A collaboration between Viz and World Bank. This manga series discusses issues such as poverty, HIV/AIDS, and the environment.

I would die if it would allow me to touch you. That is my love. Airhead Yuri-chan and her boyfriend Aono-kun had a perfectly normal relationship until one-day Aono-kun suddenly “passed away”. They will never be...

Official English: INKR, Azuki Full Color collection of short stories. Zeb-NoidBlame Gakuen! (Blame Academy!)Blame Gakuen! Kyoto Nara Aiai-gasa (Blame Academy! Field Trip to Nara)Blame Gakuen! Sakura Saku Tou no...

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...

This collection is an amalgamation of work reflecting Hiroki Endo's philosophy and his outstanding ability to draw and to tell stories. Volume 1: "The Crows, the Girl, and the Yakuza"(カラスと少女とヤクザ)A long, heavily...

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...

Affection, betrayal, desperation - love between grown-ups is never a rational thing. Sayaka, age 35, has lived with the perfect husband for ten years. Perfect, that is, except for his disinterest in raising a...

Barefoot Gen recounts the bombing of Hiroshima from the perspective of a young boy, Gen, and his family. But the book's themes (the physical and psychological damage ordinary people suffer from war's realities)...

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...

Two childhood friends, Hina and Ren, shared a magic that could "swap minds." But one fateful day in high school, Ren impulsively uses Hina's body to approach the one he loves! A story of broken taboos and...

Ichiro Inuyashiki is down on his luck. While only 58 years old, his geriatric looks often have him written off as a pathetic old man by the world around him and he’s constantly ignored and disrespected by his...

Michio Yuki has it all: looks, intelligence, a pedigree as the scion of a famous Kabuki family, a promising career at a major bank, legions of female admirers. But underneath the sheen of perfection lurks a...

Nana Komatsu is a young woman who's endured an unending string of boyfriend problems. Moving to Tokyo, she's hoping to take control of her life and put all those messy misadventures behind her. She's looking...

Kain Walker is an admired and appreciated policeman of New York by all his colleagues. By fright at disappointing his fellows and also being discovered, Kain hides that he is gay and refrains from any coherent...

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...

I Saw It is a biographical piece following the life of Nakazawa from his youngest days in post-war in Hiroshima up until his adulthood. I Saw It became the predecessor for Nakazawa's popular manga series...

Meet Punpun Punyama. He’s an average kid in an average town. He wants to win a Nobel Prize and save the world. He wants the girl he has a crush on to like him back. He wants to find some porn. That’s what he...

A story that wonderfully depicts the emotions of an overweight woman with low self-esteem surrounded within the harsh environment of slim and good-looking women. She then decides to lose weight after getting...

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...

Jaehyeon's life was ruined by his stepmother, the woman who drove his mother to death and later caused his father's downfall. Consumed by hatred and forbidden desire, he takes revenge on her, only to die in a...

A seminal work of manga from the mid-1980s, Monster Man Bureiko Lullaby is a Candide-esque tale–if you can picture Candide as a mutated sperm brought to life by radioactivity. Unremittingly explicit, this is...

In his previous life, Qiongtian, after one thousand years of practice, was able to leap through the dragon gate and transform into a real dragon. However, he has fallen into a trap. Family and friends turned...

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...

One-shot compilation of Tezuka's gekiga works themed around senses and one's perception of reality. A small "change" in the lives of an ordinary couple is a harbinger of an incident that will strike fear into...