Serinuma Kae is a chubby second-year high schooler and an avid fujoshi who secretly ships her classmates, Igarashi-kun and Nanashima-kun. The death of her favorite anime character causes her to become stressed and lose weight rapidly. Now that Serinuma has become an attractive girl to her classmates, her snarky kouhai Shinomiya-kun, and her senpai Mutsumi-senpai. How is she going to deal with them...with her constant BL-filled, fujoshi mind?!

Won the 40th Kodansha Manga Award for Shoujo in 2016.

Despite his short stature and his cowardly personality, Eisaku Yazawa dreams of one day becoming a gang leader of a nation of thugs. As he starts high school, he ends up meeting several delinquents who attend the same school as him.

Won the 23rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 1999.

Tsugumi Rinko can’t wait to escape the tedium of high school for the challenges and rewards that accompany life at a fine arts college. She only has two problems: 1) She has few social skills and fewer friends. 2) With less than nine months remaining before her crucial admissions test, she has no practical art experience. Winner of 2011 New Face Award at 2011 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards.FYI: No demographic should be listed. Originally serialized in-app and NOT in a magazine of any type.

This award-winning classic story focuses on Marlee, an agent of the space empire sent on a mission to track down the opera singer Eroccus. There are three intertwining narratives which span planets and hurl the readers back 30,000 years in time. The narrative takes place in a non-linear fashion, unfolding across space and time, before folding back upon itself at its culmination.

Note: Winner of the Seiun Award in 1983.

Note 2: Gin no Sankaku was not serialized in a manga magazine. Based on content, it could be considered either seinen or josei.

The manga and the movies of the same name are both based on the Onmyouji novels by well known Japanese science fiction writer Yumemakura Baku.
All three concern the adventures of Abe no Seimei, an onmyouji (magician) serving the imperial court during the Heian period and his friend nobleman Minamoto no Hiromasa. Both men are historical figures who appear in various sets of tales. Many of the early chapters of the manga closely follow stories in the Konjaku Monogatari or Uji Shui Monogatari.

Note: Won the Tezuka Osamu Cultural Grand Prize in 1997 and the Seiun Award for best comic of the year in 2006.

A butcher with a dark secret finds a little girl.

Oneshot that was included in Afternoon’s 2012 Four Seasons Award anthology (v28).

From Viz:
Winner of the 2002 Academy Award for Best Animated feature, Spirited Away tells the story of 10-year-old Chihiro, a girl in the midst of a move to the suburbs who wanders into a strange town and finds a world of spirits ruled over by the mysterious Yubaba.

From Viz:

After her parents divorce, Anna Uekusa and her mother move from Tokyo to rural Shimane. Used to the anonymity of city living, An can't get used to the almost overbearing kindness of the people in her mother's hometown. But when personal tragedy strikes, An discovers how much she needs that kindness.

Note: Won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo manga in 2005 and was adapted into a movie in 2008.

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.

Part 1: Hiroshima, 1955. Ten years after the city was consumed by a scorching flash of light, a woman's soul is still deeply shaken by the earth-shattering explosion that devastated her home and changed her life forever.
A family from Hiroshima struggles to come to terms with their survival of the atomic bombing of their city. The protagonist is Minami Hirano, about 20 years of age.
Part 2: Set some decades later, the niece of Minami Hirano is bewildered by her father's mysterious disappearances. She and a friend follow him to discover what he is doing.
The main theme of this is historic manga concerns the question what impact the war and the atomic bombing had on the most vulnerable. Fumiyo Kôno examines this question in her outstanding book- an award-winning, widely-discussed masterpiece.

Note: Won the 2004 Japan Media Arts Festival's Grand Prize for manga and the Tezuka Osamu Creative Award in 2005.

A sudden advent of an enigmatic creature pushes the world and our young heroine, Yuki, into the realm of the surreal.

Winner of the Grand Prix Award in Kodansha's AFTERNOON SHIKI.

From Del Rey:
By the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, ten ninja from the Iga and the Kouga clans must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun, with the surviving clan ruling for the next thousand years. But Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death?

Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the category "Best General Manga" in 2004.

From Atelier du Noir Scans:

Youko has a protector in Shige-san. He has guided her, helped her, and always maintained a respectful propriety since she was a little girl. The difficulty is that Shige-san is a ghost, a poltergeist who only communicates with her by throwing small rocks to signal his disagreement or to show her what to do. But now that Youko is beginning to feel the first stirrings of young love, will Shige-san’s guidance help her find her true happiness?

Note: Won the Spring 2016 Four Seasons Award (Kodansha) in the one-shot manga category.

This work won the Best Art Award at the Asia Issued Comics Summit in 1999

Plot is about a master and disciple pair of travellers that are crossing a desert/wasteland and find a remote village. At the inn, there is an array of other travellers including a warrior, a mother and son and a monk. Dried bodies, water that wards off monsters and the villager's suspicious activity begin a series of events which reveal the village's dark truth. This also sets a plot of war between races and clans further into motion between humans and vampires (not the sparkly kind, these are tribal and go around in UFO's.)

A little bumpkin kid by the name of Hanada Ichiro gets into all kinds of mischief until things take a turn for the nasty. Trying to escape the wrath of his enraged mother, he gets in an accident, resulting in nine stitches on the back of his head, and one little side-effect: a knack for the supernatural. Young Ichiro is now able to communicate with ghosts, who just can't get off his back with all kinds of requests.

Won the 19th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1995.

One day a 23-year-old Japanese musician travels to Mongolia in order to get inspirations for writing a piece of music. There he meets Kanon whose mother runs the "Hotel Kanon" in the desert. Kanon grew up in Mongolia, does not know who her father is and takes him for dead as her mother told her so. Then Kanon's mother who fell from a horse dies of injury. Before her death, she tells her daughter that she came to Mongolia because she could not stay in Japan as she had an affair with Kanon's father, a musician, who is actually still alive, and she asks Kanon to find him in Japan by becoming a violin virtuoso, but dies before telling her his name.
Thus Kanon goes with the young man to Japan where she learns to become a musician in a music school run by Mikami, a handsome young man and worldwide very successful musician and conductor. Soon the younger sister of her mother gives her photos of three musicians, one of whom might be her father. Kanon's erring search for her father begins.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for Shōjo in 1997.

Kakei Shirou, a lawyer whose hobby is cooking, lives with his lover Yabuki Kenji, a hairdresser. The story follows their daily lives, with the dishes that Kakei makes providing the backdrop against which the author explores the reality of being a gay couple in Japan.

Note: Nominated for the first annual Manga Taishou Award (2008).

Some people are the type to sit back and watch a situation, hoping it ends in the best way possible; some are the type that jump into the situation head first and do all they can to make it end the best way possible. Daigo Asahina is a prime example of the latter. Working as a firefighter, his unorthodox ways are constantly getting him a little too much negative attention from his superiors as well as the media. Despite his constant struggle to keep his job, when the fire is roaring and lives are in danger, Daigo will ignore every order given as well as put his own life on the line to ensure everyone person is pulled from the blaze alive.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1997.

Himawari - Kenichi Legend is a gag manga based on the manga author's real life story.
Himawari is about an OL named Akiko who is very good at drawing illustrations for her company bulletins. She drew manga as a kid, but hadn't pursued it. Her father Ken'ichi works at the same company. He is a tropical fruit freak & is on a different wavelength than others.

Note: Was nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho Award in 2008.

Ayuta, a ronin with hopes of attending Geidai, fell in love on a packed train. Depicting his tempestuous and heartbreaking love with Haruhi, a psychiatrist eight years his senior, is this manga adaptation of the Naoki Award winning Murayama Yuka's best seller!