The story focuses on salaryman Densuke Hamasaki (a.k.a Hama-chan), whom his supervisor Sasaki has dubbed the "Fishing Baka" because of his passion for fishing. One day Hama-chan meets and befriends an older...

Mihira Sanpei talks with a Tohou accent and is a down-to-earth boy with a cheerful and optimistic personality. However, when it comes to fishing, he becomes very serious and is a youth who enjoys fishing more...

The key word to this story is “stingy”! This is a story of a wonderfully “stingy” boy. A bright, powerful ten-year old hero, Hageta Hagemaru, he is such a tough boy who deals with everything in this “stingy...

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...

Set in the COVID-19 era, the manga follows Natsuko, a 32-year-old aspiring manga creator spending her second spring behind a face mask.Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural New Short Work Prize in 2024.

A girl sees stars in the people and things around her. Some are bigger and shine, others dull and dim like her own. She meets two boys from school one day who show her that all stars can shine brightly, if you...

Won the 16th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1992.

To fill the void the death of his son has left, a scientist creates an android who’s the spitting image of his son. When the world gets wind of this, however, their peaceful life will change for good... Grand...

The series' protagonist is Takashi Horimachi, a fifth grader at "Anytown" Elementary School. A transfer student named Taro Tanaka enters Takashi's class. Taro Tanaka turns out to be a space alien. Takashi...

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...

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...

Umiko is a 65-year-old woman whose husband had just recently passed away. She went to the movie theater for the first time in decades and there, a shocking life-changing event awaited her. After meeting Kai, a...

The story of two small-town high school boys and best friends, both striving to escape from their suffocating lives in the close-minded hamlet.

Umibe no Stove 2) Yukiko no NatsuKimi ga Toumei ni Naru Mae niYuki o IdakuUmi no Soko karaYuki no MachiTaisetsu na Shigoto Winner of the 2024 "Kono Manga ga Sugoi!" competition (women's category).

The manga's story takes place in Kamakura, and revolves around three sisters: Sachi, the eldest sister who works as a nurse; Yoshino, the middle sister who works in a bank; and Chika, the youngest sister who...

High school girl Inukai Haru, who was about to be late, had the greatest “crisis” in her life. Inside the semi-express train―about 10 minutes to the next stop. Six minutes until the end. Will she be able to...

This debut work won the 32nd Akatsuka Award.

Collection of stories: Urikohime to Amanojaku (瓜子姫とアマンジャク)Miruna no Zashiki (見るなの座敷)Cinderella no Kutsu (シンデレラの沓)Akuma no Susuketa Aibou (悪魔の煤けた相棒)Chikusei (竹青)

Long ago, a ferocious monster terrorized the land, until a samurai, wielding the legendary “Beast Spear”, sealed him away. 500 years later, a middle school student named Ushio Aotsuki accidentally uncovers the...

The world is overflowing with them: fibs, falsehoods, lies... Surely you, too, Reader, have told a lie at least once in your life, with your heart beating fast. This is a story about dealing with those lies...

One day, Akio Asakura, a third year high school student, is driving his Fairlady Z (Z31) and is challenged by Tatsuya Shima, a doctor, in his black Porsche 964 Turbo (nicknamed the "BlackBird"). With a friend...