Pattenrai!! ~Minami no Shima no Mizu Monogatari~ - Recommendations

• Vol: 1
• 2013

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2012 - 2013

Set during the interwar period of 1925-1932: Tomoji lives in the japanese countryside while Fumiaki works as a photographer in Tokyo. One day, they meet. The story is inspired by real people who later founded a branch of Buddhism.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 1996

• Vol: 5; Ch: 30
• 1987 - 1997

The Meija Era (1868-1912) was probably the most defining period in Japanese history. It was a time of massive change from the more traditional; Takugawa era to a positioning of Japan in the modern world. Contemporary writer, Soseki Natsume, suffered due to all the social and cultural changes and expressed his feelings through his character Botchan, a classic in the vein of Mark Twain or Charles Dickens.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 42
• 1991 - 1992

A biographical account of the famous Mongolian leader Temuchin who united the numerous Mongolian tribes in the 13th century, ultimately becoming titled as Chinggis Khan. It faithfully follows the account given in the historical document, The Secret History of the Mongols.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1989

• Vol: 7; Ch: 49
• 1993 - 1997

• Vol: 3; Ch: 30
• 1996

First love is never easy. Ehwa grows up helping her widowed mother run the local tavern, watching as their customers - both neighbors and strangers - look down on her mother for her single lifestyle. Their social status isolates Ehwa and her mother from the rest of the people in their quiet country village. But as she gets older and sees her mother fall in love again, Ehwa slowly begins to open up to the possibility of love in her life.

• Vol: 11+; Ch: 89+
• 2017 - ?

• Vol: 5
• 1992 - 1995

The life story the first Emperor of Japan, Jinmu.