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! Note: Won the 6th Manga Taisho Award in 2023.

Musashino Art University, Department of Visual Communication Design, 2021 graduation project. When he was in elementary school, a boy who had been trying to save his childhood friend from being bullied by a bully turned violent. Now, as a junior high school student, his classmates nickname him "Kaiju-kun" and distance themselves from him. One day, a girl who is "half Kaiju" joins his class. She seems to have come to school to make friends with many people...... A heartwarming monster coming-of-age story about the pain of school life and friendship!

A cute and round ghost applies for a part-time job focused on scaring people. But what's the ghost hiding inside?

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....

Special Weekly Shonen Jump issues dedicated to celebrate the Kinnikuman series

Pink Dark Boy is a fictitious manga created by Rohan Kishibe (a character from the fourth part of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Diamond is Unbreakable). On April 19, 2016, during the first Ultra Comic Award event, many participants had to create their own version of Pink Dark Boy, based on what they thought it would be like. 36 works were entered in the contest but none won the grand prize. However, there were two winners for the second prize and three honorable mentions.

A story about a professor and his assistant, working hard on their research every day. While clumsily hiding pursuit of their mutual affection for each other, they go back and forth on growing close and drifting apart, creating a perfect sense of distance in this strange laboratory romantic comedy! --- [Shounen Jump +](https://shonenjumpplus.com/episode/10834108156683040362) [Note: Received the Shounen Jump Rookie: July 2019 Bronze Rookie Award]

A tranquil tale about two boys from very different upbringings. On one hand, you have Kai, born as the son of a prostitute, who's been playing the abandoned piano in the forest near his home ever since he was young. And on the other you have Syuhei, practically breast-fed by the piano as the son of a family of prestigious pianists. Yet it is their common bond with the piano that eventually intertwines their paths in life. --- - **Won the 12th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize in 2008**

There are six members of the boy's ping pong club. Two are relatively normal; however, the other four consist of an aspiring sexual deviant, two perverts, and a guy with lethal B.O. Add in a cantakerous girl as a manager, and you have the entire crew. This series pushes the boundaries of good taste beyond anything the western world has experienced, yet somehow manages to remain vaguely charming. The antics of the ping pong club includes one member's trademark "Protruding Pecker Serve," molesting cross-dressing members, and the infamous "Turtle Sequence," which is much too horrifying to describe. In 1996, this manga won the Kodansha Manga Award for general manga.

Meet Eikichi Onizuka, a 22-year-old ex-biker. He's crude, foul-mouthed, and has a split-second temper. His unlikely goal: to be the Greatest High School Teacher in the World! Of course, the only reason he wants to be a teacher is so he can try to score with the hot students… Before he can become a full instructor, he's got to work as a student teacher to earn his credentials. Onizuka may think he's the toughest guy on campus, but when he meets his class full of bullies, blackmailers, and scheming sadists, he'll have to prove it. --- - **Won the 22nd Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen**

A human-eating queen, and the human she falls in love with -- what lies at the end of the recipe for these two? Prize winning oneshot from the second round of the Yatagarasuhai Competition published in Harta magazine's February 2022 Issue No.91.

Just what kind of world is beyond the gate across the river? Prize winning oneshot from the first round of the Yatagarasuhai Competition published in Harta magazine's August 2021 Issue No.86.

Second-place prize winning oneshot from the Yatagarasuhai Competition published in Harta magazine's March 2022 Issue No.92.

Coming from a single parent family, Wu Xiaorong is ridiculed by both her peers and teachers. She despises going to school yet when she enters her third year of primary school she meets the class celebrity, Tong Kewei. Although Wu Xiaorong feels like the two are from separate worlds, a moment of impulsivity leads to an intimate encounter... Won silver place at the 2022 Japan International Manga Award

Second-place prize winning oneshot from the Yatagarasuhai Competition published in Harta magazine's November 2022 Issue No.99.

Essay Manga covering Mangaka Yoshihiro Tatsumi's life from the post-war period in the 50s, leading into the 60s. Tatsumi also covers many of the significant elements in his life. Ranging from his familial situation, and the discrepancies that he had with his brother, also a Mangaka, to his relationship with Osamu Tezuka, his works and the brief time that he met him, and, of course, the start of his career in manga and working towards what he would later call "Gekiga". Gekiga Drift was published in English as "A Drifting Life" by Canadian based publisher Drawn and Quarterly in 2009. Unfortunately, the release was flipped and had the SFX redrawn. Despite multiple printings and high regard for the work, it is currently out-of-print with no digital edition. --- - **Won the Osamu Tezuka Cultural Grand Prize in 2009**

On a daring quest to save a life, two friends are hurled into another world, where an evil sorceress seeks to enslave them. But then the lion Aslan's song weaves itself into the fabric of a new land, a land that will be known as Narnia. And in Narnia, all things are possible.

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(from ebookjapan): Sawako Matsumoto works for Manhattan Trust, one of the largest banks in the United States. This Sawako has returned as the vice president of the Japan branch. Corporate competition between Japan and the U.S. unfolds in the banking industry. This best-selling work depicts the turbulent period of the Japanese economy in the 1980s. Winner of the Shogakukan Manga Award and the Grand Prize of the Japan Cartoonists Association Award. It has also been made into an Anime! --- - **Won the 33rd Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 1987, which it shared with Ishinomori's other famous work, Hotel** - **As mentioned in the description, Manga Intro to the Japanese Economy Won the 17th Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize in 1988**

In the imperial court, a young woman is put into servitude, Maomao. The tale is just beginning for the woman pharmacist from the red-light district, as rumors circulate about the emperor's children's lives being short-lived. Her curious nature and thirst for knowledge pushes her to action. To satisfy her curiosity, this young pharmacist will investigate the origin! What is shifting in the imperial court…?!

The elite Cosmo Academy attracts applicants from every stellar nation in the galaxy. One young hopeful is Tadatos Lane, an orphan esper from Terra. The final stage of the academy's entrance exam is a perilous mission simulation aboard an actual derelict starship. The applicants depart for the ships in groups of ten, but when Tada's crew arrives on the Esperanza, they are horrified to discover that they now number eleven. As the test progresses, things go awry and the atmosphere grows increasingly tense. The crew members begin to suspect sabotage, and Tada appears to be the likely culprit. The original printing of this manga were volumes 13 and 14 of the Hagio Moto Works Collection.

After falling from a building, the teenager Meng Qiudu becomes an undead, and he is taken to heaven by God. In order to leave heaven and go to hell, he decides to fulfill the wish of a "person who should die" on earth ......

After moving to Tokyo, Itou Kaiji is living a life of self-indulgence when one day he is forced by Endou, a financier, to pay off a debt he once co-signed. At Endou's invitation, Kaiji boards the gambling ship "Espoir," which offers debtors the chance to pay off their debts in full. The game is "Restricted Rock-Paper-Scissors" using 12 cards. If he wins, his debts are wiped out, but if he loses, his life is forfeit...

Zeon ace pilot, Commander Char Aznable, thought he could foil the Federation's plan to build a mobile suit by attacking their research base on colony Side 7. He was wrong. With a prototype already active, the besieged Federation forces strike back using their new weapon, the mobile suit Gundam, with devastating consequences. Amidst the fighting, young electronics wizard Amuro Ray is determined not to let his friends and family die in the crossfire. But what can one boy do to repel a squad of mobile suit-clad invaders? [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/mobile-suit-gundam-the-origin/) [Alternate Official English](https://comic-walker.com/contents/detail/KDCW_CW01000002020000_68/) --- - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2012** --- **Links:** - [OVA on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=13105)

There was once a doctor fixated on creating the "ideal human being." After the doctor's death, his fabricant creations start attacking humans in order to attain the perfect body. When Ashibi Yao's entire family is murdered by these fabricants, he sets out on a journey of revenge accompanied by the doctor's final creation, Fabricant 100.

A story about how two friends tries to stop the antichrist, while the are making efforts to deal with their lives.

Tenki-san, a girl whose personality changes depending on the weather. Tsutomu Sasaki loves her, but what stands in the way of their love is today's weather...!

One day, a young man named Himuro Shousuke shows up out of nowhere, claiming he wants to become a shogi master. When he is told that he must follow the appropriate channels to become a pro shogi player, he produces a recommendation from a highly respected master, Mikami Sankichi. Shousuke claims he trained with Sankichi in Kochi, and now he's ready to skip the early steps of becoming one of the elite. People are understandably skeptical, but Shousuke begins to beat the skilled players they match him up with. Some are unhappy about an outsider coming into their hierarchy at a high level, but will they be able to stop his rise? The future is full of the internal politics of the shogi world and exciting shogi matches! [tethysdust] A manga about the Japanese board game of "shogi," similar to chess. Gekka no Kishi won the Shogakukan Manga Award in 1997.

An immortal being was sent to the surface of the earth and met a boy living alone in the middle of tundra. The being can take the shape of dying things, but only if the "impetus" is stronger than the previous one. What sort of experiences and meetings will the being encounter while living forever? --- - **Won the 43rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 2019** --- **Officially Translated:** - In French by [Pika]() - In Italian by [Star Comics]() - In Polish by [Kotori]() - In Russian by [Istari]() - In German by [Egmont]() - In Indonesian by [m&c!]() - Alternative English version by [Inkr Comics]()

Kindaichi Hajime returns from his biking trip around Japan to meet Inspector Kenmochi and childhood friend Nanase Miyuki at the themed inn "Ruins." Case List: 01. Vampire Legend Murder Case. 02. Opera House: The Third Murder. 03. Jail Gate Cram School Murder Case. 04. Snow Spirit Legend Murder Case. 05. Reika Hayami and the Uninvited Guest. 06. Chidamari's Room Murder Case. 07. Fudo High School Festival Murder Case. 08. Black Magic Murder Case. 09. Inspector Kenmochi: The Murderer. 10. The Evil Spirit of the Diving Pool. 11. The Mysterious Event at the Campsite. 12. Alchemy Murder Case. 13. Murder at 10000 metres. 14. Game House Murder Case. Note: In the newer reprints of the Kindaichi series, the File, Case and Shin cases were merged and printed as full cases instead of the original tankobon. The volumes which correspond to the above cases are 27 to 34. The raw links below correspond to the first chapter of the first case of the Shin Series.

140 years ago in Kyoto, with the coming of the American "Black Ships," there arose a warrior who, felling men with his bloodstained blade, gained the name Hitokiri, man slayer! His killer blade helped close the turbulent Bakumatsu era and slashed open the progressive age known as Meiji . Then he vanished, and with the flow of years, became legend. Ten years later, a young woman's life is saved when she happens upon a strange wandering swordsman named Kenshin. The young woman accepts the wanderer into her dojo, despite his secretive past, and the two become fast friends. As their relationship grows, they meet and make more friends (as well as enemies), and they grow accustomed to their life together. However, one man can only run from his past for so long, and it isn't long before Kenshin is forced to face the life he thought he'd left behind. Now, together with his friends, he must fight the ghosts of his past if he wants the people he loves to have any kind of future. Contains a side story called Yahiko no Sakabato.

Based on the life of a famous Mahjong Novelist, Asada Tetsuya, this manga chronicles the history of the man who is now known as the "Mahjong Saint" in his journey through the world of Mahjong and gambling in general. In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, Tetsuya meets the intensely-skilled Boushu-san, this is when he realizes that his skills are still lacking. --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 2000**

The terrorist organization known as the Animal Liberation Alliance (ALA) attacked a biological research institute and rescued a pregnant chimpanzee. That chimpanzee gave birth to a "humanzee" (half-human, half-chimpanzee) who was named Charlie. After being raised by human parents for fifteen years, Charlie enters his first year of high school. There, he meets the intelligent but socially misunderstood Lucy.

It was the Sengoku Era, a time when warring Daimyō usurped each other constantly. There was a man whose soul was overtaken by the ways of tea and material greed as he worked his way up toward greater power and status. His name was Furuta Sasuke, a vassal of Oda Nobunaga. With his world broadened by the genius Nobunaga and his spiritual insight learned from Sen no Sōeki, Master of Tea, Sasuke travels the road of the Hyouge Mono or comical fellow. To live or not to live. For power or the arts. That is the question! --- - **Won the 14th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Grand Prize Award** - **Won the Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Prize in 2009**

The runner-up of the 10th "One-Point Breakthrough Manga" Award! A high school girl suddenly appears in the batter's box! The puzzled pitcher has a history with the high school girl...? Prepare yourself to be shot through with the "cuteness" of the new age!

"The ordinary me...? The most beautiful in the world from today? By the way, who decides that standard?" Kang Hana, an aspiring actress who always failed auditions because of her ordinary appearance despite her outstanding acting skills. Then, one day the global beauty company stated that 'her appearance is her ability' comes at her with a scout offer. And one person is bound to learn Kang Hana's greatest secret...? [2021, 1st place Award-Winning Work]