Interest Stacks

The true story of Yuuji Sasaki, a kamikaze pilot during World War II who was sent on nine suicide missions but came back alive every single time.

One year after losing her leg, 16-year-old Rin is tired—tired of the painful physical therapy, tired of being treated differently, and tired of her stupid, heavy, awkward prosthetic leg. All that changes when she encounters the Blade Runners, a group of one-legged athletes who run with "blades"—carbon fiber prosthetics specialized for competitive running—made by their gifted prosthetist, Kazami. The blades are light, flexible, and formidably difficult to control—Rin can barely walk with one, much less sprint. But as she tumbles to the ground again and again, she rediscovers many of the things that she'd forgotten, and finds a new goal: to compete in the Paralympics. (Source: Kodansha USA)

College student Honoka Sanwa is ridiculed by male students for her plump figure. As her best friend gets the most out of college life, her only solace is the Ancient Tomb Study Group, where she can talk about her favorite things, surrounded by two laid-back male members. However, Honoka considers member Iida as a lover at a certain moment. A poetic psychological depiction of how a girl with low self-esteem finds spiritual support and matures. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

The story follows Hikari Shirochi, an ordinary high school boy whose hobbies are games and PC-modding. In the first chapter, mysterious phenomena occur to his body, which conducts static electricity unusually well. (Source: ANN)

In the near future, a premonition of war pervades alongside a government wielding strong state power. Young Ikeuchi Ginga is like a madman who has long sought to fly in the sky even in such times. Set in a world resembling a continuation of modern Japan, Ginga's idealistic acts that seem to transcend his hopeless-feeling reality are drawn with unique penciled textures that invite the reader into a heretofore unseen world. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Thirty-five-year-old novelist Makio Koudai never had a good relationship with her older sister Minori, who always berated her for being different. Due to this, Makio is not stricken with grief upon hearing the news that Minori and her husband die in a car crash. But when Makio is asked to identify their bodies, she runs into her 15-year-old niece, Asa Takumi, whom she has not seen in years. Struggling to process her parents' death, Makio reassures Asa that her complicated feelings are valid and suggests that the teenager start writing in a diary as a way to cope with the loss. Upon learning that no other relatives wanted to take in Asa, Makio decides to become her guardian despite her lack of experience. In a world full of uncertainty, the novelist and teenager must learn to live with each other while figuring themselves out. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

The governing race, the Karma froze the planet Roon as a result of war and emigrated to a neighboring planet. Four-thousand years later, the ice covering Roon started melting and the Karma began migrating back to Roon. This is a heroic fantasy that portrays the young boy, Dulk, who gains the power of wonder sealed in the darkness of history, and comes face-to-face with his destiny. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Hoshi-sensei, a Japanese language teacher at an all-girls school, is at the mercy of his students and colleagues. Students challenge him to their shiritori word games illustrated in their daily notes, convince him to bring a dog into the classroom, and seek his advice on becoming a manga artist, while colleagues drag him along on their rounds to the pub. Matter-of-fact interactions between a cast of unique characters make for an offbeat comedy. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival, edited)

Kiri and her husband, both in their 30s, have been happily married for several years. They don't have any children yet, and Kiri knows that at her age they'll need to start trying soon if they ever want to. Yet she can't seem to take that first step, knowing that once she makes a decision, she won't be able to turn back. While Kiri agonizes, feeling more drained with every pregnancy announcement she hears, her husband seems awfully detached and casual about the whole thing...? In a sudden rush of motivation, Kiri takes the plunge and manages to get pregnant, only to face a world of new, unfamiliar challenges as a first-time mom-to-be. This story of one woman's journey into motherhood is for the women also struggling to decide, for those already expecting, for long-time mothers reminiscing about their own pregnancies, and of course for the men in all their lives. It's a story anyone and everyone can enjoy. (Source: Shodensha)

Mao Hosaka's father is a legendary guitarist. Her confidant Yokiko Hasekura is a talented, beautiful singer. The two high school girls become members of the college band Artago and use an old house to practice their music and prepare for live performances. Through Mao, who is haunted by her father's reputation, and her dialogues with Yokiko, readers witness the intensity of youth and musical performances brimming with realism. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Itsuki Igarashi is thirty-ish and single, but she works hard at her job and posts her novels online under the name "Short-san." Love soon comes knocking for Short-san, although "love" may be overselling it. Intricate lines and unique compositions that make use of white space tell the many tales of Short-san's painfully endearing (and sometimes just painful) daily life in this gag manga. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

"If I re-do my life, I want to return this work back to Yukishima-senpai." Haruta Mahoro who became a successful mangaka after publishing "Revive line" from her dead senpai's notes. What if a fateful encounter brings her back to the past? (Source: Cheesecake Scans)

A pure-hearted kuro-gal and a simple diamond-in-the-rough... With a love as odd as theirs, who's to say where it will lead? Dreaming of finally becoming a Tokyo girl, Tamao moves to the capital and falls in love with Yamada, a guy working at a supermarket. At first glance he may seem unappealing, but a love as pure as theirs is second to none! (Source: Houbunsha, translated)

The year is 1945. At a monastery in beautiful Tibet, two boys met... Unknowing of the harsh fate awaiting them... Dawa is on a long journey with his father to find "Shangri-La." However, at the monastery, his father leaves without him. Left all alone, Dawa, along with a boy he meets at the monastery, Dorje, become novice monks together... A pure and fleeting love, set in Tibet before the upheaval. (Source: East Press, translated)

Within the safety of the walls, youths are raised in a nursery-style setting by robots. While life there may appear stale on the surface, the children are full of potential and curiosity. In many ways it is like a slice of heaven. The outside world is a hell-scape. It is almost entirely void of anything mechanical and is now inhabited by bizarre, yet powerful super-natural beings. Maru, with the aid of Kiruko, is out there crisscrossing what was once Tokyo for heaven. But after searching for so long, maybe heaven is more of an untenable dream than a potential reality. (Source: Denpa)

At dusk regular customers flock in the little Nagoya shop "Tora and Mike" to wash away with sake, a delicious array of food and resounding laughter the hardships of the day. A culinary journey into traditional Japanese home cooking. (Source: Japanese Books for Everyone)

A little tapir boy comes from his planet to immigrate to the Earth. All of the things here are entirely new for him. Let's have a fantastic adventure with this brave boy! Baku-chan, a little tapir from the planet Baku, immigrates to Earth and comes to live with Hana, a human girl who has come from Nagoya to live in Tokyo. Baku-chan comes into contact with new and different things in everyday life and encounters discrimination toward immigrants. However, he also gets support from Hana and other friendly Earthlings, and also from his immigrant friends, and lives a cheerful and robust life. Masumura's experiences as an immigrant in Canada are reflected in a story depicted through colorful and fantastically designed drawings. While heartwarming, the story also depicts immigrant situations and feelings that could come about in the real world, including thoughtless violence, pressure to conform, and the difficulty of adapting to a new land. It is an adventure that poses questions for society. (Source: MU)

Then an assistant for manga artists like Suzue Miuchi and Fusako Kuramochi in the golden age of shoujo manga (that is, manga aimed at girls), the artist of this book lovingly recounts the untold labors and passions of the genre's then-upcoming superstars. In the era's popular artistic style, the book recounts little-known anecdotes about the origins of masterworks and the veritable war zones of production, putting readers in the midst of it all. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

In football, an agent handles contracts and transfers on behalf of pro players. For their ability to move astronomical amounts of money, these agents are known as alchemists. This one has a notorious name: Kyousuke Senzaki. With him is Risa Natsume, a college student tracing her missing brother's footsteps. The lives of pro players and their complex world of money and power are realistically rendered by a sports writer and a football manga artist. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Kaboku Kotani is starting high school, and he plans to do what he's always done: go along with his friends, keep quiet, and not draw too much attention to himself. After all, it's hard enough to get by with a stutter like his—why make things worse by standing out from the crowd? But then he sees another first-year, Hikari Wanda, dancing like no one is watching—or like she doesn't care who sees her. It makes Kaboku wonder: Could he reach that same freedom? To find his way to Wanda, he does something he never thought he could: He joins the dance club. After all, every routine begins with a single step, right? Join Kaboku and Wanda as they freestyle their way to life and love! (Source: Kodansha USA)

Entirely in color, this manga is a representation of small moments of life between the two protagonists, a police officer and a blind woman.

Akari Ogihara (24), who gives up her dream of becoming a Japanese painter and works to support her family, helps a man who has attempted suicide in the sea one day. The only thing that a man of unknown age and name can tell is that he has a talent for Japanese painting. For some reason, she lent to the man her name Akari Ogihara" and somehow starts to sell Japanese paintings...? (Source: Kodansha, translated)

In the winter of 1927-28, the isolated coastal settlement of Innsmouth, Massachusetts was assaulted by U.S. government agents—its waterfront burned and dynamited, its people taken away to internment camps. Yet that was neither the beginning nor the end of the horror uncovered by a young antiquarian who traveled to Innsmouth in search of rumors from the town's dead past, only to find them still very much alive...and find truths lying under water deeper and colder than any earthly grave! (Source: Dark Horse)

After a fire in her Tokyo apartment, photographer Aki's life is turned upside down. How is she supposed to go on now? Only her camera remained intact, and so she decides to use the misfortune as a new beginning; she moves to Germany, the country of origin of her camera lens. Strawberry stands, doner kebabs, the Pfand system, summer vacations with bouldering, or the flea market on Boxhagener Platz—her new home Berlin shows itself from its best side. The change of perspective helps color-blind Aki see her life in a new light and ultimately even (maybe?) find herself. (Source: Crunchyroll, translated)

Thorfinn, son of one of the Vikings' greatest warriors, is among the finest fighters in the merry band of mercenaries run by the cunning Askeladd, an impressive feat for a person his age. However, Thorfinn is not part of the group for the plunder it entails—instead, for having caused his family great tragedy, the boy has vowed to kill Askeladd in a fair duel. Not yet skilled enough to defeat him, but unable to abandon his vengeance, Thorfinn spends his boyhood with the mercenary crew, honing his skills on the battlefield among the war-loving Danes, where killing is just another pleasure of life. One day, when Askeladd receives word that Danish prince Canute has been taken hostage, he hatches an ambitious plot—one that will decide the next King of England and drastically alter the lives of Thorfinn, Canute, and himself. Set in 11th-century Europe, Vinland Saga tells a bloody epic in an era where violence, madness, and injustice are inescapable, providing a paradise for the battle-crazed and utter hell for the rest who live in it. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Bullied for being gay, teenager Takashi Arashiro wishes he could just be somebody else—but who could predict he'd morph into a giant-headed sci-fi creature?! Takashi's tumultuous emotions become the catalyst for personal and social exploration of the LGBTQ experience in this quirky, profound manga. (Source: Yen Press)

Mari Yoshida, a girl that only becomes the main character for a brief moment, before situations go sideways and she becomes cringe. Meanwhile, the alien Nell has held a dream of wanting to do something on Earth. Also in the classroom are people wanting to hide their otakudom, people who act out their ideal life on social media, and people who have confidence in their special destiny. Every kid in the classroom has their own secret, and you can't even claim to understand the kid right next to you. (Source: Kadokawa, translated)

Gordon is a gruff, middle-aged cook running a food truck in a sand-covered wasteland. When he encounters Arisa, a naked girl sleeping in the middle of nowhere, he takes on the unintended traveling companion and her unexpected appetite. Too bad she also has unexpected baggage—an armed militia hot on her tail! Fasten your seatbelts for postapocalyptic cooking and violent mayhem on this crazy food truck road trip! (Source: VIZ Media)

They've been abandoned by their parents, but they're still living quite happily. The three Orihara sisters are Sumi, the easy-going eldest daughter, Tora, the free-spirited middle daughter, and Fuji, the smart but mysterious third daughter. They may not be perfect, but they live life to their own rhythm. As light as a waltz, their daily life is strong, fun, and lovely. (Source: eBookJapan, translated)

Though they were assigned female at birth, manga artist Poppy Pesuyama feels like anything but a girl. Struggling to come to terms with who they are in a binary world, Poppy finds themself becoming an assistant for the famous manga artist X. Not only is Poppy nervous working with such an influential industry figure, but also X's less-than-appropriate behavior exacerbates their gender dysphoria, leading to something much worse. Years later, the non-binary manga artist is still tortured by the abuse and ridicule they faced working under X, never receiving the closure they needed to move on. Angered by it all, Poppy recounts their experiences and life up to that point. Through their journey of self-acceptance, gender identity, and society, Poppy discovers what they have been desperately looking for. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

1. Diabolic 2. Sensai Vagabond 3. Nenkorori 4. Olanda-san 5. Doutei Maria

"Shortly before we were born, an infectious disease changed the world." In the near future, hiding your mouth with a mask has become the norm. Natsuki, a girl who secretly thinks about the world before the pandemic, and her classmate Hata suddenly become friends and share a small secret. The extraordinary story of two people living in the new normal begins to unfold. (Source: Funguild, translated)

Tadahiro Nasu is a downtrodden convenience store worker with nothing to live for but watching VR performances of Misaki Kanzaki, an idol who was once his classmate. Unable to take his oppressive life any longer, he electrocutes himself, only to find that his body has become pure electricity. With his newfound power to manipulate electrical objects, he'll do anything to support Misaki, whether she likes it or not. [Written by Denji]

What lies beyond death? Mika Kashima, an energetic teenage girl, will soon discover the answer for herself. Struggling to overcome the loss of her best friend, Mika ceases to find meaning in her life and decides to die by suicide in an effort to chase after her friend in death. However, her fate takes an unexpected turn when an immortal human, accompanied by a god, prevents her from dying. After learning about the existence of the afterlife from the god, Mika determines a new goal: to join the two eccentric individuals on a journey to the world of the dead—in hopes of seeing her best friend once more. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

High school girl Shouko Komae discovers that her classmate Sui Katagiri has the ability to embody the objects she imagines. The objects can be touched but are transparent and only visible to Sui. They enjoy creating various objects, but Sui's creations gradually become more ominous as she is bullied in class. With the theme of "blank space," this imagination-inspiring story of two high school girls freshly unfolds with rough-touch drawings. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Neglected and abandoned Yousuke has lived in loneliness and despair. He encounters Natsuki, who lives with her late sister's son, Kenji. The kind and timid Yousuke, cheerful Natsuki with a complicated past, and indomitable Kenji start a simple yet peaceful life together. This cruel but heartwarming human drama portrays the relationship between three people with complex pasts through delicate psychological characterization. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

Pediatric resident Shiho has a developmental disorder. Under the small clinic's director Sayama, she meets with children suffering from various mental illnesses and seeks to cure them. Sayama places importance on patient-family interactions, and Shiho learns the importance of care for the patient's family, as there is no absolute cure. This innovative medical comic depicts the reality of child psychiatry through Shiho's experience. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)