The story is set in the Stone Age. An unconscious woman is discovered by a family of foragers. In need of a bride, the eldest son who looks like a girl decides to marry her. Hunting mammoths, singing, dancing...

title The original anime film this was based on has released alongside the movie Kurayukaba, which shares the same universe. In the busy day-to-day life of those in the ever changing coal mine town nicknamed...

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...

Maomao, a young woman trained in the art of herbal medicine, is forced to work as a lowly servant in the inner palace. Though she yearns for life outside its perfumed halls, she doesn’t long for a life of...

In the East is a land ruled by an emperor, whose consorts and serving women live in a sprawling complex known as the hougong, the rear palace. Maomao, an unassuming girl raised in an unassuming town by her...

The size of a city, a legion of women, reserved solely for the Emperor. This is the Inner Palace. Into it is thrown Maomao, an apothecary who was kidnapped and sold into service. Now, she has to survive working...

Get immersed in the historical setting and intriguing characters of The Apothecary Diaries, the original light novel series that inspired the hit manga and anime! This jacketed, hardcover volume includes more...

Edo period, a young draftsman, Sutehachi, arrives at Katsuhika Hokusai' s house, the genius of the print and his daughter O-ei. If the boy's passion for drawing does not give way to that of the master, haunted...

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Plain little Nina loves her job as a maid in the house of Count Mirkwood. But her life is turned upside down when she suddenly gets dismissed for a crime she didn't commit. Cast out with nowhere to go, Nina...

Time in Edo was so precious and lovely. They work diligently, are earnest, but their hearts are soft.... This is a series of short stories depicting the modest but rich lives of people in Edo Tokyo with fresh...

A "documentary comic book" from 1931, depicting the true adventures of four young Japanese men in America. Originally published in Japanese in San Francisco in 1931, The Four Immigrants Manga is Henry Kiyama’s...

Born into one of Europe's most prestigious family the Habsburgs, Maria Theresia became the Empress after her father's death and inherited vast territories and assets. However, neighboring countries oppose...

Isobe Kozirou is a renowned chef throughout Europe. Now he comes to the court of Marie Antoinette to dazzle the tongues of the French nobility.

"You and I are only friends when we go out to eat!" During the Taisho era, when Western food culture was spreading, Tsukasa Inari, a young man working for the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department, hates fancy...

``The military is a place to earn food. They eat their fill of delicious food!'' During the Meiji era, Chitose, a young man who was suffering from poverty and starvation, was inspired by the fact that he ate...