Ai Monogatari: 9 Love Stories - Recommendations

• Vol: 2
• 2010 - 2011

• Vol: 4; Ch: 28
• 2001 - 2004

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2007

Bus Hashiru is a collection of five short stories centered around bus stops. In all your encounters with strangers that take place there, isn't there a chance you might discover something you hadn't had before...? A new take on life, or a lost love - nothing is beyond you.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 1960 - 2011

Inspired by Katsumata's research trips to the now notorious facility and his background in physics, Fukushima Devil Fish begins with two stories from the 1980s on the subject of nuclear gypsies, the men who labor under oppressive conditions to maintain Japan's fleet of nuclear power plants. The book then cycles back to the late 1960s and 1970s with a group of stories, originally published in the legendary alt-manga magazines Garo and COM, populated with creatures from Japanese folklore and lonely young men bereft of home and family.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1968 - 1972

These stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop art sensibilities, and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the pervasive influence of America over 1960s Japanese youth culture. This first color reprinting of Hayashi’s work captures the vivid experimentation of Japanese art at this time. In addition, Hayashi’s youth and beginnings as an artist are illuminated by an autobiographical essay from 1972, translated here for the first time into English. Art historian Ryan Holmberg discusses Hayashi’s place in postwar Japanese art and manga, as well as his wider contributions to the Tokyo avant-garde as a designer and experimental animator. 

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2016

• Vol: 1; Ch: 19
• 1991 - 2000

• Vol: 1
• 2018

Slum Wolf is a new selection of his stories from the late Sixties and Seventies, never before available in English: a vision of Japan as a world of bleary bars and rundown flophouses, vicious street fights and strange late-night visions. In assured, elegantly gritty art, Tsuge depicts a legendary, aging brawler, a slowly unraveling businessman, a group of damaged veterans uniting to form a shantytown, and an array of punks, pimps, and drunks, all struggling for freedom, meaning, or just survival.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2014 - 2016

Includes the following chapters:

• 1. Kyuujitsu
• 2. Ani to Imouto
• 3. Bishoujo Nante Daikirai
• 4. Godzilla Couple
• 5. Tsuribori Matsuda-san
• 6. Ganbare Youichi
• 7. Ieneko Bun-chan no Ichinen

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 1993

Includes the following chapters:

• 1. The Keyaki Tree
• 2. The White Rocking Horse
• 3. The Reunion
• 4. My Brother’s Life
• 5. The Umbrella
• 6. At the Art Gallery
• 7. Through the Forest
• 8. His Hometown