Immortal Tatsu is an ex-yakuza who’s given up violence for making an honest man of himself - but is it still possible for a devoted stay-at-home husband to get into a few scrapes? --- - Won 3rd place of Tsugi Manga Awards, Category Webmanga (2018). - Winner of the 2020 Eisner Award in the Best Humor Publication category. --- ### Links: - [English Edition on Amazon](https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07X1PGY7N) - [French Edition](https://www.kana.fr/produit/la-voie-du-tablier) - [Spanish Edition](https://www.editorialivrea.com/ESP/titulo/gokushufudo/)
Sana Kurata, a child actress, faces many problems in her classroom, including a major one - her bullying classmate, Akito Hayama. Sana's outgoing and friendly nature leads her to work towards correcting all of the problems around her. Her 'meddling' irritates Hayama but at the same time captivates him, just as Hayama's gloomy nature irritates Sana and compels her to change him. As these two opposites attract each other, they face many hardships which bring them closer to a mutual understanding. --- - **Won the 1998 Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo**
Everyone wants a fresh start in high school and that applies ten fold for Toujima Asahi. She hopes that she can create a new image of coolness at Futatsuzaka High School; a school that used to be all girls until recently, which explains the female population being 5 times that of the male and the extracurricular activities being female oriented. Change isn’t as easy as Asahi thought, but then she is introduced to Maharu, a strong minded girl, and to Naginata, a sport similar to kendo. Asahi realizes that Naginata is what she needs in order to become a new person, as the sport allows those who are not the most athletic to shine even on a national level. Live action movie adaptation (2017): [MyDramaList](https://mydramalist.com/23246-asahinagu) Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics as **Asahi Nagu** (2011)
Fifty-year-old Yuria has a quiet life teaching embroidery classes in her home, where she lives with her writer husband and his mother. Then one day her world is turned upside down when husband has a subarachnoid hemorrhage and upon arriving at the hospital, Yuria is met by a tearful young man who announces that he is her husband's lover. Won the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in General Category in 2021.
Midori Makibao is a small white racehorse. Compared to other thoroughbred horses, he looks more like a donkey with wide nostrils. However, with his guts and speed as his weapon, Makibao wins in every big race. In the beginning of his career, Makibao had a trouble making his debut as a racehorse, because of his appearance and various disadvantages he had. But Makibao had reasons to overcome his difficulties; there was a lifelong rival horse called Superhorse Cascade, that Makibao needed to defeat. Plus, he was determined to win back his mother, a horse that had been taken away for pay back the debt on the farm. There are many hardships that Makibao has to overcome, but he thrives in the series of races to become a great racehorse --- - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Children in 1997**
Kotaro Makaritoru is a manga that follows the antics of the long haired protagonist, Kotaro Shindo, a skilled karate expert, sole member of the Kyokutan-ryu Karate Club and an uninhibited pervert, who spends time feuding with the Student Council and Discipline Committee, along with various clubs within Tsurugamine High School, due to his habit of stealing panties, fighting, and his trademark rule breaking hair.
This is a tempestuous and heartbreaking love story about Ayuta, a rounin who aspires to attend an art university, who, in a jam-packed train, falls in love with Haruhi, a psychiatrist eight years his senior. Tenshi no Tamago is the manga adaptation of the Naoki Award-winning Murayama Yuka's novel of the same title.
Current-day Japan is facing the serious issue of population decline due to low birthrates and the concentration of the populace in only a few major metropolitan areas. Tottori-kun, the local god of Tottori Prefecture, least populous in all of Japan, must face these problems and other social issues as he and the other gods of Japan's prefectures battle it out to become the new capital. The series features real social, economic, and historical issues, with a dash of humor and creativity--and is also a fun way to learn about the different charms of each of Japan's 47 Prefectures. (This is an anthropomorphized battle manga) Synopsis from MangaUpdates: The story follows local gods of each Japanese prefecture as they battle to rule in Japan's capital.
When a local volcano erupts, the depopulated town of Kanematsu suddenly thrives as a hot-springs resort. High-school student Toyama, a cool character, can’t accept this dramatic transformation, while his friend Sakurajima enthusiastically embraces it. This is the story of how their friendship is affected by changes in their town. The freely-drawn, casual style the manga brings to its portrayal of the shifting emotions of high-school boys has earned it many fans.
Akihime is a seemingly normal girl attending junior high school, but she is actually the daughter of Ryokuhouzan's tengu. She lives with her mother in the human world, living a normal human life. However, her childhood friend Shun is constantly trying to convince her to go to the mountains with him, so that they can become tengus together. Despite his continuous urgings, Akihime refuses because she has feelings for her classmate, Takeru-kun. Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko won the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shoujo
A vida nos reserva grandes surpresas. Tudo ia bem na vida de Ann Uekusa até receber uma bela notícia: seus pais iam se divorciar. Ela e sua mãe se mudam para o interior do Japão para refrescar um poucos dos ares da cidade grande e planejar uma nova vida. Ela, que está acostumada a não ser notada por ninguém, quando está na cidade natal de sua mãe, acaba vendo que cidade pequena todo mundo se conhece e se ajuda mutuamente, logo vai perceber que a bondade é algo que não se pode desprezar quando mais se precisa nas horas mais difíceis.
Humanity's dream… Crystal humanoid technology. They have 'illnesses' just like humans but the treatment options are quite different. The troubled AI's band together, and the new doctor at the facility, Sudou, bears witness.
One day, Fujimoto, a 29-year-old temp worker (whose age equals the number of years he’s lived without a girlfriend) suddenly receives a surge of calls and emails all at once from the women connected to his past. That’s right, he’s finally hit popularity, something which comes only once in a lifetime for everyone! Feeling elated, Fujimoto decides to meet them one after the other…or so the story goes. Nominated for the 3rd Manga Taisho Award (2010).
This manga is about a girl who debuted as a mangaka at the age of 13, but no longer has any work as a mangaka at the age of 19. She decides to once again be a mangaka after reading manga by someone named Sachi and since girls love and boys love is currently popular she decides to go out with a girl coworker named Morishita who is in love with her to gain experience for her manga. However, she finds out that Morishita is Sachi! **Included one-shots:** Volume 7: Pii-chan Volume 8: Shoujo A
In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion, works at a curio shop in Nagasaki called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots, and other items acquired at the Paris Exhibition by the proprietor Momotoshi Koura have aroused her curiosity. Miyo accumulates experience in her job while using the clairvoyant ability she has possessed since she was very young. This story vibrantly depicts a new age coming to a Nagasaki thriving with merchants and prostitutes, centering on Miyo's changes as she begins to experience feelings for Momotoshi akin to the awakening of love, and Momotoshi's past, which gradually comes to light. **Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2020 - Grand Prize Winner**
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.
Money Is Buried in the Ground! Natsunosuke Bonda is a relief pitcher in Tokyo Spiders. In his eighth pro season, he makes 18 million yen at age 26. But he is always troubled by how little he makes, given that he is surrounded by high income earning baseball players. This is a relief pitcher's story in Nippon Pro Baseball, his envies, worries, sweat and tears. Gura Zeni! --- - **Won the 37th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2013, which it shared with Akira Hiramoto's Prison School**
Sayoko is a newly transferred student: gifted with rare beauty and mysterious and magnetic charm, she captures every student's attention. Among them, the introverted Yuiko and the grumpy Mari become friends with Sayoko, while Ryou, a known womanizer, wastes no time and tries to hit on her, unleashing his girlfriend's rage. But this story has countless plot twists, characters and secrets… --- - **Kisho Tenyo received the 1983 Shogakukan Manga Award for Shoujo Manga**
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.
IS (Pronounced Aiesu in Japanese) is not your everyday manga. This manga strictly deals with cases of intersexuality. IS stands for Inter Sexuality. This manga deals with very serious issues concerning intersexual people. The pain they go through, the troubles they confront, and ultimately their inability to reproduce and even find a partner who will accept them as they are - It's all there in a form of manga. First volume has different cases but from volume two onwards manga becomes a longer tale of Hoshino Haru, IS and their life, trials and tribulations towards the adulthood. IS won the 2007 Kodansha Manga Award for shōjo manga.
By all the usual measures, he could be considered a pretty useless guy: a scholastic failure, an athletic disaster, and a chronic loser… But Fukuda Shinichi has one passion: cheering for others! The 18-year-old captain of North Kanto Southern High's Cheerleading squad decides to make the most of his summer by attending cram school in Tokyo, only to find out that the whole trip was a sham! Things are looking up when he and his friend meet up with two cute Tokyo girls; too bad the girls brought them to a rip-off bar and took off! Ditched by his one remaining friend and stuck with an impossibly high bar bill, Fuku-kun's life couldn't get any worse! But just then he gets saved by Ume, his role model and former cheerleading squad captain! What is he doing in Tokyo… and why does everyone around seem to know and respect him? Without anywhere else to go, Fuku-kun decides follow Ume to his job, only to discover that… he's a host?!? Fukuda's summer of cheering others on has begun… and the streets of Tokyo's red-light district will never be the same!
Middle schoolers, Shiro and Masumi, encountered a mysterious dragon that brought them back to the time of the Three Kingdoms; situated in ancient China. As soon as they arrived, they were rescued by the Han Kingdom. Not long after these events, Masumi was kidnapped and Shiro barely escaped death… Soon the story gets more complicated as they are stuck in the past. In 1997, Ryuurouden won the Kodansha Manga Award for shōnen manga.
Ritsu inherited his sixth sense from his grandfather, along with a demon guardian named Blue Storm. Strange things just seem to happen around these two, and it's left to them to get to the bottom of all these mysterious events. Each story is independent but features recurring characters you'll come to know and appreciate as they, each in their own way, try to deal with things 'not of this world'. Winner of Award for Excellence in 10th Annual Japan Media Arts Festival.
Ayame Touka, the ace of the girl's volleyball team, is known as "Prince" because of her tall stature and handsome appearance. But this prince has a hobby she can't tell anyone about... She actually likes erotic TL novels! But there's one more thing he can't tell anyone about... She's a little interested in Asagi-senpai, a fellow library committee member... He's the only one who doesn't call her "Prince", and treats her like a girl... He's such a special person. Then, one day, she finds out Asagi-senpai's secret... The author of the TL novel that Ayame likes is Asagi-senpai!? The two secretive people begin to explore each other. (Source: Shueisha, translated) Winner of Challenge Mee Grand Prix April 2022.