A collection of short stories by the author of Ushio and Tora. 1. **The Puppet Princess** (Karakuri no Kimi), 1994 Princess Rangiku lost her entire family to Lord Karimata, who invaded her home seeking her father's life work, puppets with unique capabilities. As her duty, Rangiku sets out with three of her father's greatest puppet warriors to seek revenge. She can manipulate these to battle the strongest of warriors, however manipulating the puppets leaves her own self vulnerable to direct attacks, so she seeks a ninja warrior named Manajiri to aid and protect her in her quest. (Source: ANN) 2. **Song of the Open Palm** (Tenohira no Uta), 1994 A legendary practitioner of the Xing Yi Quan style is jailed for the murder of another martial artist. From his cell, he tells his jailer of the incidents leading up to the fight, and hears disturbing news about the successor to the other man's doujo. 3. **Strange Ferry Tale** (Renrakusen Kitan), 1988 A teenage runaway meets a pair of siblings on a ferry. The brother carries an old sword and claims to be haunted by a demon that has cursed their clan for hundreds of years. 4. **To the Merry-Go-Round!** (Merry-Go-Round e!), 1988 A teenage karateka meets a little girl who asks him to take her to a merry-go-round. Her older brother and the police are in hot pursuit, but for some reason she insists on seeing it today. 5-6. **Shall We Go Out Walking by Night?** (Yoru ni Sanpo shinai ka ne), 1993 A detective with a mysterious past is called in to investigate a series of strange murders. When he visits the scene of the crime by night, he meets a young woman out walking alone, hoping to cure her fear of the darkness by "confronting the night." --- **Links:** - [Author's Twitter](https://twitter.com/ufujitakazuhiro?lang=ja)

Following the death of her grandmother, Taku, who now lives in Tokyo, heads back home to Kobe for the funeral.

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**

Still in her early twenties, beautiful Toshiko Tomura has won the Akutagawa Prize for her story "The Book of Human Insects." The great honor is not her first: she has previously won the New York Design Academy Award, before which she was the lead actress of an established theatrical troupe. Yet, while the media go abuzz, the woman in the limelight slips away from the metropolis; what the sole paparazzo who manages to trail her to an abandoned country house witnesses is an immobile figure of an old woman and the star herself, naked, in a reverie as bizarre as it is erotic! --- **Volumes 271 and 272 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

Shichiro Oshima wakes up from the artificial hibernation 100 years in the future, sleeping though the wrath of nuclear war. He wakes up to find Japan to be a primeval jungle, with little to no remnants of Earth's past. After being rescued, Shichiro learns that the Earth is being under attack from alien invaders from all reaches of the universe. So he decides to become a member of the Earth Defense Force under codename Number 7 to fight for the liberation of Earth. --- **Volumes 193-196 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

(from ebookjapan): After training in Paris, bartender Ren Sajima returns to Ginza, Tokyo. His first customer, the owner of a long-established kimono shop, tells him that it is bothersome to have a wandering young bartender in Ginza, but...?

A story of motorcycles, travel and food.

Eiko is something of a plain Jane and a doormat, while her best friend Moe is a head-turning beauty. Despite their differences, their friendship is as strong as ever. Guys are always asking Moe out, but her answer is invariably "Only if you promise to put Eiko before me." Also includes: Sonokare Shira Bemasu

Two lonely people who have lost their way are quietly cuddling together, waiting for the snow to melt. At the beginning of winter, four months after the end of the war, in a forest that still bears the scars of war, they meet Mieli, a former boy soldier who has only known the battlefield, and Kiryashka, a veteran who has lost her home.

"Do you know that the cherry blossoms are so beautiful because of the corpses buried under them?" Teenaged Subaru Sumeragi is the 13th head of the Sumeragi clan. Together with his twin sister Hokuto and the mysterious veterinarian Seishirou, Subaru travels around Tokyo, calming the ghosts that threaten the city.

A spaceship in the shape of a horse-drawn carriage travels across the galaxy. Riding in the carriage is Ridley, the scientist who built this eccentric spaceship, and her partner Watari, a shy girl. The two leave Earth, which has become uninhabitable due to environmental pollution, and set off in the carriage. Their goal is to find a safe planet to settle. However, all the planets they visit are very strange! A planet with a god who can bring all things back to life, another planet where the luckiest people are considered the greatest, and a planet with countless libraries... The two girls are sometimes thrown for a loop by these strange worlds...

Seiichi Osabe is just a normal if not insular 14-year-old boy with a beautiful, loving mother and a hardworking father. The bond between him and his mother is iron-clad, but when an accident involving his cousin sows the seeds of doubt in his head, Seiichi begins to question whether his mother's doting nature is normal, or something more sinister and abnormal. Where do you draw the line between motherly love and unhealthy adoration? And how can you tell where that line is when your mother's love is all you've ever known?

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**

James Block is a former sports star whose criminal endeavors landed him in jail. In prison he meets "Dr. F", a strange old man who tells James about a beam that can turn living things invisible. After escaping from prison, James finds and uses the laser on himself. But, because the beam has not been perfected yet, it only rendered his skin invisible, leaving his insides visible to the outside. Angered at his disfigurement, James takes the name "Alabaster" and begins eliminating the hypocrites and the boastful. He is joined by Ami Ozawa, the granddaughter of "Doctor F", who was rendered invisible after the doctor used his pregnant daughter as an "F Beam" test subject. On their trail is Rock, a vicious FBI agent. [Official English](https://emanga.com/products/alabaster-vol-1?variant=32122232710) --- **Volumes 89 and 90 of the Osamu Tezuka Complete Works**

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)

(from ebookjapan): An undiscovered gem, quietly left behind by a master of maiden drawings in Osaka's Hinomaru Bunko, the birthplace of gekiga! Flower-selling girls longing for Paris and the "golden rule of girls' manga" (Yoraba Takemoto), essential to every girl's dream! The e-book version does not include "Sakura Namiki" (a separate volume of interviews, commentaries, and conversations).

A surreal yet heartwarming 4-koma series about everyday life. From the author of Shoujo Shuumatsu Ryokou/Girls' Last Tour.

Collection of most of Go Nagai's short stories under one title, with each volume mainly focusing on a central theme. Names of volumes and some of the stories they include: Vol 1: Swordsman of hell 1. Thief-taker Polikichi (Meakashi Polikichi) 2. 3. Swordsman of hell 4. 5. 6. 7. Vol 2: Suspense・Puns 1. Glorious Sanjiro 2. Nagai's Fantasy World Pun (Parody of his sensei's [Fantasy World Jun](https://mangadex.org/title/c7a47226-5e2a-47b8-9b35-728683d70faf/fantasy-world-jun)) 3. 4. Pictures at an Exhibition 5. 6. 7. La Samurai 8. Play boy!! Teacher 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. Vol 3: Ultra-Spy Bearded Godzilla 1. Receive-chan 2. 3. Mystery boy X-kun 4. Ultra-Spy Bearded Godzilla 5. 6. 7. 8. Vol 4: Female leader Houin Daiko 1. Waiting teacher 2. Fighting Pants-kun 3. Hunter-kun 4. Female leader Houin Daiko 5. Handsome-kun 6. 7. Kick-chan (Lover-kun) 8. Sweet-chan Vol 5: Wandering student 1. Wild absurd manga series 2. Wandering student 3. 4. Vol 6: Oni rebellion of the year 2889 1. Oni -Rebellion of the year 2889- 2. Terrible tall tower 3. Loved Ski-chan 4. Marvelous Ultra Super Deluxe Man Vol 7: GO! Go! Nonsense 1. In the land where wild cattle roam 2. Komat Charm 3. GO! Go! Nonsense Vol 8: Susumu-chan's big shock 1. Vampire hunt 2. 3. Boy hunter 4. 5. Captain Burst 6. Golgo 17-18-19 7. Susumu-chan's big shock 8. Sanjiro Vol 9: Chaka-Poko 1. Chan-kun 2. Chaka-Poko Vol 10: Break down 1. 100 yen beauty 2. 3. Break Down 4. 5. 6. Vol 11: Enoshima's stupid-zilla (dozilla) 1. Food cart king 2. 3. 4. Enoshima's stupid-zilla Vol 12: Monster of the white world 1. Monster of the white world 2. Ganbare Supokon-kun! (Part 1-4) 3. Lightning man thunder Vol 13: Bakuratsu classroom 1. Bakuratsu classroom 2. Pushy Physician (Episode 1-3) 3. Rage-man Vol 14: Nuisance detective Iboji Kogorou (4 chapters) Vol 15: Go-Chan Magazine 1. The Birth of Sirene 2. Red loincloth Suzunosuke 3. Kingoro's and Marilyn's days 4. Suiko - Green lake 5. Go Nagai's true life ghost story - Face youkai 6. Robo humans of the battlefield 7. Go Nagai's marvelous 40 years [Vol. 15 - mangaupdates](https://www.mangaupdates.com/series/hbneccg/gou-chan-magajin)

The eve of the French revolution, 1772: The eldest brother of the Sanson family, Charles-Henri, has grown as an executioner, while his sister Marie-Joseph has been living freely in Versailles. But then Marie-Joseph's first love, a man named Alain, is killed by aristocrats. The histories of innocents plunges into the arc of the crimson revolution, Rouge. --- * **Won the 24th Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award in 2021**

Cute girls doing risky forex trading.

Two friends Haru and Gaku plot to gain enough money to have anything they desire at any time: a trillion dollars. A new work from the mind of Riichiro Inagaki (Eyeshield 21, Dr. Stone), drawn by the veteran artist Ryoichi Ikegami (Crying Freeman, Heat, Sanctuary).

A one-shot compilation with the theme of travel. Many of the one-shots are either essay manga or are influenced by parts of Sasaya's life. * 1-4. **In the Distant Beyond** (遠くにありて…, Tooku ni Arite...) * 5. **Winter Waterbird** (冬の水鳥, Fuyu no Mizutori) * 6. **The Moon in the West** (西の月, Nishi no Tsuki) * 7. **Return ―A Soldier's Day Off―** (帰郷 ―ある兵士の休日―, Kikyou ―Aru Heishi no Kyuujitsu ―): A full-color one-shot concerning a soldier who returns to his home from World War II. * 8. **One Night's Happening** (ある夜の出来事, Aru Yoru no Dekigoto) * 9. **My Debut Period** (わたしのデビュー時代, Watashi no Debut Jidai)

Mars (マーズ) is a sci-fi series by Mistuteru Yokoyama that was serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion from 1976 to 1977, lasting for 5 volumes. It focuses on Mars, an amnesiac boy who was discovered on a volcanic island by a news reporter, only to learn that he was an alien with a mission to destroy the Earth if humans obtain weapons of mass destruction. Determined instead to save the Earth, Mars rebels against the aliens that gave him his mission.

The jewelry store Rohstein is an unconventional shop where "a maid sells jewels". Off of the main street, the shop is visited by an elderly gentleman, a noble, an actress, a poor student, and all sorts of people who have heard the rumors of it. When they hold the jewels selected by the maid, their own lives also begin to shine.