Beware of the vengeful soul within every woman! Through stories set in the Edo period, Kamimura uses Japanese folklore to speak of love, carnal desires, jealousy and hatred. Thirteen horrific stories in which men are punished for stirring up resentment in the hearts of women. (Source: Kana, translated)

Futatsu Makura takes us into the pleasure district of Yoshiwara, where courtesans and their clients meet in the ancient city of Edo. From the most famous teahouses to the most disreputable, in each room, a woman and a man talk to each other, before moving on to serious matters that no longer need words. The drawings are directly inspired by famous prints of Hokusai or Utamaro. The dialogues are of extreme sophistication while touching the essence of intimacy, making us feel all the nuances of relationships and expectations, hopes and fears, rivalries and pride. This works makes live the intimacy of hearts and minds, in this world of pleasures which is only the exacerbated reflection of a whole society. (Source: Editions Picquier, translated & adapted)

Seventy years after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a mystery. Historians, military tacticians, and psychologists have tried in vain to unravel his complex motivations for leading Germany into the Holocaust and World War II. With Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler, the manga-ka (Kitaro, NonNonba, Showa: A History of Japan) delves deep into the history books to create an absorbing and eloquent portrait of Hitler's life. Beginning with Hitler's time in Austria as a starving art student and ending with a Germany in ruins, Shigeru Mizuki's Hitler retraces the path Hitler took in life, coolly examining his charismatic appeal and his calculated political maneuvering. The Munich Beer Putsch, Hitler's ascent to chancellor, the sudden death of his half-niece Geli, the Battle of Stalingrad, his relationship with Eva Braun, and his eventual demise: all are given equal attention in this thorough and compelling biography. In Mizuki's signature style, which populates incredibly realistic backgrounds with cartoony people, Japan's most famous living cartoonist has created an overview of Hitler's life that is as fascinating as it is informative. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

A celebrated masterwork shimmering with vulnerability from one of alt-manga's most important female artists. "Now that we've woken from the dream, what are we going to do?" Chiharu thinks to herself, rubbing her husband's head affectionately. Set in an apartment complex on the outskirts of Tokyo, Murasaki Yamada's Talk to My Back (1981-84) explores the fraying of Japan's suburban middle-class dreams through a woman's relationship with her two daughters as they mature and assert their independence, and with her husband, who works late and sees his wife as little more than a domestic servant. (Source: Drawn & Quarterly)

Gassou tells the story of the young men who were part of the Shougitai, a group of former Tokugawa retainers who fought to oppose the Meiji government in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate. (Source: Anime News Network)

Another "irrational" or "unreasonable" gag manga by Yoshida Sensha... The story revolves around Ijimete-kun (Bully-me-kun), who no one is able to resist bullying, despite him exploding every time.

Youkai are specters who have lived in the human world since the dawn of time. They often rest peacefully in their dwelling places, until humans rouse them by inconsiderate actions. Kitaro is a young youkai boy who wants to help humans and youkai live in harmony, and he fights to protect humans from the enraged youkai who lash out at them.

Ninja! Samurai! Cowboys! Aliens! Amoebas! Join Japan’s favorite ninja, Sarutobi Sasuke, on this psychedelic romp across a land beyond time by the legendary manga author and Pop Art pioneer Sugiura Shigeru. In this 1969 take on the beloved ninja, the carefree young Sasuke pranks his way through a radically reimagined old Japan, opening wormholes to America’s Wild West and outer space as he goes. This wild adventure overflows with eye-popping sights: UFOs, absurd monsters, Hollywood stars, gun-toting outlaws, submarines, towering mushroom clouds, and much more. (Source: New York Review Comics) *Note: The edition licensed in English by NYR in 2024 is based on the revised edition which was first released in 1969*

When Giovanni, a lonely boy in a hill town, goes to get milk for his ailing mother, he finds himself crossing the Milky Way on a faster-than-light steam railroad. The stations he visits in various constellations, like the planets explored by St. Exupery's Little Prince, offer curious adventures and an assortment of human "types." Reality and fantasy blur aboard the train, and its travels across the light-years sometimes suggests the journey through life. The characters are depicted as cats, presumably to avoid the problems of animating humans.