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The shoot of an exotic tree appears in a Tokyo street. The popular affection turns into astonishment, then horror as the Jacaranda grows to colossal proportions, burning the capital to ashes in the course of a dantean night. Though, as sun rises survivors discover that it hasn't been a night of annihilation, but of rebirth.
Around 1955, rental bookstores—which lent books for 10 yen a day—were on the verge of their heyday. At the time, there were four manga publishers in Osaka catering to these rental shops, and Hinomaru Bunko in Semba was a bustling hub where young, impoverished but dream-filled artists—including Takao Saito, Masaaki Satou, Yoshihiro Tatsumi, and Masahiko Matsumoto—gathered! This is the story of these artists, who would later popularize a style of manga known as “gekiga,” and the beginning of the history of gekiga itself! (Source: Seirin Kogeisha, translated)
A strange character, half philosopher, half charlatan, arrives at a small mountain inn run by a lonely woman who also looks after her younger sister Karen and her younger brother Heikichi. He leads them into a wonderful world, searching for fox eggs among the pebbles in the river and talking with angels. (Source: Éditions Picquier, translated)
A story about a panda who tries to help humans in a city, but always ends messing up everything.
This single volume manga collects five stories of the samurai era that were originally published in Japan between 1971 and 1975 in various magazines.
Satoru and Scoop head to Gargoyle City in search of their childhood friend Paula. It was a phantom city that Gargoyles continue to protect even after the inhabitants have died!!! (Source: Seirin Kougeisha)
A collection of poetic short stories about love, childhood and introspection. Shizuka Nakano plunges us into a universe of haunting nostalgic beauty, mixing both everyday and enchanting dramas.
Itsumo no Hanashi is a collection of shorts from about the last decade by Kondoh, which range from somewhat light-hearted slice of life-ish stories about getting letters from old classmates (Itsumo no Hanashi) to seemingly drug-induced dream stories about talking to your legs and furniture (Kotatsu no Mawari de).