Saikano Gaiden: Sekai no Hate ni wa Kimi to Futari de - Recommendations

• Vol: 2; Ch: 19
• 2002 - 2004

Life is never predictable, but we can always try to emerge from hardships with hope or acceptance. While Yuriko and others struggle with the reality of becoming an adult, others, such as Kasukabe, must try to balance their work and family life. And though Tae has been lost since her mother died, Hozumi will learn what it truly means to live.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 2003

In Byung-Jun's remarkably-drawn graphic novel, young people's lives cross and spark for brief moments in a cold urban landscape. Wounded characters, squashed by the hard realities of their daily urban life, find ways to keep their inner flames shining bright and wild. From the girl who deals sensitively with an older man obsessed by youth, to the group of friends who find one of them has committed suicide, this engrossing collection of stories will transfix and deeply move readers.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 1971 - 1972

Life proves again and again that you must accept the cards you are dealt, whether you live in a post-war era or are about to retire. From a woman in a relationship with an American soldier at the end of World War II, to a soon-to-retire man who conspires revenge against his long-time wife, to a man with a fetish for legs and shoes who tries to continue a façade of normality, and beyond, each denizen of Japan will tell their melancholic story of what is important to them.

• 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: 7
• 2010 - 2012

Includes the following chapters:

• 1-2. Binzume no Jigoku
• 3. Sei Anthony no Yuukai
• 4-5. Koganemochi
• 6-7. Kawaisou na Ane 

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 1995

• Vol: 1; Ch: 16
• 1968 - 1970

From science fiction, historical fiction, to contemporary drama, Under the Air includes a variety of tales that depict the duality of man—good and evil; loving and violent. An injured white-supremacist struggles with the fact that he was brought back to life by a black organ donor; a young man in the wild west seeks revenge for his father’s murder; an escaped convict holds a family hostage in a cave that causes hallucinations; the only two survivors of a nuclear apocalypse dare to explore the outside world—Tezuka’s characters are put to the test when the delicate balance of their minds are disrupted, discovering something dark hidden deep within themselves.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 9
• 2006

Features the relationship between two cousins, an older male and a younger girl. One is a teacher, while the other is a student -- both at the same school. When the elder cousin doesn’t come to class for several days, the school administrators send the younger cousin to the elder cousin's home to investigate further.

• Vol: 2; Ch: 10
• 1972 - 1994

Life in Hiroshima during the war was difficult for six-year-old Keiji and the Nakazawa family, but they made the best of it. On his way to school one bright August morning, Keiji was unaware his hometown would soon be turned into a world of horrors. That morning, he watched as a single airplane soared through the clear blue sky, carrying with it the most powerful weapon that had ever been created, the atomic bomb, code named "Little Boy." It was about to fall on Keiji's city, changing his life forever. This is the true story of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and it's effects, seen through the eyes of cartoonist Keiji Nakazawa.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1968 - 1972

Trash Market brings together six of Tsuge's compelling, character-driven stories about life in post-World War II Japan. Trash Market and Gently Goes the Night touch on key topics for Tsuge: the charming lowlifes of the Tokyo slums and the WWII veterans who found themselves unable to forget the war. Song of Showa is an autobiographical piece about growing up in a Tokyo slum during the Occupation of Japan with an abusive grandfather and an ailing father, and finding brightness in the joyful people of the neighbourhood. Trash Market blurs the lines between fiction and reportage; it's a moving testament to the grittiness of life in Tokyo during the post-war years.