"Granma didn't tell' em like that..." Everyone has a favorite hero from their fairy tales, but who's the strongest of them all!? This is a tale of death and rebirth. In order to accomplish their dream, hopes...

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...

A semi-autobiographical account of the desperate final weeks of a Japanese infantry unit at the end of WW2, based on the author's experience. Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material at the Eisner...

A story of a young man who lacks a sense of reality after being dumped by his lover. He was visiting a seminar on cultural anthropology with his fellow classmates when he discoveres an ancient wall painting...

A blind woman, Onami, falls in love with Shinsuke, the son of a blind person on a journey. Onami is pregnant with Shinsuke's child, but Shinsuke abandons her at the last minute, and Onami has her right hand and...

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who...

Follows Vlad III's rule of Wallachia and the principality's conflict with the Ottoman Empire.