A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. ... more>>

Serialized or otherwise collected:

AKABOSHI Tomo

AKIZUKI Risu

ARAI Hideki

ARAMAKI Keiko

ASADA Torao

ASHINANO Hitoshi

Endo Hiroki

ENOMOTO Shunji

IGARASHI Daisuke

IRIE Kiwa

IRIE Noriko

KIMURA Kon

KITOH Mohiro

KOMAI Yu

MATSUMOTO Taiyou

NIHEI Tsutomu

OHARA Shinji

SAMURA Hiroaki

SOUJI Hajime

TOUME Kei

TOYODA Minoru

TSUCHIDA Seiki

URUSHIBARA Yuki

WAKANA Shouhei

Other:

Hiramatsu Kannosuke

ABE Yoshitoshi

Eshikawa is a man who has lost sight of his life and stumbles through it, with no clear meaning or purpose. One day, he is informed that his ex-girlfriend committed suicide, which sets his brain on retrospect mode. He goes on a journey of self-revelation and contemplates upon the myriad of human emotions, the joys and sorrows of normalcy.

YAMAZAKI Ren

The daily, average life and interactions of some of a ship’s crew as they depart to explore space. Winner of the Jiro Tanaguchi Special Award for manga in the 2010 Four Seasons Award Anthology.

NADEGATA Nazuna

On a remote island, a skilled swordsman who honed his craft on the local population attempts to atone for his sins and lift a curse by hunting and killing demons. Winner of the Hagio Moto Special Award for manga.

KIBA Kouichi

As the protagonist is returning home one night, she runs into a man who had just been in a car crash. As he is dying, he asks her to throw a certain package into the sea.

JOUYAMA Yui

A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl. <<less

Set on a frozen planet littered with alien artifacts, Ningyou no Kuni weaves a tale of a young man and small but fateful encounter.

One of the manga world’s most intriguing artists comes the manga version of the Netflix movie, BLAME! Steel and rust. ... more>>

The City structure has endlessly propagated itself for so many years that the reason for such growth has long since been forgotten. Even within such a techo-dystopia, humans still exist: The Electrofishers. Driven to the brink of extinction, they are visited by a traveller—a man named Killy. But will his presence bring the Electrofishers ruination or hope..? <<less

Killy is a man of few words. He wanders, seemingly endlessly, through a lonely, gargantuan labyrinth of concrete and steel, fighting off cyborgs and other futuristic nightmares, searching only for something called Net Terminal Genes. And he has a very powerful gun, which he uses without hesitation whenever anything resembling danger rears its ugly head. ... more>>

Who is this quiet, violent, determined man and what are these Genes he seeks? The small communities he finds tucked into the crevices of this towering, dystopic ruin hardly give him leads on his treasure, driving him to find larger enclaves of civilization where people can reveal more about the world he lives in and the quarry he seeks.

Note: Nominated for the Harvey Award for Best American Edition of Foreign Material in 2006. <<less

A world blanketed in an endless and ever-growing ocean of snow. The people eke out a living, either huddled around the roots of enormous trees dotting the surface, or high in the canopy, which spreads over the planet's atmosphere.... more>>

A chance meeting between Kaina, a youth from the canopy, and Liliha, a young woman from the surface, sets off a chain of events that will change the fate of the world. <<less

Outer space, the far future. A lone seed ship, the Sidonia, plies the void, ten centuries since the obliteration of the solar system. The massive, nearly indestructible, yet barely sentient alien life forms that destroyed humanity's home world continue to pose an existential threat. Nagate Tanikaze has only known life in the vessel's bowels deep below the sparkling strata where humans have achieved photosynthesis and new genders. Not long after he emerges from the Underground, however, the youth is bequeathed a treasured legacy by the spaceship's coolheaded female captain.... more>>

Shinsōban (Volume 7) includes:

Sidonia no Kishi Zenjitsudan: Dai-4-ji Gauna Boueisen

Note: Won the 39th Kodansha Manga Award for Best General Manga in 2015. Won the 47th Seiun Award for Best Comic in 2016. <<less

As detective Musubi Susono investigates a series of child kidnappings, her own partner is viciously murdered. But when the investigation takes a brutal turn, she is suddenly confronted by the killer--and his vicious Silicon Creature...... more>>

Also includes Blame, one-shot prototype for Blame! <<less

The story set in the distant future of 3005 A.D.... more>>

It follows a character by the name of Kanoe Zouichi and the mysterious Kanoe Fuyu whose luminous form is integrated into the system of his bike. They are agents sent by a powerful organization to retrieve the human with the ability to resist and transmute the NS5 infection that is spreading across the world, named Yion/Ion Green. However, their mission is delayed by the reckless actions of the Public Health Department's taskforce and the kidnapping of Yion/Ion Green. Will they complete their mission? Where has Yion/Ion Green been taken? <<less

First issue of a canceled series; collected (in thumbnails) in Blame and So on (Artbook)

Abara is set in a dystopian world, filled with large structures. The story revolves around creatures known as Gaunas, those who can shape bone like armor and weaponry around themselves by transforming. The transformation begins around the spine and then shapes layered armor. ... more>>

The story focuses on one such Gauna known as Kudou Denji, though he uses Itou Denji as a fake name early on.

Abara means "ribs" in Japanese.

Volume 2 includes Digimortal

A mercenary in cyber-armor battles a repressive cyborg regime.

Note: Nominated for the Eisner Award for Best U.S. Edition of International Material—Asia in 2019. <<less

Full Color collection of short stories.... more>>

01. Zeb-Noid

02. Blame Gakuen! (Blame Academy!)

03. Blame Gakuen! Kyoto Nara Aiai-gasa (Blame Academy! Field Trip to Nara)

04. Blame Gakuen! Sakura Saku Tou no Shita de (Blame Academy! Beneath the Sakura Tower)

05. Kozutsumi (Package)

06. Netsphere Engineer

07. Pump

08. Blame!² Dai 8-keishitai Pcell no Toshi Kouzoutai Dasshitsuki (Blame!² Eighth-Generation Pcell's Megastructure Escape Chronicle)

09. Numa no Kami (God of the Swamp)

10. Senshi Kouchuu Suzumega (Battle Lepidopteran Hawk Moths)

Shinsōban also includes:

Sidonia no Kishi: Tsumugi, "Blame!" ni Hamaru. no Maki <<less

A short story about a man coming across a girl with fairy-like wings whose right arm is trapped in a hole.

The setting is a certain kingdom. In order to save the kidnapped princess of the kingdom, the Kingsguard squadron challenges the "Dragon Tower," a gigantic structure floating in the middle of the sky, but they are blocked by powerful demons.... more>>

A provocation is made by a neighboring village to replenish the injured personnel, and when a young man is sent to the tower, the wheel of fate begins to turn. A tale of sword & sorcery and labyrinth exploration begins. <<less