Big Comic Original Zoukan

1. Okuman Bocchi (Billions Alone) 2. Ningen Isu (The Human Chair) [Story: Edogawa Ranpo] 3. Mouten no Venus (Venus in the Blind Spot) 4. Name Onna (The Licking Woman) 5. Umezu-sensei to Watashi (Master Umezz and Me) 6. Miirareta Kirida Kyouju (How Love Came to Professor Kirida) 7. Kono Yo no Hoka no Koi (An Unearthly Love) [Story: Edogawa Ranpo] 8. Ashura no Dansou no Kai (The Enigma of Amigara Fault) 9. Daikokubashira Hiwa (The Sad Tale of the Principal Post) 10. Wasuregatami (Keepsake) Note: Story 1 was collected in Jigokusei Remina, story 3 was collected in Tensai-tachi no Kyouen, story 4 was collected in Black Paradox, and stories 8 and 9 were collected in Gyo: Ugomeku Bukimi.

Manga doesn't get much more noir than this. Benkei is just another expatriate Japanese arist living in the Big Apple. Or so it appears. As there "diabolical hard-boiled stories" show, surfaces aren't always what they seem. Flashbacks delve into sordid, secret past lives, and old scored, long festering, emerge without warning, asking to be settled. And Benkei's secret? Maybe it's just that he's the only artist in town who isn't having fantasies of being a hitman-for-hire. He is one. (Source: MU)

It is the year 1966. Hamaguchi, a young man comes to Kyoto, where he finds work in a small textile company.In his free time, he goes to the local Zoo to draw animals. His peaceful life is one day disturbed by the company owner's daughter. Because of that, when his friend tells him of a certain job offer in Tokyo, Hamaguchi decides to go at once. In the capital he gets to learn the way of a manga artist.

On his final day as an editor, Shiozawa takes a train he's ridden hundreds of times to impart some last advice to a manga creator whose work he used to edit. Later, he is drawn to return to a bookshop at the request of a junior editor who wants his help dealing with an incorrigible manga creator who used to be edited by Shiozawa and now refuses to work with anyone else. For Shiozawa, Tokyo these days is full of memory and is cocooned in the inescapable bonds among manga creators, their editors, art, and life itself. (Source: VIZ Media)

A mother leave her alcoholic and gambler husband. Without money or housing, she can no longer rely on herself to raise alone her six year old son. Harsh but fair, proud and brave, she has one life goal: to make his son a man balanced and right! But between poverty, the Yakuza, the judgments of others and lack of father figure, his task will be far from easy. Ode to women, of their courage and unconditional love that they can devote to their children.

Toru Koeda is a seventh grader who is going through the trying times of puberty and finds release in a bamboo ear cleaner. (Source: MU)

This manga follows the residents of Tokiwasou—a beat-down tenant apartment in Tokyo for manga artists. Manga Michio is a 21 year-old aspiring artist who is keeping a journal of his experiences as a starting out artist. When Konotera Yukie comes to stay with her younger brother, Michio is smitten. But Yukie has come to take her brother home and send him back to college—her father thinks that being a manga artist is no way to live. Can Michio convince her that her talented brother should stay? Or will she be the inspiration for his latest character design? The manga gives intriguing insight to the life of a struggling mangaka. (Source: MU) Included one-shots: Volume 1: Rocket-kun Volume 2: Rocket-kun: Uchuusen Bakudan Jiken no Maki Volume 4: Lonely Gun Volume 7-8: Kyoufu Tantei-kyoku Dai 1-wa: Mimizuku Ningen (2 parts) Volume 10: The Hunter Volume 11: Makete Tamaru ka Matsudaira Yasutaka

Collection of short stories, many of which seem to have to do with copies/doppelgangers. 1. Monotorogy 2. Topologie 3. Nagaaaai Yoru 4. Pimple Pimple Little Star 5. To Love Again 6. Kotenteki Hatsumehin ni yoru Kotenteki Paradox no Pattern 7. Katei, Shiyuu Zaisan, Kokka no Kigen 8. Haru Random 9. "Boshizou" 10. Kontora Bass Dokusou ni Yoru Mubansou Sonata Hen Rochouchuo Andante 11. Tenraku no Ballade 12. Manatsu no Yoru no Masayume 13. Itoshi no Remy 14. Le Chateau 15. Zuisou 16. Communication Break Down? 17. Buta mo Ki kara Ochiru 18. Fukuyamanga Kyoushikyoku 19. Naive 20. Schizophrenia

Keimusho no Mae was written after the author was released from the prison; and is not a direct prequel to Keimusho no Naka. It is a fictitious compilation of 3 intertwined stories—author's record detailing restoration of a gun, an old tale taking place in medieval Japan of a girl that embarks into a journey to seek happiness, and a detailed diary of the time in prison.

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A story about an old keeper of the antique shop "Yume-dou" at the end of Meiji period in Kyoto

The story is set at a marriage consultation office, which, for a fee of 2 million yen (US$18,000), will find you a partner that meets all your conditions. The office's eccentric leader Aino, a former zoology professor, always successfully leads customers to marriage. (Source: ANN)

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An autobiographical manga based on the artist's childhood days in Nakamura, Kochi Prefecture, during the 1960s and 70s. The day to day lives of bumbling father Akira, reticent but steady mother Asami, and withdrawn, contemplative son Makoto are depicted through humorous and touching episodes, written in the local dialect, that evoke nostalgic memories of the Showa era. (Source: Japan Media Arts Festival)

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An autobiographical manga about Fujihiko Hosono's life during 1978, an important year in his life.

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