a high school girl. Official Site Original Manga: Yanmaga Web, Comic Days

This is a compilation of oneshots that includes: 1) Untitled 2) Before Dawn 3) Alfalfa 4) 4:30 PM, Sunday//6:30, Afternoon, Sunday Part 1 - Summer Memories Part 2 - A Girl in the Brilliant World of a Boy's ...

Following a collective trip to Europe, a Japanese artist makes a solo career in Paris, intending to visit the museums of the French capital.

Tsukiko, thirty-eight, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, “Sensei” in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him “Sensei” (�...

Compilation of 6 stories with a realistic feeling to them: Shiki no Zenjitsu Two people spend the last day of their cohabitation together before she gets married. Azusa Nigou de Saikai A father visits his ...

Mountaineer Shiga made a promise to his best friend following his tragic death in the Himalayas. Twelve years later and he is called upon to honor that promise. When 15 year old high school student, Megumi,...

How about this, a manga for adults – and not young adults either. This is a series of stories about love and romance amongst the older generations. As the manga itself says, “In the later years of their ...

She is the Prime Minister's legitimate daughter, devoting her life to vengeance. He is the invincible, ruthless Warlord Prince of Blessia, yet committing to loving her for the rest of his life. Between them ...

This story takes place in 1944. Japan is entering a crucial phase in the war against the United States. Cities and towns in Japan fall one after the other under America's continuous bombing. They even get ho...

An anthology of six short stories: 1) The Ice Wanderer (Toudo no Tabibito - 凍土の旅人) [2003] Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter ...

This protagonist, the most demonically strong exorcist. Akira the S-class exorcist sent from Germany to investigate a paranormal event in a certain city in Japan. He shoots creatures from other worlds with h...

Koume Sato and Kosuke Isobe are two teenagers living in a sleepy seaside town. After getting used and dumped by her crush, the emotionally damaged Koume decides to start a sexual relationship with Kosuke, wi...

At seventeen years of age, Miyamoto Musashi, still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword. In the aftermath of the epic Battle of Seki...

Ordinary guy on an ordinary day woke up in an ordinary house next to an ordinary dead body. What would you do?

Three centuries ago, a vampire by the name of Migiri was running a reign of terror across Japan when a hero named Naonosuke Kobayashi cut off his head and sent him to eternal rest... until now.

An autobiographical account detailing French artist Boilet’s infatuation, courtship, affair and break-up with the eponymous Yukiko – a young Japanese woman who never attempts to disguise the fact that, w...

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 ...