Travel
In Yuichi Yokoyama’s Travel, the storyline is as linear as it is sharp: it is the long, silent and crystalline description of a train ride undertaken by three men. Travel is a journey into the contemporary Japanese psyche — a brilliant, wordless graphic novel. (Source: PictureBox)
Kajimunugatai: Kaze ga Kataru Okinawasen
Enemies outside, and enemies within — a realistic portrayal of the Battle of Okinawa and its aftermath is depicted in this profound human drama, which won the Grand Prize in the Manga Division at the 7th Japan Media Arts Festival. In the title story « Kajimunugatai, » the people of a village unite to fight against three […]
Satougashi no Dangan wa Uchinukenai: A Lollypop or A Bullet
Yamada Nagisa is a bored teenager who finds everyday life extremely unappealing: thus her plans to join a military academy as soon she graduates. On the last term of middle school, a strange girl named Mokuzu Umino, who claims to be a mermaid, transfers into Nagisa’s class and, much to her bewilderment, begins to follow […]
Shiiku Gakari Rika: Tetsu x Rika
This series is a prequel to Shiiku Gakari Rika (Rika The Breeder), explaining the relationship between Tetsu and Rika.
Shounen Nure Yasuku Koinarigatashi
After he was sexually harassed and forcibly seduced by his female high school teacher, he reports her to school that quickly fires her. As he struggles to make sense of his feelings towards the teacher who doesn’t seem want to let him go, he attempts to make sense of girls around him and life as […]
Shibou to Iu Na no Fuku wo Kite
From the pen of Moyoco Anno comes a stunning tale of self-image and self-loathing. In Clothes Called Fat details the lives of young women earnestly revealing the struggles women may have with their bodies and sexuality. Noko appears to be living a great life, she’s got a good job and a loving boyfriend, but beneath […]
Namida mo Tooku -Aonibi no Nemuri-
1-3. Aonibi no Nemuri (Blue Grey Dream) After the failure attempt of eloping with his customer, Shiki (Purple Ghost), a male prostitute, gave up his hope for love… until Ootori-sensei came along. Will Shiki finally find what he had been looking for…!? So what if there’s a huge gap on their social standings, what’s so […]
Vampir
He died, only for a minute. Minakawa Ryo was an ordinary high school student until the day a girl jumped off a building, killing him with her. He miraculously comes back to life but with a new ability to see and hear what ordinary people cannot. Then one day a mysterious girl, Hokuto Shou, appears […]
MIND ASSASSIN
Kazui Okumori is the third generation descendant of an assassin who was created during the WWII by Nazis German. His grandfather was engineered to psychically toy with people’s minds and ultimately kill them. He also inherited the power but he is now living peacefully in modern Japan, with a job as a clinical doctor. However, […]
Tsumetai Kousha no Toki wa Todomaru
On a snowy school day like any other, classmates and childhood friends Hiroshi and Mizuki arrive at school to find the campus eerily empty. Before long, they find themselves trapped inside with six other friends, and even stranger, all the clocks have stopped at a very specific moment–the exact time when a former classmate jumped […]