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...

A supreme martial artist is killed by his beloved and is reincarnated 800 years into the future. He’s reborn as Ruochen Zhang, the sickly and lowly ninth son and prince. His doting mother is the exception to a...

An exhibition catalog that details the background of the "Inoue Takehiko: The LAST Manga Exhibition," held in the early summer of 2008 at the Ueno Royal Museum, through photos and text. It reveals why the...

Phoenix is made up 12 complex stories linked by the presence of the mythical bird, an immortal guardian of the universal life force. Read in order, the separate stories jump across time, alternating between a...

I'll wait for you for as long as forever. Fairy Teacher Xing Li is on a mission to seal an evil relic when he falls into the Mortal Realm and loses his memory. Nuo Qing, his self-proclaimed disciple, takes him...

Gabimaru the Hollow is one of the most vicious assassins ever to come out of the ninja village of Iwagakure. He’s ruthlessly efficient, but a betrayal results in him being handed a death sentence. He has only...

Hol Horse is entrusted with finding a missing parrot and takes Boingo to Morioh. In the unfamiliar town, Hol Horse is haunted by a sudden vision of DIO and nearly struck by a car barreling down the street, but...

The mighty Medicine Faction has fallen to the evil hands of the Venom Clan. As they travel across the land, taking out each clan under the faction, Zhen Ziqiang becomes a test subject for the Elder of the Venom...

"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...

The Three Forest Cantons that would eventually become Switzerland, early 14th century: the St. Gotthard Pass is the main north-south artery through the Alps. It's guarded by the merciless Governor Wolfram in...

She was the trusted adviser of the military intelligence unit 11 in the National Security Bureau in charge of collecting intelligence, planning and deployment, arranging assassination missions, and devising...

Rising Stars of Manga (RSoM) was an annual comic anthology published in English by TOKYOPOP from 2002 to 2008, as well as the name of a contest. It was originally semi-annual, but switched to annual beginning...

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...

For generations the Torqye Pashalu and the Balt-Rhein Empire have stood in stern opposition to each other. Then one night, when an Imperial minister is found assassinated, the two nations are plunged into a...

When the Zhao Empire was overthrown due to the tyranny of the emperor, Princess Zhao Mu Xuan was forced to go into exile. She hated the person who started all this, and she twisted all these painful encounters...

For a thousand years, a line of kings has hidden a terrible secret under their castle. In defiance of natural law, they have sealed away the malevolent serpent god, Nahash, in an underground chamber. Every full...

Mo Ran thought becoming Chu Wanning’s disciple was a mistake. His shizun was really too much like a cat while he himself was a dumb pup who’d only slobber and wag his tail. Dogs and cats were different by...

From Webcomics App: Ling Yunge is known for her invincibility in the capital. She fights for the love of her life and helps him become the crown prince. But what he does is betray and deceive her. She is...

This story takes place in 1944. Japan is entering a crucial phase in the war against the United States. Cities and towns in Japan fall one after the other under America's continuous bombing. They even get hold...

At seventeen years of age, Miyamoto Musashi, still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword. In the aftermath of the epic Battle of...

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who...

After whopping 20 years as the headsman of the kingdom, Denil finally gets to hang up his ax – not. With the flickering prospect of a tranquil, possibly happy post-beheading life snatched from him, he’s got no...

The first story in this anthology, Who Fighter, is a play on the legendary "Foo Fighters," the nickname given to the mysterious, UFO-like fireballs that were sighted by World War II pilots. An ace Japanese...