The story starts in 1560, before an impressive battle where Nobunaga's forces were severely outnumbered by his enemies, the Imagawa clan. The story then begins to jump back to earlier times in his life, in the...

Osaka, 1955, in the town of Tsuten-Kaku. She left that stale life from her drunken husband, alone that night with her son. Looking for a new path without knowing how life will turn out to be. Her son was her...

Ryouhei Yano and Daisuke Hidaka are writers for popular quiz shows such as "The Ninety-nine Walls" and were interviewed in "Professional:Way of Working". This is a fictional depiction of their experiences with...

The manga centers on college student Sasasa Ruru and her sister and mystery novelist Sasasa Nana. Both sisters suffered a recent loss in the family: an uncle that passed away a month ago. When Ruru takes this...

Public telephone. Picture-story show. Public baths… Those who were tried in the times and lost in the times. A black hat and a black cloak. Kafka, a photographer who holds an old camera and captures things that...

The time is the Republic of China in the 1920s. In the midst of the advancing waves of modernization and an unstable political situation, the common people who have lived their lives end up in the great capital...

Note: Won the 23th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Grand Prize in 2019

A requiem for the anguished, lost and wandering in life over 50. With Japan entering a new era, the story centers on Shiosawa, a former manga editor for a major publisher. After going into early retirement...

An anthology of six short stories: The Ice Wanderer (Toudo no Tabibito - 凍土の旅人) [2003]Set in the Klondike region in 1897, and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic...

Manpukuten, a messenger of the gods, appears before people just before they die and prepares them the food they really want to eat to help them attain Buddhahood.