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This is Punpun’s coming-of-age story. His parents’ marriage is falling apart. His dad goes to jail, and his mom goes to the hospital. Punpun has to live with his loser uncle. He has a crush on a girl who lives in a weird cult. He tries talking with God about his problems, but God is a jerk. Punpun keeps hoping things will get better, but they really, really don’t. *Source: VIZ Media*
College graduates struggle to cope with the real world. Music offers refuge in this modern manga with an American attitude. Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge. Straddling the line between her years as a student and the rest of her life, Meiko struggles with the feeling that she's just not cut out to be a part of the real world. (Source: VIZ Media) *Notes: \- Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material - Japan and the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material. \- Includes one extra chapter and one-shot "Haru yo Koi (Awaiting Spring)" first included in the October 2017 new Japanese edition.*
A side story based on Solanin. New occupants are moving into Meiko and Taneda's old house. *Note: Published in Inio Asano's artbook Ctrl+T.*
1. **Bakemono Recchan** (ばけものれっちゃん) 2, 6, 11. **Funwari Otoko** (ふんわり男) 3. **Toshinose** (としのせ) 4. **Yuugatou** (誘蛾灯, Light Trap) 5. **D** 7. **Sayonara Bye-bye** (さよならばいばい) 8. **Tempest** (TEMPEST) 9. **Natsu no Nioi wa Mahou Shoujo wo Nido Korosu** (夏のにおいは魔法少女を二度殺す) 10. **Himawari** (ひまわり) 12. **Kinoko Takenoko** (きのこたけのこ) 13. **Itoshi no Kengo** (愛しの健吾)
The Japan Self-Defense Forces are still looking for a way to combat the alien threat, but so far conventional weapons have had no effect. Maybe it’s time to try something unconventional. Meanwhile, Kadode Koyama and her best friend avidly track the aliens’ movements on social media and less enthusiastically study for college entrance exams. When the end of the world looms overhead, you learn to take things one step at a time. (Source: VIZ Media) *Notes: \- Winner of the 66th Shogakukan Manga Award in the general category. \- Includes one extra chapter.*
A dream recaptured. A life on a new track. The absurdity of death. Laughter in the face of reality. With this series of intersecting vignettes, Inio Asano explores the ways in which modern life can be ridiculous and sublime, terrible and precious, wasted and celebrated. (Source: VIZ Media)
Even as butterflies ominously proliferate in town, the rumour of a mysterious creature lurking in the tunnel behind the school spreads among the children. When the body of Arie Kimura's mother is found by this tunnel's entrance, next to apparently human traces, the legend seems to be confirmed. Is the end of the world coming? In order to appease the wrath of the beast, the children decide to offer it a sacrifice: The unfortunate Arie, whom they believe to be the cause of the curse, is shoved into a well that leads to the Nijigahara tunnel—an act that in turns pushes Komatsuzaki, the budding thug who has carried a torch for Arie for a while already, entirely over the edge. But this is only the beginning of the complex, challenging, obliquely told Nijigahara Holograph, which takes place in two separate timelines and involves the suicidal Suzuki; Higure, his stalker-ish would-be girlfriend; their teacher Miss Sakaki, whose heavily bandaged face remains a mystery; and many more―brothers, sisters, parents, co-workers, teachers, aggressors and victims who are all inextricably linked to one another and all will eventually―ten years later―have to live with what they've done or suffered through. (Source: Fantagraphics) *Note: Includes three extra chapters.*
The city of light is a town above a hill, called that because it's surrounded by the sun, but it hides an obscure side. There, lives Tasuku, a young kid who works as a 'messenger' for a mysterious group who organizes suicides on the phone. At the same time other youngsters like him are trying to survive the everyday's life: Satoshi changes one occasional job after another, Momoko is the daughter of a prostitute who abandoned her. Finally there's Hoichi who is always involved in dirty business, among which is the suicidal group, but at least he has a dream: earning enough money to buy the whole place and turning it back into the country village he was born in. *Note: Includes two extra chapters.*
Ozanari-kun is a story in the style of traditional gag manga about the titular character's adventures working in the sales promotion department of Murakami Co. A different take on the classic office atmosphere, his boss, section chief Yabusaka has to endure Ozanaris physical and verbal abuse every day. Within his lonely heart, complicated feelings start to bloom.
*Note: One-shot created for an art exhibit that was to be held in August 2020, but was canceled due to covid. Was published in Big Comic Spirits in July 2020.*
A story about how two friends tries to stop the antichrist, while the are making efforts to deal with their lives.