During the past decades, Japan has become the shining star of Asia, with its noteworthy achievements in the fields of science, technology, medicine, quality of life, and many others. Yet, while there are a great number of rich and successful Japanese people, there are even more of those engaged in a furious struggle for something as simple as earning to cover their day-to-day living expenses; all the while battling dangerous and money-consuming addictions such as gambling and alcoholism. What would these poor and not-so people do when they require the money to fulfill their never-ending desires, the desires that are part and parcel of being human? Just how miserable and dangerous might their lives become were they to fall into traps laid by *yamikin*, the loan sharks of the Japanese financial world's dark side, whose only goal is to ensnare such weak-willed souls? Adapted into film and a J-Drama. --- - **Won the 56th Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga in 2011** - **Won the 23rd Japan Media Arts Festival Social Impact Award in 2020**

Yotsuba is a strange little girl with a big personality! Even in the most trivial, unremarkable encounters, Yotsuba's curiosity and enthusiasm quickly turns the everyday into the extraordinary! 2016 Osamu Tezuka Culture Award - grand prize. Yotsuba&! received an Excellence Award for Manga at the 2006 Japan Media Arts Festival. In 2008 Yotsuba&! was nominated for the 12th Osamu Tezuka Culture Award and the Eisner Award "Best Publication for Kids" category, but did not win either, and was runner-up for the first annual Manga Taish? award.

A ‘fearsome psycho-thriller’ centering on the ‘dark side of adolescence’. Following Ichikawa Kyoutarou, a teenage boy belonging to the very bottom caste of his school, this work details his troubled interactions with a certain classmate, and his attempt to hide murderous impulses that find themselves in the darkest recesses of his soul. In reality, though, it's a sweet youth rom-com between a messed up boy and a bright, if somewhat strange, beautiful girl. - Won the Tsugi ni Kuru Web Manga 2020 Award. - Was nominated for the 2020 and 2021 Manga Taisho Award. - Won the top prize of 2021 Tsutaya Comic Awards

Some children live in a comfortably numb world, surrounded by walls. However, one day, a boy named Tokio receives a message asking him "Do you want to go outside of the outside?" Now, from the Heaven that is starting to crumble, the children begin their adventure!

Based on an award winning light novel:One day, I – a high schooler – found a paperback in the hospital. The “Disease Coexistence Journal” was its title. It was a diary that my classmate, Sakura Yamauchi, had written in secret. Inside, it was written that due to her pancreatic disease, her days were numbered. And thus, I coincidentally went from Just-a-Classmate to a Secret-Knowing-Classmate. It was as if I were being drawn to her, who was my polar opposite. However, the world presented the girl that was already suffering from an illness with an equally cruel reality…List of Awards (Light Novel):“Bestsellers 2016 (Overall) by NIPPAN” – 4th Place“Bestsellers 2016 (Paperback Fiction) by NIPPAN” – 1st Place“Bestsellers 2016 (Overall) by TOHAN” – 5th Place“Bestsellers 2016 (Literary Books) by TOHAN” – 1st Place“Bookstore Grand Prix 2016” – 2nd Place“DA VINCI BOOK OF THE YEAR 2015” – 2nd Place“Bestsellers 2015 (Literary Books) by TOHAN” – 6th PlaceAs of May 2017, this book has sold over 1.2 million copies.

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…?!

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**

The story of a crossdresser who receives a confession from a junior. --- **Official Translations:** * [English](https://www.webtoons.com/en/romance/senpai-is-an-otokonoko/list?title_no=5137) * [Chinese (Traditional) / 中文 (繁體)](https://www.webtoons.com/zh-hant/bl-gl/senpai-wa-otokonoko/list?title_no=3770 ) * [Chinese (Simplified) / 中文 (简体)](https://www.dongmanmanhua.cn/CAMPUS/qianbeishinanhaizi/list?title_no=1935) * [Thai / ภาษาไทย](https://www.webtoons.com/th/romance/senpai-wa-otokonoko/list?title_no=3984) * [Korean / 한국어](https://series.naver.com/comic/detail.series?productNo=8154605) * [French / Français](https://www.webtoons.com/fr/romance/senpai-wa-otokonoko/list?title_no=4068) * [German / Deutsch](https://www.webtoons.com/de/romance/my-crossdressing-crush/list?title_no=4235)

Digitally coloured version of Akira Toriyama's original best selling manga

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.

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.

Eighth story arc of JoJo no Kimyou na Bouken series. Following the Great East Japan earthquake, Morioh has been stricken by vast earthen protrusions known by the locals as Wall Eyes. Despite investigation, professional estimations are left empty. Meanwhile, the young girl Yasuho Hirose discovers a man buried within the ground, he possesses a distinctive star-shaped birthmark together with deeply penetrating bite marks. The man, who has contracted a staple case of amnesia is taken in by a local family and given the name Jousuke Higashikata, however mysterious events cannot stop from piling one upon the other and soon that enigma known as stand emerges to complement the great cloud of confusion.

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The story centers around the young linguistic genius and university professor Testa. He is introduced by his senior, Sergeant Rossa, to the Allied Cryptanalysis Department. There, he is tasked to break the enemy werewolves' code, which the werewolves are using to encrypt their radio transmissions. Testa is astounded, as the only sound the encrypted code produces is the howling of a wolf. His research yields no results, and he resolves to capture a live werewolf for better cryptanalysis. After exhausting all possible means, he finally finds a female werewolf, Yonaga.Based off the winner of the Shonen Jump+ x Animax Anime Scenario Award, for which the artist, Akira Akatsuki, was a judge.

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.

Sasaki, an overworked salaryman, goes through an average stressful day just for a single light at the end of the tunnel: Yamada, the always-cheerful clerk at his favorite convenience store. One day, Sasaki takes an extra amount of time at a company meeting, and by the time he gets to the convenience store Yamada has already clocked out. However, as he leaves, he notices a young woman with piercings smoking behind the store? --- **Links:** - Alternative Official English - [Manga UP!](https://global.manga-up.com/manga/261)

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When entering high school, the protagonist Sakai Momone applies to the art course by mistake. She has to study overtime to keep up. There she meets new friends and learns to appreciate art. 4-koma of the year 2017 (new publications): http://4oty.net/2017/award Tsugi ni kuru manga 2018 (nomination): http://tsugimanga.jp/nominate/2018/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.

I can't believe my ojou-sama is so huge! Fujido Oriko is the buxom young head of the Fujido Zaibatsu, a group that has a monopoly on Japan's vending machine industry. And serving at her side is her personal butler, the eccentric Dr. Sebastion. When a monster suddenly attacks the city, Dr. Sebastion slips his ojou-sama an experimental energy drink his team in R&D has been developing. As a result, she quickly finds herself growing into a giantess, matching the attacking kaiju in size! Will she be able to stop his rampage, or at the very least, keep her dignity intact? [i][Winner of Shounen Jump's Dec 2020 Bronze Rookie Award][/i] [*][url=https://twitter.com/nikukaiQ]Author's Twitter[/url]

Hito Natsu no Kids Game (ひと夏のKIDSゲー� Hito Natsu no KIDS Gēmu?) is a short, debut manga work by Ken Akamatsu, the creator of Love Hina. The manga was published on September issue of Kodansha’s Magazine Fresh on September 10, 1993. Ken Akamatsu later received Kodansha’s "Freshman Manga Award" (Japanese: 新人漫画賞/少年マガジン新人賞) and Special Jury Award (Japanese: 審査員特別賞) for this work.The manga was re-published on 20 May 2001.(Description taken from Wikipedia)

Saint☆Young Men is slice-of-life or divine-life, tale of Jesus and Buddha as they try to experience the modern world, in this case, Japan. The manga places a funny twist on religion, attitudes, culture and customs in Japan through the eyes of Jesus and Buddha. You see Jesus and Buddha experiencing Asakusa, public baths, theme parks, and the internet. Throughout the manga, we get a little history of their divine greatness only to see their apparent insignificance in modern Japanese society. Suffice to say, before people can recognize that they're actually Jesus and Buddha, people think of them as someone who looks like Johnny Depp or a guy with a button on his forehead. For real. [Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/saint-young-men/) --- - **Received the 2009 Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize for Short Work Manga**

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...

A redrawn variant of Chapter 1: Tragedy.

Kachou Kousaku Shima is the first in a number of Japanese manga series about a fictional salaryman named Shima Kousaku, a Japanese white-collar worker who devotes his life to his company, Hatsushiba Electric.

DescriptionThe series is a disturbing manga about solving murder cases by applying the newly developed method of viewing the memories of dead people's brains. And as in every manga done by this mangaka, weird supernatural forces are of course included.The first chapter is actually a prologue and is concentrated on the first case where this method was used. Chapter 2 is when the two main characters are introduced, so hang on!NOTE: There is a related anime with episodes based on selected chapters from the manga.AWARDS:-5th Japan Media Arts Festival Awards (2001): Winner - Award for Excellence-6th Osamu Tezuka Culture Award in (2002): Finalist - Grand Prize

A few years before the beginning of the story, certain girls and women all over the world began to manifest a power known as "Dreams of Alice," with which they can make select elements of their imaginations come true. The world powers are split into two factions: those who wish to keep these girls a secret and experiment on them, and those who wish to reveal their existence to the public and integrate them into society.One such girl, who's been nicknamed "The Red Queen" due to her incredibly powerful Dream of Alice, escapes from the research facility holding her and sets out to explore the outside world. Eventually, she winds up meeting a florist named Zouroku: a strict old man whose catchphrase is, "I hate crooked dealings!"

The story revolves around the lives of two rough-and-tumble high school friends Kato Hiroshi and Nakama Toru, who seemed to make a habit of getting into trouble and starting up fights. In keeping with the spirit of the manga, Toru and Hiroshi sport slicked back 50's style ducktails and adopted exaggerated swaggers that made them comical and yet also oddly cool. The drama also features an assortment of outlandish characters who sport even weirder fashions and hairdos. To describe the action in this drama, think Fight Club meets The Breakfast Club. *Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1988 (shared with Bonobono)

The story follows a young Karate practitioner named Tsukumo Mutsu, 40th master of the deadly Mutsu Enmei Ryu style. --- - **Won the 14th Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1990**

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)

Collection of oneshots.V.1 - Mushi to Uta (Insects and Songs)"The Lover of Stars", a story spelling out the writer’s feelings for the little sister born from his fingers. "The Hinoshita Siblings", a moving story about the relationship between a highschool baseball player with an injured shoulder and "Hina", who continues to grow. "Violite", which describes the meeting of two people involved in a plane accident. Finally, "Insects and Songs", a shocking work that won the Shikitaishou award. These four stories, painting a picture of a unique setting and the bonds between various lifeforms who live in it, are recorded here. This is the long awaited first volume released by a new author rapidly growing in popularity as each of her sensational stories are published in monthly "Afternoon" magazine!! V.2 - 25-Ji no Vacances (25-Hour Vacation)Marine biologist Nishi Otome takes time off and reunites with her brother, Kotaro, for the first time in a while. He sees her at the 25th hour of the night with shellfish taking over her body in “25 Hour Vacation”. The meeting between the delinquent, Nana, and a strange transfer student to “Pandora Women’s College” located on a satellite of Saturn is described in “On Pandora”. In “The Funeral of the Moon”, a genius highschooler begins living with a lone man in the deep snows of the north.

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

Sugiri Yukio is a mangaka. To be precise, he hasn't won a prize, his work hasn't been published, nor has he had any experience being an assistant. He's a complete newbie. Thus, at the moment, he just spends his days as a househusband! A two-part oneshot of his daily life and interactions.

Sugiri Yukio is a mangaka. To be precise, he hasn't won a prize, his work hasn't been published, nor has he had any experience being an assistant. He's a complete newbie. Thus, at the moment, he just spends his days as a househusband! A two-part oneshot of his daily life and interactions.

Someone has made a wish to kill all students. The Dokkaebis, man-eating creatures who are bound by rule that they can only act to help people, are now allowed to hunt down students... Students are going missing left and right and Ki-mok, a student who is also one of only 44 people in the world with the "Blood of Gold", is now in a fight for his life against these supernatural beings that vie for his blood to empower themselves.

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**