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

The series begins with the story of Seiya, the main hero, who is one of Athena's Saints. Seiya, along with the other Bronze Saints, must... more>> train hard to earn their "Cloths," and take on other challenges as well. Saint Seiya has been a hit in Japan, as well as many European countries including Spain, France and Italy. <<less

Known as Hardcore Leveling Warrior, Ethan is the #1 player of the world's biggest game, Lucid Adventure. But when a mysterious player kills Ethan and forces his character back to level 1, he will do anything to get back on top. New friends and old foes, as well as mysterious forces and his own dark past, will follow him as he does his best to take back what was once his.... more>>

() <<less

Ye Ren has always fantasized being a vampire hunter. To save his sister from Shengdi, Ye Ren offered his blood and became a temporary servant... more>> to Lilo Ai unaware of the thousand years of hatred and battle from the past. <<less

One office with two ex-boyfriends! What will be Han Na Bom's fate...?

The series began as a fairly humorous and lighthearted satire of Japan's teenage delinquent-gang subculture told from the perspective of Matsushita Tadashi (who also narrates these early Karate Bu stories), a 2nd year student at Kangokou High and a constant target of Kangokou's numerous bullies who beat him up routinely after school. He is almost always accompanied by his best friend Saitou Takaki, who is also constantly harassed. As the pair grow increasingly tired of being victimized they decide to join the titular Karate Club, which is notorious throughout Osaka's youth gangs for training and producing the city's most hardened and toughest teenage thugs while maintaining the facade of a legit school sports club. But... more>> when they join the club, they find themselves picked on just as much if not worse by the club's current members. But as the story progresses they grow to be increasingly capable fighters.

As the series went on it gradually changed its tone to a more serious and violent martial arts manga, with the narrative shifting from the perspective of Matsushita to Takagi Yoshiyuki, the smart mouthed, tough-as-nails captain of the Kangokou Karate Club.

Along with the manga's change in attitude and central character, the various teenage fighters throughout the series grew increasingly stronger and even began to tap into superhuman ki abilities, putting Osu!! Karate Bu in the company of other similar epic Shōnen fighting manga such as Yu Yu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, and Fist of the North Star.

Osu!! Karate Bu was wildly popular in its native Japan, but is otherwise almost completely unknown in most other countries. It spawned a four episode OVA mini-series released over a period of two years from 1990-1992, a 1990 live action movie, and a 1994 Super Famicom fighting game. <<less

Kinnikuman (Muscleman), a weak and clumsy super hero, constantly getting into wacky situations. As the series progressed, the story began changing from comedy to action as Kinnikuman battles stronger and stronger foes in the wrestling ring. The series continually introduced new Super Human characters, known as Chyo-jins, who would challenge Kinnikuman and his friends for various purposes.... more>>

Note: Received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1985.

The original run was from 1979-1986 and ended with Vol. 36. The series directly continued in 2010. <<less

Fifteen-year-old (east Asian age reckoning) demon prince, Myoung Seong-Joon. To become the demon lord he has attended a middle school in the human realm and... more>> started the maturity ritual. <<less

Dr. Kaneda was developing experimental giant robot warriors to fight the allies during the Second World War, but before his creations could see action, Allied... more>> bombs destroyed the facility and killed him. A decade later criminals discovered two of the surviving prototypes, #26 and 27 in the series, and used the remote controlled robots to commit a number of crimes. Young Shotaro Kaneda, the twelve year old son of Dr. Kaneda, did some investigating and discovered that the mob were hunting for the twenty-eighth robot in the series, rumoured to be the most powerful of them all. Racing the villains, Shotaro discovers the robot first, along with Dr. Shikishima, a colleague of his father who was also believed to be killed by the Allied bombing. Together the two prevent Tetsujin 28-go (the robot's official designation) from falling into the hands of the bad guys and decide to dedicate him to peace rather than war. <<less

Legend has it that Nobunaga died in the fire at Honno-ji, but the truth is, he survived! And after that, he vowed to take back... more>> the world by his blade! Meanwhile, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu also aim to grab hold of the country, while Mitsuhide plans to assassinate Nobunaga! These swirling ambitions create a new chapter in history! Get ready for some fun historical fiction filled with wild imagination! <<less

A manga part of the Uma Musume Project by Cygames, a game and an anime. It follows Special Week, an aspiring horsegirl athlete-idol, as she... more>> transfers in to the Traincent Academy to follow her dreams. <<less

Yaiba's whole life has been spent training to be a samurai and he doesn't know about anything else, not even girls. When he returns to Japan, a pair of cursed swords makes life even more exciting... and hilarious.... more>>

Note: Starting at chapter 80, started using bunko scans, so the volume numbering is a little different.

In 1993 Yaiba received the Shogakukan Manga Award. <<less

199X, nuclear war has ravaged the planet. From the ashes, gangs have risen to take all the power from world governments. Justice has ceased to... more>> exist in this now lawless world. From the sands of a desert, a man appears. His name is Kenshiro, and he is the sucessor to the most powerful martial art in the world, Hokuto Shinken. This art attacks the foes insides, and makes them explode internally and die in often brutal ways. Kenshiro's goal is to kill the man who kidnapped his fiance, Yuria. A man that he once called a friend, but who betrayed him and left him for dead. Along the way, he makes friends and enemies alike, while protecting those who cannot protect themselves. <<less

If you manage to fill a piggy bank full of forbidden gold coins, any wish of yours will be granted. Those called "bankers" travel the world collecting those coins, and fighting to take them from each other. The energetic young boy Croket sets out on a journey as a banker as well, hoping to have his own wish granted! This is a grand adventure-style story, filled with mystery, laughs, and action! ... more>>

Croket! received the 2003 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. <<less

SERIES 3: Stardust Crusaders... more>>

From 1988 to 1989, the story follows Jotaro Kujo and his friends as they journey from Tokyo to Cairo to save his mother's life by defeating his family's resurrected archenemy, DIO. <<less

Daily life of Baek Mi with her interest in food and cooking.

Maeda is a new student in the Teiken High School. He stutters when he's nervous and he's rather clumsy. He gets noted immediately because he hits a teacher during the entrance ceremony. Some clubs search to enlist him as they see in him a force they can use to get even with other clubs. But Maeda is a loner and has only one dream: becoming boxing champion. His first objective is to beat the leader of the boxing club. "Rokudenashi" translates as "good for nothing".... more>>

The manga focuses more on gang warfare than boxing. <<less

There are three series of Baki; this one is Grappler Baki, the first one.... more>>

1-Grappler Baki(1991-1999) 42 volumes

2-New Grappler Baki(1999-2005) 31 volumes

3-Hanma Baki: Son of Ogre(2005-12-05) 37 volumes

"To be the strongest in the world!" That is Baki Hanma's dream. The mysterious, young, martial artist aspires to follow in his sinister father's footsteps as the world's strongest creature. But to what lengths will Baki go? We follow the young grappler as he matures in a world full of some of the strongest fighters and how he overcomes all obstacles in order to face his father one day in the fighting ring. From the jungles to and underground martial arts tournament, Baki is put to the test from fighters all over the world. <<less

The typical Kochikame plot involves Ryo-san coming up with a money-making scheme by inventing a new gadget or capitalizing on a fad, achieving great success, calling on Nakagawa's help as things turn sour, and finally losing it all as the fad runs out of steam or out of control. While the plots are gag-driven, much of the humor comes from the juxtaposition of mundane characters with the bizarrely incongruous (Nakagawa's wealth, Maria's appeal, everyone's lack of actual police work), most of which is never explained or rationalized in the slightest.... more>>

Note: Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2017. <<less

The world as we knew it ended. Radiation covered the world aboveground and turned it into hell. And humanity headed deep into the underground. Using... more>> the world’s most developed underground network as its backbone, they built an underground city. The last hope of humanity, the underground city of SHINDORIM. And we, who could not enter the underground city, were left behind in hell. So we had to get strong. And we did. <<less

Strider Hiryu was the youngest Strider to ever reach the rank of "Super-A" grade. He was the greatest Strider the organization has ever produced, but he eventually grew disenchanted with them and retired. An uncollected prologue tells how Hiryu had been forced to kill his sister, Maria, who had inexplicably gone insane. He left the Striders for Mongolia, where he lived in seclusion for some years.... more>>

The collected manga opens with a Strider assignment gone horribly awry. Two Striders, Kain and Sheena, had been assigned to Kazakh, but were ambushed by a paramilitary organization. Kain and Sheena defended the city valiantly, but were eventually overcome by the simplest of ruses: an armed child. Sheena managed to escape, but Kain was captured by a military officer bearing the Strider tattoo. <<less

A young man named Speed Racer wants to become a professional racer, despite the lack of approval from his father, Pops Racer. When Pops reluctantly... more>> quits his job after the corporate company he was working for had declined the production of a modified engine for his new racing car, the Mach 5, he later thinks of creating his own family owned company, Racer Motors. He realizes that he would need a great amount of money to make his idea work. Speed, who values the welfare of his family, decides to take it upon himself to obtain the money for Pops. In hopes of using his unique driving skills to do so, Speed decides to do what he does best and enters a race. Pops tells Speed to quit racing, but Speed, who is confident enough to ignore Pops, drives away into many different adventures that come towards him and his friends. <<less

Kachou Kousaku Shima is the first in a number of Japanese manga series about a fictional salaryman named Kousaku Shima, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company, Hatsushiba Electric. At the start of the long-running series, Shima Kousaku is a kachou, or section chief, of a huge conglomerate, Hatsushiba Electric. He is later promoted to buchou (division chief) and eventually promoted to manager and executive-director, at the end the president of comapny, and with each promotion the title of the series changed as well. And last it is "Shachou " Shima Kousaku, which means "President Kousaku Shima".... more>>

Won the 15th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1991 (tied with ). <<less

What do you do when a team of evil superpowered wrestlers from another planet threatens the health and safety of the Earth? Organize a team... more>> of GOOD superpowered wrestlers, of course! Kid Muscle, the son of legendary wrestler King Muscle, rockets to Earth and finds an evil wrestling gang called the DMP tearing the place apart. The punks on the DMP are the weirdest, nastiest, most outlandishly powerful musclebound freaks the galaxy has ever known. Kid Muscle's only hope: form a team that's even wilder. Lazy and cowardly, the Kid sure doesn't look like the universe's last great hope, but when something upsets him -like, say, EVIL - he busts out in muscles just like his old man! The only possible result is earthshaking, bodyslamming, ultimate-powered action that sends our entire planet sailing over the top rope! <<less

One day, Akio Asakura, a third year high school student, is driving his Fairlady Z (Z31) and is challenged by Tatsuya Shima, a doctor, in his black Porsche 964 Turbo (nicknamed the "BlackBird"). With a friend in the passenger seat and two girls in the back, Akio pitifully tries to win, but is defeated. Determined to become faster, he goes to the junkyard to buy parts for his car, when he sees a pristine, unscratched midnight blue Fairlady Z (S30) in the junkyard. Intrigued as to why such a machine is about to be junked, he buys it. He soon finds that the car is unnaturally fast due to a tuned L28 engine, bored and... more>> stroked to 3.1 liters combined with twin turbos, which produces 620bhp. He also finds that all of the car's previous owners had unfortunate accidents in it, starting with the first owner's death. The manga follows Akio's various encounters, though the central plot revolves around his constant battle with the BlackBird for superiority.

Note: The story gets its roots from the actual street racing that occurs on Tokyo's Shuto Expressway, one stretch of which is known as the "Wangan", literally meaning "bay side" (although it is generally used to refer to the freeway), the longest, straightest road in the entire country. Of course, there's also lots of traffic to contend with, including a fair number of heavy trucks. Because of this, the action is inherently hazardous, and wrecks are common. Blown engines are also a frequent hazard, especially with the extreme-high power engines.

Won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1999. <<less