Based on the life of real life historical figure/potentially mythological artist Hidari Jingoro. Jingoro is an extremely talented woodworker, sculptor, painter, wordsmith, you name it. But when his lover, Osen...

A manga diary by the legendary Tetsuya Chiba about his current life and how his family escaped from China back to Japan post-World War II.

The massive tsunami caused from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake mercilessly hit 30 beaches up and down the Oshika Peninsula, affecting the lives of the the people who lived by the beach. This story tells of a...

Adaptation of a popular novel.Five years after the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed—- Kizou is the dour, misanthropic owner of a used-goods store. One night, out of the blue, the demon Koharu wanders into his house...

One of the volumes of an educational biography manga about Shotaro Ishinomori

O-Tsuru (the crane), named because she used to stand on one foot to warm the other, was sold by her parents to become a geisha. She will begin as an apprentice (Shikomikka) in an okiya. The house where the...

Three girls on the verge of finishing high school: each contemplating their childhood dreams and aspirations. As they face this time of emotional turmoil and self-doubt, samples of embroidery from different...

In Meiji Japan, the wave of Westernization is sweeping over the country. Navy Lieutenant Yukimasa Hayama is scouted by Ninomiya, a high-ranking government official, to join the Navy Kitchen Operations Unit. Why...

Spring, 1923. Haru Shimazu runs away from home after a quarrel with her father, and is struck by lightning on a bridge. When she comes to, she finds herself in Tokyo one hundred years later, in the year 2023...

It's not about the money. It's about heart. Here in this masterpiece historical anthology, that heart will be laid bare to you: the spirit of craftsmanship, flowing from fingertip to final product, be it a...

The Pacific Ocean during World War II. The destroyer Koufu was always on the front line. Right under the bridge, there were men who neither handled weapons nor were involved in operations, but continued to cook...

Mitsuko is Japan’s first woman detective in the turbulent 1930s! When a handsome college student shows up with a new case, he ends up assigned as her new assistant! Join Mitsuko and Saku as they solve cases...

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...

title The original anime film this was based on has released alongside the movie Kurayukaba, which shares the same universe. In the busy day-to-day life of those in the ever changing coal mine town nicknamed...

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she doesn’t long for a life of...

From J-Novel Club: In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an...