Nihon no Kyoudai - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 10
• 2001 - 2002

A young child faces the break-up of her family and seperation from her friends; a lonely divorcee manages a bar; an elderly art dealer goes though the motions of retiring; a mistress and her lover rehearse their mutual suicide; an adulterous wife; a teenage girl on the day of her graduation from high school and the author herself appears in a couple of autobiographical pieces.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2010

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 1971 - 1982

A young man catches a cold after being soaked in the rain and is tended to by his grandmother. He drifts, dreaming of a train trip with an older brother he doesn’t have. A traveling salesman comes across a boy lying in the middle of the road and stops to have a cigarette and tell a story that sifts through memories of faces and places before settling back on the boy and pretending to not look at the stars. A young woman walks along the river with her bicycle and a friend who is nothing more than a disembodied head—discussing past times together, memories they have of each other.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 2000 - 2004

• Vol: 1; Ch: 12
• 2002

Explores the thoughts and feelings of ordinary people in an odd, surrealistic manner replete with atypical and symbolic illustrations.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 2005 - 2006

• Vol: 1
• 2001

• Vol: 1
• 2006

• Vol: 1
• 1965 - 1981

• Vol: 1; Ch: 11
• 1997 - 2002

Includes the following chapters:

• 1. Kodomo ga Owaru Kodomo ga Naku
• 2. Mikatsuki-san
• 3. Fukanzen Shounen
• 4. Oji-san no Uta 
• 5. Moukaru Hanatsu
• 6. Mada Tabidattemo Inai no ni
• 7. Tsumarani Eiga no Naka no Kimi to Tsumaranai Eiga no Naka no Boku
• 8. Ekimae de Yoru
• 9. Bokutachi wa Zannyoukan wo Kanjiru Tame dake ni Umaretekitan ja Nai
• 10. Seishun, Yume, Zasetsu, Sono Hoka
• 11. Shiranai Tokoro no Shiranai Robot