Tales of a high-school calligraphy club. A story about a high-school calligraphy club on the verge of breaking up that enters in a major competition while overcoming problems. Yuki, a promising female judoist, and Yukari, a quiet Canadian-raised boy who just returned to Japan, end up joining the club for the sake of maintaining the membership required to keep the club. Together with the old club members with unique characters, they gradually discover the fun of calligraphy and work together to win in the competition. -- NHK Tomehane! was nominated for best manga at the first two Manga Taisho.
Jotaro Fukamachi - private detective, 177 cm tall and 75 kg, long face and muscular. He is not an ugly man, but he is not handsome. He once married a doctor and had a daughter, Kaori, but they divorced, and his heart is a lonely love hunter. The quintessence of a humorous hard-boiled story - you can't talk about manga without reading this.
High school student Itsuki decides to give up on his dream of becoming a Koshien baseball player and return to his hometown, Sengetsu Island, for the sake of his injured sister. However, the sight of the island that should have been familiar to him is full of eerie strangeness... The scariest suspense horror drawn by a shocking team.
The story of two rival Juumoku families and their daughters, who are the same age.
A labyrinth city of ash, chaos, and vice, "Gray Neighbors". A former adventurer, Matthew, who was raised by Alwyn, a princess knight of a ruined country, and is called the worst string bastard by people. The opening of another world noir that depicts the life of a man who hides his true appearance and lives as a pimp!
"Lunatic Circus" is a story about the circus called "Lunatic Circus", which is said to be the best in post WWII Japan, which has achieved an incredibly rapid economic growth. The star of the circus, Ryunosuke, and all the other trapeze artists, are the protagonists of this manga. This is the story of their dreams, their fears, their struggles and their hopes.
In this world, killing and torturing are considered part of the job. Sero, a part-time worker at a torture company, enjoys torturing people every day with his senior colleague Siu. With the addition of new part-timers Mike and Hugh, the fun torture life continues! A serialization of the highly popular and instantly sold-out doujinshi on social media! A slightly dark work comedy that will appeal to your sexual preferences.
(from ebookjapan): Mirage is an old-fashioned bar on a street corner. Men who are lost in life come to the mirage, transcending time and space, and become captivated by Maya, the beautiful proprietress. What do the defeated men want from Maya? A bewitching and sad story of men by Leiji Matsumoto.
Not everyone wishes for a peaceful afterlife least of all Bonzo Scalobania, whose dearest wish is to find a case for a skeleton detective like him to solve! Along with his unreliable assistant, Vampy Vinegret, and zombie frenemy/bounty hunter Nero Lichman, Bonzo swears to solve the problems of Limbo City! But does it still count if the problems he's solving are ones of his and his friends' own making?? A wacky, weird, heartwarming tale for the undead in us all.
For five years, she's been eating at the set-meal restaurant but didn't feel comfortable saying anything more, and the waitress at the restaurant who wanted to talk to that regular customer but couldn't get the words out. Their feelings are leaking out, but they just couldn't express their love for each other in many ways.
Scottish adventuress Isabella Bird journeys to Japan in 1878 and becomes the first Westerner to travel to many remote locations, heading northward towards Hokkaido to study the aboriginal Ainu people. Based on a true story. (Source: MU)
Oda Nobuhiro, who is descended from the Oda family, has lived an ordinary life while studying history at university. One day, a woman appears to him claiming to be Nobunaga from a parallel world. Nobuhiro is bewildered by this bizarre turn of events. Then, a person who claims to be a “Pruner,” who claims that he is there to fix the “distortions of history” and is after Nobunaga’s life, appears, and the two become embroiled in a fierce battle…
