After the massacre of his family by the traitor Ashikaga Takauji, Tokiyuki flees with the help of a handful of loyal retainers who have also survived the purge. One of them is Suwa Yorishige, an ally of the...

From MangaHelpers: 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...

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.

Yuta became immortal when he unwittingly ate mermaid flesh, and now he seeks a way to become human again. Hundreds of years later, he encounters a volatile and determined young lady named Mana while searching...

Set in Northern Europe where supernatural powers are attributed through a person's name, given to everyone by the government. A man fighting with wolf companions & a werebear girl investigate a missing child's...

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...

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...

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...

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 a...

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 protagonist...

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 Monogatari3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 14: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 25...

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...

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...

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 with...

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 Monogatari3: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 14: Genji Monogatari (HASEGAWA Housei) 25...

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...

The son of the empress, sentenced to life in prison, although blind and old declares revenge on his unaging mother who gave him the sentence. He recruits a fellow inmate, who lost her arms and legs in addition...

The story centers around Yuna and Akari who have two very different views of love: Yuna is someone who sees love as a dream and Akari is someone who is very realistic about her romance choices. Meanwhile, there...

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...