Ryu Komagata is a junior high school student who has a father who runs an outlandish betting Shogi parlor called "Serious Master" for a living. One day, Keisuke Torafura, a betting Shogi player who had turned...

Tsuyoshi Dojima, a left-handed pitcher who is expected to be the ace pitcher of the baseball team of Osaka's Asayo High School, continues to work hard every day under the watchful eye of his kind but strict...

Bohemian Yoshiyan is a boss at a branch school. Shota is a child. Shota was swayed every day, but one day a strange old man and the two became acquainted and traveled together.

Apollo´s Song follows the tragic journey of Shogo, a young man whose abusive childhood has instilled in him a loathing for love so profound he finds himself compelled to acts of violence when he is witness to...

Note: Do not mistake this series with another by the same title. (from oryo-books): An American Football story of the class struggle between middle and high school students set in Yokohama.

In the 1960s, during the height of Bat-mania, mangaka (comic book creator) Jiro Kuwata was commissioned to write and draw a series of original Batman comics for the Japanese market. Many Western readers were...

The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation The nuclear age has brought with it the arms race, which has led to the advent of weapons powerful enough to destroy the world itself several times over. Unwilling...

An anthology of three Tezuka oneshots from the late 1960's. The Runaway Tanker - Newscaster Goro Tsukinashi is invited to board the world's first atomic-powered, computer-operated oil tanker, the Osakabe Maru...

Book rental version Comicalized of the TV show version. From 1958 to 1959, all seven chapters were published by Suzuki Publishing. Kyuji Inoue is in the 1st to 4th chapter, and Kazuo Murayama is in the 5th to...

A man washed up on an unknown, isolated island has lost his memory. Giant creatures roam around, ruthlessly devouring their prey. Suddenly, the man trembles in fear and discovers an extremely high castle wall...

Unrelated to the G.I. Joe franchise (from ebookjapan): 1941 - The Japanese attack Pearl Harbor, resulting in unjust discrimination against the Second-gen living in Hawaii. Joe, a second-generation Japanese...