Who takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet to rescue a child’s toy? To stop and observe the birds? To play in the puddles after a storm? To go down to the sea to put a shell back? The Walking...

Kayako Kirishima is almost ready to go off to college but is lonely and unsure of her future. Masami Endo is a girl who has been ostracized and made a social outcast for having an abortion. The two girls meet...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the...

Takeuchi Sachiko's Honey & Honey is a realistic look at an adult lesbian couple living in Japan; to be precise, it's autobiographical. The artwork is rough, but hopefully the plot (and the information the manga...

Seventeen authors (nine from France or French-speaking countries, eight from Japan) brought together in the same book, a succession of freely created short stories about the same universe: Japan. The French...

She read Yukiko’s Spinach for the hundredth time. Was that really her looking so young? In the four years since then she had been the mangaka’s only model and love. This trip to the beautiful island of Enoshima...

Mutant Hanako tells the story of a young girl from Okinawa named Hanako. On the day the Americans invaded Okinawa, Hanako, who is in hiding with her sister Tsukiko, has a vision of the Emperor who tells her to...

Palepoli goes beyond the framework of standard four-panel manga and views its structure in new ways. Actually, Furuya knew nothing of conventional manga styles and methods when he started Palepoli. As a result,...

Taking place during the turn from the Taisho to the Showa period, this story centers around an unsuccessful science fiction author who masquerades as the dead son of an industrial magnate. With his new family's...

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...

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a...

Living in a big city like Tokyo is difficult as it is, but it is even more so if you are a young professional woman on your own. How do you cope with the stress? The depression, anxiety, and seemingly endless...

An autobiographical account detailing French artist Boilet’s infatuation, courtship, affair and break-up with the eponymous Yukiko – a young Japanese woman who never attempts to disguise the fact that, whilst...