"This tale of loan sharks in the Osaka area reads almost like a Fyodor Dostoyevski novel. It's also drawn in a completely original, blocky neo-primitive style." Note: Won the 1992 Kodansha Manga Award for...

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Creative Award in 2004.

Narue is an adorable schoolgirl with a secret. She's really an alien with powers right out of a sci-fi comic! But growing up is never easy, and sometimes it doesn't help when you're from outer space. Join our...

Arata Natsume works at a child guidance center, is in his thirties and is single with no plans for marriage. But one day, he receives a request from the child he was in charge of, Takuto, to "meet the criminal...

A collection of short stories: Kirakira to AmeZaza et YanikuYuuyake CarnivalKarasu no Naku Yoru ni Yaniku waZanshouStand Up Note: Won 2018 (21st) Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize.

Nao Kazushiro is a normal high school student—until he gets in a traffic accident and winds up in the body of a cat! At first, it’s all fun and games as he gets used to his new form, but then the novelty wears...

Winter 2019 Winner of the Four Seasons Award What does your brain conjure up when you're sleepless at night?

Nanao is obsessed with Sakai's hands...

Kuroki Kurodo was an extremely competent teacher at a prestigious cram school for the middle school entrance exam. He begins to work as the director of a cram school with poor performance. He declares that the...

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...