Gensenkan Shujin - Recommendations

• Vol: 2
• 2006

In Cambodia, war has ravaged the country year after year, leaving behind it large minefields. To this day, many people still suffer because of them. Aki Ra keeps clearing the fields. But what was his childhood like? This is the story of a real child soldier, a historical account of a tragedy humanity should never forget.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 2017

Koperu-kun —his nickname taken from Copernicus— is a junior-high school student who learns to think for himself through the guidance of his uncle and the introduction of a number of philosophical concepts. It is also a story of friendship, bullying, and the consequences of a broken promise, as well as a commentary on social issues. 

• Vol: 7; Ch: 63
• 2016 - 2017

The series focuses on the former Prime Minister of Japan, Hayato Ikeda, during the post-war economic boom of Japan in the 1960s.

• Vol: 4
• 1976 - 1977

The freak murder that shook the world was an extreme form of love. The woman who spells out the imprint of love in blood letters on her lover's body... Sada Abe. A woman who drives men crazy and leads them down a path of descent because of her feminine beauty... "Takahashi Oden". A great prostitute with an incomparable beauty and a body... Honmoku Ohama, a shocking work that depicts the life filled with turbulence of three yokozuna.

• Vol: 1
• 1926 - 1927

A staircase rises into the sky; white feathered “birds” speak in women’s voices and offer to serve as vehicles; clusters of naked men and women romp on slopes carpeted with rainbow-colored flowers. His fantastical utopia is filled with entrancing music and strange sweet odors, and nothing is ordinary, predictable, or boring. The novella reflected the new culture of mechanically produced simulated realities (movies, photographs, advertisements, stereoscopic and panoramic images) and focused on themes of the doppelganger and appropriated identities: its main character steals the identity of an acquaintance...

• Vol: 33+; Ch: 378+
• 2015 - ?

In 1932, before war breaks out in the Pacific, Japan's relations with Europe and America hits an all-time low after having just seized Manchuria and founding Manchukuo. An air of dread once again envelops the world. In 1933, the great event that will shape Japan's fate is being planned in the offices of the Imperial Japanese Navy. In the shadows of history, a lone mathematical genius puts his life on the line and wages his own war for the sake of Japan.

• Vol: 10; Ch: 89
• 2017 - 2021

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 1988

A metaphorical depiction of Japan's apprehension concerning the advance of western culture in the country during the period preceding the Meiji Era.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 2007

Based on the novel Ningen Shikkaku by Osamu Dazai.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 9
• 2008 - 2009

As the gap between rich and poor continues to widen, a new generation is reflecting on the insights of Karl Marx. Marx not only stood against the global economic system but he also helped us understand it. He explained how wealth was created on the backs of workers, how "surplus value" is realized and how accumulation is achieved through unpaid labour-time, the intensification of work and the tyranny of credit.