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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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

Japan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devastated. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee camps on the Asian mainland and try to solve the political task of rebuilding their nation.... more>>

A Spirit of the Sun is also a retelling and melding of two well-known stories in Japan. The setting is directly lifted from the early '70s disaster science-fiction book and movie "Nippon Chinbotsu," (Japan Sinks) while many of the characters are allegorical to the key players in the Eastern classic "Sangokushi" (The Three Kingdoms). Sangokushi aficionados may discover greater entertainment by watching the characters in A Spirit of the Sun closely to spot these resemblances.

From Kaiji Kawaguchi, the author of Silent Service, Eagle and Zipang (as well as the artist for Confession).

A Spirit of The Sun received the 2006 Shogakukan Manga Award for the seinen/general category along with by Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe. <<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

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

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

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

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 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

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

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

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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

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

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

Set in 2025, a roboticist named Fudou Yuuki joins a project involving a large mural depicting humanity's true past as well as the ancient but... more>> advanced technology found in Antarctica. <<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