These stories are told with the same bold, kinetic art style and brilliantly paced storytelling that Samura's Blade of the Immortal epic is famous for.... more>> The main offering, "Ohikkoshi," follows the turbulent paths of several twenty-something art students as they fall in love, fall in lust, play in rock bands, ride motorbikes, eat, sleep (together), and try to avoid making life decisions while drunk. This romantic comedy is a "Japanese art school confidential" packed with absurd humor, obscure death metal references, and some expertly placed, dramatic revelations. "Luncheon of Tears Diary" is a vibrant, genre-busting tale that also peppers its humor with sharp, dramatic moments. Natsumi Funabashi, a virgin, is an aspiring manga creator on a quest for love and a fulfilling career. Along the way, she has to cope with overzealous men, gang warfare, a mahjong addiction, and a lascivious manga editor. This collection is rounded off by Samura's hilarious "Kyoto Super Barhopping Journal: Bloodbath at Midorogaike," a rare, autobiographical travel piece. <<less

It’s 1935 in Gyeongseong, and struggling artist Iho Yun has been commissioned by the reclusive, elderly Madam Jeonghwa Song to paint a portrait. Madam Jeonghwa... more>> Song allows Iho to set eyes upon her -- an unprecedented event -- and standing before him is a young woman. But why does she ask him to paint an elderly version of her? “Don’t finish the portrait.” Tucked between the previous artist’s paint tubes is an ominous letter. Iho learns that no artist has left Madam Song’s abode alive or of sound mind. Just what is she hiding and what will happen if Iho finishes the portrait? <<less

Wandering the packed tunnels of Shinjuku Station, famous author Yosuke Mikura makes a strange discovery: a seemingly homeless drunk woman who can quote French poetry.... more>> Her name is Barbara. He takes her home for a bath and a drink, and before long Barbara has made herself into Mikura's shadow, saving him from egotistical delusions and jealous enemies. But just as Mikura is no saint, Barbara is no benevolent guardian angel, and Mikura grows obsessed with discovering her secrets, tangling with thugs, sadists, magical curses and mythical beings - all the while wondering whether he himself is still sane. <<less

Abe Takahiro is an ordinary, well-adjusted, high school student, who falls in love with his bespectacled classmate Asai Rumi, thinking she's just a cute member of the art club. Alas, his love is anything but ordinary - she's actually a hardcore yaoi-loving fujoshi who is utterly convinced Takahiro and Shunsuke Chiba, the handsome class playboy and his best friend from middle school, are having a torrid affair. With comical misunderstandings, awkward half-confessions, and the revelation that class idol Matsui Yoko is an otaku enamored with Rumi as well, poor Abe has his work cut out for him if he hopes to woo the Otaku-Type Delusion girl.... more>>

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This series tells us stories about the mangaka's (OKU Hiroya) favorite movies and how it helped and lead to the creation of the manga we... more>> all came to know & love - Gantz. <<less

Follow the lives of five senior art students as they learn color theory and technique… and have some cute and colorful life lessons along the... more>> way. With full color illustrations scattered throughout, this volume will teach the reader some art basics as well. Art class was never this fun! <<less

<<Honorable Mention>>Draw the game! Two major brands collaborate for a manga competition! Jump and top game publisher Ubisoft team up for a new manga competition! Four of Ubisoft's biggest games: Assassin's Creed, Watch Dogs, The Division and Far Cry are used as source material. Here are the 5 award-winning works!... more>>

List of the award-winning works:

Grand Prize:

2nd Prize:

Honorable Mention:

Honorable Mention:

UBI Special Award: <<less

This is a tempestuous and heartbreaking love story about Ayuta, a rounin who aspires to attend an art university, who, in a jam-packed train, falls in love with Haruhi, a psychiatrist eight years his senior.... more>>

This is the manga adaptation of the Naoki Award-winning Murayama Yuka's bestseller. <<less

Recent high school graduate Suzumura Rikako was still jobless when her older sister insisted that she apply to the company that she was working for.... more>> It sounds really great except for the part where that company is an erotic game developer. Rikako has yet to embrace her sexuality and add to that her shy personality and you have a recipe for disaster. But with all the employees, from the designers to programmers to advertising, being cute females, maybe Rikako won’t have such a hard time making this her career, or maybe it just might make it even more awkward. <<less

A story about beings called "Kigo" and a boy who can see them.

Based on the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Oscar Wilde.

Kawashima Kougi dreams about fish, paints fish, and has no interest in the world outside fish. He is brilliant and disturbed. His childhood friend, Nene,... more>> attempts to draw him back to the real world. <<less

A young craftsman meets the daughter of a painter he admired.

A love story between two souls separated by their stations in life, in the form of a tattoo.... more>>

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"Even if we stopped seeing each other, my soul would always be with you."

A man visits a certain tatoo artist. A vivid love story of surreptitious, yet intense longing of two souls. <<less

B&W oneshot about an awkward couple.

A European-style romance story inspired by the historical real-life passion of Parisian painter Marie Laurencin and French poet Guillaume Apollinaire.... more>>

Marie and her fiancé Woobin live an idyllic life until Woobin dies in a tragic accident. Her life shattered, Marie returns from France to face his family and an unexpected problem. Woobin's young brother Gangbin looks exactly like him.

Ashamed, Marie suppresses her longings, but Fate draws them together. The cruel hope of experiencing true love again torments Marie. However, a dark and beautiful celebrity, Cheryun, also has her eye on Gangbin and she'll soon play her hand... <<less

Once upon a time, there was a princess who locked herself up in the top of a little tower, and a young man set on... more>> becoming the palace artist. When the King decrees that, "He who can paint a portrait of the 'Locked-up Maiden' will be made the palace artist", Gunjou thinks he's set... but the princess is not willing to come down, and Gunjou is not willing to give up. <<less

Riko's dream is to write picture books for children. However, she has no confidence in her drawings, so she never shows them to anyone, especially... more>> because then children said they suck in her dreams. One day, she happens to meet Akane, a spirit from a sakura tree. With the help of him, Riko remembers her first intentions of wanting to write picture books and starts to have more confidence in her drawings. <<less

They showed up out of nowhere. Graffiti that moved as if they were alive. People started calling them the "living pictures" and they started getting praised and sold for high prices. The origins are unknown and no one knows who said it first, but people say they are being created by someone named "Kilroy". ... more>>

Enter Suzume, a young artist who aspires to create great art just like Kilroy but has been struggling to do so. One night, her everyday life takes a sudden turn as she comes across none other than Kilroy himself. <<less

A short oneshot by a famous animator of various famous anime (Black Bullet, Attack on Titan, Arslan Senki, She and Her Cat).

Included stories:... more>>

• Colored Pencils

• Fireworks

• Marigold

• Musical Bbbboooox

• Indian Summer

• Lover

• Winter Moon

• Lamplight

• Clockwork Glasses

• City of Strawberries

• Fish Boy <<less

A boy who only loves black and a girl who enjoys all the colors. What will happen when they clash?

In Your Color, a girl goes to the same high school as the girl she admired in middle school, her senpai in the Art Club,... more>> and ends up modeling for her when she has to leave the track team due to injury. <<less

Set about two years before the events in Les Mille Fleurs, it follows the story of Chika’s brother, Shin, a talented artist in the 12th... more>> grade, and Ayana, a clumsy high-school freshman. <<less

Takesuke, an artist that specialises in Yokai art, met a young woman with a scar on her face.