Middle-aged salaryman Hiroshi Nakahara accidentally takes a train ride back to his old hometown to visit his mother’s grave. Then for reasons he can’t explain, Hiroshi is transported back in time, and discovers that he’s an 8th grader again, but with all of his adult memories intact.... more>>

Can he, or should he try to change the decisions he made before? But more importantly, can he find his way back to the present day, or is he stuck in the past? <<less

2300 years ago in China there existed a clan called the men of Bokk trained to aid and defend threatened cities with their lives. Kakuri, one of these men, is summoned to the little city of Ryo. Distrusted and even hated, Kakuri eventually gains the trust of Ryo's citizens as Tcho empire's vast army sets their camp on the other side of the river.... more>>

Bokko won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1995. <<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

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 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

Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a seemingly homeless drunk woman who can quote French poetry.... more>> Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura's shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no benevolent guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings - all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane. <<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

Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards an Excellence Award in 2021.

KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's... more>> death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents' divorce and a new ‘mother’. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father. <<less

Munakata is an anthropology professor who studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories... more>> that most presume to be entirely fictional are actually based on real events. This manga tells the story of Professor Munakata as he follows the clues left from both the imaginary world of fairy tales and the real world of historical evidence. <<less

A bitter, washed up manga artist receives a mysterious gift from a fan...... more>>

A one-shot by Takahashi Rumiko to celebrate the 45th anniversary of the Japanese semimonthly seinen anthology, Big Comic. <<less

A collection of five short stories.... more>>

• Chapter 01-02 - Red Zeppelin

• Chapter 03- Legend of the Demon Whale

• Chapter 04 - Outburst

• Chapter 05 - Island of Sins

• Chapter 06-07- The Sea of Fallen Beasts

• Chapter 08 - Atoll <<less

A series of short stories detailing the exploits of Dr Imibe Kana, a researcher on Japanese mythology and religion, as she travels around the country... more>> becoming involved in various occurrences centred around ancient traditions and folklore. <<less

Five short stories. ... more>>

- Inu wo Kau (Raising a Dog)

- Soshite Neko wo Kau (And Then, Caring for a Cat)

- Niwa no Nagame (View of the Backyard)

- Sannin no Hibi (Three People's Days)

- Yakusoku no Chi (Promised Land)

The first four stories are about the everyday life of a couple living together with their pets.The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award (examination committee special) in 1992. <<less

Amidst the chaos of World War II, two Japanese soldiers hear of Zephyrus, an utterly captivating woman rumored to exist on an island in the South Pacific. The tales of this bold enchantress seducing men to their dooms are both chilling and fascinating. Over twenty years pass, and Zephyrus resurfaces in Japan, seemingly unchanged, to wield her mysterious power over men once more.... more>>

The one man immune to Zephyrus' charms is simple drunkard, Gohonmatsu Seki, son of one of the wartime soldiers. Employed to spy on Zephyrus, what will Gohonmatsu uncover about her ultimate plot to create international discord and consume the world of men? What brought this woman to conspire for decades against patriarchal society-against an entire gender-and can anything be done to stop her plans? <<less

The series follows the adventures of Sabu, a young Edo bakufu investigator traveling with the blind master swordsman Ichi. In their travels, they assist the common people in solving mysteries and righting wrongs (usually committed by bandits or corrupt officials). Sabu is engaged to Midori, the daughter of his boss, who works as a police officer for the Tokugawa shogunate.... more>>

This series won the 1968 Shogakukan Manga Award. <<less

Sae and Riko have been best friends since childhood. But as they grow up, Sae notices more and more the differences between them, and starts... more>> to have doubt about whether their friendship is going to last. <<less

The manga consists of nine entirely separate short stories set in World War II, each reimagining a famous fairy tale with the European theater of World War II as a backdrop, often with poignant results.... more>>

(Source: Hokuto no Gun) <<less

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Collection of short stories based on Japanese folktales.... more>>

1. Shitakiri Suzume (舌切り雀)

2. Urashima Tarou (浦島太郎)

3. Kachi-kachi Yama (カチカチ山)

4. Issunboushi (一寸法師)

5. Hanasaka Jijii (花咲か爺)

6. Uriko-hime (瓜子姫)

7. Momotarou (桃太郎)

8. Kobutori Jijii (コブとり爺)

9. Saru Kani Gassen (猿蟹合戦)

10. Kaguya-hime (かぐや姫)

11. Nippon Miraibanashi (ニッポン未来話) <<less