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

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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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

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

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

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

Tezuka teaches about biology in short installments.

The manga follows a woman named Ann on her solo road trip by car.... more>>

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu New Artist Prize in 2013. <<less

An adaptation of Patricia A. McKillip's "The Forgotten Beasts of Eld."... more>>

Sixteen when a baby is brought to her to raise, Sybel has grown up on Eld Mountain. Her only playmates are the creatures of a fantastic menagerie called there by wizardry. Sybel has cared nothing for humans, until the baby awakens emotions previously unknown to her. And when Coren -the man who brought this child- returns, Sybel's world is again turned upside down. <<less

The manga is about ten year old Chie, "the most unfortunate girl in Japan", who manages her family diner while her unemployed yakuza father and her mother are separated. This sounds really depressing, but it's actually a very funny comedy.... more>>

Chie the Brat received the 1981 Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga. <<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

The story follows local gods of each Japanese prefecture as they battle to rule in Japan's capital.

"In this world, there are all kinds of perils! I'll teach you how to save yourself from those dangers, you moron!" So says Dangerous Jiisan, always looking out for his grandson. But, lacking any common sense, he usually makes things catastrophically worse in ridiculous, funny ways. ... more>>

It's a children's gag comedy largely done in manzai style (funny man vs. straight man). Most of the jokes are silly, with ridiculous occurrences, puns, poking fun at popular culture, and breaking the fourth wall, but there is some subtle humor in places, too. Zettaizetsumei Denjarasu Jiisan received the 2005 Shogakukan Manga Award for children's manga. <<less

In a school of delinquents, there's one student that hates guys who pick on the weak, and his name is Kunio. He's as strong as they come, but unfortunately he's also lazy and perverted. Can Kunio win all of his challenges and survive the crazy antics of his opponents?... more>>

Ore wa Otoko Da! was awarded the Shogakukan Manga Award for children in 1995. <<less

One night after leaving a club where he was playing trumpet Ryō Takagi is jumped by a motorcycle gang. The scuffle spills out into the streets and causes a traffic accident. Because of this, Ryō is arrested and forced to do time. Upon his release, he has developed into a skilled boxer but trouble continues to find him.... more>>

In 1989 this series won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shōnen category. <<less

High school girl Inukai Haru, who was about to be late, had the greatest “crisis” in her life. Inside the semi-express train―about 10 minutes to the next stop. Six minutes until the end. Will she be able to protect her pride as a high school girl?　... more>>

Note: Winner of the first Meteor Polaris Rookie Comic Award. <<less

Meet Jerry and Lok. They are two young guys in their twenties, working in the competitive world of advertising in Hong Kong. Their "sport" of choice is chasing girls, keeping a score for each, constantly searching for that elusive 100%.... more>>

Follow their journey filled with blood, sweat, tears, and laughter--even a mini marathon. The search for perfection has never been more fun!

Note: Won the Second International Manga Award in 2008. <<less

The story is about a young boy named Arashi Ishino who is obsessed with video games. He would spend all his time trying to beat the games and conquer the local arcades. He would meet competitors like Satoru Daimonji and Ishii, who would try to out match him with higher scores. At a certain point in each episode, he would display his special skill of unleashing a top which will spin so fast that both the top and his hands would catch on fire. On release, the spin would land on or near the cabinet panels, turning the ordinary button into a turbo button thus giving him a major advantage. His appearance is known for... more>> being bucktoothed, and he always wears a hat labeled "Arashi" with a picture of a sprited alien.

Won the 28th Shogakukan Manga Award for children category in 1983. <<less

The world has been annihilated and an evil bestial deity must be appeased. Saki, a young girl, trying to escape destiny, finds refuge in an unusual and rough line of work. But she has been chosen for an unthinkable role; a princess must be sacrificed to the monster Yamata-no-Orochi at the 50 year Tenken Festival. Can Manaka, the man who is in love with her, follow her into this abyss to save her from fate; only to discover the dark secret of the ceremony?... more>>

Winner of the prestigious Japan Media Festival Arts Award this stunning work of graphic fiction takes the reader into a whole new realm. Combining Japanese mythology in a post apocalyptic setting this book presents a new style of Japanese manga. <<less