Part of the Manga Japan Classic series. Other volumes in the series:1: Kojiki (ISHINOMORI Shotaro)2: Ochikubo Monogatari3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 14: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 25...

Sugiri Yukio is a mangaka. To be precise, he hasn't won a prize, his work hasn't been published, nor has he had any experience being an assistant. He's a complete newbie. Thus, at the moment, he just spends his...

A romantic triangle revolving around a beautiful heart patient inspires bitter rivalry between boyhood friends.

Mikado Nanase was born into a family of ice skaters. Not discouraged by their father's death, she and her twin brother, Kou, aim for the gold. An ice skating romance. One More Jump won the Shogakukan Manga...

Bronze award at The Eighth International MANGA Award 500 years after the collapse of human civilization, the earth has been drastically changed by war, and to survive humans must use the last remnants of...

The manga and the movies of the same name are both based on the Onmyouji novels by well known Japanese science fiction writer Yumemakura Baku. All three concern the adventures of Abe no Seimei, an onmyouji...

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Short story Award in 2006 together with her One Woman, Two Cats, Oi Piitan!! and other works.

The comedy manga centers on the titular Hoshi, a teacher and homeroom advisor in an all-girls school. The story follow the antics of Hoshi's students, including penning absurd chain word games in the class...

Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India, and Japan. A series of short stories capturing the theme of "because I'm a girl" 10-year-old girls with different nationalities, religions, cultures, and values. "We are like...

The beautiful Seto is told she has six months to live. At the school she attends, she meets a tomboyish girl who wants to leave her boyish past behind and debut as a shoujo heroinesque high schooler. It's like...

In Onnoji, a girl named Miyako finds herself alone when everyone else in the world disappeared. While spending time on the somewhat strange town devoid of people, she realizes there is "something" else there...

The series, set in Saitama, follows the story of Ren Mihashi. Mihashi was the previous ace pitcher in his middle school's baseball team, but it seems that he only got the position because his grandfather was...

The omnibus manga collects a variety of stories about Osaka dwellers and the problems they face. [ANN] Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Short story Award in 2007.

The manga is based on his real life experiences with his landlady. The manga inspired an anime short in January in 2020 and won the short work prize at the 22nd Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize awards in...

Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He'll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You'll walk away an expert...

In a school of delinquents, there's one student that hates guys who pick on the weak, and his name is Kunio. He's as strong as they come, but unfortunately he's also lazy and perverted. Can Kunio win all of his...

Osomatsu-kun is an all-time classic gag manga that follows the lives of the sextuplets: Osomatsu, Karamatsu, Choromatsu, Ichimatsu, Jyushimatsu, and Todomatsu. While the boys are almost always indistinguishable...

Otoboke Kachou is another 4-koma offering from Ueda Masashi-sensei. The series follows the comical trials and tribs of the titular, yet simultaneously pompous and klutzy section chief Otoboke. Note: Received...

Part of the Manga Japan Classic series. Other volumes in the series:1: Kojiki (ISHINOMORI Shotaro)2: Ochikubo Monogatari3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 14: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 25...

Fujimura Kōshien is an incredibly straightforward and simple boy named for the famous Kōshien stadium of high school baseball fame. Along with his teammates, Fujimura fights to conquer his namesake tournament...

Note: Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival in 2020.

Winner of the 20th KADOKAWA Rookie Award. After making a doll based upon the feelings of his younger brother who died early on, a weird occurrence happens. What exactly was this mysterious happening...?

In a tale set in the middle of the Meiji era, Shusuke Kano is doing hard labor in Hokkaido, imprisoned for demonstrating against the government for freedom and democracy. He escapes from prison with another...

The main character is Carol, a blonde-haired, blue-eyed American teenager from a wealthy family with an interest in Egyptology studying in Cairo. When her mentor discovers the tomb of a young pharaoh, a curse...

Children's manga about anthropomorphic animals; Kaba-chan is a hippo. Winner of the 2nd Shogakukan Manga Award (1956) along with Kozou no Bon-chan