An anthology of all-new underground comics from Japan produced in the '80s and '90s by the latest generation of taboo-breaking manga artists! Selected by the former editor of Garo, Japan's standard-bearer of...

Seinaru Shisou is a collection of Jun Hayami's one-shot stories which showcases the breadth of his talent. It includes some of the ero-guro stories he is most famous for, as well as non-erotic and horror...

A watershed work of 80's gekiga shimmering with vulnerability, Talk to My Back explores Japan's fraying suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two maturing daughters and her mostly...

"If nuclear power plants cannot run without people who work under radiation exposure, shouldn't they be treated more favorably and given more respect, even if they are not the 'Fukushima Fifty'?" -Susumu...

A silent oneshot consisting of seven different stories. From Garo 1966-06.

Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge--the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to her...

Proud to be a Samurai, even though I'm destitute

A semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WW2, based on the author's experience. Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eisner...

A high-school student named Yu Komori is bitten by a radioactive spider, which gave him spider-like powers. Yu faces Japanese versions of villains such as Electro, the Lizard and the Kangaroo. Yu also has an...

Here are the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as gekiga. Originally published in 1972-74, these eleven one-shots...

"Action-Gekiga Presented By Takao Saito Production" There are always assassins in the underworld, and this assassin, Black Angel, is one of the best of the best. Where the assassin comes in, Goro-yan will be...

The Sky is Blue with a Single Cloud collects the best short stories from Kuniko Tsurita’s remarkable career. While the works of her male peers in literary manga are widely reprinted, this formally ambitious and...

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the...

Aiming for a 200 million dollar prize, skiiers race against each other using their fiery passion to push through the tension and solitude. As the sharp sounds of skis pierce the mountainside, the drama heats up...

This story takes place in 1944. Japan is entering a crucial phase in the war against the United States. Cities and towns in Japan fall one after the other under America's continuous bombing. They even get hold...

Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tastsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary short stories about the private lives of everyday people. He...

A mostly silent anthology, with a partial English release under the title "Ding Dong Circus" published in 2015.

It is foretold that every 3,000 years the Choujin, or Overfiend will come. This prophesied being will unite the three worlds of the humans (ninjinkai), demons (makai), and the half-human animal spirits...

A collection of hentai one-shots from gekiga mangaka Shou Daichi. This volume is particularly noteworthy as it could be seen in photographs of the bedroom of Tsutomu Miyazaki, the infamous "Otaku Murderer" who...

From the pages of history comes the legend of the Samurai Jubei and the book he was pledged to protect. Now that book has been stolen and Jubei must retrieve it before Japan descends into bloody civil war.