Amae-chan is so sweet, kind, tender... she makes me feel so happy. And then there's me, the disappointment of a manga artist. But I will not be discouraged as long as I have Amae-chan with me!

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...

Set in the COVID-19 era, the manga follows Natsuko, a 32-year-old aspiring manga creator spending her second spring behind a face mask.Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural New Short Work Prize in 2024.

A oneshot that appeared in Monthly Spirits 2014-11 to celebrate Ito and Kazuo being in an interview together.

All Fuuko wants is a passionate romance like the one in her favorite shojo manga. Unfortunately, her Unluck ability makes that impossible. But just as Fuuko hits rock bottom, Andy sweeps her off her feet...

From MangaHelpers: The world is filled with cruel scum, ranging from petty thieves to sociopath maniacs. When a vile low-life inflicts pain and suffering on innocent victims, sometimes their anger becomes...

Comic Days Release Struggling manga artist Narusawa meets a former yakuza and homeless man named Kawaguchi. Kawaguchi reveals that he became homeless to conceal the "secret information" of his former gang boss....

Manga artist Mashiro Ryuu is crammed with ideas. When he called a male escort boy to change hismood, a neat, black-haired, glasses-wearing guy has arrived, exactly what he likes! To send money home (?) He said...

A story about the twisted entanglement between a depressed, shut-in, has-been comic author, and another best-seller, Super Darling comic author. This is an independent comic done by Eno Sumi (After God) under...

"There is a Ghost in my room-!" The unpopular Shoujo Mangaka, Senai Yaro, is being tormented by a "Ghost" with lingering attachment to this world! Ghost or not though the deadline still approaches...! A...

The first selection (English edition) from Japanese independent alternative comic magazine «USCA». The contributors are young and energetic cartoonists, NISHIMURA Tsuchika, SINZO Keigo, MIYAZAKI Natsujikei...

Amari, now an established manga artist is in a complicated relationship with Ugo, his former senior in the previous place he worked in. If anything, their relationship ended as quickly as it started. Amari...

One day, Shintarou and his friend Sakura pick up a wild fox that was wounded after being hit by a car. Shintarou takes care of the fox at his father's house and names it Momiji but they eventually abandon her...

Tsukasa Endou, who has moved to a new school and rumors start to fly about her…she meets the prince of the school, only to find out he is not what he seems to be…One mishap on her part and she is now his slave....

A work of two parts: the second never finished due to the magazine suspending publication. Part 1 (Vol 1-3): "Long, long ago, humans lived almost the same as beasts… If you got hungry, you could just find...

Minami has the worst luck with men—she falls for their looks only to find that they're the worst of the worst. So when she finds out that her next work assignment involves a good-looking, rude-off-the-bat man...

Staffed by murderous maids and situated on a war-ravaged island, the Voynich Hotel is far from your run-of-the-mill vacation destination--but it’s not such a bad place to lie low for ex-yakuza Kazuki Taizou...