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...

Dokja was an Average Office Worker whose sole interest was reading his favorite web novel “Three Ways to Survive the Apocalypse”.But when the novel suddenly becomes reality, he is the only person who knows how...

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...

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...

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy was inspired to become a pirate by listening to the tales of "Red-Haired" Shanks. But his life changed when Luffy accidentally ate the Gum-Gum Devil Fruit and gained the power to...

Every time a promising villain appears, Saitama beats the snot out of ’em with one punch! Can he finally find an opponent who can go toe-to-toe with him and give his life some meaning? Or is he doomed to a life...

One rainy day while Motoi and his friend, Reiichi were on their way home, they encountered a young girl who looked like a foreigner who then led them to a shop by a hill slope. There, they meet the shop owner...

High school teacher Aoki is reluctant to go to the infirmary. Because he does not like the doctor there, Mr. Tengoku, for no reason. But one day, he is forced to pay a visit to talk about a student who often...

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...

"I want Akazu-sensei to eat my 'first'!" Ookami Hinako had her skirt swiped by the rumored "skirt bandit." Her teacher Akazu Tatsumi happened to be passing by and came to Ookami's rescue. Akazu took Ookami...