Bakumatsu Gurentai - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 9
• 2006

Mizuo, your average modern day teenager, is mysteriously transported into Feudal Japan and worshipped as a Living Buddha in a time when war is the way of life-so it's no wonder he's desperate to return home! But Mizuo soon meets the charismatic leader of the Yamako army, Takakage, whose bravado on the battlefield is matched only by his adoration of Mizuo! When Takakage demands that Mizuo stay and become his personal page, will Mizuo still desire to return home?

• Vol: 13+; Ch: 74+
• 2014 - ?

Set in the Heian period, following the story of two prominent Buddhist monks: Saichō, the man who built the Enryaku Temple, and Kūkai, the man who established the Mt. Kōya retreat.

• Vol: 9; Ch: 50
• 2012 - 2017

Once upon a time a thousand years ago, there was a legendary man that trembled Japan, in the era of peace. The man was Musashibo Benkei. Spending his time as a priest soldier under control of Honen of Mount Hiei, he started to feel the emptiness of his own overwhelming power somewhere down the line. One day, Honen descended the mountain with his armed priests including Benkei. And Benkei happened to see...... Why he was born, how he should live? Only heaven knows the meaning of his life. It is an unprecedented saga of a man with passion for Japanese people.

• Vol: 1+; Ch: 7+
• 2020 - ?

• Vol: 2+; Ch: 14+
• 2018 - ?

• Vol: 2; Ch: 12
• 2016 - 2017

It is now the Sengoku era. Kazutaro Kazuma, a 13 year-old boy living with his sister, spends his days busy working for the local temple. But one day, he meets the Lord of Izu, and his life changes dramatically.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 29
• 2009 - 2016

He has the seal of the beast carved into his skin. The story of rogue monk Ashiya Douman begins now!

• Vol: 7; Ch: 34
• 2010 - 2013

In the year 1589, the Tokugawa clan is looking for a way to destroy Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi depends on the resourceful, intelligent samurai Sanada Yukimura to help him protect his people and foil the plots of his enemies. He also assigns the loud-mouthed, impetuous shinobi Sarutobi Sasuke to work with Sanada -- to their mutual annoyance. Though each disapproves of the other's approach to crime-fighting, they begrudgingly agree to work together for Hideyoshi's sake.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 2
• 1961

In medieval Japan, the feudal lord Nobuhira reigns as an authentic tyrant over his domain, carrying out all kinds of abuses on the peasants. He kills some for fun, to test the effectiveness of his sword blade and to generate a climate of terror that drives other farmers into blind obedience. These, increasingly reduced to starvation, are forced to pay higher and higher taxes in rice, extorted from them through coercive methods, the kidnapping of women or the taking of hostages but all their attempts to revolt are suffocated in blood in the bud.

• Vol: 5; Ch: 37
• 2009 - 2012

To control his daimyo lords, the shogun orders them to move back and forth from their provincial home and the capital, where they must spend half their time. The story follows the long journeys of the daimyo Kumada's family between the family's Okayama home in southwestern Japan and their second home in the capital.