Ax is the premier Japanese magazine for alternative comics, heir to the legendary Garo. Published bi-monthly since 1998, the pages of Ax contain the most innovative, experimental, and personal works in...

Yuki is owner of the Fuuka Cafe. When a man with a single rucksack comes to the store and insists, "Hire me," Yuki is forced to take him on as a live-in employee. The food Kamishiro, Yuki’s new employee, cooks...

In a small Nepalese shop, Makoto Fukamachi, photographer for a Japanese expedition to conquer Mt. Everest, stumbles across a camera which may well be that of George Mallory, the celebrated mountain climber who...

On his first day of transferring to a new high school, a loner named Mori Buntarou is cajoled by a classmate into climbing the school building. Despite knowing that one misstep could send him spiraling to his...

After surviving a terrorist incident as a child, Shingo Shimazaki was forced to join the League for Economic Liberations' revolutionary army. Now, thirty years later, he's back in Japan and trying to assimilate...

When the guy Kira is dating takes all his money and runs off, Kira heads into the mountains, heartbroken and underdressed. On the verge of distress, he's rescued by Fuji, an unfriendly man with a frightening...

Taishin has moved to Tokyo from his hometown of Fukuoka in order to reunite with Takara, a stranger who had consoled him in his grief the year prior. However, despite finally getting a chance to express his...

College graduate KI-WOON creates a hiking club with his friend JAE-SOO. After having a drink with the queen of the club JIN-SOL and the cute newcomer DA-HEE, KI-WOON blacks out. "Don't you remember what you did...

An anthology of six short stories: The Ice Wanderer (Toudo no Tabibito - 凍土の旅人) [2003]Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic...

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...

This is the story of a man known only as Gen, who used to be an assassin. Nobody knows his past, his real name or his age, only that he is now working at Tsubakiya, a secluded onsen inn. He had put down his...