The Chidori Art School, where boys studying drama gathered in 1935. Keitaro Chidori, a boy who makes the hardest efforts than anyone, toward the dream of wanting to stand in the middle of the stage and to...

Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side...

Just before the beginning of the 1940 Pacific War, middle schoolers under the old school system Utaro and Satsuki meet a youkai. This story is titled "Oni wo Katareba," in which a cow youkai understands human...

With the cooperation of a spiritual girl and a cat who understands human language, a detective with an “eye to see the truth” challenges the truth of the violent incident! Look at the detailed touch and the...

Edo period, Japan. A young warrior, Jinta, has dedicated his life to the protection of a priestess in a remote mountain village. When demons appear and threaten the shrine, Jinta is tasked with entering the...

Early Showa era. Seiji, a boy born into a poor family, who loves to play the piano that his late father taught him, meets Natsu, the daughter of a ryokan inn. Fate brings them together through the music of the...

In postwar Japan, Tamao has lost the love of his life. Working as a male prostitute for a living, the money he earned went to the alcohol that he drank to make him forget the pain of loneliness. One day, Gorou,...

Mitsuko is Japan’s first woman detective in the turbulent 1930s! When a handsome college student shows up with a new case, he ends up assigned as her new assistant! Join Mitsuko and Saku as they solve cases...

Hachiro and Karen has been friends since they were children... During the day, she is a sweet and timid young girl but every night Karen turns into a demon (oni) and tries to go out and eat someone. Yet, when...

Shiro reluctantly joined a special boys' boarding school where only the Crown Prince and selected schoolmates are allowed. But then he immediately got into trouble with a beautiful boy in the restroom and was...

From Fantasyshrine: Showa Year 18 (1943) is a turbulent year in Japanese history. Shaken by WWII, Japan as a nation struggled to find its identity between feudalism and modern era! Will Sasuke’s forbidden love...

Tsukiko is a young woman who has been a sickly and frail child, and is treated as ‘a good for nothing’. She becomes the replacement for her twin sister who was going to marry His Excellency, Kishi, a man who...

A girl and her father go to live with her mother's family after WWII, while her much younger aunt is going to marry her father via "koburiawase:" the practice of having a widow or widower marry a younger...

A quiet, atmospheric journey through the ordinary life of a young boy growing up in Showa era Japan. Masterfully told through the scattered memories of seemingly mundane moments in his young life, this short...

Big Comics Release

The story follows Jun Kuwako, a first-year university student, has been seeing small "obake" (ghosts) since he was a child. They are attached to old things, are extremely cheerful and talkative... and seem to...

In the Konjaku Jidai Gatari series: *Warawabe Douchuu * (わらわべ道中; 2006)Karaku Chidori (花洛千鳥; 2007)Tsutsuji Fuubun (つつじ風聞; 2008)

At the end of January 1945, Ozawa Shouichi (the author’s father), who was a preparatory student, sent to North Manchuria after receiving a temporary convocation letter. After the end of the war, what was...

In 1948, while working at a watch store, Makoto Yahagi was looking for his disappeared best friend, Natsume Todo. Yahagi eventually reunites with Natsume at the private library of the Todos, but for some reason...

Manga artist Muraoka Eiichi looks back on his career spanning more than 50 years as a manga artist, capturing in his manga the brilliance of unforgettable moments he experienced while interacting with people he...