A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of...

Apollo´s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to...

The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur´s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large estates and redistributing plots to...

Showa 1926–1939: A History of Japan is the first volume of Shigeru Mizuki's meticulously researched historical portrait of twentieth-century Japan. This volume deals with the period leading up to World War II...

Comics Underground Japan presents the wild, subversive world of Japan’s most accomplished underground comics artists. Some of the dozen artists included in this anthology will be familiar to followers of manga;...

Aozora Okami is the teenage son of a boxer who was sent off to fight in the Second World War. After the bombings, he and his younger sister Akari are left as war orphans doing their best to survive. When its...

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10...

Grass is a powerful anti-war graphic novel, offering up firsthand the life story of a Korean girl named Lee Ok-sun who was forced into sexual slavery for the Japanese Imperial Army during the second World War -...

Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities)...

Set in post-World War II Japan, this is a story of young Haruomi, an heir of the prominent Morimura family. Stripped of his aristocratic title while facing a repossession of his estate, Haruomi finds himself...

Hitler: The Graphic Novel is a rigorous and lucid biography illuminated with a pulse and freshness that only a full-blooded narrator can still bring about on one of the most complex figures in the history of...

1945, Tokushima. Yodono's a cameraman visiting the base to photograph the special unit pilots. He's photographing them with only one motif in mind: "Young and admirable soldiers." During his time seeking to...

Are we bound by the fate of our blood? Or do we possess it within ourselves to change our destiny? Growing up between families as a child, Dora Blunt is elated when she finally finds a place to call home in the...

The tale of a ninja clan sworn to guard a certain family back in the days of the Shogunate. Aoi and Youjirou are assigned together, never to stray from their combined missions. But with Aoi’s frequent and...

This successor of the long selling Heisei classic "Town of Evening Calm, Country of Cherry Blossoms" is a family drama set in Hiroshima's military city Kure during the war. Protagonist Suzu marries and moves...

Lipton joins the Second Kukulcan Corps. He longs to ride the Kukulcan in the sky with his fellow Kukulcan airmen, while unifying with these other soldiers in slightly lecherous behavior during this youthful...

In 1941, Soutarou Kuramoto returns to Japan after years abroad with something on his mind. His closest childhood friend was a boy named Haroumi Asuma, who was famous for his traditional dances in women's...

"Here in Manchuria, the cheapest thing you'll find is a person's life." In 1937, Isamu Higata was sent to the Japan-controlled Chinese puppet state of Manchukuo to serve in its standing army. After losing sight...

This is a collection of short stories that Tezuka wrote about transformation and its many forms.

Tanabe and Kouno from Hyuga, Miyazaki, both are accepted to attend "Seventh High School," one of the most prestigious schools under the old education system. What the two freshmen did not expect, though, was...

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...

DMG: They say that the smallest movement from a butterfly's wing has far-reaching effects... and that butterflies are the souls of the dead. In North Africa, a rocky but fated romance flutters to life while the...

I Saw It is a biographical piece following the life of Nakazawa from his youngest days in post-war in Hiroshima up until his adulthood. I Saw It became the predecessor for Nakazawa's popular manga series...

From Fantasyshrine: The Instructor Demands ABSOLUTE obedience!!A forceful love between an army officer and his student!? During WWII in Japan, Yamato came to the Imperial Army Academy with the dream of becoming...

In Rising Stars of Manga: United Kingdom and Ireland, Tokyopop has awarded 9 aspiring artists and writers a unique opportunity to be published and receive a well-deserved jump start on their creative careers...