Return of the Frozen Player

5 years after the world changed, the final boss appeared.

[The final boss for area Earth, the Frost Queen, has appeared.]

The final boss! If we can just defeat her, our lives will go back to normal. The top five players in the world, including Specter Seo Jun-ho, finally defeated the Frost Queen… But they fell into a deep slumber.

And then 25 years passed…

“A second floor? It didn’t end when the Frost Queen died?”

Wife After Love

Yurae and Muwon used to be all business because they were in an arranged marriage until Yurae asked for a divorce. She moved out of the country and returned three years later for a brief work trip. She’s different now and more confident in how she lives her life. But fate—and Muwon—won’t let her get away that easily. Now that she has to oversee her company’s deal with Muwon, will it be easy for them to separate their business and private lives and leave the past behind?

3-gatsu no Lion

A youth named Kiriyama Rei, who lost his family as a child, endures loneliness to become a professional shogi player. Then, through a chance meeting, he develops a relationship with the three Kawamoto sisters (Akari, Hinata, Momo), who hail from a working-class district of the city, and little by little his frozen heart begins to thaw.

Note: Nominated for the 2nd Annual Manga Taishou in 2009 and won the award in 2011.

Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the general category (shared with ) in 2011 and won the Grand Prize of the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2014. And won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Grand Prize in 2021.

Ayakashi Triangle

Ever since he was a boy, Matsuri Kazamaki has worked as an exorcist. Because his childhood friend Suzu Kanade attracts malicious spirits called ayakashi like moths to a flame, Matsuri is tasked with slaying any with ill intentions.

One day, an ayakashi named Shirogane notices the budding romance between these two childhood friends. Eager to both devour Suzu and foil Matsuri’s chance at love, he performs a forbidden spell…

Tantei wa Mou, Shinde Iru.

I, an ordinary high school student, Kimizuka Kimihiko, who easily gets involved in things, was appointed to take care of mysterious attache cases by mysterious men in black suits. After meeting a beautiful angel-like detective girl, named Siesta in a hijacked plane, I became her assistant.

[You deal with the beehive, and I’ll restrain the enemy.]

[Don’t make plans that make me the victim.]

We had those kinds of foolish conversations, all while being completely broke every day and fought against <The enemies of the world>. Even when there were hurricanes, the weather-beaten duo sleep past it. Sometimes when we saved money at a casino, we would jump around on the beds at a resort hotel, only to be broke again the next day. We would walk through deserts, traverse through jungles, conquer mountains, cross oceans– The great detective and her assistant would go through these dazzling adventures–

Until she died.

And this story starts from 1 year after that incident.

I’m the only one who’s left, but I carry on her remained wishes.

Kou 1 Desu ga Isekai de Joushu Hajimemashita

Accidentally summoned by an ancient map, first year high school student, Kiyokawa Hiroto is forced by the arrogant Lord of the castle to exterminate the vampire that has been haunting his castle. Unexpectedly befriending a girl from Mummy tribe, Hiroto skillfully managed to capture the Vampire with her help. However, he is soon framed by the Lord of the castle. Bravely and kindly aiming to be a Lord, the fantasy of summoned to another world starts!

Ao no Futsumashi

Raised by Father Fujimoto, a famous exorcist, Rin Okumura never knew his real father. One day a fateful argument with Father Fujimoto forces Rin to face a terrible truth—the blood of the demon lord Satan runs in Rin’s veins! Rin swears to defeat Satan, but doing that means entering the mysterious True Cross Academy and becoming an exorcist himself. Can Rin fight demons and keep his infernal bloodline a secret? It won’t be easy, especially when drawing his father’s sword releases the demonic power within him!

Himeno-chan ni Koi wa Mada Hayai

Though 4th year elementary school student Aikawa Himeno has feelings for her classmate Ouji-kun, then why can’t she properly express her feelings? Is she going too fast? Is he unable to pick up her cues? The story of a slightly precocious love comedy. ♪

Golden Kamui

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.

Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018.

Was nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016. Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards Social Impact Award in 2021.

Jaa, Kimi no Kawari ni Korosou ka?

The manga centers on Yūma Fujikura, a constantly bullied first year high school student. When a classmate named Ryō Ameri, nicknamed “Amelie,” helps him out one day, Yūma tells him not to get any more involved, or else the bullies will target Amelie too. In response to this, Amelie only tells Yūma that he would commit murder for him if Yūma wanted.