In 1994 the mangaka Kazuichi Hanawa was arrested on firearms offences and sentanced to three years in prison. Once released, Hanawa set about creating this autobiographical record of his life behind bars. The...

Xin’s quest begins when his friend Piao, another war orphan who shares his dream of becoming a great general, is taken away by a mysterious minister to the capital, and Xin is left to work and train on his own....

Koharu and Minato are a long-distance couple who finally got the chance to live together. Their lovey-dovey daily life, even with a 10-year age difference, will heal you from the fatigue of modern life...!

Official English The LKY Story - Lee Kuan Yew: The Man Who Shaped a Nation is a tribute to Singapore's late founding father and Minister Mentor, Mr. Lee Kuan Yew.Shogakukan Asia Pte Ltd is proud to present the...

A fanciful retelling of the life of a young Ludwig Van Beethoven.

There was a total of 37 chapter published in Horror M magazine. Only 16 were collected in volumes 1-3 This tongue-in-cheek semi-autobiography follows the the absurdly gruesome adventures of a lonely boy and his...

Will manga still exist ten years from now? A publishing recession with no end in sight... combined with new technology and media that is changing everything. In Japan, manga artists find themselves constantly...

Sick of his job and the city, Yohei “Kuma” Sakuma has a grand plan-to start anew in the countryside and live off the land. Thing is, he hasn't told his wife yet, nor does he know the first thing about growing...

A "documentary comic book" from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America. Originally published in Japanese in San Francisco in 1931, The Four Immigrants Manga is Henry Kiyama’s...

This is a groundbreaking manga anthology by and about gay men, put together by an award-winning team. Big, burly, lascivious, and soft around the edges: welcome to the hypermasculine world of Japanese gay manga...

Nagata Kabi’s groundbreaking autobiographical work has captivated audiences around the globe, starting with the viral online comic about identity that would become the graphic novel My Lesbian Experience with...

Autobiographical essay manga from Nagata Kabi surrounding her struggles with her eating disorder and binge eating. Original Web Manga

After being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, the creator documents her physical and emotional journey through treatment in this powerful memoir manga. At 38 years old, Hilnama, a manga artist, is diagnosed...

From Yen Press: From artist Pon Watanabe comes her comic essay about her personal experiences managing a used bookstore after the owner decides to add erotic paraphernalia to their product mix!

Ever wonder what Yaoi-Con is like from a mangaka's point of view? In 2011, BL mangaka Fusanosuke Inariya attended Yaoi-Con as a guest of honor. Read this manga style report about her personal experiences on...

Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow...

Artificial insemination, and if that doesn't work, then in vitro... It was the start of my infertility treatment, which I thought would be over in a snap. But, it ended up being a unbelievable swamp...

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...

These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for. The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent...

I Saw It is a biographical piece following the life of Keiji Nakazawa from his youngest days in post-war in Hiroshima up until his adulthood. I Saw It became the predecessor for Nakazawa's popular manga series...

The English male Mev and the South Korean female Penguin who had met through an online messenger are enjoying their successful marriage in England for three years, after a lovely honeymoon in South Korea. The...

This story follows Goro, as the only son of a sake brewer he has always found himself drawn to painting pictures. At the age of 16 he runs away by himself at night to Tokyo to escape his father's problems with...

This is a compilation of manga essays originally published on Pixiv. It's the personal story of an aspiring mangaka: a 28-year-old college dropout who's led a lonesome, unfulfilling life and who has never had...

A diary of my sexual awakening…at thirty-three?!! Asuka is neither a woman nor a man—they’re X-gender (a non-binary identity)—and they’ve realized they like women! Okay, now what? Adult films are fun to watch...

China, 221 BCE. Under the tyranny of the First Emperor, the people suffered from heavy taxes. Great men with ambition rise to overthrow the Qin Empire! Xiang Yu, Han Xin, and Zhang Liang make their appearance...