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...

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...

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 short, three chapter series created by gekiga legend Yoshiharu Tsuge and serialized over a period of three weeks in Manga Sunday in November 1974. A young mangaka named Yoshio Tsube draws rental manga to ...

Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship; one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping, they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isol...

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10�...

A semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WW2, based on the author's experience. Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eis...

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur´s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots t...

In a prison world, there are few good stories, and this is the world of Kubikiri Asa, the beheader and master samurai under the Shogun. It's a world full of vengeance, greed, and violence. A world of depravi...

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 ...

Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge--the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to ...

Hitler: The Graphic Novel is a rigorous and lucid biography illuminated with a pulse and freshness that only a full-blooded narrator can still bring about on one of the most complex figures in the history of...

At certain period of time in the Shogunate, fighters in the battlefield would have nothing personal against each other, but fighting in name of a different master. This led to a convoluted type of trade in t...

Ichiro is trying to become a mangaka but is not succeeding, yet Sachiko loves and supports him. The two live together in a transient and unfulfilling relationship, and the collapse of their affair is depicte...

Apollo´s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness ...

Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; o...

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...

A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up traveling the world to discover what it takes to ...

In the feudal era of Japan, Ogami Itto is the elite executioner for the Shogun until the ruthless Yagyu clan frames him in an attempt to gain the position. His name dishonored and his wife murdered, Itto and...

Proud to be a Samurai, even though I'm destitute

A high-school student named Yu Komori is bitten by a radioactive spider, which gave him spider-like powers. Yu faces Japanese versions of villains such as Electro, the Lizard and the Kangaroo. Yu also has an...