Shirahata no Shoujo - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 7
• 1992 - 1995

A ground level, unflinching look at the horrors of the Battle of Okinawa.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 2003

• Vol: 1; Ch: 15
• 2008 - 2010

San attends the most elite female school in Okinawa, when WWII aggravated to the point she and her classmates are recruited in order to serve for the Japanese army as nurses. They will have to deal with a far crueler reality than what they could ever imagined.

• Vol: 8; Ch: 27
• 2016 - 2022

Ryukyu (ancient Okinawa) is in its golden era in 1482. A young girl named Yuna is shunned by her community because she has the ability to talk and see spirits. Her only friends are a pair of stone lions named Shi and Sa. One day the rumour of Yuna’s god-given gifts reaches the King’s ears. Sho Shin travels to meet Yuna in disguise, kicking off their strange adventure…

• Vol: 1
• 1957 - 1962

Based on author Ueda's experiences in detention in Harbin, Manchuria after the end of World War II.

• Vol: 4
• 1976 - 1978

Kinta, a young boy, lives at his grandfather's home in Chiba Department. On August 15, 1945, a B-29 crashes into a field near his home. The peasants are preparing to attack the pilot with bits of bamboo, but the grandfather, a wise writer, calms the population by announcing the harsh reality: Japan has just surrendered and now they must respect the Americans. After discussion, the old man agrees to welcome the stranger home. Then begins for Kinta a period of learning and especially, through him, the discovery of the sexuality, the pangs of life and the baseness of human feelings, it is also the Japan of the immediate post-war period which is depicted in its rapid changes and its direct confrontation with the West. How not to see, in the vocation of this child for drawing and his fascination for a sometimes troubled sexuality, a great autobiographical work that traces with a bitter tenderness a life to be invented in a world turned upside down?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 8
• 2009

Even though they played together innocently since they were young, somewhere along the way, the seeds of "love" started to grow. Growing up on an outlying island from Okinawa, Kazuya, Ryoko and Daisuke were brought up like a family. They wanted to be together forever, but the three of them have different desires. One wants to stay, one wants to go, and one of them wants to go, but can't. When Daisuke is lured away from the island, Ryoko decides to stay on the island with Kazuya. However, the three of them will experience a cruel fate...!

• Vol: 2; Ch: 7
• 2020 - 2021

Set in 1940, Yusaku runs a trading company in Kobe, Japan and he is married to Satoko. While on a business trip in Manchuria, Yusaku learns of a horrific national secret. For the sake of justice, he decides to let the whole world know about his discovery. Satoko believes Yusaku, who is now accused of being a traitor. She swears to be with Yusaku no matter the consequences.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 6
• 1998 - 1999

Hayao Miyazaki manga from the memoirs of WWII Heer tank commander Otto Carius...anthropomorphism-style!

• Vol: 1; Ch: 3
• 1997