A youth named Kiriyama Rei, who lost his family as a child, endures loneliness to become a professional shogi player. Then, through a chance meeting, he develops a relationship with the three Kawamoto sisters (Akari, Hinata, Momo), who hail from a working-class district of the city, and little by little his frozen heart begins to thaw.... more>>

Note: Nominated for the 2nd Annual Manga Taishou in 2009 and won the award in 2011.

Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the general category (shared with ) in 2011 and won the Grand Prize of the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2014. And won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Grand Prize in 2021. <<less

The story follows a girl who likes bondage and a boy who has a habit of taking upskirt photos. When the girl catches the boy... more>> taking photos of her, she promises not to tell in return for him doing whatever she says. [ANN] <<less

Isao Komori is a college dropout who spends his days cooped up in his apartment playing video games and masturbating. The highlight of his day is visiting a convenience store where an angel-like high-school girl called Mari visits every night.... more>>

One morning Komori wakes up in Mari's body. Another "Komori" inhabits his old body, and Mari has disappeared. Komori struggles to maintain Mari's ordinary life and starts to investigate Mari's disapperance. Perhaps Mari wasn't so innocent and perfect after all? <<less

The story is set in two distinct worlds. Tokio lives with other children inside a world surrounded by a beautiful wall, but one day he receives a message that reads, "Do you want to go outside?" Meanwhile, a boy named Maru travels with an older woman, eking out a meager existence in a ruined world as they search for "paradise."... more>>

Note: Winner of Kono Manga ga Sugoi! 2019 Award in Male Readers category. <<less

Her name is Monko. A solitary crow, a wandering soul, a magnificent traveler who roams the roads that are inhabited by bloodthirsty bandits and attractive young outlanders, some of whom are one and the same. At the heart of this wild hinterland where dangerous creatures can also arise, Monko follows the path she has taken. Despite her devotion to the way of the sword, it is not the Warriors path she chose to pursue. In spite of her intelligence, she does not seek Wisdom either.... more>>

Indeed, the quest she pursues is to find the perfect husband. Her path is the way of Love. <<less

Japan, 1995. After graduating from high school, Itou Kaiji moves to Tokyo to get a job, but fails to find steady employment because the country is mired in its first recession since World War II. Depressed, he festers in his apartment, wasting the day away with cheap pranks, gambles, liquor and cigarettes.... more>>

This goes on for two years until he's paid an unexpected visit by a man named Endou, who wants to collect an outstanding debt owed to him in Kaiji's name. Endou gives Kaiji two options: either spend ten years repaying the money, or board the gambling ship Espoir (French for "hope" ), and stand a chance to clear the debt in one night. Using a con, Endou pressures Kaiji into accepting the latter option, believing he will never return alive.

The Kaiji series currently consists of six parts:

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Chapter 0 is a non-canon one-shot called "Kaiji Gaiden". <<less

Shino-chan can't say her own name. She made the first friend after entering high school. Communication full of clumsiness begins. They always find right words belatedly. But the Seishun can even turn a klutz into a star...or not?... more>>

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About a girl with stammer aggravated by social anxiety, and her early days in her high school class. <<less

A young girl, Onaga, discovers her neighbor, Kashiwabara, in his balcony one hot summer night, dressed up in women's clothing. A unique relationship between them... more>> ensues. From the mangaka of Aku no Hana (Flowers of Evil) and Happiness. <<less

All aboard! This book is your ticket to seven romances - from confessions in Iriuda to proposals in Enoshima and all points in between. Beloved... more>> josei and boys love mangaka Asumiko Nakamura returns to the English market with a unique collection of romance shorts each set around the Kanagawa railway system, the Odakyu. Combining moments of yuri, shojo, josei and teen love, Maiden Railways is a ride to romance rarely seen in manga these days. <<less

Robot is a series of books containing the art of various Asian artists, created by Range Murata.... more>>

Range Murata's "Robot Volume One"

Chronological Release Order:

1. Sho-u Tajima: Angels at the Planetarium

2. Mami Itou: Carogna

3. Yoshitoshi Abe: Wasteland

4. Miggy: Dream of the Empty Cage

5. Haccan: Eventyr

6. Makoto Kobayashi: Dragon's Heaven

7. Yu Kinutani: Angels

8. Ugetsu Hakua: Primary Color Book

9. Mie Nekoi: Clash! - Revenge of Hunk Kung Fu vs. Ugly Kung Fu - Find a Groom!

10. Okama: Oputon

11. Shigeki Maeshima: Dragon Fly

In an future apocalyptic world the church once again has regained power, but not to do good, but to serve evil. Cloned priests, called "dragon fly" of the kirihito church use their power, however a shinigami has appeared to stop them and reclaim her past...

-MAL

12. Kei Sanbe: Moonlight

13. Yasuto Miura: Biting Summer Play

14. Range Murata: Groundpass Drive

15. Hiroyuki Asada: Pez & Hot Strawberry

16. Sabe: There Goes Suzume Robo!!

17. Shin Nagasawa: Sedouka

18. YUG: Hemohemo

19. Hanaharu Naruco: Picnic

20. Suzuhito Yasuda: Ebony & Ivory

21. Robot Volume One

Volume 2:

1. Dragon Fly Ch.2 – MAESHIMA Shigeki (22 page manga)

2. Ebony & Ivory Ch.2 – YASUDA Suzuhito (10 page manga)

3. There Goes Suzume Robo!! – Sabe (4 page manga)

4. Wasteland Ch.2 – YOSHITOSHI ABe (18 page manga)

5. Flowers – MAEDA Hirotaka (8 page manga)

6. Stars and Blue – Miggy (7 pages of themed illustrations)

7. Pez & Dekosuke – ASADA Hiroyuki (1 short comic and illustration fold-out)

8. “Velvet” Monochrome Version – TAJIMA Sho-U (1 spread illustration)

9. Sedouka Ch.2 – NAGASAWA Shin (10 page manga)

10. Delicious Adventures – YUG (4 page manga)

11. House of Fish – Teikoku Shounen (3 page manga, 1 spread illustration)

12. The Depths of November – MIURA Yasuto (8 page manga)

13. Eventyr -What The Diamond Discovered- – HACCAN (9 page story w/ inset illustrations)

14. The Oni Smiles When You Mention Next Year – NEKOI Mie (6 page manga)

15. Witch’s Stipulation – DOWMAN SAYMAN (8 page manga)

16. Within The Mirror – SANBE Kei (8 page manga)

17. Untitled – MURATA Range (2 illustrations; landing page and exit page) <<less

This is a retelling of how Amane and Katou met, from The Story of a Girl with Sanpaku Eyes.

Even in this day and age, Ninjas walk among us, hide within plain sight, still waiting for their mission orders. However, for some, it takes... more>> much longer to receive orders than others! Meet Kumogakure Kurō, a NEET and a Ninja. After being a long time without work, he finally receives orders from the higher ups! <<less

Universal Century 0093. Char Aznable, who had gone missing, revives the Neo Zeon Forces and wages war against the Earth Federation government. To change the... more>> climatic conditions he’ll drop a meteoroid onto Earth, carried out in order to create an artificial ice age. Many innocent people would be purged at the hand of Char… Amuro Ray, a former rival, stands in the way of Char’s ambitions once again! This is the final battle as penned by Yoshiyuki Tomino! The original story of the groundbreaking masterpiece has been turned into a comic. <<less

The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are horrified to discover that they now number eleven. As the test progresses, things go awry and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The crew members begin to suspect sabotage, and Tada appears to be the likely culprit.... more>>

Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo in 1975 (tied with ).

* Includes a short story called Seireigari which was later republished as a bunko volume under the name. It includes the same stories featured in this manga.

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"Fulfilling meal...a familiar view.”... more>>

In this story, Fate and food meet in a delicious and gentle world. It’s nothing but an ordinary meal scene... Delicious meals are served at the Emiya’s dinner table every day, through spring, summer, fall and winter. -- Let's see... what's for dinner today? <<less

Collecting a handful of self-published shorts along with a mix of serialized stories and essays, panpanya's English-language debut mixes art styles and narratives from a range of genres.... more>>

If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too may discover life's many mysteries that are hidden in plain sight. <<less

Ryoka is awakened by flurry of text messages from her mother! Panicked and rushed, Mom is clearly concerned for Ryoka's safety, but she is not to keen on letting her daughter know why. Her reasoning being that nothing could really properly describe what is happening!... more>>

The world might be ending! And there might be a massive new life-form on the roof of their apartment building! <<less

Having been admitted to Cosmo Academy, Frol and Tada are now having a rough time adjusting to a couple's life, with Tada regularly outperforming Frol in academics - and, to their chagrin, popularity. While the two try (and often fail) to navigate this change in relationship dynamic, they then receive a warm invitation from their old friend, King Mayan Baceska, to visit him at his palace on planet Aritosca Le during a month of holiday festivities. However, Tada's intuition begins to give him ominous and mysterious visions regarding King and the two set off to meet him, and potentially save him from an ill-omened future.... more>>

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Rockin' Range Murata 3rd drawing works: Art! Fashion! Design! The Future!