His name is Guts, the Black Swordsman, a feared warrior spoken of only in whispers. Bearer of a gigantic sword, an iron hand, and the scars of countless battles and tortures, his flesh is also indelibly marked with The Brand, an unholy symbol that draws the forces of darkness to him and dooms him as their sacrifice. But Guts won't take his fate lying down; he'll cut a crimson swath of carnage through the ranks of the damned -- and anyone else foolish enough to oppose him! Accompanied by Puck the Elf, more an annoyance than a companion, Guts relentlessly follows a dark, bloodstained path that leads only to death...or vengeance.... more>>

Created by Kenturo Miura, Berserk is manga mayhem to the extreme -- violent, horrifying, and mercilessly funny -- and the wellspring for the internationally popular anime series. Not for the squeamish or the easily offended, Berserk asks for no quarter -- and offers none!

Warning: This manga is for mature audiences only, since it has sexual content and graphic violence (gore, blood, rape, etc). Definitely not for the weak hearted.

The 1988 Prototype chapter won a prize at the Comi Manga School Miura attended and the main series won the Tezuka Osamu Award for Excellence in 2002. <<less

Ishinomori is riding on a train to Sendai when he sees a boy near him with a blue kaleidoscope. Reminded of how he used to like them, he asks the boy for it. With his glimpses into it, he begins to have a proper understanding of what made him the mangaka he is...... more>>

A one-shot compilation focusing on Ishinomori's life and his relationship with manga, including his relationship with Osamu Tezuka. In addition to the leading one-shot, also includes:

My Norakuro: An essay manga where Ishinomori discusses the impact Norakuro left on him in the post-war period.

The Tale of the Little Crow: The story of the life of a little crow who is nursed and taken care of by a group of siblings against all odds.

There Was a Death Mask of Beethoven in my Room: Ishinomori reminisces about his relationship with Beethoven and music, as well as his time at Tokiwa-so with Fujio Akatsuka.

Tokiwa-so Charmela - Ishinomori and Akatsuka (as Akamori and Ishizuka) once more star as the focus, this time covering their experiences with the changing times, highlighted with the advent of instant ramen.

Tokiwa-so Monogatari: A silent reflection of Ishinomori's memories at the legendary apartments.

The Medaka in the Stream - Further along in time, Ishinomori is now a father of two. Concerned about his sons' wellbeing, he tries to instill values in them by having them appreciate nature.

The Day Osamu Tezuka Died - A short manga in which Ishinomori thinks back to many things regarding Tezuka - and what him and the rest at Tokiwa-so best known him as.

Like the Wind... ....The Bug That Ran By My Back - After Tezuka has passed, Ishinomori assesses his interactions and relationship with Tezuka, as well as considering what it means to have a present and future without him. A two-part one-shot. <<less

SERIES 6: Stone Ocean... more>>

In 2011, Florida; Jolyne Cujoh, daughter of Jotaro, is wrongfully accused of a crime she didn't commit and sent to a maximum security prison. While imprisoned, she struggles within a longstanding plot agreed between dead villain DIO and ideologue Enrico Pucci.

Part 6 is the last part set in the first timeline of JoJo. From Part 7, the story takes place in a separate universe. <<less

Nora didn't want to die. All she wanted, was to save a cat from drowning. When she drowned instead, she woke up in another world:... more>> Catsrule, a world ruled by cats! These aren't your normal kitties though, they walk on two legs and look like us but we're their pets! It's not all milk and catnip however, soon Nora is captured and adopted by a cute cat boy who hates humans named Caesar. Can Nora return to her normal life or will she spend nine lives as a cat's pet? <<less

Conjoined twins Yudy and Yucy are as different as possible. Older Yudy is intelligent but ugly, as her nutrients are used up by her beautiful... more>> but simpleminded sister Yucy. Loving and hating so deeply, where does one girl begin and the other end? <<less

SERIES 3: Stardust Crusaders... more>>

From 1988 to 1989, the story follows Jotaro Kujo and his friends as they journey from Tokyo to Cairo to save his mother's life by defeating his family's resurrected archenemy, DIO. <<less

In Tokyo, an unchanging despair is lurking.... more>>

Mysterious man-eating beings, ghouls, run rampant in Tokyo. Living hidden during everyday life, the existence of ghouls, whose true identities are shrouded in mystery, permanently terrorizes Tokyo's residents.

At CCG, the sole institution that investigates and resolves cases related to ghouls, Haise Sasaki has been assigned a certain mission. While dealing with the unruly four problem children known as "Quinx", has Haise's days of suffering begun? <<less

SERIES 5: Vento Aureo... more>>

Set in 2001 Italy, the story follows Giorno Giovanna, son of DIO, and his dream to rise within the Neapolitan mafia and defeat the boss of Passione, the most powerful and influential gang, in order to become a "Gang-Star" and make the world a better place. With the aid of a capo and his men, as well as his own resolve, Giorno sets out to fulfill his goal of absolving the mafia of its corruption. <<less

A man rambling after his infidelity is discovered, a man knitting on a bench.Two men, in a park, late at night. Beside them, a black cat.A mysterious combination, an unexpected outcome. ... more>>

Note: The ending of this work has two variations, A and B. The difference can be found in the last three pages. <<less

A fairly close manga adaptation of George Orwell's Animal Farm, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine. A tale of the rise and fall of a society farm animals form after they overthrow their owner.... more>>

Animals toil and suffer on Manor Farm, owned by the cruel and careless Mr. Jones. One night, Old Major, an elder pig on the farm, has a fantastic dream one night, of which he informs all the other animals; one where animals overthrow the human race, and the fruits of their labor are made theirs to keep. Though he dies not long after, the animals are emboldened with his vivid visions of a potential future - and one day, through a fierce uprising, they take ownership of the farm from Mr. Jones.

Manor Farm - now renamed Animal Farm - maintains itself under an ideology known as Animalism, built upon Old Major's dream and stances regarding humans. However, tension is high, and different parties have their own intentions about the fate of Animal Farm... <<less

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The year is 1949. Crushed by the Allied Powers, occupied by General MacArthur´s armies, Japan has been experiencing massive change. Agricultural reform is dissolving large... more>> estates and redistributing plots to tenant farmer´s terrible news, if you are landowners like the archconservative Tenge family. For patriarch Sakuemon, the chagrin of one of his sons coming home alive from a P.O.W. camp instead of having died for the Emperor is topped only by the revelation that another of his is consorting with the reds. What solace does he have but his youngest Ayako, apple of his eye, at once daughter and granddaughter? <<less

A warm, tender, and sad story about Nene, who loved to eat.

A story about twins who don't look alike.

Civilization is dead, but Chito and Yuuri are still alive. So they hop aboard their beloved Kettenkrad motorbike and aimlessly wander the ruins of the world they once knew. Day after hopeless day, they look for their next meal and fuel for their ride. But as long as the two are together, even an existence as bleak as theirs has a ray or two of sunshine in it, whether they're sucking down their fill of soup or hunting for machine parts to tinker with. For two girls in a world full of nothing, the experiences and feelings the two share give them something to live for...... more>>

Notes: Won Seiun Award in 2019 for Best Comic <<less

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 any act of intimacy or affection whether by human or beast. His hate is such that the gods intervene, cursing Shogo to experience love throughout the ages ultimately to have it ripped from his heart every time. From the Nazi atrocities of World War II to a dystopian future of human cloning, Shogo loses his heart, in so doing, healing the psychic scars of his childhood hatred.... more>>

Volume 3 includes the oneshot Rubbish Poetry (がらくたの詩) <<less

"They were attracted to that light, and then ———."... more>>

Winner of the Distinguished Work Award at Sirius's 51th Newcomer Awards!! <<less

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 career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. Tezuka is called in one night to sew up Ibuya after an illicit duel; a... more>> few weeks later, Ibuya finds himself the only thing standing between Tezuka and a gang of swordsmen sent by the head of medicine for the Shogunate.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1984. <<less

Based on historical setting of Korea during the Josun Age. Long ago, in Jushin, secret royal inspectors named "Angyo Onshi" wandered the country and restored... more>> the order. But now that Jushin is destroyed, only one is still wandering. <<less

A promising young doctor, Kirihito Osanai visits a remote Japanese mountain village to investigate the source of the latest medical mystery. While he ends up... more>> traveling the world to discover what it takes to be cured of such a disease, a conspiracy back home attempts to explain away his absence. Hinging upon his fate are those of his loved ones: an unstable childhood friend and colleague trapped between factions of the medical establishment that nurtured him; a fiancee emotionally transformed by Kirihito’s mysterious disappearance; and a stranger who becomes his guardian angel, a sensual circus-act performer with volatile psychological secrets. <<less

The story could basically be split into two halves. The main story is about Tamai Shiina, who is an energetic middle-school teenage girl. She visits her grandparent's over the summer where she runs into a very strange creature. Shiina has had lots of strange dreams as of late and also when she was younger, and this strange creature is somewhat related to her visions. She names the small cuddly star-shaped creature, Hoshimaru.... more>>

Little did she know that this cuddly creature is really part of herself. After her vacation, Shiina goes back to her home, living with her father. She runs into other children with similar creatures the following days. However, these children have developed their creatures, and they have complete control over them. They mostly use these creatures for their own destructive pleasure and not for good. There is a group of teenagers that all have these strange creatures, and they plan to basically conquer the world, creating a utopia of whatever they desire. Will they succeed? Will Shiina ever develop Hoshimaru? <<less

WITH LOVE, ANYTHING'S POSSIBLE ... more>>

A little unicorn named Unico lives with his mistress Psyche, bringing her happiness and good fortune in return for her unconditional love. The goddess Venus, however, grows jealous of Psyche's legions of admirers and flings Unico across time and space! When he awakens, he's facing down mean buffalo in the American West, with no memory of Psyche or his past life.

It's the first of many exciting adventures that will bring Unico face to face with high society in Imperial Russia, characters from fairy tales and Shakespeare, and even an automated factory intent on blotting out the sun. <<less

Daigo Kagemitsu, who works for a Samurai general in Japan’s Warring States period, promises to offer body parts of his unborn baby to 48 demons in exchange for complete domination of the country. When the baby boy is born, Daigo has him thrown into a river, expecting the boy to die. A kind sage, however, finds him and adopts him. The sage fits out his poor son with prosthetics.... more>>

Time goes by and the baby grows into a boy who calls himself Hyakkimaru. Every time Hyakkimaru eliminates a demon, he retrieves one of his body parts. Hyakkimaru rescues a boy thief named Dororo from a band of men whom the young boy tried to rob. Together they travel the countryside in search of the demons who possess Hyakkimaru's parts. Throughout their travels, they face a host of monsters and ghosts.

Note: Won Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan in 2009. <<less

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story “The Book of Human Insects.” The great honor is... more>> not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic… <<less

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 secret with the power to shake the world to its foundations.... more>>

During a boyhood excursion to one of the southern archipelagos near Okinawa, Yuki barely survived exposure to a poison gas stored at a foreign military facility. The leakage annihilated all of the island’s inhabitants but was promptly covered up by the authorities, leaving Yuki as an unacknowledged witness—one whose sense of right and wrong, however, the potent nerve agent managed to obliterate.

Now, fifteen years later, Yuki is a social climber of Balzacian proportions, infiltrating the worlds of finance and politics by day while brutally murdering children and women by night—perversely using his Kabuki-honed skills as a female impersonator to pass himself off as the women he’s killed. His drive, however, will not be satiated with a promotion here and a rape there. Michio Yuki has a far more ominous objective: obtaining MW, the ultimate weapon that spared his life but robbed him of all conscience.

There are only two men with any hope of stopping him: one, a brilliant public prosecutor who struggles to build a case against the psychopath; the other, a tormented Catholic priest, Iwao Garai, who shares Yuki’ls past—and frequently his bed. <<less