Tokyo, 2002. Tatsuaki dares to learn something novel to the most of Japanese: Beijing Opera. One day, he receives a Kouu mask from his master. Just for fun he put it on and is instantly transported back to Beijing, circa 1924! So begins Tatsuaki's adventures in the Beijing Opera House.
Chapter 17
8 years agoHistoric pre-war manga. Intended for housewives, it can be considered a predecessor to modern josei manga. Read the following links for a lengthy breakdown of it: <https://whatismanga.wordpress.com/2013/08/31/21-okamoto-ippei-or-another-new-manga/> <https://whatismanga.wordpress.com/2016/05/29/okamoto-ippei-womans-hundred-faces-1-kindai-manga-translation/> <https://whatismanga.wordpress.com/2016/06/05/okamoto-ippei-womans-hundred-faces-2-kindai-manga-translation/> <https://whatismanga.wordpress.com/2016/06/14/okamoto-ippei-womans-hundred-faces-3-kindai-manga-translation/>
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8 years agoA full-colour oneshot about the adventures of the prince of Yamato and hero of numerous battles, popularly known as Yamato Takeru…
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8 years agoBlacksmith Cornelia Bloom finds a mysterious man on the beach…
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8 years ago4 select chapters, and a new chapter ("A Very, Very Lucky Birth"). -Gon lives with the penguins -Gon goes to mushroom hunting -Gon journeys into the desert -Gon and his posse -A Very, Very Lucky Birth
Chapter 5
8 years agoTales of a Charcoal Burner narrates the day to day life of young Toshikatsu Ue, who, following family tradition, devotes himself to the hard labor of the titular profession in Wakayama Prefecture. The protagonist shows the laborious process of manufacturing charcoal in first person and strikes up a conversation with the reader through stories of his daily life and folk tales handed down in the region since antiquity.
Chapter 11
8 years agoIn a quiet area of France during WWII, a very young orphan boy was left on the steps of a large mansion on the same day that a daughter was born to the bourgeois family living there. From that day on, Francis and Natalie grew up together and found themselves falling deeply in love. As talk of their marriage began to stir, Natalie suddenly lost her parents to a plane crash, leaving her aunt as her guardian. This aunt, vehemently opposed to Natalie's engagement to a mere orphan, drove Natalie and Francis to run away together. Unfortunately, they were caught. Rather than be torn apart from each other, Natalie and Francis decide to spend eternity together by jumping off a cliff. Through a cruel twist of fate, however, only Natalie survives…Is there even a smidgen of hope that Natalie will somehow be able to find her love once again? An amazingly well-developed, emotional work of art from Ichijo Yukari.
Chapter 34
8 years ago(from ebookjapan): The battlefield, a place where life and death go hand in hand, a place of extreme risk to one's sanity. This is a gem of a lyrical work depicting the sorrows and woes of people who dream of peace!
Chapter 9
8 years agoIf you thought Kenshiro was cool, imagine if he had a love child with Chun-Li, and that girl worked as a bouncer. Find out what that would be like in this 62 page one-shot action comedy!
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8 years ago1: Sayonara Bye-bye Mata Au Hi Made (Goodbye Until Time to Meet You Again) – Konjiki Runa 2: Ore wa Wasurenai (I'll Never Forget You) – London Pariko 3: Anemone (アネモネ) – Kizuki Jin (story) × Yamamoto Kotetsuko (art) 4: Kotori wa Tottemo Uta ga Suki (The Small Bird Likes The Song Very Much) – Takahashi Mako 5: Amnesia: Kioku Kaizan (アムネジア~記憶改竄~) – Rokusei Mitsumi (story) / Takagi Shigeyoshi (art) 6: I Will Be With You Forever – SHOOWA 7: Gesu to Abazure (下衆とあばずれ) – Takumi You 8: Houraku (崩落) – Ooshima Akiko 9: Taigan no Koi (対岸の恋) – Kuroda Kuz 10: Aoi Karte (青いカルテ) – Asou Mitsuaki
Chapter 10
8 years agoHimeno is a sweet, shy little centaur girl. In her world, everyone seems to be a supernatural creature, and all her classmates have some kind of horns, wings, tails, halos, or other visible supernatural body part. Despite their supernatural elements, Himeno and her best friends, Nozomi and Kyoko, have a fun and mostly normal daily school life!
Chapter 65
8 years agoSimo Häyhä, the legendary sniper who distinguished himself defending Finland from Russia in the Winter War, is a woman.
Chapter 6
8 years agoThe foolish living things, the humans, who carry darkness in their hearts, lost the light from their eyes. Deep inside the darkness, they lose sight of the way. Crushed in their despair, the humans one day meet creatures called the hotaru who each carry a faint, warm light. The hotaru provided the humans with the light, and started to live alongside them. But in this ugly and blood-stained world, the hotaru's number started to decrease day by day. Yet, the humans wanted the light and started to hunt the hotaru. For money they would throw away the life of a hotaru. Nemu, a hotaru who has lost her light, makes a contract with a abandoned baby, Haibane. Haibane seeks to find a way to gain back Nemu's light.
Chapter 13
8 years agoAkane is your typical teenage girl…until she swallows the Dragon Jewels, which transport her to the Heian period of ancient Japan! There in the capital city, Akane learns that she has been foreordained to lead the people as the Priestess of the Dragon God!
Chapter 61
8 years agoDespite being half-brothers, Robert and Emile met each other just three years ago when they both started working for the Emperor. Robert is the Captain of the Royal Guard despite still being 17, while the younger Emile is a member of the Guard. But things never go smoothly for the newly-united brothers, because the Emperor is always willing to throw troublesome jobs their way…
Chapter 13
8 years agoAdventure of Link (Zelda II) adaptation by Daisuke Shigoto.
Chapter 2
8 years agoWhat will happen to a lovely princess when she is blinded after an accident? This story was first collected in 1978 in a manga volume with the same title. It contains Oujo Alexandra 1977, Fuyu no Himawari 1975, Manatsu no Yo no Yume 1972. It was afterwards reprinted for Suzue Miuchi's best works, volume 5 1996.
Chapter 3
8 years ago1968. Germany, a Japanese student of a rich family, is about to graduate and marry his girlfriend Clara. But, one day, an UFO falls down their mountain's chalet, shifting their life This is Shotaro Ishinomori's manga adaptation of Shozo Numa's seminal S&M science fiction epic.
Chapter 8
8 years agoA story about a young ghost girl and a single traveler. A one-shot by Cool Kyoushinjya in 2008.
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8 years ago芋虫 [The Caterpillar], is an adaptation of the 1929 Edogawa Rampo short story of the same name. The Caterpillar is a haunting psychosexual tale of Lt. Sunaga, a disfigured and limbless veteran of WWI who returns home to his young and beautiful wife. Sunaga initially is given a hero's welcome, but is quickly forgotten and shunned because of his injuries. Unable to speak or care for himself, he is completely at the mercy of his wife as she grows to loathe and toy with him.
Chapter 4
8 years agoThe year is 1787, Tenmei Era, a time of plague and famine in Japan, When ordinary swordsman only add to the piles of corpses on the street. But Nakoruru, a nature-worshipping Ainu priestess; Haohmaru, a bold samurai with a death wish; Hanzo, a ninja loyal to the Shogun, are samurai spirits with a common destiny. With Nakoruru's guidance, the trio battle the supernatural forces of the Dark Kingdom, led by the half-human wizard Madou Shiranui. If Shiranui's troops succeed in fomenting a war between Japan's warlords, the resulting devastation will clear the way for Dark Kingdom invasion of earth. Can the the brave samurai stave off an all-out attack by an entire legion of demons?
Chapter 6
8 years agoAction manga about the German 8th tank company on the Eastern Front of WW2 during the fall of 1943.
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8 years agoYonagahiko - a god(?) with a human face and a serpentine body - lives on a mountain-side with a small, mysterious boy named Tetsuichi. There is a popular legend about that mountain; a legend which tells the tale of a human who once slew the mountain god and gained possession of his powers…
Chapter 5
8 years agoThe more a city like Edo grows wealthy the more people will gather, and as a side effect more seeds of discord can easily be found. In one hand we have Shusuke, a slacker "almost" apprentice of a merchant with a rather large mouth who is pretty skilled in conversational skills and reading into people's intentions. On the other hand we have Rie, a gracious Yamato nadeshiko who is actually an expert swordsman who has dedicated her life to her skills, and works as a benriya or hired hand / jack of all trades. What have these two in common? Well, besides their very own interesting backgrounds, the two of them are actually quite indebted towards the same person, which is Shuusuke's merchant "mentor" & Rie's landlord.
Chapter 9
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