Michiru is a happy child who loves to skate. During her childhood, she meets Leon, a cute innocent boy. They begin to ice dance together. But as she has a conflict with her mom, she plans to run away with Leon....

Sayoko is a newly transferred student: gifted with rare beauty and mysterious and magnetic charm, she captures every student’s attention. Among them, the introverted Yuiko and the grumpy Mari become friends...

Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold...

Adaptations of Edogawa Ranpo's detective stories featuring genius detective Akechi Kogorou and his apprentice, young prodigy and leader of the Shounen Tanteidan (Boys' Detective Agency), Kobayashi Yoshio.

A girl and her father go to live with her mother's family after WWII, while her much younger aunt is going to marry her father via "koburiawase:" the practice of having a widow or widower marry a younger...

An era when non-humans were still rampant here and there. Tsukumo Tsukumo is a 15-year-old boy who lost his parents. used to run an antique dealer. Kyokuro, who can see and talk to the spirits of Tsukumo...

Ponent Mon/Fanfare: This is the book in which nothing happens but everything is consumed! Like 'The Walking Man' at lunch!!What do we learn about Mister Inogashira? He’s a sole, independent trader importing...

Sana Kurata, a child actress, faces many problems in her classroom, including a major one - her bullying classmate, Akito Hayama. Sana's outgoing and friendly nature leads her to work towards correcting all of...

A quiet, atmospheric journey through the ordinary life of a young boy growing up in Showa era Japan. Masterfully told through the scattered memories of seemingly mundane moments in his young life, this short...

Okuno Ryouko and Saeki are quiet normal students. But only at the surface. At university, they both feel out of place; so, Okuno visits a S&M club after classes. Saeki happens to visit this club as well; rather...

A wonderful compilation of short stories revolving around the romance between women in Japan's Showa era. And while these women are in the 20th century, they dress in traditional kimonos that remind one of...

The story is set in Showa 38 (1963, a year before the Tokyo Olympics) and follows the coming of age of a high school girl named Komatsuzaki. The manga recounts Komatsuzaki's everyday life of "laughter and tears...

Collection of one-shot by U-Jin

In the Konjaku Jidai Gatari series: *Warawabe Douchuu * (わらわべ道中; 2006)Karaku Chidori (花洛千鳥; 2007)Tsutsuji Fuubun (つつじ風聞; 2008)

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

This mock instructional book has been based so closely on a standard dictionary that each of the four-frame comic panels have been placed in alphabetical order. They are arranged each on one page, with each...

At the end of January 1945, Ozawa Shouichi (the author’s father), who was a preparatory student, sent to North Manchuria after receiving a temporary convocation letter. After the end of the war, what was...

An adaptation of Edogawa Ranpo's eponymous novel. It's Tokyo and the year is 1924. A young tradesman by the name of Minoura Kinnosuke finds his fiancée murdered inside a locked room. As he struggles to find the...

The story centers around Kie Hirano, a 30-year old female office worker with a large-scale imagination. She gets to know Mitsumasa Koudai, a handsome colleague, who also happens to be a telepath who can read...