Children of the Sea, Volume 5
10 best books like Children of the Sea, Volume 5 (Daisuke Igarashi): Solanin, Mushishi, Vol. 1, Twin Spica, Volume: 01, PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001, しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1], A Girl on the Shore, The Walking Man, Saturn Apartments, Vol. 1, 極主夫道 1, とつくにの少女 5 [Totsukuni no shōjo 5]
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1421523213 |
Meiko Inoue is a recent college grad working as an office lady in a job she hates. Her boyfriend Naruo is permanently crashing at her apartment because his job as a freelance illustrator doesn't pay enough for rent. And her parents in the country keep sending her boxes of veggies that just rot in her fridge....
| Author | Yuki Urushibara |
| ISBN | 0345496213 |
THEY HAVE EXISTED SINCE THE DAWN OF TIME.
Some live in the deep darkness behind your eyelids. Some eat silence. Some thoughtlessly kill. Some simply drive men mad. Shortly after life emerged from the primordial ooze, these deadly creatures, mushi, came into terrifying being. And they still...
| Author | Kou Yaginuma |
| ISBN | 1934287849 |
In a Tokyo in the not too distant future a young girl studies deligently with ambitions of soon attending space academy. If things work out just right, her future may very well be among the stars as well. And yet, every time she looks up to the stars there is a sense of melancholy in her heart. A sadness...
PLUTO: Naoki Urasawa x Ozamu Tezuka, Band 001
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 3770467574 |
I haven't actually been a huge booster of the works of Osamu Tezuka. Beyond a hard-won affection for his
Buddha
, I haven't come to take much enjoyment from the other books of his I've sampled. Phoenix, Adolf, Blackjack. They just haven't won me over. I think I may be too far divorced from the...
しまなみ誰そ彼 1 [Shimanami Tasogare 1]
| Author | Yuhki Kamatani |
| ISBN | 4091874193 |
僕はゲイかもしれない。だから苦しいんだ。
クラスメイトに「ホモ動画」を観ていることを知られた、たすく。
自分の性指向…ゲイであると皆に知られたのではないかと怯え、
自殺を考えていた彼の前に、「誰かさん」と呼ばれる
謎めいた女性があらわれた。
彼女は、たすくを「談話室」へと誘う。
そこには、レズビアンである大地さんがいて…。
尾道を舞台に描かれる、性と生と青春の物語、第1集。...
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 1941220851 |
Longing for Something Bigger
From the Eisner Award-nominated Inio Asano, creator of Solanin and Nijigahara Holograph, comes one of his most challenging works yet; an intense teen romance set in what may at first glance be one of the sleepiest places in Japan.
When Koume and Keisuke's...
| Author | Jirō Taniguchi |
| ISBN | 8493340995 |
Whoever takes the time these days to climb a tree in bare feet? To stop and observe the comings and goings of the birds? To play in the puddles after the rain has gone? To return a shell to the sea? The Walking Man follows a modern day Japanese business man as he strolls at random through urban Japan - often silent,...
Saturn Apartments, Vol. 1
| Author | Hisae Iwaoka |
| ISBN | 1421533642 |
A touching, character-rich vision of an intriguing new world.
Far in the future, humankind has evacuated the earth in order to preserve it. Humans now reside in a gigantic structure that forms a ring around the earth, 35 kilometers up in the sky. The society of the ring is highly stratified:...
| Author | Kousuke Oono |
| ISBN | 4107721043 |
A gag manga is only as good as the main gag. The entire point of a good gag manga is that it can take that one joke, use it in various situation while keeping it fresh, and most importantly funny. It has to be repetitive, without feeling repetitive. Fortunately in the case of this series, the joke is exceptionally...
とつくにの少女 5 [Totsukuni no shōjo 5]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800007577 |
Each volume opens us up to more information and emotions in this dark yet hopeful fantasy/horror? story of Shiva and Teacher. Shiva finds out about Auntie and confronts Teacher, whom she presumes knew about and could have protected her. Teacher returns to the cottage at one point and finds that Shiva...
とつくにの少女 6 [Totsukuni no shōjo 6]
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 4800008018 |
The publisher introduces the series in this way: “In a land far away, there were two kingdoms: the Outside, where twisted beasts roamed that could curse with a touch, and the Inside, where humans lived in safety and peace. The girl and the beast should never have met, but when they do, a quiet fairytale...
しまなみ誰そ彼 2 [Shimanami Tasogare 2]
| Author | Yuhki Kamatani |
| ISBN | 4091892760 |
僕が女装する理由なんて僕にもわからない。
自らがゲイであることを告白したたすくと、
彼の思いを受けとめた「談話室」に集う人々――
そのメンバーの一人の美空秋治は、「談話室」の
中でだけ女装をしている小学生男子。
自分はどうなりたいのか、なぜ女装をしたいのか
…何もわからないという美空を、
年上の友人として導こうと決意したたすくは、
尾道の花火大会へ女装した美空と一緒に行くことを
提案したが……?
尾道を舞台に鎌谷悠希が描く
性と生と青春の物語、第2集。...
| Author | Taiyo Matsumoto |
| ISBN | 1421555263 |
The latest manga masterpiece from the Eisner Award-winning creator of Tekkonkinkreet.What is Sunny? Sunny is a car. Sunny is a car you take on a drive with your mind. It takes you to the place of your dreams. Sunny is the story of beating the odds, in the ways that count. It’s the brand-new masterwork...
The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún Vol. 7
| Author | Nagabe |
| ISBN | 1642751162 |
This is the seventh volume in the Girl from the Other Side manga series. This is a manga series that is great for all ages. This volume was more violent and had more fighting than any other volume, but I really enjoyed how the story is finally coming to a climax.
The two transformed soldiers have...
PLUTO: Urasawa x Tezuka, Volume 002
| Author | Naoki Urasawa |
| ISBN | 1421519194 |
In a distant future where sentient humanoid robots pass for human, someone or some thing is out to destroy the seven great robots of the world. Europol’s top detective Gesicht is assigned to investigate these mysterious robot serial murders—the only catch is that he himself is one of the seven targets....
| Author | Kentaro Miura |
| ISBN | 4592144406 |
I don't recall reading another fictional series that has changed so much like "Berserk". It started in the eighties as a savage, brooding, dark as hell (quite literally) story that for many defined how gruesome this genre could be. These days the series deals with most of the characters we are familiar...
The Ancient Magus' Bride, Vol. 8
| Author | Kore Yamazaki |
| ISBN | 1626925976 |
Finally Elias acts like the centuries older inhuman being that he is.
Look in like Elias - I like him goofy and sweet and oblivious and caring. But that's not him. Not really. He isn't an alchemist who's a tad off. He's not a mage or witch who's lived a couple centuries. He's a Fae being, an Elder God....
| Author | Inio Asano |
| ISBN | 2505002746 |
Grupka przyjaciół nadal stoi przed wyzwaniami, które zgotował im bezwzględny świat dorosłych. Czekają na nich trudne decyzje… Czy wydarzenia kończące pierwszy tom, wpłyną istotnie na życie paczki przyjaciół? Czy nadal będą mieli tyle zapału, by zajmować się muzyką?...
