From nici: Cruise is the story of Yamada Kohei, a doctor who gives up a landlubber medical career to serve as a ship's physician, and the people he meets on board Japan's largest luxury liner, the Phoenix. He...

Utamaro Kogawa is a travelling salesman, always accompanied by his younger sister Hotaru, his only beacon of light and hope. Going from place to place, he fulfills the needs of his clients for a price. What...

From StarryHeaven: The man whose eyes are re-awakening, Yoshiyuki. At the age of 18 years old he lives a life of hopelessness, and thus visits the host club Platinum in Shibuya. They all thought it: “Yoshiyuki...

Magical service" is a story about the spiritual delivery service, "Madoku", which is a spirit-only delivery service for the spirits who lost their lives and could not succeed in Buddha while wandering this...

From Easy Going Scans: This is the story of a girl who was forced to become a piano prodigy with the pressure starting from the moment she was born. Her family has had distinguished musicians in their past. She...

This is a group of short stories centered around different sad-sack or comedic people in the waning days of World War II and the recovery after.

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...

(from ebookjapan): Adultery is a man's adventure, a woman's fashion...? Shotaro Ishinomori dramatically spins an omnibus of real-life love stories of "ten different couples," including a Marunouchi office...

Acclaimed for his visionary short-story collections The Push Man and Other Stories, Abandon the Old in Tokyo, and Good-Bye—originally created nearly forty years ago, but just as resonant now as ever—the...

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...

He has been a recluse for the past 10 years in that big house overlooking a bicycle parking lot. One day, a girl approaches and confessed to him, disturbing the world he's been cooping himself up in. A oneshot...

Excessive love, sex checks, and self-prioritizing toxic parents who treat their daughters as accessories. Exhausted by the selfishness of her toxic parents, the daughter turns to a "rental mother" service. The ...

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...

Keiichi Maebara has moved to Hinamizawa Village, a cold village in the mountains. I was fulfilled in the lively and irreplaceable daily life with my friends. Knowing the horrific dismembered murders that...

The sun rays enter the city of light, as various stories unfold: Bright, dark and harsh; a story filled with people from whom you’d want to avert your eyes. Yet, it is close to reality; so maybe it’s true to...

Every day in Japan, 2500 people die due to any number of causes. Do you think you'll be one of the ones to die? No, of course not. Do you think you'll win the lottery? You'd like to think so, we all would. But...

The massive tsunami caused from the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake mercilessly hit 30 beaches up and down the Oshika Peninsula, affecting the lives of the the people who lived by the beach. This story tells of a...