In 1420 Bohemia, 12-year-old Šárka's world is shattered when her family falls victim to the ravages of war. Guided by the legendary Hussite hero Jan Žižka, she joins a band of rebels in their fight against...

At a time when giant department stores and supermarkets dominated the Japanese retail industry, two businessmen, Toshifumi Suzuki and Hideo Shimizu, discovered a new type of small retail store flourishing in...

This story follows Goro, as the only son of a sake brewer he has always found himself drawn to painting pictures. At the age of 16 he runs away by himself at night to Tokyo to escape his father's problems with...

Moyoco Anno lifts the veil on life in the Edo period pleasure quarter, Yoshiwara. The story follows Kiyoha, sold into a brothel as a child and forced to work as a maid and her rise to prominence as one of the...

Emanon's wanderings across late-1960s Japan bring her across other lives in small country towns, with each encounter leaving people transformed in her wake. Yet the awareness she brings may not give peace of...

Japan's samurai past is riddled with stories of great fighting prowess and deeply ingrained systems of honor and discipline. But behind the stern demeanor was a society coming apart at the seams. Clashes in...

Ogami Itto, the Lone Wolf, and his nemesis, Yagyu Retsudo, lie dead after their titanic duel. Ogami's young son, Daigoro, stays at his father's side. None dares to help the child save Togo Shigetada, a samurai...

Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge--the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to her...

Centers on Lu Bu Fengxian.

In 1888, a number of prostitutes were murdered in London, by someone known only as "Jack the Ripper". The murderer takes to the streets each day, looking to slit some unfortunate woman open... The past of Jack...

Contains six short stories: • Kuzeinke no Saidai no Show • Seifuku wa Hugenai • Brigit no Bansan (Brigit's Supper) • Shizuru Cinema • Kasou Senryaku - Kagami-uchi (Mirror Play) • EmeraldWho cheated? Who Won...

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...

Kounosuke Ryuudo is a samurai who is stuck in perpetual poverty. Looking for a job is fruitless, as he cannot wield a blade. Quite literally, in fact. One day, after being accosted by some criminals and...

Two defeated samurai are exiled from Japan during the Boshin War of 1868 as the new Meiji government took hold. Ending up in Crow Territory in North America, they encounter Crazy Horse, chief of the Oglalas...

This is not history as we know it. The year is 1600. Ten years have passed since Oda Nobunaga unified the whole of Japan. When Nobunaga realizes he is nearing the end of his life, he announces that he will hand...

In the tradition of "My Antonia" and "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn", from the pen of the renowned Korean manwha creator Kim Dong Hwa, comes a trilogy about a girl coming of age, set in the vibrant, beautiful...

Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of the most influential and acclaimed practitioners of literary comics in Japan. The Swamp collects work from his early years, showing a major talent coming into his own. Bucking the...

At seventeen years of age, Miyamoto Musashi, still known by his childhood name, Shinmen Takezō was a wild young brute just setting out along the way of the sword. In the aftermath of the epic Battle of...

A coach from Austria races toward the French royal court on a dark, gloomy night. Inside is Marie Antoinette, bride-to-be of Louis XVI, accompanied by her twin brother, Albert. Something goes terribly amiss...

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...

The brave tale of the peerless Great Emperor Leonard the First was evaluated as a universal truth. However, in his younger days, before he managed to unify the continent, he was a boorish and clumsy young...

Official English: INKR From Del Rey:In 17th century Japan, a rebellion in the Aizu territory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty-one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent...