What would you do if your girlfriend shrank overnight reaching the size of a Barbie doll? This is the incredible story of Minami and his girlfriend Chiyomi. After this bad luck, the two teenagers see their lives turned upside down. Minami must now take care of his miniature girlfriend. He made her clothes, he buillts a small house to her size, takes her to the bathroom and cooks her mini-meals but how long this can last? Not easy to Chiyomi become a living toy when she is going through puberty and his hormones titillate her!

A collection of George Akiyama's masterpieces, including eight heart-wrenching masterpieces and shocking problem stories. Jun, an innocent boy who loves his dog Jiro, is asked by his mother to find a pair of sandals that Jiro seems to have hidden. Jun orders Jiro to look for the sandal, but Jiro somehow brings Dostoevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" with him...?

The yakuza moneylender Dokuyaku Nintaro is known as the King of Kabukicho!

A shared cigarette offers a momentary connection. A closet hides the evidence of an embarrassed bachelor's laziness. A single woman, not getting any younger, sifts through letters from would-be husbands. A new couple buys two train tickets to anywhere. Here are the quiet, evocative urban dramas of Masahiko Matsumoto, one of the leading lights of the Japanese alternative-comics movement known as "gekiga." Originally published in 1972-1974, these eleven stories now form the first English-language collection of Matsumoto's mature work. His shy, uncertain heroes face broken hearts, changing families, money troubles, sexual anxiety, and the pressures of tradition, but with a whimsy and lightness of touch that is Matsumoto's trademark. (Source: Top Shelf Productions)

A collection of sixteen early works by Nishioka Kyodai, including their three-part debut series. As always the stories range from the whimsical to the surreal, with tales of serial killers, bird women, and a man who one day wakes to find himself with a pouch like a kangaroo. 1. Jump 2. Boku Mushi 3. Aru Kinzoku Bat Jisatsu 4. Mono no Okibasho 5. Torikago 6. Kaze no Fuiteiru Hi 7. Ame no Futteiru Hi 8. Nichiyoubi 9. Tanjoubi 10. Satsujinki-P no Noroi 11. Yoru 1 12. Yoru 2 13. Harigane 14. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Tobirabito 15. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Kangaroo no Matsuei 16. Boku ga Koroshita Mono: Shinkei

In the summer, a boy meets a glamorous woman. Selected works on the themes of "shopping streets," "melons," and "boys. This collection of masterpieces full of Asian landscapes includes two new stories, "Sento Sunkkei" and "Rorakani Ayume," which have never been published in book form before. (Source: Seirinkogesha, translated) Included Stories: 1. 南の誘惑 2. 千の瓜 3. 昼下がりのルパン 4. 昇天金魚 5. 水街 6. 麗しのマチ子ちゃん 7. 化鳥? 1 8. 化鳥? 2 9. 水と戯れて 10. 銭湯寸景 11. 朗ラカニ歩メ

*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.

Every morning a man wakes up, gets dressed, and heads to work, returning home in the evening to go to sleep. Feeling suffocated by the mundanity and repetitiveness of life, the man takes a detour on his way to work one day. But after being swept up in a tide of piracy, cannibalism, and bizarre religious sects the man starts to wonder: was his boring old life so bad after all?

Nishioka Kyoudai's anti-war epic, told in their signature surrealist style. A man wakes up one morning to find the world outside of his house a wasteland. As he searches for signs of life, he finds a fetus in a ditch, which promptly latches onto his thumb and won't let go, and things only get stranger from there...

Proud to be a Samurai, even though I'm destitute Harata Hiroshi chronologies 1970 - 1971

1. **Sou dewa Nai Tokoro e** (そうではないところへ); Garo 1997-06 2. **Tenshi** (天使, Angel); Garo 1995-04 3. **Boku wa Tora no You ni Hashitta** (ぼくは虎のように走った); kakioroshi 4. **Odekake no Hi** (おでかけの日); シュジェ 1993-01 5. **Kao no Nai Onna ni Tsuite** (顔のない女について); Garo 1992-06 6. **Fune** (船, Boat); Garo 1993-05 7. **Watashitachi no Mure** (私たちの群れ); Garo 1997-04 8. **Yoru** (夜, Night); Garo 1994-02~09 9. **Kagi** (鍵, Key); Garo 1996-01 10. **Kami** (神, God); Garo 1996-11 11. **Jigoku** (地獄, Hell); Garo 1994-11 12. **Ringo Uri no Uta** (林檎売りの唄, Song of Selling Apples); Garo 1996-09

Included Stories: The Great Hell Castle (Chapters 1-5) The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: Bloody Daruma Warrior The Legend of the Great Sumo Soul: The World's Greatest Headbutt