In the year 1947, the people of Shinjuku are down on their luck. With little money to buy food or necessities, some resort to gambling in order to survive. Traveling Tetsuya chooses to spend his time at Mahjong parlors where he is wiping the floor clean with his adversaries. However, Tetsuya meets the intensely-skilled Boushu-san, this is when he realizes that his skills are still lacking. (Source: Anime News Network)

Tamiya Rokuto and Endou Hiroto are both child prodigies in the mathematics world, but they are both terminally ill. These two stay at a special hospital that is being run by a Christian group, where nuns act as nurses and priests act as doctors. At this hospital, all of the patients are highly respected academics in their own field. These individuals have been gathered to decode a special book that allegedly contains the secrets to immortality. To save Endou's life, Tamiya sets out to decode this mysterious book, but there seems to be demonic forces that come with this forbidden book. (Source: MangaHelpers)

An adaptation of the Agatha Christie novels *The A.B.C. Murders* and *Murder in the Mews*.

The year is 1953. Japan has begun her recovery from the war, but economic hardship still plagues the people of the country. In these times, the people of Japan chose movie theaters as their escape from the hardships of reality. Imagine this fact: the base salary of a government official was 12,820 yen per year. At the time, a 2 liter bottle of beer was 107 yen, while a movie ticket was 125 yen. Yet, every year, 1 billion people visit the theaters to follow the magic of the movies. Kudou Takeru, a freshman actor, and Kazama Shinichirou, a freshman director, both delve into this booming industry to pursue what they love. Their ambitions are rooted in a past promise made during the war, a promise of uncompromising pursuit of a "real" cinema. They aim to bring life to the "fake" and glamorous status quo of the cinema industry, by employing what they believe to be the pure form of theater: realism. (Source: MangaHelpers)

In the 1980s two great players anchored the Yomiuri Giants: "Monster" Suguru Egawa and "Weed" Takashi Nishimoto. As pitching aces for the same team, the two had a legendary rivalry unparalleled in Japanese baseball history. With two real personages as his protagonists, the author based his bold interweaving of fact and conjecture on exhaustive interviews with Nishimoto and other featured individuals. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

2021 Taiga hero! 2024 New 10,000 yen bill!! Born as a farmer in Fukaya City, Saitama Prefecture, he turns into a terrorist who wants to overthrow the Shogunate. Survived the end of the Edo period, and after that, he was involved in the establishment of nearly 500 companies. Eiichi Shibusawa, the "father of capitalism" who built modern Japan.