A new world of "Dazai" drawn by gorgeous writers. A masterpiece of Osamu Dazai's masterpiece short story, which has been loved for a long time, is translated by up-and-coming manga artists into Manga (comics...

This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his...

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...

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

Follows the daily lives of Japanese soldiers taking part in the Battle of Peleliu during World War II: a high-casualty, months-long campaign. The main character, Tamaru, dreams of returning home to become a...

Portrays the famous naturalist Plinius. From volcanic explosions and tidal waves to the ecology of plants and animals, the work reproduces the world of Natural History, the Plinius encyclopedia describing the...

What will the cruel fate of Michi and his friends be, living as they do in the debris left by the war?

Highly recommended by Ryoichi Ikegami! "The man, sometimes with a sharp glance, quietly gazes at us living in the present..." In downtown Tokyo just after the defeat in World War II - in a burnt-out area where...

The year is 1949. Japan had been defeated in World War II and was occupied by Allied Forces consisting of American, Australian, British, Indian and New Zealander troops. A young woman meets a young man. Both...

11 short stories independent from one another. The main theme is women's life in olden times Korea, dominated by Confucian morals in rural area.