Nao Kazushiro is a normal high school student—until he gets in a traffic accident and winds up in the body of a cat! At first, it’s all fun and games as he gets used to his new form, but then the novelty...

Winter 2019 Winner of the Four Seasons Award What does your brain conjure up when you're sleepless at night?

Nanao is obsessed with Sakai's hands...

Kuroki Kurodo was an extremely competent teacher at a prestigious cram school for the middle school entrance exam. He begins to work as the director of a cram school with poor performance. He declares that t...

Set between the Kamakura and Muromachi periods, during the Kenmu Restoration, the story follows the tale of Hojo Tokiyuki, a boy on the run after his family is overthrown by Ashikaga Takauji. With his only a...

25-year-old Moriyama Mikuri has an advanced degree, but has had no luck finding a permanent position. She's been living with her parents and doing temp work, and her latest job is doing housework for a singl...

The manga is about a series of unrelated short stories of people's lives and their lessons in life. Note: Received the 1985 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

Legend has it that if a human eats a mermaid's flesh, they will be granted eternal life. But is that a blessing or a curse? Immortal lovers Yuta and Mana travel through Japan and the centuries longing for a ...

History classes have never interested Saburo. He never saw the point of learning something that happened in the past, let alone a few hundred years ago. But when he falls off a wall, he travels through a wor...

The son of a famous pianist, music student Shinichi Chiaki dreams of studying abroad and becoming a conductor like his mentor. Unfortunately, his fear of flying grounds his lofty plans! As he watches other c...

Autobiographical tale in which Mizuki narrates the memories of his childhood in the decade of 1930, in Sakaiminato, a small coastal town at the southwest Japan. With nostalgia and tenderness, the mangaka nar...

Sonja is visited one night by a boy, almost like her, but not quite. He is from another dimension, and he brings her with him to his world through a portal. They travel on the northern lights and arrives to ...

The story follows Matsutarō Sakaguchi, a giant roughneck man with strength far beyond ordinary people. He never uttered words like "work hard," "strive," and "dream" like the typical shōnen manga protagoni...

In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, in Nagasaki, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion works at a curio shop called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots,...

Part of the Manga Japan Classic series. Other volumes in the series: 1: Kojiki (ISHINOMORI Shotaro) 2: Ochikubo Monogatari 3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 1 4: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 2...

Morimura Aiko is a junior high-school student who is short for her age. Her father went on a yacht ten years ago and his whereabouts remained in obscurity. Her mother, a designer for hats, left for Paris, le...

The story revolves around Toshio Omori, a manly and overweight office worker who loves to eat, and tells stories about his co-workers, people who pass through the same neighborhood, and food in a one-story o...

Around the offices of Tozai News, Shiro Yamaoka has a reputation for being over-blunt, under-ambitious, and generally an all-around slacker. So why has he been given the important job of coming up with the "...

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...

Okamisan is about a woman who becomes the manager of a stable of sumo wrestlers. It received the 1993 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga.

Won the 9th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1985.

Part of the Manga Japan Classic series. Other volumes in the series: 1: Kojiki (ISHINOMORI Shotaro) 2: Ochikubo Monogatari 3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 1 4: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 2...

A comedic chronicle of the everyday occurrances in a Japanese office building. It follows the exploits of the desk workers Jun, Minako, Reiko, and Hiromi. Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Short story Award in 2004.

Ten years ago, they took him. He doesn't know who. For ten years he has been confined in a private prison. He doesn't know why. For ten years his only contact with the outside world has been a television set...