At certain period of time in the Shogunate, fighters in the battlefield would have nothing personal against each other, but fighting in name of a different master. This led to a convoluted type of trade in the...

In a prison world, there are few good stories, and this is the world of Kubikiri Asa, the beheader and master samurai under the Shogun. It's a world full of vengeance, greed, and violence. A world of depravity...

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks the...

Created in the late 1950s, BLACK BLIZZARD is Yoshihiro Tatsumi's remarkable first full-length graphic novel and one of the first published examples of Gekiga. With BLACK BLIZZARD, Tatsumi explores the dark...

From the mangaka who told his life story in A Drifting Life, and gave you Abandon the Old in Tokyo and The Push Man and Other Stories, comes this collection of gekiga of the 1970s which have never before been...

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering stories from every Garo author up until 1984. 収録作品　『ざしきわらし』 - 白土三平　『ねこ忍』 - 水木しげる　『海原の剣(武蔵の巻)』 - 諏訪栄(小島剛夕)　『顔の曲がった男の物語』 - 星川てっぷ　『真昼』 - 渡二十四　『愛 : 新釈武士道物語』 - 加治一生 (平田弘史)　...

A former mangaka falls into poverty after becoming disillusioned with life and abandoning his trade. He unsuccessfully attempts to start a business selling rocks by the riverside to feed his family.

A period drama masterpiece recounting the remarkable feats of an outlaw bounty hunter renowned as Rabid Dog. Following the hero as he rescues the weak and battles the mighty, master artist Takao Saito’s dynamic...

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a...

Follow Ryuu as he plays mahjong with gangsters, crooks, and all sorts of dangerous people.

A collection of Yoshiharu Tsuge one-shot stories featuring an assortment of Tsuge's "dream" stories as well as his tales of travel. All originally published between 1972-1975, the stories represent a period in...

Collection of short stories including: • NejishikiA man gets bitten on the arm by a jelly fish on a village beach foreign to him. He sets off desperately searching for a doctor who can heal his bleeding veins.....

Silent and taciturn, a cat demon wanders through the world of humans, encountering creatures as monstrous than desperate. Mixing references to mythology Japanese and surreal quotes, this collection of short...

In 1945, the road from Manchuria to Japan was hundreds of miles away. The boy learned to adapt to the dangers of starvation, and his body trembled with his dark eyes fixed on the sky. In 1959, the boy, named...

When a fisherman stands in the way of an industrial scheme, the business developers have him murdered. His wife Migiwa, a pearl diver, plots to revenge his death.

One night, a man with a mysterious trunk of gold comes to stay at a hotel. By the next morning, he has vanished, leaving behind his trunk. The man went by the name of Shunsuke Ohtori - but the name actually...

Often cited as the origin of the heta-uma (or 'bad but good' ) style of manga art, Penguin Gohan is a classic Garo gag manga featuring the crude, lewd, and gory exploits of a penguin and his family. The series...

Pink is the story of a young high school student named Usagi who is trying to become a porno manga artist. Who would've figured that out of a such a cute, innocent blond boy? Guiding him is Benio, the original...

Oneshots created in 'gekiga' style. A lone man travels the country, projecting pornographic films for private individuals while attempting to maintain a normal home life. A medical student lives a secret life...

A definitive, career-spanning collection of stories from one of Japan’s most famous alternative cartoonists. Totalling more than 250 pages, Red Red Rock collects over a dozen of Hayashi Seiichi’s most famous...

Japan's samurai past is riddled with stories of great fighting prowess and deeply ingrained systems of honor and discipline. But behind the stern demeanor was a society coming apart at the seams. Clashes in...