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 collection contains 13 of Seyeong O's powerful short stories, covering topics that range from corporate drudgery in South Korea to pastoral farm life, from ancestral keepsakes to gentle parables about...

Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been selected for several annual “top 10...

This is a short story collection anchored with the tale of a young woman who is trying to ignore the reality that her husband is a serial killer, including "The Record of Peter Kyulten", "Sensual Nights", "Lord...

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...

It's about young people in postwar Hiroshima getting involved in the black market for weapons. The main character is an A-bomb survivor whose hatred drives him to kill an American black marketeer. He asks the...

This story is set in Cambodia. War has ravaged the country year after year, leaving behind it large minefields. To this day, many people still suffer because of them. Aki Ra keeps clearing the fields. But what...

Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow...

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Under the Rose contains two stories: Winter's Tale (Fuyu no Monogatari):In the late 19th century England, Grace King was the daughter of a declined Marquis and also the mistress of Count Arthur Roland. After...