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 Crater" is a series of short complete stories ranging in genre from suspense to mystery and horror. In the second episode entitled "The Octagonal House" a boy who is undecided over what to do with his life...

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.

A short, three chapter series created by gekiga legend Yoshiharu Tsuge and serialized over a period of three weeks in Manga Sunday in November 1974. A young mangaka named Yoshio Tsube draws rental manga to...

One chapter in the saga of Shima Kousaku, salaryman at Hatsushiba Electric. In this part of the series, Kousaku has just started working at a branch office for the company doing an unexpected amount of menial...

This manga is the adaptation of two movies: Zatoichi's Vengeance (Tokuzo Tanaka) and Zatoichi's Pilgrimage (Kazuo Ikehiro). The Ballad of Zatoichi:Zatoichi comes upon a dying man who asks him to give a bag of...