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

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

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

Shimizu, Aki

Six short tales of fantasy and friendship by Shimizu Aki.

The NEET Woman and the Second Grader: A 19-year-old NEET and near-hikikomori named Tsuda Yasue encounters a crying second grade girl outside her apartment and tries to figure out how to handle her.
Flow My Tears, the Onion Said: A girl suddenly is spoken to by an onion she is preparing to cook.
The Young Lady and the Gardener: A young, wealthy lady who lost her sight after her father died sits at her window and makes grandiose requests while a gardener that works outside her window tries to fulfill them.
The Ouroboros-drome: An Alice-in-Wonderland like tale.
The Secret of the Pair: Two history buff girls meet, and one of them reveals a secret that leads to the other playing out a very familiar situation.
Advice on Love: A continuation of the NEET Woman and the Second Grader.  Takes place a few years later.

NEET Onna to Shougaku Ninensei

ニート女と小学２年生

Katsumata, Susumu

A collection of short stories telling the tales of peasant farmers in rural pre-modern Japan, and the lives they live.

(Source: MU)

Akai Yuki

Red Snow

赤い雪 勝又進作品集

Kamimura, Kazuo

August 15 1945, a plane from the US Air Forces crashes in a field in the Chiba region. Thus begins, the day of Japan's capitulation, that great bildungsroman about Kinta, a young boy raised by his grandfather after his mother's death.

Kantou Heiya

関東平野

Egawa, Tatsuya

Akira Sasanishiki, a math teacher at an elite high school where only grades matter, is a womanizing motorcycle freak who goes against school policy and helps students in need. To the school, this young teacher is a trouble-maker and a problem.

What is love? What is friendship? What is sex? What is violence? What is justice? What is evil? What is the "perfect society"? What is the "real world" like? With each student made to tackle the various problems that they must face to grow up - sometimes comically and sometimes seriously - this work is a kind of bible for the young generation.

(Source: MU)

Be Free!

BE FREE! ビー・フリー

Mouri, Jinpachi

Uoto, Osamu

The story centers on the life of Kawata Yoshio, an eccentric judge.

The popularity of the series seems to stem from both the good-natured wisdom of its hero, Judge Kawata, and the glimpse it offers of Japan's judicial system as it deals with current social issues ranging from divorce to substance abuse.

Kasai no Hito

家栽の人

A collection of late-period stories originally published from 1981 to 1985.

1. Tonari no Onna
2. Sanpo no Hibi
3. Shounen
4. Aru Mumei Sakka
5. Kinjo no Keshiki
6. Ikebukuro Hyakutenkai

Tonari no Onna

隣りの女

Ishinomori, Shoutarou

A hotel is a living thing. Love and joy, sadness and hate, and even betrayal; all contained within these walls. It is also a metropolis. Beauty parlor and jewelry store, restaurant and pharmacy, hospital and shoeshine. Everything you need to live is here. The Room Key is all-powerful. You can use it to buy food, jewelry, and to clean your clothes, all without a single reach of the wallet.

As a new morning comes, the being continues beating. Supplying blood into every extremity from its center. And as problems arrive, they are dealt with, leaving no abnormalities.

This is the Hotel Platon.

(Source: MangaHelpers)

Hotel

HOTEL

Hirokane, Kenshi

The manga is about a series of unrelated short stories of people's life and their lessons in life.

(Source: MU)

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