A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. ... more>>

Serialized or otherwise collected:

AKABOSHI Tomo

AKIZUKI Risu

ARAI Hideki

ARAMAKI Keiko

ASADA Torao

ASHINANO Hitoshi

Endo Hiroki

ENOMOTO Shunji

IGARASHI Daisuke

IRIE Kiwa

IRIE Noriko

KIMURA Kon

KITOH Mohiro

KOMAI Yu

MATSUMOTO Taiyou

NIHEI Tsutomu

OHARA Shinji

SAMURA Hiroaki

SOUJI Hajime

TOUME Kei

TOYODA Minoru

TSUCHIDA Seiki

URUSHIBARA Yuki

WAKANA Shouhei

Other:

Hiramatsu Kannosuke

ABE Yoshitoshi

Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy.

YAMAZAKI Ren

The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology.

NADEGATA Nazuna

On a remote island, a skilled swordsman who honed his craft on the local population attempts to atone for his sins and lift a curse by hunting and killing demons. Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga.

KIBA Kouichi

As the protagonist is returning home one night, she runs into a man who had just been in a car crash. As he is dying, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea.

JOUYAMA Yui

A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. <<less

Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover.... more>>

Won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in General Category in 2021. <<less