Saudi Arabia, Morocco, India, and Japan. A series of short stories capturing the theme of "because I'm a girl" 10-year-old girls with different nationalities, religions, cultures, and values. ... more>>

"We are like the girls in the faraway lands." Yes, we are the ones who are discriminated against. It's hard to admit, but the more I learn about it, the more I think. The more we know the truth, the stronger we become, and the more I learn about it, the more I feel empowered to break it down.

Note: Won the Short Work Prize at the 27th Annual Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2023. <<less

A robot on a solitary journey in a world that has ended. Ars aims to help the human survivors' by taking their bad memories and... more>> "killing" them. They also want to learn more about humans and their relationships with each other. A fragile but gentle journey to the end of the world begins... <<less

Yasumi Ai. She's a first-year high school student living on Izu Ōshima, an island that's part of Tokyo prefecture. She loves to read manga, but a certain event triggered her to start thinking about "creating" manga. She begins to think about "creating" manga. What is the world that awaits her? A manga by Minoru Toyota, a manga artist who loves manga! The pain and joy of creating works of art. No expense is spared in this tale of growing up and manga adventure!... more>>

Note: Won the 16th Manga Taisho Award in 2023. <<less

In the 13th century, Fatima, a captive of the Mongol Empire, the most powerful empire on earth, was taken prisoner and assigned to serve in the imperial palace. With knowledge from Iran, the era's foremost experts on medicine and science, Fatima seeks a world in which she can display her talents. She meets Töregene, the sixth wife of the second emperor, Ögedei, who has mixed feelings about the Mongol Empire....... more>>

Tomato Soup, prodigy of historical manga, spins a tale of two women who shake up a great empire in the Mongolian backwaters! <<less

"You are a more disgusting man than I imagined."... more>>

"Your poor imagination makes for an unconvincing opinion."

The smoke of the steam engine covers the city in 1873. A novelist approaches a mercenary who has lost his place of employment. She has a request to escort her to an interview in 'a mountainous region that is not on the map'. Hiring a mercenary is unavoidable and by process of elimination the novelist had no other choice but him.

The journey of the two people, who are constantly swearing at each other, eventually gets caught up in a plot involving the nation... An era of high growth when the transcontinental railroad was completed, but an era of twilight when electric lights were not yet born. A story of a world similar to "why" in 19th century America. <<less

Yuu Isshiki, a first-year college student, has a charming girlfriend, Karen Mitsumoto. However, one day Yuu discovers that Karen has an adventure with her Senpai,... more>> Kamokura Tetsuya. Angry, sad and desperate, he calls Kamokura's girlfriend, Sakurajima Touko, from which she is said that she is the most beautiful girl in the institute. "Touko-senpai. Please, have an adventure with me. " But Touko said: "I can not let me fool me. I have to push my opponent at the bottom of despair. " Her's plan is then to continue falling in love and, finally, to break it as the night with another man. <<less

One day, I was summoned to this world.... more>>

Beasts poured out, and an incredible crisis came.

My talents couldn’t have been worse.

[The player’s talent level is at rock bottom.] [Almost all the numbers are hopeless.]

Whether you have to become a warrior or a wizard.

Whether you’ve gone back in time.

You have to take advantage of everything in order to survive.

“What about it?”

“I’ll use everything I have to survive!” <<less

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Nana has lost all the crayons to her store along with Monkichi! Each chapter title is based on the game Shiritori and the theme of the chapter is based on the title which helps Nana find her crayons and Monkichi.... more>>

Shiritori is a Japanese word-game which involves taking (tori) the syllable from the end (shiri) of a word, and thinking up a new word which starts with that syllable. One English name for this game is "word chain." If you want to try it out, you can even play online in English at

In this manga, the dialogue itself doesn't use shiritori, but the chapter titles do. So the first chapter named "store" or "mi se" in Japanese, leads into a second chapter named "laundry," which is "se n ta ku" in Japanese. <<less

A look into the lives of the various residents in one quiet community.... more>>

Won 2014 (18th) Japan Media Arts Festival New Face Award. <<less

Orange is a 15 year old boy who shares a wisecracking friendship with a perky young girl named Kiwi. When the new school term starts in spring, Orange finds himself instantly falling for the smart and attractive Apple. But when the bewitchingly beautiful Lemon shows up, Orange’s heart starts to pull him in both directions at the same time. And as Kiwi worries about what’s becoming of Orange, cracks begin to show in their friendship…... more>>

NOTE: In Full Colour

On June 22, 2006, Le Gardenie received third place in Japan's first International Manga Award. <<less

Dame Oyaji received the 1979 Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga.

Winner of the 1991 Seiun Award for Best Comic.

The world is overflowing with them: fibs, falsehoods, lies... Surely you, too, Reader, have told a lie at least once in your life, with your heart beating fast. This is a story about dealing with those lies. The protagonist, Gokuoh, is a master liar, who loves both lying and exposing other people's lies. Together with his strange pet, Nekokarasu, he starts to expose the ocean of lies in his new school. Fighting lies with lies, all Gokuoh needs is the power of the "tongue." "What exactly does that mean?" you ask? Have a look and find out!... more>>

Won the 61st Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. <<less

An injured prince under a magic spell that turned his head into that of an Eagle's hides out in a church while under the care... more>> of a spunky orphan named Elle. With only a few days until his 20th birthday, Eagle Prince Rei must find a way to return to his original form so he can claim the right of royal succession. <<less

This pair of daughter-in-law and mother-in-law is far from ordinary! ... more>>

War is not the tragedy of the human race.

The tragedy of all mankind is the impossibility of choosing one's parents and children.

Life partners can be chosen. Not in-laws.

But rest assured, the greatest tragedy of the human race is actually entertaining! Main Street in Elysium makes an amusing satire of our pains.

The on-going mortal combat between Noriko and her mother-in-law who take up residence on Main Street. The wacky neighbors who bring their own craziness to the set. This hairy combination creates the dark world of Elysium. Beware: it's addictive. <<less

Won the rookie prize at the 19th Media Arts Festival in 2015, despite being a doujin publication. ... more>>

(original self-published manga) <<less

Manaka is good at archery, but she hates it because her father forced her into it and the other members of the high school archery... more>> club hate her for being better than them. While she’s feeling down, she gets caught up in the battle between a gun-wielding woman and a tank, after which she succeeds the woman’s magicannon, a device that lets her turn into Yongou, the personification of a WW2-era tank. With her newfound meaning of life, Manaka and the new friends she meets take on the Nine Old Guns from an organisation that may be striving for world peace or world destruction. <<less

His Name Is Kevin.... more>>

Half fish, half man.

A Mermaid.

Using imaginary creatures like sirens as a model, he was created. <<less

Grand prize winner of Korea's creative cartoon competition in 2013

The handsome and tall Seo Ji-Uoo always gets mistaken for a boy. When an old childhood friend transfers into her class, he wants to be friends. But her best friend doesn't seem to like that idea. What's going on?... more>>

Note: This oneshot won the grand prize at the 36th Daiwon Super Manhwa Contest. <<less

A work which highlights the “present” of the capital punishment system through OIKAWA Naoki, a newly recruited prison officer, who faces condemned criminals everyday and agonizes. Based on close and careful research, the author tackles with the serious theme of the “capital punishment system” head-on.... more>>

Won the 11th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga. <<less

A girl sees stars in the people and things around her. Some are bigger and shine, others dull and dim like her own. She meets... more>> two boys from school one day who show her that all stars can shine brightly, if you see them the right way. <<less

A collection of oneshots.... more>>

1. Mountain Love

A girl, who is under stress to get into a medical school and one day, falls in love with her doctor.

2. Mermaid Is Singing

A boy, who tries to commit suicide (because of certain medical reasons) and a girl who tries to stop him.

3. Autumn Night's Dream

A girl helps an architect to realise his real dream.

4. Echo

A girl who knows the people who killed their class president is unable to express her own thoughts.

5. The Sleeping Time Paradox

Note: In 2000, it won the National Institute for Outstanding Comics Award. <<less

Who wants to be Princess when you've got the entirety of space to explore? Join Runna and her rag-tag crew as they wander through space in search the unknown, raising hell while encountering everything from the amazing to the surreal.... more>>

Winner of the 1999 Seiun Award for Best Comic. <<less