Tsumi to Batsu: Manga de Dokuha - Recommendations

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2007

Based on the novel War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy.

• Vol: 1; Ch: 5
• 2008

Based on the novel Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky.

• Vol: 3+; Ch: 24+
• 2019 - ?

Alexievich chronicles the experiences of the Soviet women who fought on the front lines, on the home front, and in the occupied territories. These women—more than a million in total—were nurses and doctors, pilots, tank drivers, machine-gunners, and snipers. They battled alongside men, and yet, after the victory, their efforts and sacrifices were forgotten.

• Vol: 1
• 1953

In Russia, on the eve of the revolution, a young student named Raskolnikov murders an old pawnbroker over a pocket watch. Although an innocent man is quickly arrested for the crime, Raskolnikovs’s own published essay - suggesting that people who are “extra-ordinary” are above such things as “right” and “wrong” - draws the suspicion of judge Porfiry. Who will catch up to Raskolnikov first? Porfiry … or his own guilty conscience?

• Vol: 1; Ch: 4
• 1997

• Vol: 1
• 1996

• Vol: 2; Ch: 29
• 1964 - 1965

1782: Anna and Lef Fyodor defied the current tsar by siding with the peasants, and paid with their lives. Before they did, they entrusted their only daughter, Rosalinda, to a farmer couple. The only thing left connecting Rosalinda to her past is one amulet: "To my beloved Anna, Lef Fyodor." 12 years later, Rosalinda - given the name Rota by her foster parents - has a deep, fervent love for singing. A chance encounter during an errand has her cross pass with Adrian, a young Cossack. Adrian and Rosalinda get along well, and he even teaches her to read! However, this is the start of the unfolding drama surrounding the instability of their homeland - and Rosalinda's past being revealed to her, all while she aspires to become a great singer.

• Vol: 1
• 2018

Photographer Emma was betting on this job to make her sister’s dream come true. If she can get an interview with Nikolai’s family in Russia, then her chance might come. But Nikolai immediately captivates her heart and they spend a night together. He tells her about his family’s unhappy past, but later Nikolai wonders if she went as far as to sleep with him just for an article. Emma gives up on their ephemeral love, but what will happen when Nikolai learns that she’s carrying his child?

• Vol: 1
• 2012

Alena, the 19-year-old scion of a well-respected, old Russian family, falls in love at first sight with Kiryl, a man she met in the lobby of a high-class hotel. He cuts a devilishly stylish figure, so she has no idea that this man who wears an air of danger around him like cologne has painfully risen up from the slums to become a billionaire. With his sweet words and the simple press of his lips to the back of her hand, Alena readily offers up her body and her heart to him. She could have no idea, at the height of her happiness, that the dazzling pleasures he offers her are, for him, a means to revenge!

• Vol: 7; Ch: 28
• 2004 - 2007

Russia, 1828. Natalia's family is fallen nobility, left poor by her father's chronic illness and mother's poor management. Her family's only chance at revival is her marriage to a wealthy noble. With her family's hopes riding on her future husband, what chance does a poor poet have at winning her heart...? And the "poor poet" is no other than the famous Russian poet Aleksander Pushkin.