This is a manga adaptation of a musical by YOKOUCHI Kensuke. It's based on the life of Kusumoto Ine, also known as O-Ine—the first female doctor of Western medicine in Japan.

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Follow the final moments of a shinsengumi first squadron captain, Okita Soji, as the author tells his version of the story. Included in volume 23 of Vinland Saga.

Tezuka’s retelling of a Kabuki play about the retainer of the great warlord Yoshitsune.

In 1258 AD, a detachment of Mongol troops besieged the small city of Villa on the Persian Plateau. There are a total of 20,000 strongest cavalry that have conquered half of the world, while Villa has a...

When one helps their guy friend rub one out, things unsurprisingly get heated very quickly… Official Translations:English, S.Chinese, T.Chinese, Korean

From school crushes to awkward dating sites to finding a community, this collection of stories recounts the author's “firsts” as a young gay man searching for love. Dating isn't ever easy, but that goes doubly...

Kazuhiko and I have always been together since we got into university. He had unsophisticated clothes, heavy glasses, and unruly, curly hair. But one day, he changed his hairstyle. His rough, curly hair...

Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject...

This volume is based on three other volumes not illustrated by MIZUNO Hideko (the initial volume and two reprints) published in 1958, 1981, and 1986.

In the summer of 1896, 4,000 workers were deployed to begin construction of a massive railway line between Mombasa and Nairobi, hoping to bring civilization to the African continent. But then, a man-eating lion...

From birth, Cesare Borgia is surrounded by shadows. Damned by his own father, hated by his closest brother, separated from the sister who loves him, and driven by the demons of Hell itself, his quest for power...

Cesare is about the life of one of history's most enigmatic figures: Cesare Borgia, an Italian aristocrat, politician, and mercenary leader during the Renaissance. The manga takes an intimate look at Cesare's...

Did you know that there was once a dog who spent 15 years in a wheelchair…? Champ became paralyzed from the waist down after a sudden accident. To euthanize him or to keep him alive… After agonizing over the...

Chang An in the Tang Dynasty of China (618-907): The demon star is passing through the sky, calamity is about to befall the Tang Dynasty - because of a woman. Skilled in martial arts and war tactics, Princess...

An adaption the critically acclaimed novel Chernobyl Prayer: A Chronicle of the Future by Belarusian Nobel Laureate Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of several accounts of people affected by the 1986 Chernobyl...

The Saburo Fuzo of the city under the storm—the era of the Genpei family struggling for three kinds of sacred treasures. One of the three kinds of sacred treasures, the emperor's testimony, Tojin, (Antoku) a...

"Sorry, I know you must've been lonely. Don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long." Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district—where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From artist...

Cleopatra was born in 70 BC and was an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. Strong of heart, she is willing to do anything to restore her beloved Egypt back to its former glory. Possessed by an unfaltering love, Cleopatra...

A heart-wrenching chronicle of loss and resilience based on the true story of the Himeyuri corps of student nurses in WWII. San and her best friend Mayu attend a boarding school for girls in Okinawa, but their...