England, the early 1900s. Alice, a young noblewoman, has a Japanese maid named Hanako working in her household. The two have a fairly typical relationship…until the day Alice begs Hanako to kill her. As Hanako...

Nozomu Itoshiki is depressed. Very depressed. He's certifiably suicidal, but he's also the beloved schoolteacher of a class of unique students, each charming in her own way: The stalker. The shut-in. The...

A young, unemployed, seemingly unmotivated young man is moving through his life. As a teenager, he and some of his friends formed a "Boyz 4 Men" club, which was based on a hatred of sex and women. As arguably...

A society where people have forgotten about ethical taboos and enjoy a life with clones, robots, body rental and drugs.

This is a compilation of oneshots that includes: Untitled2)* Before Dawn*Alfalfa4:30 PM, Sunday//6:30, Afternoon, SundayPart 1 - Summer MemoriesPart 2 - A Girl in the Brilliant World of a Boy's DaydreamPart 3 -...

Kaede, a victim of past sexual abuse, is obsessed with becoming "normal". A bittersweet story about a boy facing coming-of-age questions about love, sexuality, complexes and other troubles.

From Decadence: 23-year-old office lady Akari is looking for a marriage partner, with whom she can have a steady and "normal" married life. While she is spending her days hedging risks so as not to become...

A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of an overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting...

From Wiki: Sensoron is a controversial series of manga written by right-wing Japanese manga artist Yoshinori Kobayashi. For a critique click here

After being knocked into a coma for the past 8 years due to the events of the previous series, Kurosawa slowly wakes up from his coma much to the shock of the doctors around him. Can he make the most of this...

The plot focuses on the Marquise de Merteuil and the Vicomte de Valmont, rivals who use sex as a weapon of humiliation and degradation, all the while enjoying their cruel games. Their targets are the virtuous...

So just what is with this fascination for the Japanese teenage girl? We're talking about that extreme variant of her--that highly evolved creature of Japan's frantically trendy consumer culture... the ko-gal...

Nagisa Yamagami is a high school girl in her rebellious phase. Constantly in trouble at school, she has even abandoned her one redeeming quality - ballet - in opposition to her mother’s wishes. However, on the...

12-year-old Midori is the constantly abused chore girl for a freakshow. Things begin to change for her after a dwarf magician joins the freak show, but not always for the better.

College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates...

In the middle of the Edo period, there was a person with a keen eye. The Ronin called himself "Soldier" and belonged to no one, but was a fierce swordsman who faced evil by following his anger against injustice...

One stormy night, a man got lost on a mountain road and took shelter at a dilapidated house. However, he woke up to find that the seemingly abandoned house actually had an old woman living in it. And the house...

Being his first series, What a Wonderful World remains Asano's most representative and successful work to date. Composed of vignettes from the daily lives of a group of people inhabiting an ordinary...

Little witch-girls Chocolat and Vanilla are best friends, but only one of them can be Queen of the Magic World. To determine who deserves the title, they must go to the Human World and enter a strange...

How about this, a manga for adults – and not young adults either. This is a series of stories about love and romance amongst the older generations. As the manga itself says, “In the later years of their lives...

The protagonist is a woman journalist who watches the social changes & conflicts from the beginning of the Meiji era and the legacy of the Edo era.