A youth named Kiriyama Rei, who lost his family as a child, endures loneliness to become a professional shogi player. Then, through a chance meeting, he develops a relationship with the three Kawamoto sisters (Akari, Hinata, Momo), who hail from a working-class district of the city, and little by little his frozen heart begins to thaw. ___ - **Won the 4th Manga Taisho Award in 2011** - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 2011, which it shared with Space Brothers** - **Won the 18th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Grand Prize in 2014**

The story is set in future Japan, in which the sea level has risen and flooded many of the coastal areas and Mt. Fuji has erupted within living memory. The population has been considerably reduced and political and technological institutions have broken-down. Local communities have become nations and telephone and television no longer exist (although coffee vending machines and streetlights stubbornly continue to work). There are strange new animals and plants (like flying fish and glowing streetlight trees). The remaining people have adopted a slower-paced, simpler way of life and rely more on each other. Along with the human population are some intelligent, humanoid robots. One of the robots, a female named Alpha, runs a café by the same name in the country outside of what remains of Yokohama. With her trusty motor scooter and her camera she travels around the area making friends with the humans and robots, having new experiences and observing the passage of time. --- - **Won the 2007 Seiun Award for Best Manga**

Tachibana has recently quit his job at a high-class firm, and for unknown reasons, decides to open a bakery. His first employee is Ono, an extremely talented patissier who is also known as the 'Gay of demonic charm' - something that has caused him to lose his job countless times. Joining the crew also is Eiji - a retired champion boxer - who is hired on the spot as only a trainee purely because he is not Ono's 'type.' However, Chikage, the bumbling childhood friend and shadow of Tachibana, is exactly his type! Now, with the shop finally open, everyone seems to be filling their positions well; but one question remains: what were Tachibana's motives for opening the bakery, and does it have a link to his troubled and forgotten past?

Aotsuki Ushio's family maintains a Shinto temple in Japan, where 500 years ago, his samurai ancestor battled a demon to a standstill, and eventually trapped him against a rock using a blessed spear called the "Beast Spear". While cleaning out the temple storage, Ushio accidentally unseals the chamber the demon, later named Tora by Ushio, was trapped in. Initially, Ushio wisely refuses to remove the spear pinning the monster down, as Tora unwisely makes the strategic blunder of mentioning that the first thing he would do upon being freed would be to devour Ushio; but Tora's unsealed presence attracts various demons to the premises, and Ushio is forced to free Tora in exchange for his help. The two later realize that they make a perfect team, despite the latter's reservations to eating the former. - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 1992** - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 1997** --- **Officially Published:** - In Italian by [Star Comics](https://starcomics.com/testate-fumetti/ushio-e-tora-perfect-edition) --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/ufujitakazuhiro?lang=ja) - [1992 OVAs on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=237) - [Anime Season 1 on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=16754) - [Anime Season 2 on ANN](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=17232)

On the planet of Hekiou, there is a continuing war between the first wave of immigrants and the second. An important section of the military uses a native creature, the Niebass, to give its soldiers translocation abilities. These soldiers are all women, with the alien creature transplanted into their wombs. Some people see this practice as a violation of human women by aliens, and Mana Oga's boyfriend has a similar perspective on the matter. Mana Oga is a new soldier in this section, and the story follows her and the other women in her group who accept the alien creatures into their wombs in order to defend their homes. --- - **Won the Japan SF Taisho Award in 2016**

Keitaro has had great difficulty getting into the university of his choice and no luck in meeting women. In a desperate effort to go into seclusion and study for his entrance exams, he volunteers to take over running his grandmother's hotel. His plans are ruined when he discovers that the "hotel" is actually an all-girls dormitory… and some serious distractions ensue. Won the 25nd Kodansha Manga Award for Best Shounen Manga.

Sawako Kuronuma is the perfect heroine… for a horror movie. With her jet-black hair, sinister smile and silent demeanor, she's often mistaken for the haunting movie character Sadako. But behind her scary facade is a very misunderstood teenager. Too shy to fit in, all she wants to do is make some friends. But when a popular boy in class befriends her, she's sure to make more than just that–she's about to make some enemies too! --- - **Won the 32nd Kodansha Manga Award for Shojo in 2008** --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Elex Media as **Kimi ni Todoke: From Me To You** (2014)

(from ebookjapan): Tokyo in the near future, where the giant robot Reaver is active against the backdrop of the Babylon Project, a national land development project. In response, the Metropolitan Police Department creates the Metropolitan Police Department Special Vehicle Unit, known as "PATLABOR," to combat the rash of crimes committed by the Reavers! The pilot, Akira Izumino, fights and grows up together with his beloved Ingram! --- - **Won the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen Manga in 1991.**

After rigorously training for three years, the ordinary Saitama has gained immense strength which allows him to take out anyone and anything with just one punch. He decides to put his new skill to good use by becoming a hero. However, he quickly becomes bored with easily defeating monsters, and wants someone to give him a challenge to bring back the spark of being a hero. Upon bearing witness to Saitama's amazing power, Genos, a cyborg, is determined to become Saitama's apprentice. During this time, Saitama realizes he is neither getting the recognition that he deserves nor known by the people due to him not being a part of the Hero Association. Wanting to boost his reputation, Saitama decides to have Genos register with him, in exchange for taking him in as a pupil. Together, the two begin working their way up toward becoming true heroes, hoping to find strong enemies and earn respect in the process.

Kagome is a modern Japanese high-school girl. Never the type to believe in myths and legends, her world view dramatically changes when, one day, she's pulled out of her own time and into another! There, in Japan's ancient past, Kagome discovers more than a few of those dusty old legends are true, and that her destiny is linked to one legendary creature in particular–the dog-like half-demon called Inuyasha! That same trick of fate also ties them both to the Shikon Jewel, or "Jewel of Four Souls." But demons beware…the smallest shard of the Shikon Jewel can give the user unimaginable power. --- Official Release: - English release by [Viz Media](https://www.viz.com/inuyasha) - Indonesian release by Elex Media --- - **Won the 47th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 2002**

Overdevelopment and crowding in Japan has forced many of its indigenous spirits and ghosts to lose their homes. Due to problems caused by the homeless spirits, a new profession was created, the Ghost Sweepers (GS). Private exorcists for hire; they serve only the highest bidder to survive in the cutthroat corporate world. Among this, the Mikami GS Company, led by Reiko Mikami and her two assistants, the teenage boy Tadao Yokoshima and the ghost girl Okinu, is said to be the best. The manga setup is scenario-to-scenario, with many plots intertwining classic Japanese culture and modern day realities, with occasional references to Western influences. In between these plots are some longer story arcs where new characters are introduced and the existing characters are further developed. There is no one ongoing storyline, therefore the plots are character-driven and serve to gradually develop characters, especially the main protagonists. GS Mikami Gokuraku Daisakusen!! won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen.

The world is overflowing with them: fibs, falsehoods, lies… Surely you, too, Reader, have told a lie at least once in your life, with your heart beating fast. This is a story about dealing with those lies. The protagonist, Gokuoh, is a master liar, who loves both lying and exposing other people's lies. Together with his strange pet, Nekokarasu, he starts to expose the ocean of lies in his new school. Fighting lies with lies, all Gokuoh needs is the power of the "tongue." "What exactly does that mean?" you ask? Have a look and find out!

They arrive in silence and darkness. They descend from the skies. They have a hunger for human flesh. They are everywhere. They are parasites, alien creatures who must invade - and take control of - a human host to survive. And once they have infected their victims, they can assume any deadly form they choose: monsters with giant teeth, winged demons, creatures with blades for hands. But most have chosen to conceal their lethal purpose behind ordinary human faces. So no one knows their secret - except an ordinary high school student. Shin is battling for control of his own body against an alien parasite, but can he find a way to warn humanity of the horrors to come? [Alternate Official English](https://kodansha.us/series/parasyte/) --- - **Won the Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1993** - **Won the Seiun Award for Best Comic in 1996**

In a world of nano-machines, cybernetic assassins, powerful telekinetic opponents, and secret organization dedicated to bringing forth the next evolution of humankind, children arms transform into grotesquely deformed superweapons. In 1999 ARMS received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen. --- Official Release: - Indonesian release by Level Comics Links: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1014) (Season 1) [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=1348) (Season 2)

Through a strange series of events, a young man named Yakumo Fuuji becomes the immortal slave of the last of a race of 3 Eyed immortals. The immortal, Pai, absorbs his soul to save his life, making him immortal in the process. Now, he begins a journey with the female immortal in an attempt to find a way of becoming human. Of course, there are many complications along the way, not the least of which being that the immortal is a female with a split personality, one achingly cute and the other being no-nonsense destructive power, and romances that develop between. See [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=382) for the anime.

When I helped a pair of popular twin idol streamers, I somehow ended up in the spotlight!? In modern Japan, where dungeons have mysteriously appeared, Hige Daruma, driven by certain circumstances, has secluded himself deep inside a dungeon, living a self-sufficient and peaceful life. One day, he rescues a pair of beautiful twin streamer girls from a monster attack. As he serves up delicious food and helps solve the troubles of the viewers... his incredible strength gradually gets exposed to the world—!?

Hotaru is a 16-year-old high school first-year who has always been ambivalent about love, preferring instead to have a lively life with her family and friends. So when she sees her schoolmate, Hananoi-kun, sitting in the snow after a messy, public breakup, she thinks nothing of offering to share her umbrella. But when he asks her out in the middle of her classroom the next day, she can't help but feel that her life is about to change in a big way...

Historie takes place in ancient Greece and follows the life of Eumenes and his childhood, who would later in his life grow up to be the secretary and general to Alexander the Great. **IMPORTANT:** - Hitoshi Iwaaki frequently redoes the art for volume releases as well as add smaller chapters together. - There are no missing chapters on MangaDex, Chapter 108 "Warped" immediately follows Chapter 97 "Disposal of Olympias (2)", this is because chapters were added together in previous volumes, so the chapter count between volume and magazine are out of sync. --- - **Won the 16th Osamu Tezuka Cultural Prize's Grand Prize in 2012 for Manga** - **Won the 14th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga**

Masato Wakamatsu, 16 years old, is working at the beach one summer. Having made a bad impression on his classmate/crush Miyuki Kashima, he makes a pass at another pretty girl. To Masato's shock, the girl turns out to be his younger stepsister Miyuki (15), who has been living abroad with their father for the past six years. As school progresses, Masato starts dating Miyuki Kashima. He and his sister Miyuki are living alone together, and he is troubled by his conflicting emotions: filial and romantic feelings toward a sister who may or may not know she is not related to him by blood. This manga was very popular in Japan. --- - **Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen/Shojo in 1982, along with Adachi's very popular, Touch**

My childhood best friends are four sisters!　 This is a refreshing and sad coming-of-age baseball story about Kitamura Koh, the son of a sporting goods store, and the daughters of the batting center and coffee shop "Clover"!　 It was the summer of the 5th grade in elementary school when Kitamura Koh woke up to baseball... It was a long and hot summer that he will never forget. (Source: ebookjapan, edited) ___ [Official English](https://www.viz.com/cross-game) [Official Spanish](https://www.penguinlibros.com/es/content/498-sagas?id=352938&cod_agrup=03680&utm_source=mangadex) ___ - **Won the 54th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen in 2009**

Black Jack is an "unregistered" doctor with a clouded, mysterious past. He works with his little assistant Pinoko (who has a massive crush on the doctor), dealing with medical cases not very well known, which can be strange, dangerous, or not known at all. But he is a genius, and can save almost any of his patients' lives (as long as they have the money for it), and is known to many around the world, especially to those of medicine and science. He's a man of science himself, and does not believe much until he has seen it, yet it is many times he is surprised by love and nature often overpowering the science he bases his life in. Out of a total of 243 chapters chapter 113.5: 'U-18 Knew' was released in a Weekly Shonen Champion special issue and thos it's unnumbered. Also, 11 chapters were not included in the Vertical English release, out of those 11 chapters: 3 were exclusively Included in the hardcover editions of volumes 1-3, and 5 of them are labeled as [Sealed](http://tezukainenglish.com/wp/?page_id=573) meaning they have been excluded from almost every collected release because they were controversial or Osamu wasn't happy with them. --- - **Won the 1st Kodansha Manga Award for Shonen in 1977, which it shared with Tezuka's other serial, Three-Eyed One** - **Won the 4th Japan Cartoonists Association Special Excellence Award in 1975** --- **Volumes 151-168, 366 and 367, 370 and 371 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works** --- ### Links * alternative official raw: [Kodansha](https://kc.kodansha.co.jp/title?code=1000005202) * new edition: [Akita Shoten](https://www.akitashoten.co.jp/series/1828) * complete edition: [Fukkan](https://www.fukkan.com/fk/CartSearchDetail?i_no=68320833)

--- - **Won the 12th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1988, which it shared with Bebop High School**

With its long-awaited freshman/student athletes aboard, Mizuho High's basketball team practices with a hope to play in the national tournaments. In the prefectural preliminary games, the young athletes compete with their rivals at Shonandai-Sagami, Honmoku-Higashi and Yokohama Gakuen Highs. Will Mizuho compete in the national tournaments and once again confront Narita-Chuo and Meiwadai-Hitachi Highs? And finally how will the players fare in a game against the high school basketball champion team at Tendoji? The struggles of the newly reborn Mizuho basketball team to become the national champion begin!

Winning isn't everything in the game of basketball, but who wants to come in second? It takes dedication and discipline to be the best, and the Shohoku High hoops team wants to be just that. They have one last year to make their captain's dream of reaching the finals come true–will they do it? Takehiko Inoue's legendary beloved basketball manga is finally here and the tale of a lifetime is in your hands. Hanamichi Sakuragi's got no game with girls—none at all! It doesn't help that he's known for throwing down at a moment's notice and always coming out on top. A hopeless bruiser, he's been rejected by 50 girls in a row! All that changes when he meets the girl of his dreams, Haruko, and she's actually not afraid of him! When she introduces him to the game of basketball, his life is changed forever… Note: Includes a one-shot called 10 Days After. [Official English](https://www.viz.com/slam-dunk) --- - **Won the 40th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shonen In 1995** - **One of top 10 highest selling Manga in history, with over 170 Million copies sold as of 2017** - **In 2010, Inoue received special commendations from the Japan Basketball Association (JBA) for his contributions to the sport**