One of the original gag manga, this collection of shorts features talking crotches, a comedian’s audience made of robots, a man with a turtle attached to his nose, the Goddess of Defeat, and a religious order that wants to ban clothing… 1. Time Machine no Mikoto (タイムマシンのみこと) 2. Shinagawa Chuushin (品川中心) 3. Suppon Monogatari 4. Sexodus (セクソダス) 5. Make Jorou (負け女郎) 6. Nudian Archipelago (ヌーディアン列島, Nudian Rettou)

It tells the story of Tenka Taihei, a thin little Japanese man, docile but easily manipulable, whose sperm have two flagellums and gives birth to a third human gender: neither male nor female. These “third sex” humans, born inside test tubes and mass-produced, will be used for servile purposes. (Source: FLBLB Edition, translated)

After the end of World War II, as the Cold War intensifies, an anti-Communist purge breaks out in the United States. The American government is denouncing some of the most famous Hollywood personalities. This manga tells the story of how the Hollywood film community fights the ruthless oppression of power. (Source: VEGA, translated) *Note: Includes one extra chapter.*

Neuro Hard is a story set in the year 2300 when humans are drifting in the mechanized planet Hurema Hiyuto and space exploration is the order of the day. Intelligent lifeforms were detected in the fifth planet and a team of explorers decided to investigate. By mistake, the expedition administrators stupidly brought in a rowdy bunch of space pirates who proceeded to blow up the main ship and crashing them into the strange Planet Anthea. The Planet of the Bees - where a colony of aggressive wasps dominate the land. (Source: takotech.net)

Short stories set in decadent years of World War II, and in the subsequent postwar period. (Source: AnimeClick, translated)

This is the story of a girl in China in 1900 who kills a tax collector from a corrupt government and finds herself hiding amongst guerrilla soldiers.

Anthology of short stories created by Kodansha authors to celebrate the release of the Hollywood Ghost in the Shell movie adaptation.

One night after leaving a club where he was playing trumpet Ryou Takagi is jumped by a motorcycle gang. The scuffle spills out into the streets and causes a traffic accident. Because of this, Ryou is arrested and forced to do time. Upon his release, he has developed into a skilled boxer but trouble continues to find him. **Note:** B.B won the Shogakukan Manga Award in the shounen category in 1989.

A reboot of Princess Sapphire currently running in Tezucomi, an 18-month special magazine commemorating Osamu Tezuka for his 90th Birthday.

In an ideal world where man and robots coexist, someone or something has destroyed the powerful Swiss robot Mont Blanc. Elsewhere a key figure in a robot rights group is murdered. The two incidents appear to be unrelated...except for one very conspicuous clue - the bodies of both victims have been fashioned into some sort of bizarre collage complete with makeshift horns placed by the victims' heads. Interpol assigns robot detective Gesicht to this most strange and complex case - and he eventually discovers that he too, as one of the seven great robots of the world, is one of the targets. (Source: VIZ Media)

Hiroaki Samura's Blade of the Immortal will keep you on edge! Manji, a ronin warrior of feudal Japan, has been cursed with immortality. To rid himself of this curse and end his life of misery, he must slay one thousand evil men! His quest begins when a young girl seeks his help in taking revenge on her parents' killers . . . and his quest won't end until the blood of a thousand has spilled! (Source: Dark Horse) *Notes: \- The magazine release contains 219 chapters, which includes a prologue. \- The tankoubon release re-arranges the manga into 207 total chapters across 30 volumes. \- The Dark Horse release re-arranges the manga into 208 total chapters across 31 volumes.*

"All things are born and all things die. That is the law of heaven." According to legend, the Bird of Fire called the Phoenix is the eternal spirit of life, death and rebirth. She oversees the cycle of reincarnation and the rising and falling of civilizations and species. Those who can obtain her blood will be granted eternal life, while to others she can grant infinite wisdom, or eternal suffering. Throughout history, from the dawn of civilization to the extinction of the human race, those human souls touched by the Phoenix have hunted her over and over in multiple reincarnations, and their actions in one life determine or reflect the sins and sufferings of other lifetimes. (Source: Anime News Network) *Note: This is an incomplete series due to Tezuka's death.*