Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1988 (shared with Be-Bop High School).

The sometimes happy, sometimes sad, and a tad stressful daily life of "some sort of small, cute creature" known as Chiikawa. Chiikawa enjoys delicious food with bees and rabbits, toils hard every day for the...

Even dragons fall in love! This beautiful retelling of Chinese folktales highlights the relationships between humans and non-humans. Whether fantastical, like the love story of the Dragon King's daughter, or...

In the Hi no Bonobono series: V.1 - Nakitai V.2 - Iyasaretai

Tells about Uso, a cute Otter and his interaction with other animals.

Tokiniwa Yutori is a busy office lady working at a company in the city. You wouldn't guess it from her suit, but she seems to have a sea otter as a pet. Here's a heartwarming and gentle life for those of you...

Fictional spin-off series by Kazuya Hiramaru from Bakuman.

This is a simple two-frame manga collection "RACCCO" with only pictures without words or sentences. The funny and cute appearance of sea otters floating on the sea is depicted. Child sea otters are curious and...

Collection of stories published in "Hana to Yume". ラッコはじめました (1992)雷鳥さんさようなら (1992)さびしがりやの彼女 (1993)美女と怪獣 (1993)隠密道中大変記 (1991)熱闘！大奥 (1988)

The stage is Asakusa, Tokyo. Middle schooler Kazuki has quit the football club, without telling his childhood friend (or maybe more?) Enta, and is now doing everything he can – no matter the consequences – to...

This manga is deemed to be one of the works that initiated the "irrational" or "unreasonable" gag comic genre where the reason of its funniness cannot be explained by logic and traditional sense of humor, which...