Award Winning

Like Shooting Stars in the Twilight

  (from MangaUpdates):   How about this, a manga for adults – and not young adults either. This is a series of stories about love and romance amongst the older generations. As...

UNCOntrollable

  Inukai Haru, a high school student, on top of being late to school experiences an unprecedented crisis inside a train―   Recipient of an honorary mention in the 1st Meteor Polaris...

Imuri

  Four thousand years ago, the planet Roon was frozen by the ruling race, Kama, during a raging war. The Kama then emigrated to a neighbouring planet. But now the ice...

Little Kobe

  A new interpretation of Yamamoto Shuguro’s period novel Chiisakobe, transplanting the original Edo era in a modern setting. A young carpenter, Shigeji, who lost his parents and his father’s building...

Peach Girl

  It's not easy being beautiful. The envy, the jealousy, the vicious rumors spread by your best friend. That's life for young Momo. While everyone thinks that Momo is a wild...

Hyakumanjou Labyrinth

  What if real life could glitch?   Reika and Yoko, two students, wander in a huge building, a real never-ending labyrinth defying imagination.Their only clue: a mysterious message on a low...

Osomatsu-kun

  Meet the Osomatsu boys—sextuplets who look, speak, dress and talk like the same. They only add to the hyper eccentric residents of the town who easily break any boundaries defined...

Guru Guru Pon-chan

  Ponta is a Labrador retriever puppy, the Koizumi family's pet. She's full of energy and usually up to some kind of mischief. But when Grandpa Koizumi, an amateur inventor, creates...

Koibumi Biyori

  From Del Rey:   Every letter the mailman delivers brings a new chance at love. With wit, humor, and mystery George Asakura leads us through a series of brief tales of...

Angel Lip

  Mikina's father is the president of a modeling agency. Mikina was once a popular child model, but due to an accident, she developed camera-phobia and gave up modeling.   10 years...

Swap ⇔ Swap

  Two girls, Ichinose Haruko and Nikaido Natsuko, bump into each other by accident, resulting in a kiss that would change their lives…   Placed 5th for Best New 4-koma series of...

Machida-kun's World

  Machida-kun seems like the perfect brother, son, and student because he loves people. Helpful when he needs to be, but puts himself down when he feels like a total failure....

Carefree Matsutaro

  (from ANN): The story follows Matsutarō Sakaguchi, a giant roughneck man with strength far beyond ordinary people, and peerless in sumo wrestling. His greatest weakness is his own carefree personality....

Kaguya-sama: Love Is War

  All’s fair when love is war!   Two geniuses. Two brains. Two hearts. One battle. Who will confess their love first…?!   Kaguya Shinomiya and Miyuki Shirogane are two geniuses who stand...

Otouto no Otto

  Ten years ago Yaichi's twin brother moved to Canada and married a man called Mike. A month ago, he died.   Now Mike has arrived in Japan to meet Yaichi and...

Le Monde de Milo

  A somewhat not so lonely little boy fishes daily to pass the time when his father is too busy to make it home. One day he finds something in the...

Her

  HER is a series of character portraits, loosely strung together by everyday circumstances.   The story begins with a woman who wants to be loveable - and loved - and who...

Witch of the Old World

  A 64-page fantasy/sci-fi one-shot that ran in Afternoon. Winner of the Four Seasons Award but didn't get serialized. ...

Yokai Hunter

  Hieda-sensei is a professor of archeology, with a fervent belief in the existence and power of supernatural creatures like gods and demons. Since he can't prove anything, his belief has...

Ao Ashi

  Aoi Ashito is a third year middle school student from Ehime. Behind his raw game hides his immense talent, but Ashito suffers a huge setback because of his overly straightforward...

Fragile - Byourii Kishi Keiichirou no Shoken

  Kishi Keiichirou is a pathologist who advises doctors on their diagnoses and whose judgement is widely accepted. Though an eccentric that few people can stand to associate personally, Kishi is...

Reiri

  Sengoku Period (1579): a young woman who has lost everything dedicates herself to seeking strength and a death on the battlefield.Reiri once lived happily with her family, until the day...

Golden Kamuy

  In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across...

Aircraft Carrier Ibuki

  The year is 20XX, state of the world affairs is changing at a dizzying pace. This is particularly clear in the growing military strength of countries neighboring Japan. In response...