A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.

This is the tale of two members of a Beatles cover band who find themselves transported back in time to 1961 – to a time before anyone had ever heard of the Beatles – and decide to take the mantle of the world...

Wilted leaves beside the board, empty seats between the towering trees, a passerby who chose to put down a stone in the middle of the board, unbeknownst to him eons have passed… Waking up from his slumber, Ji...

In Fallen Words, Yoshihiro Tatsumi takes up the oral tradition of rakugo and breathes new life into it by shifting the format from spoken word to manga. Each of the eight stories in the collection is lifted...

Collection of adult comedy short stories. Pex BanzaiWomen Howling at the MoonKurushimasu Eve / Christmas EveNo Deposit!The Moron CorporationThe Idiot's Guide to: Sex Fortune-TellingA Beggarly NoblemanMen and...

A large collection of works(25 chapters) published in Harta magazine by Hirona Takahashi of "Beni Tsubaki"! Glamorous SuteyamaTsumeato ni Ai wo Komete (Scars Full of Love)Hajimete no Seisai (My First Planet...

Based on the life of real life historical figure/potentially mythological artist Hidari Jingoro. Jingoro is an extremely talented woodworker, sculptor, painter, wordsmith, you name it. But when his lover, Osen...

This book is a re-arrangement and major addition to "Witness of the Times/Umezu Kazuo: 'Scary!' is the Power to Live," a series of interviews that were serialized in the Yomiuri Shimbun in 2023.It is a...

Adaptation of a popular novel.Five years after the Tokugawa shogunate collapsed—- Kizou is the dour, misanthropic owner of a used-goods store. One night, out of the blue, the demon Koharu wanders into his house...

Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. They are known as mushi creatures that came into being shortly after life emerged from...

Ginko finds himself in a village which falls victim to a mushi that blocks out the sun; however, one villager seems to benefit from this calamity.

Upon realizing such a thing was possible, one particular cat sets out to become a demon.

Autobiographical tale in which Mizuki narrates the memories of his childhood in the decade of 1930, in Sakaiminato, a small coastal town at the southwest Japan. With nostalgia and tenderness, the mangaka...

In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, in Nagasaki, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion works at a curio shop called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots...

The year is 1967, and a young Japanese man is thinking about the future. On one side of the water, the war is raging in Vietnam; far away on the other side, the Apollo Project has just met with disaster as...

One rainy day while Motoi and his friend, Reiichi were on their way home, they encountered a young girl who looked like a foreigner who then led them to a shop by a hill slope. There, they meet the shop owner...

The novels are set in the Japanese court of 1000 years ago and follow the exploits of court astronomer, diviner, and exorcist Abe-no-Seimei and former prince and most talented musician of his time Minamoto-no...

Sarusuberi recounts short episodes in the later life of Hokusai, the genius ukiyoe artist, and of his daughter, Oei. It was later adapted into the anime Miss Hokusai (2015).

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...

The fox who has lived for a millennium will outsmart the humans. In China during the Jin dynasty, it's said that a millennial fox lived in the tomb of King Yan Zhao of Zhou. That fox, Guangtian, goes to meet...

A collection of short manga Kawada Daichi posted on Twitter: ギャルの方々に呼び出されたメガネっ子の運命… (Gal no Katagata ni Yobidasa Reta Meganekko no Unmei…)能力の高い魔女 (Nouryoku no Takai Majo)姫川ちゃんの秘められた力 (Himekawa-chan no...

When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could...