Tateishi, who works in accounting at a snack making company, has a secret. That secret is the existence of his cute lover that he's had... more>> since yesterday. Why keep it a secret, you ask? Because his lover is his unyielding colleague from the planning department of the same company: Mitsuya! <<less

In Giant Killing a ragtag bunch from East Tokyo are struggling in Japan's top football league. The team is going through an abysmal spell right... more>> now where they are nearing the bottom of the table and have lost 5 matches in a row. The losses haven't done much to team morale, because it was already low. Fan support, on the other hand, is looking bleak. In the world of football, once the fans turn on a team the end is near. Teams don't recover. Coaches are fired, players are sold, and teams drop to lower divisions where profits often prevent them from ever being successful against even mediocre top division teams. East Tokyo United, ETU, can only blame their coach right now. And Coach is ready to give up this next game to prove to his team and fans, that against the biggest club in the nation he can make this team win. <<less

A completely new work by Fukumoto Nobuyuki of the Kaiji series!... more>>

Nikaidou Susumu, 35, has been unsuccessful in the professional test for 10 consecutive years, despite receiving support from his club.

What awaits him in the future, as he is unable to give up the title of professional golfer, is either heaven or hell... <<less

When 30-year-old Kenta meets stoic graphic designer Chihiro, he sears her cool exterior with his passion for barbecue! Now, after a flash of a courtship,... more>> they're newlyweds! Though their jobs keep them apart, they still have weekends together to grill, and fine meat isn't the only thing heating up in this sizzling relationship! <<less

An office drone finds relief from his job by attending the ballpark close to his daily commute. He asks a vendor girl for a beer,... more>> but for some reason, after the transaction she sticks around him... <<less

Hatsushiba Electric president Kiichi Nakazawa, who has been Shima’s mentor since Nakazawa was Shima’s boss in the sales division, transfers Shima to Hatsushiba Trading, the firm’s affiliate, to keep Shima from being involved in a factional power struggle that seems sure to erupt within the company when Nakazawa resigns from his post.... more>>

Shima starts off as the representative executive director, making a deal with a wine producer in France. He flies between Japan, France and England to find the best wine and to sell cases at the best price possible. As always, Shima gets help from various attractive women – his subordinate Kumiko, with whom he has had a long, ongoing affair; Kumiko’s mother, who has a broad network of rich people around the world; and a mysterious hostess at a cosy Shinjuku bar who knows who’s who in the wine business.

NOTE: Published in dual-language (English and Japanese). <<less

As a child, Shimazaki Shingo was kidnapped by an international terrorist organization and raised as their combat agent.... more>>

After 30 years, he finally made it back to his peaceful hometown in Japan.

Will Shimazaki be able to live a peaceful life in this new world?

From the large-scale newcomer Goten Hamada and the artist Takeshi Seshita, the creator of “Harn – Grass, Iron and Sheep -” and “Invincible”, an action story of a man who lives between everyday life and the battlefield! <<less

It is the year 2025, and NASA has announced the crew members–including Japanese astronaut Hibito Namba –of the first mission to live on the moon for an extended period. Meanwhile, in Japan, Hibito’s auto designer older brother Mutta Numba is despondent after losing his job. Although the two brothers have followed vastly different paths, their respective destinies begin to move and merge as the result of a vow they exchanged as boys. ... more>>

Note: Was nominated for the Manga Taishō in 2009 and 2010. Won the award for best general manga at the 56th Shogakukan Manga Awards and at the Kodansha Manga Award (shared with ) in 2011. Won the Reader Prize of the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2014. <<less

Suzuki-kun and Takagi-san are two high school students who met in a time looping August 31st. Only the two of them keep their memories. The cause of the time loop is believed to be something Suzuki-kun has left undone over summer vacation, a teenage boy's biggest goal...... more>>

A youthful time loop comedy that faces romance head-on! <<less

Wahhaman is a special robot soldier built ten thousand years ago by the Atlanteans. Found and dug up in present-day Toukyou, he doesn't remember anything,... more>> due to a nasty knock to the head he received at some point. <<less

1966. A story based on real life events. The Sanrizuka Struggle, told from the perspective of the peasants fighting for their land.

The manga's story centers on a man who, in searching for an ideal life and a reason to live, ends up traveling to the beginning... more>> of human history. [ANN] <<less

28 years ago, Tamura's parent was responsible for a mass indescriminate poisoning case while he was in elementary school, and he grew up branded the... more>> son of a criminal. After his wife dies in childbirth, Tamura heads back to Hokaido to confront his past. The mysteries surrounding his father, a police officer, goes back to the year of 1989... <<less

Shinji Yuuki is an ordinary businessman, 35 years old, single, no girlfriend, living at home. He is worried about his future as a single man,... more>> but he has little experience in love and is afraid of marriage activity. But when he meets a female doctor, he falls in "love beyond his imagination," a love that turns his life upside down! <<less

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A freelance designer loves to relax from work through gardening on his balcony. There he starts talking to his new neighbor next door over the wall without knowing her face.... more>>

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A drama about the childless relationship of a salaryman and his wife.

Tea for Universe, Tea for Life. It's the Sengoku Era, a time when warring daimyou usurped each other constantly. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed as he worked his way up toward greater power and status. His name was Furuta Sasuke, a vassal of Oda Nobunaga. With his world broadened by the genius Nobunaga and with the spiritual insight learned from Senno Soueki, Master of Tea, Sasuke travels the road of the Hyouge Mono, or comical fellow. ... more>>

To live or not to live. For power or for the arts. That is the question

Received Excellence Prize in Japan Media Arts Festival (2009) <<less

Fuuko is a shy girl—so shy that she has trouble talking to strangers. Determined to change herself, she starts working as a waitress at Café... more>> Rhodos. The people she meets on and off the job will lead her through the often frightful world of adolescence, and beyond. <<less

Kawabuchi is a town where junior high school students drown one after another, it's also well known for a town where people die for 100,000¥.... more>> Ryuusei is a 13 years old boy who started to live there with his father after the early death of his mother. The afternoon of first day of school he with two of his new friends are led to the riverbank by a bunch of bully leaded by Uchida (a senpai from his school, after a loss in a game at the arcade. What awaits them?! <<less

"In this village, death inevitably takes those who have reached 50 years of age."... more>>

By custom, all villagers who have passed the age of 50 are bound and taken to The Netherworld on the other side of the mountain. Officials clad in beast skins manage the village, "The Living World," whose people are watched over by gods. Meanwhile, the People of the Mountain remain shrouded in mystery. Anzu, who sacrificed the older of twin girls to the mountain, is torn between hope and despair.

Land, a story that reflects Yamashita Kazumi's unease for the nation of Japan.

Won the 25th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize <<less

In the year 200X, a Japanese fleet consisting of 3 vessels leave on a mission to South America. After encountering a storm, the ship JDS Mirai find itself without its escorts and in the year 1942, traveling towards the island of Midway to face the American fleet in one of largest battles in naval history. The crew of the Mirai must decide whether or not to change the course of history by involving itself in WWII.... more>>

Won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 2002. <<less

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A new kind of romantic comedy about a shy boy meeting a weird girl!... more>>

Hoshino Masato(26) is a very shy guy who is even nervous about being handed change by a woman at a convenience store. In order to get used to women and grow as a man, he mustered up the courage to make a reservation with a rental girlfriend! But what came was a bit (?) weird girl, Tsukita-san! Tsukita-san is going above and beyond what he expected, and Hoshino-kun is getting overwhelmed. A new addictive romantic comedy about the exquisite relationship between the two!!! <<less