Kou Yamori seems like a typical middle school student on the surface. Relatively good at studies and amiable with his classmates, he puts a lot of effort into maintaining this facade. One day, however, he decides to stop pretending and quits school, developing insomnia as a result of having no daytime outlet for his energy. When taking walks alone at night, he feels marginally better, though he is aware that his inability to sleep should be considered a serious problem.... more>>

On one such walk, Kou meets a weird girl, Nazuna Nanakusa, who diagnoses the cause of his sleeplessness: despite making changes in his life, he is still holding himself back from experiencing true freedom. She says that he won't be able to sleep unless he is satisfied with how he spends his waking hours. When it appears that she has resolved his current worries, Nazuna invites him back to her apartment to share her futon. After a while, unaware that he is only feigning unconsciousness, she leans over him—and bites his neck! <<less

If you're born in Japan and you play football, you'll eventually want to wear the national team uniform! It's the same for everyone! Ichijou Ryuu is a boy whose dream is to become a Japan national team player. With his twin childhood friends, Yuuto and Yuki, their first goal is to win the Japan Under-12 Football Championship!... more>>

The excitement of a one-on-one! The tension in front of goal! The elation from pulling off the perfect link up play! The essence of what makes football enjoyable is here.

Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Best Shonen Manga in 2014. <<less

Komi-san is the beautiful and admirable girl that no one can take their eyes off of. Almost the whole school sees her as the cold beauty that's out of their league, but Tadano Hitohito knows the truth: she's just really bad at communicating with others.... more>>

Komi-san, who wishes to fix this bad habit of hers, tries to improve herself with the help of Tadano-kun. <<less

Akashi Eito has failed miserably on all of his high school admission exams but somehow, he receives a letter of acceptance from a school he does not remember applying to. He nevertheless happily enrolls, expecting to live the ideal school life, but his aspiration are quickly destroyed as he discovers that this mysterious school is a training institute for secret agents.... more>>

Immediately, Eito wants to return home, until the director of the school makes a shocking revelation: Eito's deceased father was also a secret agent! He subsequently wants to know more about the past and memories of his father, so he decides to remain at this school. However, as a student of this institution, Eito will have to face a deadly exam specifically made to test the skills of all new students.

Follow this story of action and espionage, in which our hero, who lacks physical strength, compensates for it with great bravery, and captivates everyone around him with the power of his courage and friendship. <<less

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.... more>>

Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. With the great struggle over, they all go their separate ways to live a quiet life. But as an elf, Frieren, nearly immortal, will long outlive the rest of her former party. How will she come to terms with the mortality of her friends? How can she find fulfillment in her own life, and can she learn to understand what life means to the humans around her? Frieren begins a new journey to find the answer. <<less

Living in the mountains with his grandpa and his two little sisters, Lacile has always looked to the sky. He has dreams of seeing the fabled Flying City of the Heavens -- and one day his dream just might come true.... more>>

One day, he crosses paths with a strange girl named Leana who has the peculiar ability to float away unless she wears heavy steel boots that keep her on the ground. Like Lacile, Leana has dreams -- she wanted to see the outside world just once before she’s married off. But when machine soldiers pursue her, Lacile learns the truth: Leana is actually the princess of the Ariadne Empire, and her home floats in the sky... <<less

Tired of constantly being compared to his prodigious older sibling, Riku, Raimu decides to take him head-on by surpassing him in the field of basketball.

The story follows Detective Xeno, who after being found collapsed at the side of a road covered in blood and was taken to a hospital the first thing he said upon awakening was solving a murder that happened in the hospital!... more>>

Xeno himself has no memory of who he is or where he came from, but after that huge incident and after leaving the hospital, he opened up a detective agency and in just a year he solved some high-profile cases. <<less

Milia, the great witch who has reached the pinnacle of evil, has fallen in love for the first time... with her arch nemesis "The Hero"?!... more>> She has the highest magical power, but her experience in love is nil. Now the witch begins her quest to discover more of this "Love" in this romantic comedy! <<less

It's the 21st century, and the number of ESPers continues to increase. They are active in the military, diplomacy, politics, and in other places. They... more>> hold the key for global competition. A country that controls ESP can control the world! However individuals who posses higher than Level 4 are less than 3% of the population. There are only three Level 7 people who have government contracts. These three are Kaoru, Aoi, and Shiho, ten-year old girls, who work for B.A.B.E.L. With the guidance of Kouichi, a twenty-year old genius, they catch criminals and evil ESPers. <<less

Youkai are specters who have lived in the human world since the dawn of time. They often rest peacefully in their dwelling places, until humans rouse them by inconsiderate actions. Kitaro is a young youkai boy who wants to help humans and youkai live in harmony, and he fights to protect humans from the enraged youkai who lash out at them.... more>>

Note: For Kodansha's version of the series that began in 1967, the first volume is titled "Hakaba no Kitarou," but volume 2 and upwards are titled "Gegege no Kitarou."

Compilation Releases by Drawn & Quarterly

Vol. 0: Kitaro

Vol. 1: Birth of Kitaro

Vol. 2: Kitaro Meets Nurarihyon

Vol. 3: Kitaro and the Great Tanuki War

Vol. 4: Kitaro's Strange Adventures

Vol. 5: Kitaro the Vampire Slayer

Vol. 6: Kitaro's Yokai Battles

Vol. 7: Kitaro's Trial <<less

Saijou Mikoto was born with a bad heart. It was thanks to the incredible skills of Japan's leading pediatric heart surgeon, Shindou Mamoru, that he... more>> survived into adolescence, and he's decided to show his gratitude by becoming the greatest pediatric surgeon the world has ever known. <<less

In the near future, large mechs called Labors are made to assist in various reconstruction projects in major countries around the world that are being threatened by global warming. In Japan, the government has enacted Project Babylon in order to conduct land reclamation. Labors are also being pressed into police and military service, aside from civilian use.... more>>

However, terrorists are now attempting to use Labors to make themselves heard, as well as common criminals, thugs and guerrillas. The National Police Agency established the Special Vehicles Division, an all-Labor task force to combat the potential use of Labors for criminal/terrorist activities.

Note: Won the 36th Shogakukan Manga Award for Shounen manga in 1991. <<less

Nine children are bestowed the almighty power of the monstrous robot, The Moon. By focusing their thoughts together they become able to control it with... more>> their minds and save the world from annihilation. <<less

The protagonist, Masaru, has just inherited a big fortune after the death of his father. However, people are trying to get their hands on it... more>> by any means necessary, even if it means killing him. Narumi helped Masaru from being kidnapped after fighting some weird guys. He found out that they're not humans but wooden puppets with amazing strength. After a hard fight, Narumi was forced to admit that he's no opponent for them; and just when he started to think that Masaru would be captured, Shirogane, Masaru's watcher arrives from France with a weapon, the puppet Arlequin. Here, begins the story of Karakuri Circus. <<less

One day, a boy named Takahiko Amano (who's very much an indoors type) has an sudden and unfortunate accident. Ever since then, his spirit has... more>> called out, "Release me! From this body, from this lonely isolated life, and from this miserable fate!" Then, with a crash, a "spirit separationist" arrives and puts Takahiro in a situation he never could have imagined! <<less

When Konoe Moyako and her little brother, Akira, were young, he said he wanted to marry her. Naturally, Moyako decided that her little brother was... more>> a complete pervert who was obsessed with her. Now that they're both teenagers, Moyako is convinced she needs to 'rehabilitate' him. However, it seems that the 'perversion' is entirely in her imagination, and she can't seem to help turning completely innocent situations into creepy ones in her mind! <<less

Jesus is about a high profile assassin who plans to fake his own death, laying low from all the mafia hitmen and the FBI that are after him. He plans to live the rest of his life with the money he could get from smuggling the drugs he stole from the mafia gangs - one of the reason he is chased. His plan fails and he couldn't get those drugs his old time friend hid for him, because they somehow happened to be concealed in a school's wall, with a super strength blackboard in front of it.... more>>

He has no choice but to pose as a high school teacher to guard his stash, trying his best not to get caught while being involved in crime cases. <<less

A Detective Conan spinoff featuring Amuro Tooru, a man of three faces - Bourbon, the Black Organization operative, Amuro Tooru, the private detective and Café... more>> Poirot waiter, and Furuya Rei, the NPA officer. Delve into his everyday life that no one's seen before! <<less

The World at the Brink of Self-Annihilation... more>>

The nuclear age has brought with it the arms race, which has led to the advent of weapons powerful enough to destroy the world itself several times over. Unwilling to take the plunge into Armageddon, the world powers, in league with a group known only as the Black Ghost, have developed super soldiers known as the Cyborgs, designed to fight the wars of the world in space. Unfortunately, the Black Ghost didn't ask the Cyborgs how they felt about their role in the new world order.

This classic work from manga legend Shotaro Ishinomori (Masked Rider) not only told a thrilling tale set against a backdrop of Cold War tensions, but it also helped define the genre of super team stories such as Battle of the Planets, Voltron, and The Power Rangers. <<less

The series tells the story of Amane Morisaki and her younger childhood friend, Kyousuke Aizumi, who both enroll at the same university. Kyousuke wants to... more>> become a mangaka and asks Amane to be the model for the heroine of his manga. <<less

Best friends You and Tsuki moved to Tokyo to become entertainers. They live together in a 6 tatami apartment. Though they only have 500Y for... more>> food, together they'll turn it into laughter... probably! Their story of big dreams and humble lives, begins!! <<less

Shindo Manabu is a student at a very prestigious high school whose goal is to get into Tokyo University. He studies constantly and tries to... more>> never lose sight of that goal. That is until his childhood friend, Amano Megumi, who goes to the same school starts to distract him. He originally only remembered her as the tomboy she was as a kid, until he notices how "developed" she has become. As these two get closer to each other, hilarity often ensues and subsequently, Manabu becomes more and more distracted from his goal of getting into Tokyo U. <<less

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The fantasy story centers on Zabi, who ventures into the outside world Utopie in order to save his kingdom of Tolso, the last human nation... more>> which is fast running out of land and resources. <<less