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

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

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

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

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.

Legend has it that if you take your guitar and stand at a crossroads at the witching hour, the devil will appear. He'll grab your instrument, play a song, and hand it back to you. You'll walk away an expert bluesman, but you'll have to pay the price: your immortal soul.... more>>

Won the 2009 Glyph Comics Awards in the Best Reprint Publication category. <<less

Our hero Ryouta Arata is an otaku who's just lost his job after the dissolution of his company. Unwilling to return to his old NEET... more>> ways, he applies online to a private military security company, thinking the benefits to be promising. After what appears to be a baffling test, he's assigned to be an "operator of operators" and begins his training in a foreign country. Little does he know, the life of a private mercenary is far more grueling than he could have ever imagined! <<less

Yugo Beppu is a master negotiator and mediator. Fluency in five languages, Socratic wit, and a deep understanding of human nature combined with top-level international connections make him a formidable operator. When a woman's father is seized by Dacoit bandits in Pakistan, Mayuko seeks Yugo's help. After complex and dangerous negotiations, he secures his release. After this success Yugo is called in to deal with yakuza in Japan, triads in Hong Kong, the IRA in Northern Ireland, and the Russian Ministry of Internal Affairs in Siberia.... more>>

Note: New versions of this manga were published under different arcs in bunko format such as the Pakistan Hen, Russia Hen, etc. <<less

The story revolves around Ryouko Yakushiji, a brilliant 27-year-old elite investigator with the Tokyo Metropolitan Police. Together with her subordinate Junichirou Izumida, the two often... more>> investigate bizzare and supernatural cases. In addition with the paranormal, Ryouko also has a longstanding rivalry with Yukiko Muromachi, another talented police investigator. <<less

The slice of life stories of newborn Yumeko Okiura, her mother Ayumi, and her aunt Kaname. Ayumi and Kaname endure the trials and tribulations of... more>> raising a newborn child, such as changing diapers and being awakened at odd hours. Not to mention, the stress of taking care of a baby opens rifts in their relationship. Both Ayumi and Kaname are 18, and the story occasionally reflects back to their time in high school. <<less

On a night out drinking to get over being duped and ditched by her last boyfriend, Koda Minare ends up providing a massive drunken rant--while blackout drunk--for Matou, the director of a radio station. The next day, she is shocked to hear her own voice being broadcast on the radio! She rushes to the studio, leaving her job at a curry soup and bread restaurant in jeopardy. However, her drunken rant and the next day's impromptu damage-control live broadcast end up earning her an invitation to try working at the radio Station.... more>>

Note: Nominated for the 9th and 13th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and 2020. <<less

When a motley band of travelling performers have a deep-space collision with another spacecraft, they find that the sole survivor of the other craft is... more>> a humanoid infant. They decide to raise the child as their own on the nearest planet as they wait for other members of the girl's race to come and find her. Corona-chan grows up as their daughter, and the manga details her five-year-old adventures with her fuzzball mother, her robot-soldier father, her living-central-nervous-system pet, and the other bizarre members of the local village. <<less

In the 17th century, the Holy Roman Empire was ravaged by the Thirty Years' War. In the middle of this chaos appeared a japanese mercenary... more>> named Isaak. His fierce battle begins. <<less

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After quitting baseball because of a certain incident, Tetsuji has been spending his high school days listlessly until one day, his married elder sister suddenly returned home.... more>>

She's 188cm tall and he's too scared to ask of her weight. Her name's Mao and her nickname is Maou a.k.a Demon King.

Tetsu is also big-sized but he is timid unlike his sister who is huge in many ways, and they are about to spend an unexpectedly sad yet fiery summer holiday together. <<less

In the story, Keiichi Morisato and Belldandy lived in happiness, but due to the recession, the motorcycle shop Keiichi works at faces financial difficulties. Belldandy... more>> starts to search for a job because of the situation. <<less

Students from a university mystery club decide to visit an island which was the site of a grisly multiple murder the year before. Predictably, they... more>> get picked off one by one by an unseen murderer. Is there a madman on the loose? What connection is there to the earlier murders? The answer is a bombshell revelation which few readers will see coming. [Locked Room International] <<less

Seriu meets Yae, an older woman in the photography club, who’s also a celebrity at her university known for her free-spirited speech and mannerisms—especially her... more>> magnificent travels from man to man! What’s intriguing, though, is their relationship. Frustrated and formerly part of the tennis club, Seriu thinks that his girlfriend is just a bit of heavy baggage, but he unexpectedly gets off to a good start with her! Even though they hurt each other with their honest confessions, they grow with each other. Yasashii Watashi is essentially a compassionate romantic drama set in a university setting. <<less

Kishi Keiichirou is a pathologist who advises doctors on their diagnoses and whose judgement is widely accepted. Though an eccentric that few people can stand... more>> to associate personally, Kishi is passionate about the lives of his patients and a genius at his job. <<less

After her grandfather's death, Mikura chose to continue their island express courier service. With her seaplane and her adventurous cat, Endeavor, she lives life as... more>> she chooses. Soon, Mikura becomes very interested in a mysterious island that seems to move around, according to local legend. After some extensive effort to determine the island's whereabouts, she manages to get a brief glimpse of it from the sky. Now that she knows it's real, she's determined to find the island again, no matter what it takes! <<less

Third in the ranking of the "Assassin Name" families of the underground assassin community, the "Zerozaki Ichizoku" is infamous for their indomitable family unity. Each... more>> of its members exhibit combat prowess when it comes to saving one of their kin. Zerozaki Kishishiki is one member of the Zerozaki family, and he utilizes a bat covered in nails to brutally murder his targets. He calls his weapon the "Praise of Folly (Seamless Bias)." His next target was supposed to be an ordinary target, just another day for him. He faces a problem when he discovers that he has become prey to a formidable enemy. <<less

Saku Ooyagi returns to his old town after seven years and becomes reacquainted with a childhood friend, the ever-boisterous Mihoshi Akeno; but the reunion is far from merry since his last piece of memory between them is of her falling off a tree and him diving to save her. Regardless, Mihoshi focuses her all into improving their tattered relationship and forces Saku to join her astronomy club.... more>>

Basically this manga is about an astronomy club, and slapstick school life comedy as Mihoshi changes Saku's life. <<less

In 1661, Yasui Santetsu is a member of the Yasui House of the Four Houses of Go. However, he's beginning to doubt that Go is his true calling. Outside of the Go house, he goes by the name Shibukawa Harumi, and he's fascinated by mathematical and astronomical problems. Specifically, Harumi is pouring all of his energy into creating a new Japanese calender.... more>>

The story is based on the actual astronomer and calender-reformer Shibukawa Harumi (1639-1715). In Harumi's time, the Japanese used the Chinese lunar-solar Xuan-ming calendar, which had not been updated in nearly 800 years. At that point, there was already a two-day delay in the winter solstice. He reformed the calendar based on his careful astronomical observations. [tethysdust]

Adapted from Tow Ubukata's award-winning novel (won the 31st Yoshikawa Eiji Bungaku Shinjinshō award and received the first place award at the 7th Honya Taishō in 2010). <<less

This is a biography of the famous Buddhist monk Ikkyu from the late Hisashi Sakaguchi. Set in 15th century Japan, Ikkyu must learn to live and excel as a monk, despite the fact that his father is the emperor. ... more>>

His intelligence and purity help him succeed, but he continues to get the short end of the stick in life.

Can Ikkyu perservere in his quest for spirituality in spite of everything that is set against him? <<less