Ishinomori is riding on a train to Sendai when he sees a boy near him with a blue kaleidoscope. Reminded of how he used to like them, he asks the boy for it. With his glimpses into it, he begins to have a...

Osamu Tezuka’s vaunted storytelling genius, consummate skill at visual expression, and warm humanity blossom fully in his epic of Siddhartha’s life and times. Tezuka evidences his profound grasp of the subject...

Unrelated to the G.I. Joe franchise (from ebookjapan): 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, resulting in unjust discrimination against the Second-gen living in Hawaii. Joe, a second-generation Japanese...

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)...

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...

A one-shot compilation with themes of suffering, crime, and betrayal, incorporating elements from gekiga. Cave In: A young man gets to the bottom of a mining incident from 20 years ago that isn't what it seems...

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...

During the final years of the Taisho Era (circa 1926), the gloomy tea house Ginseikan had a very special patron. Hiruko is a Baku, a being who eats nightmares. Customers come to the tea house every night...