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...

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story “The Book of Human Insects.” The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy...

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. It is a...

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 one-shot compilation with themes of suffering, crime, and betrayal, incorporating elements from gekiga. Cave In: A young man gets to the bottom of a mining incident from 20 years ago that isn't what it seems...

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...

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 collection of short works by cult gekiga mangaka Ichirou Iijima, all originally published in Gendai Comic Dokuhon between 1972-1976.

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 collection of short works by cult gekiga mangaka Ichirou Iijima, all originally published in Manga Black Punch in 1971. This is the second entry in the Ichirou Iijima Manga Black Punch Complete Works series.

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...