Nakajima Atsushi was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a... more>> river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Dazai Osamu, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers, and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives! <<less

After the discussions with the High Bishop and High Priest ended, Myne won the right to be treated as a noble with the role of... more>> a blue-robed shrine maiden apprentice. Work in the temple began and Myne could read books in the long-awaited temple library. However, there were many problems in the temple, such as adapting to the class system and dealing with the problem children assigned to her as attendants. Overcome adversity to be able to read books in peace! A biblio-fantasy written for book lovers and bookworms! The second part begins! <<less

Inaho Jr. High's Boys Ping Pong Club has only 6 members, the club minimum. Takeda is your average nice guy. Kinoshita is good looking and popular with girls. Unfortunately, the rest are branded as losers. Tanabe is too foreign, while Tanaka is petite and perverse. Maena and Izawa are truly deviant, and their crazed antics have earned the team some powerful enemies. In spite of their differences, the team needs to work together to retain their practice room and club status.... more>>

Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1996. <<less

One day out of boredom, Tanaka decided to give her classmates nicknames based on their quirks. Her friend Kikuchi became "Ota" for her nerdy interests,... more>> and her other friend Saginomiya became "Robo" because of her expressionless personality. In retaliation, her friends decided to name Tanaka "Baka". These are the ridiculous days of three high school friends claiming (or not) the height of their youth. <<less

Amano Ichigo is a 14-year-old cake lover. After meeting a lecturer, Henrie Lucas, at a cake buffet, she enters St. Marie Academy - a school... more>> that raises and cultivates patissiers. Not only is she placed in the elitist group with three princes of sweets, but she also meets sweets spirit Vanilla on her first day of transfer. Ichigo is air-headed, a total klutz, and a complete novice at cake making, but she's trying her best mastering one at a time in order to make her eaters happy. <<less

After his mother died, fifteen-year-old Taro's grandfather invites him to come to Hanaukyo Mansion. ... more>>

But soon after he arrives, his grandfather disappears! Taro learns that not only will he inherit the unbelievably huge estate, he will also have...access to the countless beautiful young maids working there... <<less

This 4-koma style manga features three school girls as they hang out and chat. Friendly, clueless Yukari, enthusiastic, childish Yuzuko, and the more level-headed Yui... more>> hang out and talk about various subjects, like ketchup and mayonnaise, hands, the sun and more. <<less

The story centres on first-year high school student Yoigoshi Tatsuya, a former ace soccer player who dislikes sports. He gets invited to join a team... more>> for the contact sport kabaddi. He scoffs at the idea at first but becomes interested after watching a kabaddi practice. <<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

Isamu was born under a rough sign – a Japanese father, an American Indian mother, both killed by a group of racist thugs in the... more>> old west, and rescued by one of the most wanted men of the era. The son of a samurai and an Indian tracker he could become the most powerful gunslinger in the west – if can only survive one of the roughest childhoods anyone has ever seen… <<less

Rin enjoys camping by the lakeshore, Mt. Fuji in view. Nadeshiko rides her bike to see Mt. Fuji, too. As the two eat cup noodles... more>> together, what scenery will they behold? This series will make readers fall in love with camping! <<less

The story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high-school friends Kato Hiroshi and Nakama Toru, who seemed to make a habit of getting into trouble and starting up fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi sport slicked back 50's style perms and adopted exaggerated swaggers that made them comical and yet also oddly cool. The drama also features an assortment of outlandish characters who sport even weirder fashions and hairdos. To describe the action in this drama, think Fight Club meets The Breakfast Club.... more>>

Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1988 (shared with ). <<less

IT'S EXPLANATION TIME!... more>>

Leader of hero squadron "Gerato 5 (Five)" aiming for world peace, Aikawa Fudou and fight leader of secret society "Gecko" aiming to conquer the world, Magahara Desumi ... there was a deep “fate” between the two that belong to opposite organizations... !!

The leader of the Heroic Force Sentai has fallen in love with the commander of the evil team. A very funny romance story where the protagonists try to hide their feelings from their respective team! <<less

Before the Pirate King was executed, he dared the many pirates of the world to seek out the fortune that he left behind in one piece.... more>>

As a child, Monkey D. Luffy dreamed of becoming the King of the Pirates. But his life changed when he accidentally gained the power to stretch like rubber...at the cost of never being able to swim again! Now Luffy, with the help of a motley collection of nakama, is setting off in search of "One Piece", said to be the greatest treasure in the world.

Note: The best-selling series in manga history.

Was a finalist for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize from 2000 to 2002. The German translation won the Sondermann audience award at the Frankfurt Book Fair Comics Centre in 2005, 2008 and 2009.

Won the 41st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize alongside in 2012. Received the Kumamoto Prefecture Honorary Prize in 2018. <<less

One day, Miko suddenly started seeing grotesque beings that others couldn't. Her response was not to run, not to face them, but to do everything... more>> she could to completely ignore them! Can she keep a straight face and continue her day-to-day life while surrounded by horrifying monsters? <<less

The story is about Hyuma Hoshi, a promising young baseball pitcher who dreams of becoming a top star like his father Ittetsu Hoshi in the professional Japanese league. His father was once a 3rd baseman until he was injured in World War II and was forced to retire. ... more>>

The boy would join the ever popular Giants team, and soon he would realize the difficulty of living up to the high expectations that came with such popularity. From the grueling training to battling his rival Mitsuru Hanagata on the Hanshin Tigers, he would have to take out his best pitching magic to met the challenge. <<less

Millions of years have passed since the times of legends, when the worlds of man and gods were still the same. In these times it was the desires of man that moved the world. It is the era of the 500 year war: The warring states period. Kingdom is the story of a young boy named Shin who grew into a great general and all the trials and bloodshed that lead him there.... more>>

Note: Kingdom won the grand prize for the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2013.

The manga also earned a Guinness World Record on December 12, 2012 for Manga written by the most people. The record was due to its "Social Kingdom" campaign in which fans and other artists were given the task of redrawing the entire 26th volume. <<less

During the Edo period, Japan is suddenly invaded by alien creatures known as the "Amanto." Despite the samurai's attempts to combat the extraterrestrial menace, the Shogun soon realizes that their efforts are futile and decides to surrender. This marks the beginning of an uneasy agreement between the Shogunate and Amanto, one that results in a countrywide sword ban and the disappearance of the samurai spirit.... more>>

However, there exists one eccentric individual who wields a wooden sword and refuses to let his samurai status die. Now that his kind are no longer needed, Gintoki Sakata performs various odd jobs around town in order to make ends meet. Joined by his self-proclaimed disciple Shinpachi Shimura, the fearsome alien Kagura, and a giant dog named Sadaharu, they run the business known as Yorozuya, often getting caught up in all sorts of crazy and hilarious shenanigans.

Volume 2 contains Shirokuro

There is a young professional "curser" who, trought mystical methods and a baseball bat, brings punishment to what law doesn't punish, and to bring calm to hateful hearts. She meets a demon that tells her to give up her "work," to keep the harmony between the human and supernatural worlds.

Volume 24 contains 13 (サーティーン)

Volume 38 contains Bankara (ばんから)

The cyber revolution seems to be a new weapon that school delinquents take advantage of and cause damage. A chair woman named, Miyamoto Shizuka, possesses the power to keep things in order. But what will happen to the fate of the school when she mistakenly lets the rumored legendary BANKARA, named Gouda Takeru, free? <<less

Kobayashi lives alone in an apartment, until one day, Tooru appeared and they ended up living together. Tooru looks down on humans as inferior and... more>> foolish. But having been saved by Kobayashi-san, she does everything she can to repay the debt and help her with various things, although not everything goes according to plan. A mythical everyday life comedy about a hard working office lady living with a dragon girl. <<less

The story is set in a world where supernatural powers exist through science, and magic exists through religion. ... more>>

"Academy City." 2.3 million inhabitants.

80% of the students are active in the "Brain Development Program" and out of those only 7 are Level 5s.

Meet the civilian protagonist Mikoto and her friend Kuroko, maintainers of peace and order at the University district, as members of the 'Judgment'. <<less

A "fearsome psycho-thriller" centering on "the dark side of adolescence." The manga centers on Kyōtarō Ichikawa, a person at the very bottom caste of his school, and who hides murderous impulse that lurks at the very bottom of his soul.... more>>

In actuality, a super sweet youth RomCom between a messed up boy and a bright (but strange), beautiful girl.

Nominated for the 2020 and 2021 Manga Taisho Award. Won the 2020 Tsugi ni Kuru Manga award in the web manga category .

Won the top prize of 2021 tsutaya comic awards <<less

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.... more>>

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. <<less

Jashin-chan Dropkick is a violent slapstick comedy about a delusional gothic lolita, Yurine, who summons a demon girl with the tail of a cobra, Jashin-chan.... more>>

They'll have to live together -- until Yurine finds a way to send Jashin-chan back to hell, or until Jashin-chan kills Yurine. <<less

In the distant future, a new immortal and genderless life form called Gems populate the Earth. The 28 Gems must fight against the Moon Dwellers, who attack them regularly to abduct them and to turn them into decorations. Each Gem is assigned a role, such as a fighter or a medic.... more>>

Being only 300 years old, Phosphophyllite is the youngest of the Gems and has no assignment yet. Phos wants to help fight the Moon Dwellers, but is too weak and brittle for battle. One day the master of Gems, Adamantine, assigns Phos the task of creating a natural history encyclopedia.

Note: Nominated for the 8th Manga Taisho in 2015. <<less

Tomoko Kuroki naturally assumed she’d be popular when she got to high school…but then cold, hard reality swooped in for the attack! Turns out all... more>> the popularity points she’d racked up in her video game dating sims are worth squat in real life, and Tomoko’s far from prepared to navigate high school! How can she possibly hope to impress her classmates when she can’t even talk to them?! A new high-school heroine is born (maybe?)! <<less