Yoshino has always been treated differently because she is the granddaughter of Osaka's biggest mafia boss, so everyone is afraid of her, and she has never ever had a boyfriend.... more>>

One day, her grandfather tries to arrange an engagement for her with a boy of her age, Kirishima who is intelligent, calm and kind and the grandson of another great mobster.

In spite of everything, she decides to go live with Kirishima in Tokyo and begins to take an interest in him, but what will she do when she finds out that he is not only part of the mafia but is also a masochist?

Note: Won first place at the Tsugi ni Kuru Manga Taishou 2018 awards. <<less

As a child, Thorfinn sat at the feet of the great Leif Ericson and thrilled to wild tales of a land far to the west. But his youthful fantasies were shattered by a mercenary raid. Raised by the Vikings who murdered his family, Thorfinn became a terrifying warrior, forever seeking to kill the band's leader, Askeladd, and avenge his father. Sustaining Thorfinn through his ordeal are his pride in his family and his dreams of a fertile westward land, a land without war or slavery... the land Leif called Vinland.... more>>

Note: Was nominated for the 2008 Manga Taisho award. Won the Grand Prize in the manga division of the Japan Media Arts awards in 2009. Won the 36th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga in 2012. <<less

In his second to last year of high school, the dispassionate but studious, Yataro Yaguchi finally finds a calling in art. With no prior art experience, he decides to work towards to applying to an art university. A decision with potentially disastrous results.... more>>

Note: Nominated for Manga Taisho Awards in 2019, Kodansha Manga Awards in 2019 and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2020. Won the 13th Manga Taisho Awards in 2020 and The Kodansha Manga award general category in 2020. <<less

Historie takes place in ancient Greece and follows the childhood and adult life of Eumenes, who would grow up to be the secretary and general to Alexander the Great.... more>>

Note: Won the 16th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize's Grand Prize in 2012. Won the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga. <<less

In the distant future, a new immortal and genderless life form called Gems populate the Earth. The 28 Gems must fight against the Moon Dwellers, who attack them regularly to abduct them and to turn them into decorations. Each Gem is assigned a role, such as a fighter or a medic.... more>>

Being only 300 years old, Phosphophyllite is the youngest of the Gems and has no assignment yet. Phos wants to help fight the Moon Dwellers, but is too weak and brittle for battle. One day the master of Gems, Adamantine, assigns Phos the task of creating a natural history encyclopedia.

Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho in 2015. <<less

Iwakura Mitsumi always had big dreams: to leave her small town, advance to a top tier university, and then contribute to the country before retiring back to her home town. So focused is she on her goal that she is oblivious to all the other ways she comes up short, much to the chagrin and concern of her friends and family. Can a naive country girl make it in Tokyo? ... more>>

Nominated for the 2020 Manga Taisho Award. <<less

The spinoff of focuses on a woman named Itsuki Kurasawa a police officer who lost her little sister by a criminal many years ago as... more>> she hunts down a dangerous criminal who is also a murderer but has the face of an innocent angel. <<less

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shinichi is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of... more>> the horrors to come?

Won the 1993 Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga and the Seiun Award for Best Comic of the Year in 1996. <<less

"To end his eternal suffering, he must slay one thousand enemies!" Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers... and his quest won't end until the blood of a thousand has spilled.... more>>

Note: Won an Excellence Prize at the 1997 Japan Media Arts Festival. Won the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material in 2000. <<less

Natsuru Nanao, a 6th grader who lives alone with his mother, strikes up an unlikely friendship with the reserved and driven Rio Suzumura. Natsuru plays... more>> hookey from soccer camp that summer, and instead of telling the truth to his mother, he spends all his time with Rio and her kid brother at their rickety house, where a dark secret threatens to upend their fragile happiness. <<less

Kotani Kaboku lives by suppressing his own feelings and matching those around him. He ends up attracted to Wanda Hikari who doesn't mind how she's... more>> seen by others as she's fully immersed in dance. To dance with her, he'll take on dancing despite his inexperience! Clubs, studies, job hunting, friends, love, what is it that's important? What will happen to you if you do something as useless as dancing? No no, it's completely fine to spend your youth dancing. These two are taking on both freestyle dancing and love! <<less

In the panic surrounding a worldwide pandemic which kills 15 percent of the population and cripples many more, a secret organization, the Propater, topples the UN and seizes control of much of the world. A boy and a girl, raised in an abandoned virology research center, immune to the virus, are attacked by the Propater and escape.... more>>

Based strongly on Gnostic mythology, all major characters are named after gnostic deities, and have analogous roles. <<less

The series, set in Saitama, follows the story of Ren Mihashi. Mihashi was the previous ace pitcher in his middle school's baseball team, but it seems that he only got the position because his grandfather was the owner of the school. His teammates (especially the team's catcher, Hatake) hated him, and they always lost their games. Mihashi is thoroughly convinced that he is a lousy baseball pitcher, and feels guilty because he believes that he is responsible for all the losses. Mihashi graduates through middle school with extremely low self-esteem. But in truth Mihashi is really a hardworking and skillful pitcher, and the main reason why his team always lost all the games is because... more>> of bad cooperation, because his teammates never talked about the game with him, and they did not try to come up with a plan or strategy to fight against their rivals. Mihashi then transfers to Nishiura High School with plans of quitting baseball because he thinks he is not good enough to succeed at it, though he still loves the game deeply. However, he is dragged into Nishiura's baseball team by their coach, Momoe, while watching the team training outside the field. Assisted by his new teammates (and especially the catcher, Takaya Abe), he grows in stature, confidence and skill, helping his team excel with his own abilities.

Won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2007. Won the Creative Award at 10th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2006. <<less

One day, a strange transfer student appears before Tsubaki. Urabe Mikoto is an antisocial girl, whose hobby is just sleeping during class-breaks. One day, Tsubaki goes to wake her up and accidentally tastes her drool... and gets hooked on that!... more>>

After that, he starts going out with her and gets to know her better. Her second hobby, as it turns out, is carrying around scissors in her panties and cutting paper into flowers... <<less

College freshman and ACG lover Kanji Sasahara settled down his extracurricular activity in Genshiken (The Society for the Study of Modern Visual Culture) in order... more>> to become a true and thorough otaku. Meanwhile, Saki Kasukabe, the girlfriend of another freshman Genshiken member (also a bishounen) Makoto Kohsaka, was dragged into Genshiken's otaku-ish activities reluctantly, yet her resentful attitude towards otakus is changing without her notice. <<less

They exist in the most unexpected places—be it within your eyes and ears, under the floor and roof of your house, or in the trees and flowers in your garden. They are everywhere, and yet nowhere, at the same time. Are they alive or not? Perhaps it is more apt to say they are beings who transcend the concept of life and death itself. They are mushi. ... more>>

Some wreak havoc in the lives of humans; others bring them deliverance from suffering. Mushi are neither good nor evil: for just like any other creature, they are merely striving to survive in this harsh, competitive world.

Ginko, a lone wanderer with a reclusive personality, offers help and guidance to those plagued by mushi. This is the tale of his travels and exploits in a wondrous world populated by these mysterious entities. <<less

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head. ... more>>

Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.

Note: Nominated for the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material in 2006. <<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

Kyohei Saito, a first-year college student who's gloomy and negative—in other words, "depressing"—falls in love with Ayame Ogawa, a beauty and contestant of their school's... more>> beauty pageant. Will the depressing nobody's feelings reach the goddess who basks in the spotlight? The curtain rises on an ensemble cast drama of college students shaken by the glimmer and helplessness of youth! <<less

This is the story of Alpha Hasseno, an Alpha 7 M2 series robot. Left by her owner, she appears and acts fully human while running a small coffee shop named Cafe Alpha. It is a light-hearted story about the people Alpha comes into contact with behind the backdrop of a futuristic country-side in Japan. As we meet Alpha, she makes a shopping trip to Yokohama.... more>>

Note: Won the 2007 Seiun Award for Best Manga. <<less

Alone in his dorm on a Saturday night, Nekomi Tech's Keiichi Morisato dials a wrong number that will change his life forever: reaching the Goddess Technical Help Line. Granted one wish by the charming young goddess Belldandy--a wish for anything in the world--Keiichi wishes she would stay with him always! Complications are bound to ensue from this; the immediate first being the new couple getting tossed out of the dorm-it's males only. As the hapless student and his mysterious "foreign beauty" ride around looking for a new place to stay--risking the different dangers of seeking shelter with an otaku convinced Belldandy is an imaginary woman, and a Zen priest convinced she's a sinister witch--Keiichi's still... more>> got his classes on Monday morning! How is his new "exchange student" companion going to be received on the N.I.T. campus? A little too well for normal life to ever return.

Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2009. <<less

When escaping from the angry girlfriend of a boy she just finished blowing, Sanako enters a random room and meets Yuito, a serious boy who... more>> she immediately falls in love with and proceeds to get aroused by. Taking to heart the school rule that forbids students from forming romantic relationships, the overly serious Yuito refuses her confession. So what is she to do? Naturally, sexually harass him with the excuse that it's simply just a little skinship between friends until he gives in. <<less

First-year high school student Minoru Suzuki, who resembles his late father like two drops of water, often sees visions of his mother's past as a... more>> high school student through the eyes of his father. <<less

A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. ... more>>

Serialized or otherwise collected:

AKABOSHI Tomo

AKIZUKI Risu

ARAI Hideki

ARAMAKI Keiko

ASADA Torao

ASHINANO Hitoshi

Endo Hiroki

ENOMOTO Shunji

IGARASHI Daisuke

IRIE Kiwa

IRIE Noriko

KIMURA Kon

KITOH Mohiro

KOMAI Yu

MATSUMOTO Taiyou

NIHEI Tsutomu

OHARA Shinji

SAMURA Hiroaki

SOUJI Hajime

TOUME Kei

TOYODA Minoru

TSUCHIDA Seiki

URUSHIBARA Yuki

WAKANA Shouhei

Other:

Hiramatsu Kannosuke

ABE Yoshitoshi

Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy.

YAMAZAKI Ren

The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology.

NADEGATA Nazuna

On a remote island, a skilled swordsman who honed his craft on the local population attempts to atone for his sins and lift a curse by hunting and killing demons. Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga.

KIBA Kouichi

As the protagonist is returning home one night, she runs into a man who had just been in a car crash. As he is dying, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea.

JOUYAMA Yui

A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. <<less

Includes Mud: a pure but unusual love story of a girl who ventures into femdom.