Story 6: Yasha Gozen – In this sparse, effective short story, a young girl whose family just moved to an old house deep in the mountains finds herself haunted by a supernatural creature, but everything might not be as it seems.
*Who is he? Where did he come from? What did he come to do?* A man bearing the moniker "the Son of Shaka" comes by the peaceful, quiet Shogidani Village. Followed by a trio of triplet sisters, his agenda is unknown, but he quickly gains a good reputation within the village... He doesn't matter much to the village boy Tomeo, though, who is threatened with separation with his girlfriend, Seiko, and ever-persistent advances by the pesky Aoki. That is, until Seiko starts to feel swayed by the Son of Shaka's aid, his 'hand of love'. Tomeo's concern isn't just petty jealousy, though - the Son of Shaka's intent points to a certain direction.... George Akiyama ([*Ashura*](https://mangadex.org/title/14e8feb7-1388-4fae-9f2e-eb42c571ae91/ashura-george-akiyama), [*Money Crazy (Zeni Geba)*](https://mangadex.org/title/e8688451-514d-4af7-9e1e-bd1170bbe881/money-crazy) ) presents a chaotic thriller of a close-knit village being stricken with corruption, calamity, and absolute evil.
A series of murders happen within the same neighbourhood - all with a common thread: a sweet corrupt whisper in the ear tempting the daily victims…
Orphen, the tough-talking sorcerer-for-hire, is putting his wand-wielding skills to use for quite a price, but with a boneheaded companion and a wide-eyed pupil tagging along, they can’t help but attract a little trouble! Magical mercenaries are all around, and the hair-triggered Orphen is no stranger to a good fight, so he’ll have to cast his spells in record time to stay in the game of magic in Orphen. ___ **Character Designer:** [Kusaka Yuuya](https://mangadex.org/author/fa0042e4-f244-4215-abd0-f8177fe4ae6d) **Additional Links:** - Amazon: [Volume 1](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047121754), [Volume 2](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047121819), [Volume 3](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047121959), [Volume 4](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/404712222X), [Volume 5](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047122513), [Volume 6](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047122742) - Official English Light Novel: [J-Novel Club](https://j-novel.club/series/sorcerous-stabber-orphen)
At the behest of his father, Tamekage, Kagetora (Kenshin Uesugi) was sent to Rinsenji Temple from an early age to study Buddhism and the art of war. However, after the death of Tamekage, someone came to seek for Kagetora to be the daimyo of Tochio Castle. Kagetora struggles between being a Buddhist priest and a military commander... How was a genius of war born to live righteously? This is a super epic Sengoku picture scroll depicting the young days of Kenshin Uesugi, a brilliant and witty shogun who lived through a tumultuous and tumultuous life! (Source: ebookjapan)
A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause. --- - **Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for General Manga in 1986, shared with Makoto Kobayashi's What's Michael?** --- **Volumes 372-376 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**
(From ebookjapan): On a stormy night, Isamu witnesses a black phantom ship flying in the sky. He follows a man who has descended from the vessel and ends up at the Terada residence. There he finds four men terrified by a threatening letter from a man claiming to be Daisaku Arashiyama. Gradually, Isamu's family's past is revealed. Is the phantom ship a friend of justice or an ally of evil? The manga that inspired the 1969 anime film "Flying Phantom Ship", Ishinomori's early masterpiece with its SF elements and poignant adventure action!
The Shouwa Era has given way to the Heisei Era, and then to the Reiwa Era, and in the depopulated town of Hinamizawa, the curtain rises once again on a tragic story. This year, on the night of the Cotton Drifting Festival, one person is killed and another disappears...
An omnibus of stories that explores the subtle distortions of everyday life, delving into how ordinary experiences can take unsettling turns. Each narrative weaves together to examine the eerie sensations that arise when the familiar becomes uncanny.
The story takes place in an ordinary Japanese town, Fuyuki City. Hidden from society, there has been a deadly war going on in this town. Seven mages known as "Masters" summon powerful familiars called "Servants" and they all fight each other until the last one. The last one is said to attain the Holy Grail which will grant them a wish. Only a few know when this War started and what the Holy Grail is, but the war is about to begin again this year. The main character is Emiya Shirou, who lost his parents in a fire and was adopted by a man who called himself a mage. Admiring his stepfather, he has been training himself to be a mage. However, he had no talent and he could barely use one type of magecraft. His stepfather has already passed away, and today he is a mage without any skills or knowledge. He is involved in the Holy Grail War when he accidentally summons Saber, who is said to be the strongest Servant of all…
A family is devastated by the Great Tottori Fire of 1952, but the family comes to terms with the disaster and breaks free from the bonds holding them back. (from MangaUpdates): KNOW THY FATHER The book opens with some childhood thoughts of Yoichi Yamashita spurred by a phone call at work informing him of his father's death. So, he journeys back to his hometown after an absence of well over a decade during which time he has not seen his father. But as the relatives gather for the funeral and the stories start to flow, Yoichi's childhood starts to resurface. The Spring afternoons playing on the floor of his father's barber shop, the fire that ravaged the city and his family home, his parents' divorce and a new ‘mother’. Through confidences and memories shared with those who knew him best, Yoichi rediscovers the man he had long considered an absent and rather cold father. Note: Was nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Asia in 2021
In a post-apocalyptic world of heavy metal fantasy, the only thing able to save humans from orcs, lizard men, and other monsters is something even MORE evil. Sealed within a 14-year-old boy, the chaotic wizard Dark Schneider is unleashed to fight four mighty generals and their plot to resurrect the evil god Anthrasax!
When J, the man everyone fears, returns to town, the city's delinquents are in an uproar. Some challenge him, some try to use him, some try to get close to him. Where will J end up at the end of the long struggle…? Serialized in Weekly Young Magazine from 1983 to 1984. Volume 1 released in September 1984. Volume 2 released in February 1985.
Golgo 13, the man who is shrouded in mystery, and the terrifying facts that shine behind the fiction... The trajectory of the bullets fired by Golgo 13 will determine the course of the world's murky waters! British Intelligence hires Golgo 13 to eliminate a former Nazi SS chief who hid a vast amount of counterfeit money at WWII's end. What awaits him in the fortified castle? Currently the longest running manga series done by one of the members of the gekiga group. The bestselling Seinen manga (and the best selling Gekiga) as of 2022 with over 300 million tankoban volumes sold, and the 2nd bestselling manga in history behind Dragon Ball and One Piece. --- - **1976 21st Shogakukan Manga Award for General Manga winner** - **2002 31st Japan Cartoonists Association Award Grand Prize winner** - **2005 50th Shogakukan Manga Jury Special Award winner** - **2021 Guinness World Record for Most Volumes of a Single Manga Series** - **The 2nd Bestselling Manga in History** --- [Anime and live action adaptions](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=1519)
An estranged family is falling apart when a meteor shower grants the son his wish: let our family grow together again… quite literally…
The story takes place in Paris in the not-so-distant future where a virus that could wipe out the human race is set loose in the city. The effects? It turns people insane and forces them to fight. The hero of this story is Kiryu, Kiichi's uncle.
A new Gundam war picture scroll, where giant "Tetsuki" scatter the sparks of conflict, is born! "Sankin Koutai" a large battle tournament where fierce fighters selected from all over the country board giant armored warriors known as Tetsuki to determine the strongest. In order to fulfill his wish, Kotetsu Kisaragi with his "Gundam" Burai, throws himself into the harsh battle...!
While most of the Golden Age struggled to win their ticket for the Madrid Olympics in the Asian preliminaries, a few of them playing overseas had their own fights… Find out what happens to the "giocatori" from the "land of the rising sun" in Italy, and most of all, the victory in the Serie C1, the promotion to the Serie B, the kick off of the direct confrontation between Hyuga Kojiro of AC Reggiana, and Aoi Shingo of FC Albese!!
It seems some killing machines have woken up, and want to destroy every sorcerer on the planet! But Orphen isn't allowed to die, so he must stop their evil plot. This is a side story to the first Orphen manga, but you don't have to know much about the Orphen universe, so go ahead, read on! ___ **Character Designer:** [Kusaka Yuuya](https://mangadex.org/author/fa0042e4-f244-4215-abd0-f8177fe4ae6d) **Additional Links:** - Amazon: [Volume 1](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047123226), [Volume 2](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4047123277) - Official English Light Novel: [J-Novel Club](https://j-novel.club/series/sorcerous-stabber-orphen)
That machine you're familiar with has a lot of pain and suffering inside…
An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's classic Crime and Punishment, reworked for younger readers. The setting is St. Petersburg in Czarist Russia, in the days just prior to the Russian Revolution. Rascalnikov is a child from a poor family. He murders an old lady who is a loan shark and flees with her valuables. Judge Polifili, who has been assigned to the case, immediately suspects Rascalnikov because he had recently submitted an essay in a magazine claiming that "the world is divided into those who are geniuses and those who are not. A genius may commit murder but is not guilty if it is for the good of the world." At first, Rascalnikov feels invincible and confident that he can elude the law, but the Judge Polifili obstinately persists in his investigation, and gradually Rascalnikov comes to feel cornered. In the meantime, Sonya, a prostitute, frantically tries to persuade Rascalnikov to turn himself in. All this takes place on the eve of the Russian Revolution. ___ **Additional Buy Links:** - 1977 version (The Complete Works of Tezuka Osamu Volume 10): [Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4061086103) - 1995 Bunko Edition: [Amazon](https://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/4041851254) **Alt Official English:** [eManga](https://emanga.com/products/crime-and-punishment-revised-edition?variant=32122389382)
A story about two brothers crawling to survive in the mafias.
Baki is bored. After the conclusion of the epic battle between father and son, he continues to fight in the underground arena and train nonstop, but he always has to suppress his yawn caused by the overbearing boredom. No amount of stimulus or danger can bring excitement to him at this point. Now, with the inclusion of the Prime Minister of Japan in the loop, a massive cloning project is attempting to clone Miyamoto Musashi, one of the fathers of martial arts in Japan. Another fight of historical proportions awaits Baki! Link: [AnimeNewsNetwork](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=18746) (OAV)
Hakata: a town rumored to count 3% of the population as killers. Fukuoka: a lively, peaceful-looking tourist city (at first glance). But underneath this façade, the streets are rampant with crime and it has become a professional killers battleground. A first-year member of society on an edge, a hitman employed by the mayor, a private detective that loves Hakata, a genius hacker's information business, a too-beautiful avenger, and a hitman taken in by a sinister organization. Those who are good at being evil will force Hakata out onto the stage! The manga adaption of Media Works' popular suspense novel's first volume has arrived!