In Victorian-era England, a young girl is rescued from a life of destitution and raised to become a proper British maid. Emma meets William, the eldest son of a wealthy family, and immediately falls in love with him. William shares her feelings, but the strict rules of their society prevent their relationship from ever coming out in the open. Traditional class distinctions and rich, historical details provide the backdrop for this appealing romance.... more>>

Note: Volumes 8-10 are "Emma: Further Tales". They fill in details from the Emma manga, both before and after the events in that storyline.

Each chapter explores the motivations or simply shows a day in the life of a particular character from the story.

Find out about the romance between Doug and Kelly in their early days, or follow the adventures of Eleanor as she overcomes her heartache and begins to live again, or visit with Tasha and her family on her day off.

Won an Excellence Prize in Japan Media Arts Festival (2005) <<less

Fifth grade. The threshold of puberty, and the beginning of the end of childhood innocence. Nitori Shuichi and his new friend Takatsuki Yoshino enjoy happy... more>> homes and loving families, and are well-liked by their classmates. But they share a secret that further complicates a time of life that is awkward for anyone: Shuichi is a boy who wants to be a girl, and Yoshino is a girl who wants to be a boy... <<less

Miho, a woman of beauty, intelligence, and temper, comes to Cheju Island to teach school and is immediately flung into a world of terror and the supernatural. A demon attacks her, and she is saved by the chance appearance of a mystery man with seemingly only one mission: demon killing.... more>>

1999 Grand Prize of Exported Korean Comics Awards <<less

A compilation of short stories about weird high schoolers.... more>>

1. Kawaii Hito (Someone Cute)

2. Tomodachi ni Natte Kuremasen ka (Would You Like to be Friends with Me?)

3. Kaku-ha (Artist)

4. Hashire Yamada! (Run, Yamada!)

5. Ushiro no Nikaidou (Behind me, Nikaidou)

6. Nikaidou Extra

7. Omake no Nikaidou (Behind me, Nikaidou: A Lesson of Anger)

8. Ushiro no Nikaidou: Kyoufu no Shuugaku Ryokou-hen

Note: Won a New Face Award from the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival and the 24th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in Short Work Category in 2020. <<less

The story of a twin brother-sister duo with strange, matching birthmarks on their bodies who are sold off to a travelling freak show by their... more>> stepfather after being abandoned by their mother. <<less

Eight short stories:... more>>

1. Box Seat

About the silent exchange between a man and a woman on the train.

2. Kanojo to Kare (Boy and Girl) (3 parts)

A seductive beauty gets entranced by the strait-laced school boy who helped her out.

3. Thank You

A man in black perfoms his incredible choreography on the train.

4. Motto Motto...! (More...and More!)

About the encounter between an art student and his muse.

5. Hana Seigaku Kan no Hi (Heavenly Home Ec)

Visit the most popular maid café in town and meet lots of beautiful girls and one unusual maid.

6. Aoi Udedokei (The Blue Wristwatch)

What is a man to do when he gets hold of a wristwatch that is said to enable its first-time user to rewind the past ten minutes?

7. Hana Chibo (Five-Fingered Flower)

An extraordinary case of pickpocketing disrupts a town's peaceful everyday life.

8. Haruhiko Kikou (Haruhiko the Eccentric)

In a rural village, pair of siblings decide to accomodate a travelling mystigician. <<less

A collection of one shot stories from Takako Shimura, the author of Hourou Musuko and Sweet Blue Flowers. These stories deal with issues relating to gender, romance, ideals of beauty, and relationships with parents.... more>>

1. He said "I'm a girl"

2. Rakuen ni Ikou (Let's go to the Paradise)

3. Shounen no Musume (Boy's Daughter)

4. The Theme of Akemi ver. Teruo

5. The Theme of Akemi ver. Yoshio

6. The Theme of Akemi ver. Haruo

7. The Flower

Contains character Yuki.

8. Sweet 16

A short, bittersweet story in which a girl realizes she's in love with her tutor, who's in love with someone else. The other main plot point is the main character's dread of the upcoming school marathon. <<less

When Roman architect Lucius is criticized for his "outdated" thermae designs, he retreats to the local bath to collect his thoughts. All Lucius wants is to recapture the Rome of earlier days, when one could enjoy a relaxing bath without the pressure of merchants and roughhousing patrons. Slipping deeper into the warm water, Lucius is suddenly caught in the suction and dragged through the drainage at the bottom of the bath! He emerges coughing and sputtering amid a group of strange-looking foreigners with the most peculiar bathhouse customs...over 1,500 years in the future in modern-day Japan! His contemporaries wanted him to modernize, and so, borrowing the customs of these mysterious bath-loving people, Lucius opens what... more>> quickly becomes the most popular new bathhouse in Rome-Thermae Romae!

Note: Won the third Manga Taishō and the Short Story Award at the 14th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2010. <<less

At times hilarious, at others heartwarming, this collection of short stories penned by one of Japan's most talented artists is a perfect addition to any library! A young girl discovers that new glasses give her a whole new perspective on the world, a bunny-girl waitress learns to cope with her male customers with dignity, an introverted art student inspires her fellow club members even as she takes inspiration from them, and more! Fans of Mori will enjoy seeing concept designs and historical notes from her award-winning series, Emma and A Bride's Story, as well as Mori's own brand of enthusiastic commentary throughout. (Taken from Yen Press)... more>>

1. Oyashiki e Youkoso Dannasama!

2. Mieru You ni Natta Koto

3. Burrow Gentleman Club

4. Buka-chan

5. Mukashi Katta Mizugi

6-7. Clarie-san no Nichijou Mamagoto

8. Cover Story

9. Madeleine Baker

10. Fellows to Watashi

11. Sumire no Hana (Sumire's Flowers) <<less

Twins, separated by fatal illness and a selective cure. Kasumi and her sister, Shizuku, were infected with the Medusa virus, which slowly turns the victim... more>> to stone. There is no cure, but of the two only Kasumi is selected to go into a sort of cryogenically frozen state along with 159 others until a cure is found. At some point in the undetermined future, Kasumi awakens to find herself and others who were in suspended animation in an unfamiliar world with violent monsters. Resolving to unlock the mysteries of her current situation and the fate of her twin sister, Kasumi struggles to survive in a treacherous world. <<less

The story is set in a dystopian alternative present where any kind of substance able to alter the state of mind is legalized and authorized for consumption at home or in designated places called Pomp Bars.... more>>

These products, once considered very dangerous, are now freely advertised on TV. The bartender chooses the ones more suited to his customers and serves them with special cocktails.

When the Pompies movement obtained the liberalization of the drugs it seemed a historically meaningful change destined to improve the world - a dream realized in a manner that radically affected humanity's way of life.

But in a world where all feelings are artificial and where everyone is a potential drug addict, nothing has really changed for the better. Only a select few drugs are considered dangerous and put under strict control by hygiene offices, which is given full authority to handle matters related to the severely addicted.

Kabu, a small-time peddler and heavy addict. Used to any kind of hallucinogenic trip, he is able to feel the happiness through the ecstasy of the drug, while on the same time hypocritically hating who gave birtn to that society which has forced him to the live this way.

After an overdose caused by mixing two incompatible drugs, he spends his days looking for stimulants until the encounter with an enigmatic man who offers him a new kind of illegal substance. Ultraheaven.

From that moment on his incredible journey begins - where dream and reality are fused in an undivided world - causing him both hysterical joy and unbearable pain. <<less

An independent collection of short stories — Ultramarine Schooldays highlights the color that evokes faithful memories, tenderness, and melancholy. These stories take place in Japan and in the West, in the past and in the present. They may involve a romance in the city, an energizing walk in the forest, the daily mundane life of a waitress working in a café, or a medieval intrigue; but what connects these stories are the powerful messages they deliver. ... more>>

Volume 1:

• Tale of tail Window to the spirit world

• Princess prisoner

• Teacher and I

• Flower's cavalier

• Pink chocolate

• Forest of wonder

• White fire (three parts)

• Albertina

Volume 2:

• Ninon's love

• Time-bell

• The Ten Swords of the North Xenia and Reuther (five parts)

• His Music

• Pink chocolate, second act

Volume 3:

• Red-roofed house

• Pink chocolate, third act

• Twilight (two parts)

• Merry garden

• Oenothera princess (three parts)

• Snowfall night

Volume 4:

• Over the Bridge (two parts)

• Rainbow (three parts)

• Spy and Spy

• Pink chocolate, acts four and five

• Old Elm

• Farewell to Gunjyo Schooldays <<less

Something strange is going on in "Soil New Town." The sudden disappearance of a seemingly normal family leads the two detectives Yokoi and Onoda to... more>> the idyllic town in the middle of nowhere. What looks like a routine case at first quickly turns into a complex and deadly riddle where nothing is what it seems to be. Will the two disparate investigators manage to solve the mystery before it's too late? <<less

Geeko's weird, creepy, friendless classmate Nero has destroyed all of their mutual classmates, perverting them into her grotesque, monstrous minions. Now she's sending them after... more>> Geeko, the only survivor. However, Geeko is setting out, dressed in her skimpy school uniform and armed with a big chainsaw, to end Nero's mad science, no matter how many undead former friends she has to saw down on the way. <<less

A series of cleverly interconnected stories written from multiple POV's, tying together the quirky cast and a number of mysterious (and occasionally hilarious) occurrences in a certain suburb of Tokyo.... more>>

The Last Supper

Two very unusual detectives investigate a murder and a dinner. <<less

Unknown to the world, aliens have begun to invade people's bodies. A young race car driver named Toshio was contracted by a mysterious organization for a "test" for money. That test turned out to be a hellish training to become a Zombie Hunter. Toshio decided to return to a normal life instead, but soon was confronted by the harsh reality of a Zombie Hunter. Surrounded by shallow figures and aliens, Toshio accepts his new life as a Zombie Hunter ...... more>>

(mangaka never finished the story) <<less

The sequel to Chimamire Sukeban Chainsaw.

The story takes place in the '60s, in a mysterious city where madness and lust seem to be the citizens' constant companions. A detective named Sata (with a "certain" wound) pursues a woman accused of murder.... more>>

Note: The French edition won the Prix Asie de l'ACBD in 2014. <<less

Manga adaptation of the famous H.P. Lovecraft science-fiction horror novella published in 1936. Dr. William Dyer is part of an Antarctic expedition that unearths strange... more>> artefacts and a city older than time that hints at origins from beyond the stars. When the expedition runs into mortal danger, they begin to realize they have awakened an ancient entity. <<less

Manga adaption of H. P. Lovecraft's "The Colour Out of Space"... more>>

In the tale, an unnamed narrator pieces together the story of an area known by the locals as the "blasted heath" in the wild hills west of Arkham, Massachusetts. The narrator discovers that many years ago a meteorite crashed there, poisoning every living being nearby; vegetation grows large but foul tasting, animals are driven mad and deformed into grotesque shapes, and the people go insane or die one by one. <<less

Kurayami Dance is a manga based on the original draft for Shadows of the Damned, which was a loose adaptation of Kafka’s The Castle. ... more>>

Undertaker by day, biker by night, Kaido Wataru dreams of one day riding at an unsurpassed speed. But the moment he finally reaches 300 kmh, a terrible accident sends him into a 3-year coma. When Wataru awakes, he finds that the Japan he once knew is long gone. Now followed by an otherworldly creature and equipped with a mysterious transplanted eye, Wataru embarks on his very own road movie... <<less

A collection of unique oneshots.

A compilation of short stories by Keiichi Koike.... more>>

1. Knockin' on Heaven's Door

2. 3000 Leagues Searching For Mother

3. Lazaro Franco's Fourth Hour

4. The Fallen Samurai And The Sea

5. Loopa

6. Kenbo's Diary

7. Sponge Generation

8. By Plane

9. Horizon

10. Landed

An astronaut sent on a space mission promises his wife and child that he will come back to them. <<less

Manga adaption of H.P.Lovecraft's "The Haunter of The Dark" and "Dagon"... more>>

The story is set in Providence, Rhode Island, which is author H. P. Lovecraft's home town and a common setting in his books. Robert Blake, a young man with an interest in the occult, becomes fascinated by a disused church in Federal Hill. His research reveals that the church has a sinister history involving a cult called the Church of Starry Wisdom and is dreaded by the local inhabitants as being haunted by a primeval evil. <<less

Circumstances have intertwined the fates of five strangers. As a team of five, they make their living running a freak show. As a family of five, they live on a small covered boat together. In the midst of a terrible war, they embark to add to their number the kudan, a monster rumored to tell the future.... more>>

Won the 18th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga. Originally a short story published in "11 eleven". <<less