Onnakubi Village... the name comes from a long time ago, when a woman was beheaded by the daimyo and her head was displayed in the village for a month.... In Onnakubi Village, mysterious murders have been occurring one after another between the rival Nitobe and Kukijo clans. Kazuya, the eldest son of the Nitobe family and a newspaper reporter, returns to his hometown to solve the mystery of the murders!
In April 1926, the young Dr. Asahina, who was taking aerial photographs deep in the Greater Amazon region of South America, photographed a man-made fence on a cliff. Earlier, primitive people were discovered in a village near the entrance to the unexplored Chablo. An investigation team including Dr. Asahina is formed, and Kazumasa heads for the unexplored Chablo, but what does he encounter there? A Jidai Gekiga "Nozarashi Narugen" and 4 other stories are included in this collection.
In the second year of Tempo, the year of the great harvest, three prisoners attacked a family that had fled Katsunuma, Koshu. When the husband was killed and the wife was about to be raped, it was saved by Kisaburo, a childhood friend of the wife Otsuru, who had run away from the village 15 years earlier after killing a man. Kisaburo was pursued by a secret agent of the Owari Clan. The two men confront each other in the starving, abandoned village!
At the request of Togashi Jubei, a retainer of Yanagisawa Yoshiyasu, Higurashi Hankuro invades the castle to take the life of Mito Komon. A year later, for some inexplicable reason, he sets out with Tadasu to exterminate the evils of the world on behalf of Mito Komon. (Source: Leed, translated)
The chairman of the large conglomerate Taki Group suddenly dies. A dark battle ensued over his inheritance, but thanks to the efforts of acting chairman Totsuka, things calmed down, and his only son, Tetsuto Taki, became chairman. However, Tetsujin hands over the chairmanship to Totsuka, and Tetsujin, who has a strong sense of adventure, goes to Country K with his Mexican friend Mario. The dictatorial country K is in the midst of a struggle with a revolutionary organization. Mario's younger brother has been captured by a secret organization!!
The Onin War brought on a storm of turmoil that engulfed Japan. It was the Warring States period, a time in which no shogun was able to predict what the next day would bring. One young soldier of Kai stands tall. His eyes are set on the world.
A selection of horror and suspense stories by manga artists not commonly associated with the genre curated by novelist Hideyuki Kikuchi. 1. **Kyoufu no Genshi Ningen Muuzu** (恐怖の幻視人間ムーズ) \[Hisashi Sekiya\] 2. **Shounen G-men** (少年Gメン) \[Tsunayoshi Takeuchi\] 3. **Asaki Yumemiji** (浅き夢見じ) \[Goseki Kojima\] 4. **Hitoinu** (人犬) \[Takao Saitou\] 5. **Shinin ga Yonderu** (死人が呼んでる) \[Noboru Kawasaki\] 6. **Kyuuketsuki** (吸血鬼) \[Mikiya Mochizuki\] 7. **Toge Ningen** (トゲ人間) \[Jirou Kuwata\] 8. **Adachigahara no Kijo** (安達ヶ原の鬼女) \[Ryouichi Ikegami\]
It is a series set during the Warring States period, where our hero, the young swordsman Riki'ô, takes a group of orphaned children under his protection and hides them in the mountains. From there, he will try to protect his protégés from conflict, as he faces off against various ninja and samurai clans.
Biographical Manga about the Taiwanese baseball player Lu Mingshi.