With this book, Hirata set out to draw a passionate critique of discrimination against the Japanese outcaste community, known as the burakumin, around the character of Gennosuke, a young buraku whose mission to...

Lee Sungjin used to be the strongest hunter on Earth, until he was burned to death by the demon king's flames. He reawakened to find himself in the body of Morres, the notorious scumbag prince of the Holy...

The Shinsengumi were a special police force in Japan in the 19th century. Tasked originally with protecting the Shogunate, they eventually dedicated themselves to restoring order in Kyoto. Hijikata Toshizo is...

Sorry, I know you must've been lonely. Don't worry. I won't keep you waiting long." Maruyama, Nagasaki's pleasure district — where the music of shamisens mingles with the language of foreign lands. From artist...

Even dragons fall in love! This beautiful retelling of Chinese folktales highlights the relationships between humans and non-humans. Whether fantastical, like the love story of the Dragon King's daughter, or...

Cleopatra was born in 70 BC and was an Ancient Egyptian Pharaoh. Strong of heart, she is willing to do anything to restore her beloved Egypt back to its former glory. Possessed by an unfaltering love, Cleopatra...

From Dark Horse: Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship; one a Japanese man, the other an African American.After escaping, they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong...

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...

What links together two bands of worshippers, one deep in the Arctic snows, one hidden in the bayous of Louisiana, is more than their shared practice of blood sacrifice. It is the inhuman phrase they both chant...

It’s 1935 in Gyeongseong, and struggling artist Iho Yun has been commissioned by the reclusive, elderly Madam Jeonghwa Song to paint a portrait. Madam Jeonghwa Song allows Iho to set eyes upon her -- an...

Following the brutal Virtuous-Demonic War, the Demon Cult emerges victorious, seizing control of the world. But their triumph is shaken when the Cult’s vice-leader is assassinated in a sinister conspiracy. From...

In modern-day Japan, an ancient swordsman named Hyakki hunts Yokai to reclaim shards of his body that were stolen by demons. Roro, a homeless girl seeking to avenge her parents’ murder, must also unravel the...

During Japan’s tumultuous Sengoku period, one man sells his son to a pack of devils in exchange for the power to rule. Forty-eight devils take forty-eight pieces of young Hyakkimaru, and the boy is left for...

Promising surgical professor Sung Joo-Hyuk is reborn as a boy named Kim Tae-Pyeong in the 19th century English countryside village of Upton with all his past memories. There, he once again dreams of becoming a...

Imagine a world of magic, full of elves and hobbits and dragons and orcs. Inside this world of magic and wonder there is a great war being waged, using warriors from human history as chess pieces in a bloody...

Calling upon his former governess, William Jones, gentleman, is startled when his knock is answered by an uncommonly beautiful servant, the soft-spoken Emma. Throughout his visit, William's eyes drift to the...

Somewhere among the violent and chaotic grasslands of 12th-century Mongolia, lives a boy named Temujin. One day, while on the brink of death, he has a fateful encounter with a beautiful and mysterious woman...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the...

O-Sato is willing to do anything to get revenge on the men who raped and murdered her younger sister, even if she must sleep with the perpetrators in order to get close enough to them to slit their throats. She...

From Viz: In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles...

A mystery hangs over the remote island of Manwol. The locals have all perished after being turned into monsters in an experiment by the imperial army. But Geumran, a young deaf girl, inexplicably survives...

Path of the Assassin is the story of Hattori Hanzō, the fabled master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu, the shogun who would unite Japan into one great nation. As the secret caretaker of such...

London, 1888 A.D. The entire city is consumed by fear of a serial killer known only as Jack the Ripper. He mutilates female prostitutes with extreme brutality. However, his victims hide a terrifying secret and...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord...

Historie takes place in ancient Greece and follows the childhood and adult life of Eumenes, who would grow up to be the secretary and general to Alexander the Great. Note: Won the 16th Tezuka Osamu Cultural...