A collection of short stories drawn with great delicacy and told with subtle nuance by legendary Japanese artist Susumu Katsumata. The setting is the pre-modern Japanese countryside of the author's youth, a slightly magical world where ancestral traditions hold sway over a people in the full vigor of life, struggling to survive the harsh seasons and the difficult life of manual laborers and farmers. While the world they inhabit has faded into memory and myth, the universal fundamental emotions of the human heart prevail at the center of these tender stories. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

Nick used to be a member of a veteran adventurer party, helping his undisciplined friends with the accounts whenever he could. But what was his reward? Getting accused of embezzlement and kicked out by the leader he respected. Before long, he finds a few other jaded adventurers and kindred spirits, and together, they form their own unstoppable party! (Source: Yen Press) *Note: Chapter count includes 1 extra.*

My name is Iori Narazaki. I am 17 years old, and I've always been a crybaby since the day I was born. I cry when I'm happy, I cry when I'm sad - and I cry because there isn't a person in the world who could someone like me. I don't even know if can fall in love. I mean, I've never had a boyfriend, and whenever I've had a crush on someone, my feelings never lasted. ...until Yusuke. Whatever the situtation, he's the only thing on my mind - is this good, bad, healthy, unhealthy? I don't know. All I know is that I want this to continue - my first taste of love! (Source: JManga)

Gentoku, the head of the AI conglomerate Dennoin family, has passed away. His three children watch with bated breath to see what becomes of their father's vast fortune. However, the heir named in the will turns out to be, of all things, a care robot named Loppy?! (Source: MANGA Plus)

God Came To Apologize Because I Had a Hard Time In My Past Life Saki Amemiya has spent her life filled with misfortune, from bullying to power harassment. It is right when she thinks she can finally get to go home after having worked overtime until the last train, that lightning strikes and ends her life. She wakes up and realizes a young boy claiming to be a god appears in front of her, and he confesses to her that "All the misfortunes you've had are my fault!." Saki is recommended to be reincarnated into another world as an apology, she accepts the proposal to attain happiness at last. Many divine protections are bestowed upon her...? With the apology cheat, she becomes a beautiful and genius girl?! This time, for sure, she will attain happiness! The heartwarming isekai fantasy begins♪ (Source: Alpha Manga)

When I woke up after collapsing from overwork working for a shady company, I had been reborn as the son of a minor feudal lord in a different world. Our lands were attacked by monsters, I lost my new parents, and the people fled… In order to survive, I must gather a talented elite so this land can thrive by employing my knowledge from my past life as a overworked white-collar worker! A story of managing a fiefdom in another world starting from zero citizens! *Source: Manga UP! Global*

Melia, a former office worker, was reborn in another world by chance. She was always working in her previous life, so now she wants to live leisurely in her new world. God grants her wish by making her younger and giving her the blacksmithing skills she had always longed for. Melia was excited to be able to blacksmith every day and enjoy her new life. But it turns out that in this new world, her blacksmithing skills are pretty special. It seems like her quiet days were not meant to be… *Source: Alpha Manga*

A manga adaption of Kenji Miyazawa's classic Night on the Galactic Railroad.

*Note: Part of Okinawa by Fantagraphics* Sword of Sand is a collection of stories that take place at the end of WWII. Susumu Higa gives us an inside look at the battle of Okinawa, from the first signs to the aftermath, through different points of view of inhabitants, soldiers, Japanese and American, in this war where there is neither good nor evil, neither good nor bad, only a cruel sense of absurdity. The men are in turn overwhelmingly stupid, full of wisdom or infinitely touching by their humanity. Because Higa's work has something deeply generous, which is also felt in his simple and precise lines.

Mira, who grew up in an orphanage, was born with the ability to absorb magical powers and was forced by her father-in-law, Baron Weston, to purify miasma-tainted swords and magical tools. As a result, her body was so ravaged that doctors told her she would not live more than a year. One day, Mira collapses in the temple and is saved by a beautiful woman, Annalise. Her brother, Darius, is the first duke and head of the Order of the Holy Knights, but he suffers from a disease called hypermagia. Annalise proposes a certain way to save her brother in exchange for saving Mira from the baron... (Source: MangaPlaza)

*Note: Part of Okinawa by Fantagraphics* In Mabui Susumu Higa continues to weave stories set in Okinawa. This is a collection of his unique and previously uncollected stories about the present day.

Stylistically intermingling themes of gentrification and rebirth within the setting of a classic yakuza crime drama, Children of Mu-Town follows the course charted by youths of an aging residential housing complex who are struggling for their lives: burdened by financial issues, peer pressure, and uncertain futures, ensnared in the clutches of organized crime, they are searching for a way to survive. When a municipal renovation project seems to offer a future of stability for their dilapidated town, the mysterious and far-reaching consequences that their actions set into motion may leave Juichi and his friends with no option but annihilation….. A stunning modern “tenement masterpiece” work of manga, Mu-Town is a story of small-town gang intimidation, escalating immigration tensions, political intrigue, and the yearning desperation of youth.