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

Koike, Kazuo

Matsumori, Tadashi

Uto Yujiro, a Japanese youngster who cross the sea to the home of the Eskimos - a cold &amp; freezing place in northern Alaska, in order to become a top class whaler, but after he met a powerful boxer called Jim, his life's destiny has changed dramatically...

Kenshin

拳神

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

Otomo, Katsuhiro

1-5. Sayonara Nippon
6. East of The Sun. West of The Moon
7-10. Seija ga Machi ni Yattekuru
11. A-sou Satsujin Jiken

Sayonara Nippon

さよならにっぽん

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

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

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)

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