Hoshizora no Violin - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 2012 - 2013

• Vol: 2; Ch: 18
• 2008 - 2010

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 2014 - 2015

High school student Takeru Sumura has a dark secret: his parents were murdered by demons. Consumed by vengeance, Takeru seeks out the famed demon hunter, Ludwig van Beethoven. Beethoven is a “magia,” a wizard who wields the power of music to battle demons. Taken under Beethoven’s wing, Takeru joins the ranks of other renowned magia: Bach, Mozart, Shubert, Liszt and Tchaikovsky. This unique team of demon hunters will use their music-based magic to combat the world’s demons. Now all Takeru needs to do is figure out how to convince Beethoven to upgrade him from his personal cleaning boy to a full-fledged apprentice!

• Ch: 3
• 2021

Early Showa era. Seiji, a boy born into a poor family, who loves to play the piano that his late father taught him, meets Natsu, the daughter of a ryokan inn. Fate brings them together through the music of the piano. However, Natsu has been promised a political marriage as the heir to the ryokan. The two realize their love for each other, but a harsh fate awaits them. This is the author's first serialized work, depicting a love that is carried through despite being tossed about by the times.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 93
• 2010 - 2012

Shou Hachiya plays lead guitar for Fab Four, the greatest Beatles tribute band in Japan. But right on the cusp of their big break, the group's lead singer decides to quit due to rising tensions and conflicting goals. In a fit of rage, bassist Makoto shoves the rebellious singer into the path of an incoming train, and when Shou tries to stop him, all three end up tangled and plummeting towards certain death. But instead of dying, they awaken in 1961, the year before The Beatles released their first album. Now, in a world where nobody has even heard of The Beatles yet, the cover band decides to compete with their idols and release a few hits as their own, in an attempt to force the legendary band into creating new and even greater songs.

• Vol: 5
• 1995 - 1997

A girl named Natasha during the war in Japan. She is a half-European and half-Japanese. She has incredible voice and excels at singing. Moreover, she is also the long-lost daughter of the Japanese baron, who sent an extremely talented musician, Kaoru Sanjou, to find Natasha in Shanghai. These two fell madly in love and went through many obstacles during the feudal war in order to be together. A great story about love, passion, hatred and war.

• Vol: 1
• 2001

John Lennon was a 20th-century Academy Award and Grammy Award-winning English songwriter, singer, instrumentalist, graphic artist, author and political activist who gained worldwide fame as one of the founders of The Beatles. 

• Vol: 6; Ch: 47
• 2020 - 2021

One night in Fukui during an air raid in WW2, young Suwa Oto sees her jazz-loving older sister, Ineko, dance to bassist Odajima Tatsuji's music. Ineko later attempts suicide by drowning, and though rescued, is by war's end a shell of the sister who taught Oto to sing, and Odajima disappears. To reunite the two, Oto, now a student, carries her sister's bass across her back to Tokyo. When Oto's singing catches the attention of a troupe, she plays on a US military base and learns the troupe's bassist is Odajima himself, but without his memories.

• Vol: 3
• 1977 - 1980

A history of the musicians Wolfgang Rechter and Edoard Soltie.

• Vol: 1
• 2000