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From Manga-Sketchbook:
14 pages short story which originally appeared in AERA COMIC'S "Nippon no Manga" anthology.
To get anything other than the pretty pictures out of this short story, one should have read Natsume Souseki's Sanshiro.Genre(s): Drama, Historical, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: May 24, 2018
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[From Manga-Sketchbook]:
Female assassins mix sex and death in a pair of hard-boiled well-drawn film-noir stories of love and murder.
From Baka-Updates:
Two linked stories, both revolving around a deadly female assassin. In Hotel Harbour View, a Japanese expatriate in Hong Kong spends his time drinking whisky, photographing a high class prostitute and waiting for death at the hands of the assassin he knows is coming for him. In Brief Encounter, a notorious Parisian assassin is himself marked for assassination and his hunter is no stranger to him.Genre(s): Action, Drama, Mature, Mystery, Seinen
Updated Time: Mar 03, 2020
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Nowadays, who takes his time to climb a tree in the middle of the city? To look at the birds, to play in the puddles after the rain? The walking man, through his lonely and silent strolls, makes us rediscover the happiness of wandering around...
-- Manga-SketchbookGenre(s): Seinen, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Aug 27, 2019
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Published as the Hitobito Series (???????):
- The Keyaki Tree (???)
- The White Rocking Horse (????)
- The Reunion (??)
- My Brother’s Life (?????)
- The Umbrella (??)
- At the Art Gallery (?????)
- Through the Forest (?????)
- His Hometown (????)Genre(s): Seinen, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Oct 23, 2016
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Five short stories.
- Inu wo Kau (Raising a Dog)
- Soshite Neko wo Kau (And Then, Caring for a Cat)
- Niwa no Nagame (View of the Backyard)
- Sannin no Hibi (Three People's Days)
- Yakusoku no Chi (Promised Land)
The first one tells the death of an old dog, hence the title. The last one is a bit similar to a later work of the author, Kamigami no Itadaki.
Inu wo Kau won the Shogakukan Manga Award (examination committee special) in 1992.Genre(s): Drama, Seinen, Slice Of Life, Tragedy
Updated Time: Oct 24, 2016
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On his way back from a business trip, the protagonist decides on a whim to take a train back to his old hometown. The moment he pays respects to his mother's grave in the transformed town, he is transported back to a summer when he was still in junior high school, only with all his middle-age consciousness, knowledge and abilities intact.
On this journey across time, he understands for the first time the burdens born by his father, and his mother's tears. This is the kind of fantasy manga were made for, executed by an artist of great talent. This is a serious, delicate, and ultimately moving time travel variation.Genre(s): Drama, Psychological, Seinen, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Apr 18, 2024
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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.
Genre(s): Drama, Historical, Seinen, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Apr 18, 2020
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Seton is the story of Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), a famous American writer and naturalist.
Genre(s): Adventure, Historical
Updated Time: Jan 06, 2021
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Tales of the Prehistoric Animal Kingdom
The ancient earth. Many animals were born and killed in the overwhelming nature. They are the ancestors of the animals that now live on this planet.
Genre(s): Historical
Updated Time: Apr 27, 6000
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Oneshot published in Oyaji Shuu, a collection of essays and short stories about old men.
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Updated Time: Jan 12, 2021
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K is a work frankly atypical when compared to most comics or sleeves that are published in our country, and is an adaptation of a famous Japanese novel written by Yumemakura Baku. K (Ka) is the name of a mysterious climber who do not know their origin or their real name, although suspected to be Japanese. Occasionally performs functions sherpa carrier or for expeditions want to climb the Himalayan mountains. His extraordinary skill as a climber have made him a sort of legend among the locals and their services are often required to perform rescues in the most extreme situations. But K does not work for money, he sees in the mountains not only a personal challenge but a way of being part of nature itself, thus using the lessons of the tribes of the area and the observation of animal behavior to solve the difficulties it presents the mountain. So we will see, over five chapters, how K must face increasingly tough challenges and the struggle for survival and personal growth that involves climbing mountains over 8000 meters.
Genre(s): Adventure
Updated Time: Apr 27, 6000
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Winter 1989, Alaska. Blanca has escaped from a secret training camp in the Soviet bloc, counting only on his instinct to pass the Bering Strait and reach Alaska, the land of wolves. Hounded by the secret services, the genetically altered dog is driven by call of nature and of his land to continue the endless journey, embodying an ancient Inuit legend because of his extraordinary fighting skills, speed and endurance. But in his journey he comes across very dangerous enemies.
Genre(s): Action, Adventure, Drama
Updated Time: Jan 06, 2021
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Ao no Senshi depicts the fate of an atypical boxer. His name is Reggae, he\'s boxing in lightweight division. His record: 12 wins per knockout for 20 losses by as many knockouts. However, the specialists are impressed by the devastating punch of this mute fighter, which contributes to his myth. But when his path cross the one of a promoter that see in him a crownless king, his life will lead him on the tortuous path to the championship belt.
Genre(s): Sports, Drama
Updated Time: Aug 30, 2021
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A collection of short stories- Kanatayori (Big Comic Original, 2014)- Furansu to Watashi (Furansu, 2011) - Doko ni ka (Big Comic, 2016)- Mahou no Yama (Young Jump, 2006) (Divided into two chapters) - Izanaumono Hanabi
Genre(s): Sci-fi, Anthology, Drama, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Jan 11, 2023
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Anthology of short stories by Jiro Taniguchi published from 1975 to 1986. Stories included: Kouya wo Ayume (荒野を歩め) Geronimo (ジェロニモ) Long Knife (ロングナイフ) Mori e (森へ) Tsuki ni Hoeru (月に吠える) Saketa Houkou (裂けた咆哮) Yukar no Mori (ユーカラの森) The Hawk (Taka, 鷹) Kareshibanada (枯柴灘) Irataka no Juzu (イラタカの数珠) The Unnameable (Nazuke Enu Mono, 名づけえぬもの)
Genre(s): Animals, Gore, Tragedy
Updated Time: Feb 17, 2023
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Collection of short stories by Jiro Taniguchi Table of Contents: Kikyō [VAYA CON DIOS] (帰郷 [VAYA CON DIOS]) Jakō (ジャコウ) Taka (鷹) Mori e [Iwa no Michi] (森へ [岩の路]) Jeronimo (ジェロニモ) Rongu naifu (ロング・ナイフ) Tsuki ni hoeru (月に吠える) Kijō no mori e [atogaki] (机上の森へ [あとがき]) Hamidashi no mori e (はみ出しの森へ)
Genre(s): Action, Animals, Adventure, Gore, Slice Of Life
Updated Time: Feb 17, 2023
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A boy is taken to a nightmarish world, where he stumbles upon twisted visions of humanity\'s inner demons. What will his trip entail? Will he be able to return to his former self, or is his new form in the world he now inhabits irreversible?
Genre(s): Oneshot
Updated Time: Feb 21, 2023
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