For four decades, Golgo 13 has been the world's greatest assassin for hire. Sometimes to settle a private score, and sometimes to change history. His real name and nationality are unknown but his legend is everywhere. Golgo 13 never fails a job and never sees his clients again. Unless they try to betray him.... more>>

Note: Won the 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1976.

Is the bestselling Seinen manga as of 2020 with 280 million volumes sold. <<less

A high school 3rd year student, Miyamoto Dai, whose heart was touched by Jazz, continued to play the Saxophone alone in Kawahara, rain or shine, day or night, for many years. "I want to become the world's best Saxophone player...!!" Effort, talent, faith, environment, luck...which are necessary? A tale of reaching towards his goal recklessly and sincerely begins in Hirosegawa, Sendai.... more>>

Note: Was nominated for the 8th and 9th Manga Taisho Award. Won the 62nd Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. Won the 20th Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize for Manga.

A special prequel chapter was published in Volume 2 of CoroCoro Aniki on March 14th, 2015. It was not collected in the main volumes. <<less

In the future, mankind has been able to create machine bodies so they can be able to live for thousands of years. Humans are now second class citizens and if they do not acquire an mechanical body, they are either hunted or forced to live a life of poverty. ... more>>

Tetsuro Hoshino is a young boy whose mother is killed by the machine men for a hunting trophy. Outraged, Tetsuro seeks out revenge and vows to keep his word to his mother to get a machine body. He soon meets a woman named Maetel who gives him a free ticket on the space train Galaxy Express, which if he rides, he will be able to receive a free mechanical body. But nothing is as it seems as rumors rise that all who board the train never return.

This is a story of how one boy learns about the world and his quest for a new body.

Note: Originally serialized in Shuukan Shounen King from 1977 to 1981, a sequel was serialized in various incarnations of Big Comic from 1996 to 2005. In tankoubon form, this sequel wasn't released as a stand alone titled, but tacked on reprints of the original series. This means, for example, that Shogakukan's 1997 release covers the original series in volume 1 to 14 and the sequel in Volumes 15 to 21.

Won Shougakukan Award in 1977 for Shounen Manga category

Viz released five volumes of the sequel. The original manga has yet to be translated into English. <<less

The year is 20XX, state of the world affairs is changing at a dizzying pace. This is particularly clear in the growing military strength of countries neighboring Japan.... more>>

In response to a near-skirmish with China over the much-disputed Senkaku Islands, Japan launched the state-of-the-art aircraft carrier "Ibuki", equipped with the latest stealth aircrafts and formed a new fleet...

Captained by an Air Self-Defense Force, Ryota Akitsu, will he able to sort out inter-service differences? And amidst this rising tension, what will be Japan's next move?

From the award-winning author of "Zipang", "A Spirit of the Sun" Kaiji Kawaguchi, comes a thrilling modern geopolitical dramas of the Far East Asia.

•Winner of the 63rd Shogakukan Manga Award 2017, 'Best General Manga'•

Note: It can be assumed that the story take places in 2014, the year of the series initial release. As mentioned in the manga; "60 years since the establishment of JSDF" (1954). <<less

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In 205X, armed forces and conflicts are a thing of the past and people live safe, peaceful lives, all thanks to a cheap, inexhaustible source of energy. ... more>>

One day, something strange is discovered on the moon: an ancient corpse in a spacesuit. The corpse is undeniably human, but it appears to be about 50,000 years old! What does this mean about the history of our species? What effect will this discovery have on current human society?

This manga won a for Best Comic of the Year in 2013. <<less

Tateo Sone runs a pharmacy in Odawara and leads an ordinary but happy life with his beautiful wife and daughter-in-law. One day, however, when his... more>> wife tells him she is pregnant, he is shocked. It's because he has a secret: he has never had a functioning lower half of his body. His wife's child is not his own...Tateo despairs at the thought. At that time, a man named Sumaoka happens to give him a mysterious ED drug. Tateo impulsively takes the drug and is shocked to find that the function of his lower body miraculously recovers. Tateo declares to Sumaoka that he will recreate and make this medicine himself. But this is the beginning of a dangerous day that will change his life forever! <<less

The Kafkaesque autobiography of a diplomat who compares himself to Grigori Rasputin, and what happens after he gets caught up in a political purge during the early 2000s.... more>>

A legal thriller with a dash of geopolitics. <<less

The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation... more>>

The nuclear age has brought with it the arms race, which has led to the advent of weapons powerful enough to destroy the world itself several times over. Unwilling to take the plunge into Armageddon, the world powers, in league with a group known only as the Black Ghost, have developed super soldiers known as the Cyborgs, designed to fight the wars of the world in space. Unfortunately, the Black Ghost didn't ask the Cyborgs how they felt about their role in the new world order.

This classic work from manga legend Shotaro Ishinomori (Masked Rider) not only told a thrilling tale set against a backdrop of Cold War tensions, but it also helped define the genre of super team stories such as Battle of the Planets, Voltron, and The Power Rangers. <<less

Guitar Shop Rosie is a guitar repair store run by two brothers, Angus and Malcolm, who aren’t good at making money, but love AC/DC and... more>> rock music. A heartwarming drama about guitars and the people who play them! <<less

A relaxing and fun piece about a policeman who finds himself dancing to the sound of anger. The volume also contains four extra short stories that were not scanlated.... more>>

1. SINGING POLICEMAN

2. RUNNING POLICEMAN

3. SHOUTING POLICEMAN

4. FIGHTING POLICEMAN

5. JUMPING POLICEMAN

6. FLYING POLICEMAN

7. SWIMMING POLICEMAN

8. 放課後コネクション

9. 夜の空腹者たち

10. Goodbye Mr. Bunny (さよならMr. バニー)

11. Taisho Detective (大正探偵) <<less

Amamiya Taki, an employee - albeit a reluctant one - of the Parapsychology Research Institute, is suddenly notified of the suicide of a twin brother... more>> he never even knew existed. This event sets into motion a shocking chain of occurrences, the first of which is the discovery that Taki has no brain. <<less

Similar to Sanctuary, Odyssey is another story on political revolution. This time the theater is international, as a group of young government elites execute their... more>> secret plan to raise Japan as the economic and military superpower in the Far East. How will they carry out their objectives? Is it through a new military presence, or through Japan's economic know-how? How will the U.S. respond to Japan's new "independence," and will the political and economic figures in control of Japan now let these young elites re-shape their world? <<less

Based on novelist Ryuichiro Utsumi's works.... more>>

Published as the Hitobito Series (人びとシリーズ):

- The Keyaki Tree (欅の木)

- The White Rocking Horse (白い木馬)

- The Reunion (再会)

- My Brother’s Life (兄の暮らし)

- The Umbrella (雨傘)

- At the Art Gallery (絵画館付近)

- Through the Forest (林を抜けて)

- His Hometown (彼の故郷) <<less

Cruise is the story of Yamada Kohei, a doctor who gives up a landlubber medical career to serve as a ship's physician, and the people he meets on board Japan's largest luxury liner, the Phoenix. He rejects a university colleague's insistence that he turn to teaching instead, preferring to stay and learn about life as it happens from the ship's passengers.... more>>

Big Comic serializes this "beautifully sad human drama." One of the stories compiled in the first Cruise features a passenger suffering from terminal cancer. Only songs can lift his heart, heavy with regret.

Author Yajima Masao-sensei also wrote SORA, a seinen manga about a crybaby flight attendant. So from airplane passengers' stories, we go to cruise ships'. <<less

Part of the "Myths and Legends" series, depicts the endless life of human beings since ancient times on a grand scale without a single line of dialogue.... more>>

In the primitive times, when man did not even have language, a woman wanders in the savanna, between the jungle and desert. She expresses all her emotions with her whole body and lives in the world of the weak and the strong, creates two mud dolls. However, she is killed by a hunter who stabs her with a spear, and the mud dolls, bathed in her blood, transform into two infants... <<less