Kajiwara, Ikki

Chiba, Tetsuya

Joe Yabuki has learned how to toughen up and stop trusting others after a troubling youth spent bouncing between orphanages and fending off bullies. After finally escaping the cycle of violent temporary homes, Joe adopts a delinquent lifestyle in the streets of San'ya, a slum in Tokyo. He makes his way through the world with his fists, picking fights with anyone he pleases.

Danpei Tange, a washed-up and alcoholic former boxing coach, notices Joe's animalistic combat ability and attempts to mentor the wild teenager. Despite developing an explosive relationship, the two form a close bond and rely on each other to look after the other homeless children in San'ya.

Unable to abandon his destructive habits, Joe is arrested for petty crimes. In jail, he meets and fights with lifelong friends and rivals, including the boxing prodigy Tooru Rikiishi. Continuously challenging Rikiishi to fights, Joe is knocked out time after time due to his savage brawling style failing in the face of Rikiishi's controlled boxing technique. But eventually, Joe stuns his rival with a knockout blow, earning Rikiishi's respect and the promise that they will one day meet again inside the professional ring.

Finding a reason to live within boxing, Joe takes life head-on with a new purpose. As he rises through Japan's amateur and professional boxing scenes, he contends with painful loss and increasing injury. Joe's passion for fighting is all-consuming, and he grapples with the idea that a life without boxing may not be one worth living.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Ashita no Joe

Ashita no Joe: Fighting for Tomorrow

あしたのジョー

Tezuka, Osamu

The story of friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate.

(Source: Wikipedia)

Hidamari no Ki

陽だまりの樹

Matsumoto, Izumi

Junior high school student Kyousuke Kasuga and his family are espers, commanding an array of unique powers. But whenever this arouses the public's suspicion, they must swiftly relocate. Tired of this routine, Kyousuke transfers schools for the eighth time and is determined to make this the last. However, a series of unexpected developments lands him in the middle of the school's notorious delinquent duo.

Madoka Ayukawa, enigmatic and feared by the students, often switches her personality between cold and affectionate, while the lively and energetic Hikaru Hiyama harbors a public crush for her "darling" Kyousuke. Caught up in a fierce love triangle threatening his dream of an ordinary life, Kyousuke decides to use his powers in an attempt to appease both girls. But it soon becomes apparent that his indecision will only take him so far.

[Written by MAL Rewrite]

Kimagure Orange☆Road

Kimagure Orange Road

きまぐれオレンジ☆ロード

Kariya, Tetsu

Hanasaki, Akira

Around the offices of Tozai News, Shiro Yamaoka has a reputation for being over-blunt, under-ambitious, and generally an all-around slacker. So why has he been given the important job of coming up with the "Ultimate Menu" to celebrate the newspaper's 100th anniversary? Because he possesses qualities his other colleagues don't: an exquisitely discerning palate, an encyclopedic knowledge of food and drink, and a masterful touch in the kitchen.

(Source: VIZ Media)

Oishinbo

Oishinbo: À la Carte

美味しんぼ

Hayashi, Seiichi

Seiichi Hayashi produced Sekishoku Elegy between 1969 and 1970, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of sparse line work and visual codes borrowed from animation and film, the quiet melancholy lives of a young couple struggling to make ends meet are beautifully captured in this poetic masterpiece.

Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichirou and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping—together and at times with others. While Ichirou attempts to make a living from his comics, Sachiko's parents are eager to arrange a marriage for her, but Ichirou doesn't seem interested. Both in their relationship and at work, Ichirou and Sachiko are unable to say the things they need to say, and like any couple, at times say things to each other that they do not mean, ultimately communicating as much with their body language and what remains unsaid as with words.

(Source: Drawn and Quaterly)

Sekishoku Elegy

Red Colored Elegy

赤色エレジー

Yoshida, Akimi

Heath Swanson, an 18-year-old high school dropout, runs away from his home in San Diego, California, to make a fresh start in New York City. Along his travels he meets Eve, another troubled teen who latches onto him. Although annoyed by his presence and idealistic dreams of life in California at first, the two form an inseparable bond. Living among artists in SoHo, the two help and support each other as they try to make a living in the city.

(Source: Buttdong Translations)

California Monogatari

カリフォルニア物語

Tsuge, Yoshiharu

1. Akai Hana (Red Flowers)
2. Ri-san Ikka (The Lee Family)
3. Tsuya (The Wake)
4. Umibe no Jokei (Scenes from the Seaside)
5. Nishibetamura Jiken (The Incident at Nishibeta Village)
6. Futamata Keikoku (Futamata Gorge)
7. Honyaradou no Ben-san (Mister Ben of the Honyara Cave)
8. Jonin (The Ninjess)
9. Furuhon to Shoujo (The Secondhand Book)
10. Mokkiriya no Shoujo (The Mokkiriya Tavern Girl)
11. Yanagiya Shujin (Master of the Willow Inn)
12. Shomin Onyado
13. Kinjo no Keshiki

Akai Hana

紅い花

Yamada, Yugi

Compilation of 7 short stories:

1) Love Affair in the Afternoon
College student takes over a tutoring job for the friend he has a crush on.

2) I don't mind it if You are a Man
College students/neighbors are (only?) sex friends.

3) Love's Worries
Ex-lovers from their student days are reunited.

4) Kana and Patience
Divorced man cheats on his new lover.

5) Why there is no Ice Beer
Younger co-worker always hangs out at his sempai's house.

6) Bring Me to the Edge of the World
An odd 17-year-old electrician puts in an air conditioner for sexy businessman.

7) Spinning World
Sequel to Bring Me to the Edge of the World. 

(Source: MangaUpdates)

Yarashii Hirusagari

やらしい昼下がり

Uchida, Yoshimi

Young American socialite Hugh is haunted by recurring dreams of a silent house shadowed in mystery. Slowly overcome by a premonition of living on the "other side," he turns to his close friends for advice. And then one day, a girl appears in his dream asking for help...

A story about a man who becomes a ghost, which reaches for multiple deep themes about the nature of "home," where people go when they find it, and when they lose it.

(Source: Glacier Bay Books)

Hoshi no Tokei no Liddell

Star Clock Liddell

星の時計のLiddell

Nakazawa, Keiji

1. Ore wa Mita (I Saw It)
2. Eien no Anchor
3. Shuppatsu no Uta
4. Hyoushigi no Uta
5. Ii Tama Ippon

Heiwa no Kane Series

中沢啓治平和マンガ作品集 平和の鐘シリーズ

Kim, So Hee

Jin Young is a good student with good grades, but she has a little bit of an unstable mind. Hye Jung is a cheerful girl who helps out at her mom's "snack shop", a sort of small restaurant that offers light meals to diners. Both attended the same school, and both transferred to an independent-study private school, where they meet Si Hyung who is an instructor there. Si Hyung used to live in the same neighborhood with Jin Young when they were young, but he's surprised how Jin Young has changed into a cold person.

A Cat and a Bird

고양이와 새

Min, Jung Ko

Hangyul has only been carrying credit cards (no cash) since her kidnapping when she was 6 years old. One day, Gyuh-lu, the adopted son of her birth mother appears and transfers her to his school and starts living with her at her house….?!

About how these two delinquents meet. Their life... is it meant to be fated...?

(Source: MangaUpdates)

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