On a winter night, a young soldier sees his comrade die of cold after an accident during training. Close to death, he believes he sees a woman coming to take the life of his friend. The young Sakai owes his own...

Won a New Face award from Japan Media Arts Festival in 2015.

How about this, a manga for adults – and not young adults either. This is a series of stories about love and romance amongst the older generations. As the manga itself says, “In the later years of their lives...

A story about a world where all dead people become “Books” and are housed in a Library. The boy named Colio Tonies had his memories taken and a bomb transplanted in his chest. His life’s purpose is killing the...

Note: Won the 51st Nihon Mangaka Kyoukai-shou Grand Prize for Cartoon in 2022.

In ancient China a young fighter named Chinmi goes to the Dairin temple for advanced training. He eventually must leave Dairin temple to go on a pilgrimage where he meets many challenges to test his skills. Won...

Orphaned on the mean streets of Treasure Town, lost boys Black and White must mug, steal and fight to survive. Around them moves a world of corruption and loneliness, small-time crooks and neurotic police...

In 1661, Yasui Santetsu is a member of the Yasui House of the Four Houses of Go. However, he's beginning to doubt that Go is his true calling. Outside of the Go house, he goes by the name Shibukawa Harumi, and...

Within the safety of the walls, youths are raised in a nursery-style setting by robots. While life there may appear stale on the surface, the children are full of potential and curiosity. In many ways, it is...

The world has been annihilated and an evil bestial deity must be appeased. Saki, a young girl, trying to escape destiny, finds refuge in an unusual and rough line of work. But she has been chosen for an...

The time: the thirteenth century. The place: Yeke Mongol Ulus, the greatest empire the world has ever known. The woman: Fatima, hailing from Persia, where medical technique and scientific knowledge have been...

The manga is about the school days of village kids, who are growing and making their first steps to the real world and their relationships. Won the 20th Kodansha Manga Award for shoujo in 1996.

Yoshinori Yanagisawa, professor of economics at University of Y. Walks to the right of the road and does not cross it except for at crosswalks. This story is a clear and pleasant record of a scholar who adheres...

Megumi Amatsuka, a rough and tumble nine-year-old boy, always dreamt of becoming the "manliest man on earth." Upon receiving a book of magic from a sorcerer whom he saved from a group of local thugs, Megumi...

Kunimi Satoshi has stayed at home and did nothing for a year after his father had gone missing. However meeting with his classmate, Tsuji Keita, he somehow manages to graduate middle school, and to become a...

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The future. Having driven Terra to the brink of environmental collapse, humanity decides to reform itself by ushering in the age of Superior Domination (S.D.), a system of social control in which children are...

Won the 18th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1994.

In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong...

During the chaos and confusion at the end of the Eastern Zhou Dynasty, Wu Zixu and Sun Zi leave their native land of Chu for the land of Wu after their parents are killed. They take an oath of allegiance to...

In a town filled with the most beautiful of beings, Tinker is the ugly freak who lives on the fringes of society. One day, one of these beings visits his workshop in order to have a trinket fixed, and it is...