In a supernatural world where secret forces are at play in the courts, Qi Xuansu, a seventh-rank Daoist priest, finds himself in a struggle to escape his fate as a pawn. The only way to do so is by completing...

A westerner searches for the lost connection between the Jews and the Japanese in premodern Japan. The manga builds upon the popularity of theories about connections between the Jews and the Japanese.

In medieval Japan, the feudal lord Nobuhira reigns as an authentic tyrant over his domain, carrying out all kinds of abuses on the peasants. He kills some for fun, to test the effectiveness of his sword blade...

Azumi focuses upon the life of the titular young female assassin. The manga begins an indeterminate number of years after the Battle of Sekigahara. As Azumi begins her duty, the manga introduces its...

Both a sequel and a reboot of Azumi. The series ties into Oi! Ryouma, as Sakamoto Ryōma co-stars, and transplant the setting from the 17th to the 19th century.

Long, long ago, a woman who had coupled with a strange beast gave birth to a Saishi, a half-human half-beast creature, whose body was filled with venom. These brutal creatures were used in battle during times...

Many military leaders throughout history, including Napoleon, have been found using the teachings in the ancient Chinese literature called the Sonshi. The Sonshi, written by the leader of the Son family...

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...

16th century Japan—the Sengoku Period. A time when rival warlords vied for control of Japan. The Uesugi Clan were the protectors of Province of Echigo. Naoe Kanetsugu is the illegitimate child of his liege lord...

The Sengoku era gave birth to many historical legends. One of them is Naoe Kanetsuku, the brilliant military general of the Uesugi family. Together with Maeda Keiji, a legendary warrior on the battlefield, who...

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...

Did you not wish to see me, My Lord…? I’ve taken over a man’s body in the world of murim, and to make things even more complicated, it’s the body of an extra in a world where everything is determined by...

Originally published in 3 parts in 2009 and collected in 2018 as a 1 volume supplement to the September 2018 issue of Sarai magazine.

The rogue ninja Kamui is struggling to free himself from the iron fist of his own clan. As a ronin, he should not exist. In his flight from his clan he meets another ronin kunoichi named Sugaru. Sugaru, wanting...

A story about an invincible samurai and a young princess that he has sworn to protect.

A few days ago the eighth Tokugawa had inherited the shogunate in the midst of an unstable political situation, a striking man entered Edo. He had a shocking beauty eyes, and was so handsome that seemed to have...

The Roman empire is at the summit of its splendor. Cestus, a young slave boxer is constantly fighting and improving his style. Suddenly, an emperor’s messenger visits him and announces that the emperor Nerone...

Uto Yujiro, a Japanese youngster who cross the sea to the home of the Eskimos - a cold & freezing place in northern Alaska, in order to become a top class whaler, but after he met a powerful boxer called Jim...

54 AD. Cestus, a young boy orphaned by the Roman empire and made a slave, is placed into a training school for pugilists. It is here that he begins his journey to defy fate and fight for his own freedom.

In the feudal era of Japan, Ogami Itto is the elite executioner for the Shogun until the ruthless Yagyu clan frames him in an attempt to gain the position. His name dishonored and his wife murdered, Itto and...