The story is about Mutsu Tsukumo, a young and normal looking youth who challenges great foes to prove that his style of fighting is the best in the world. His Ryuha, or fighting style is called Mutsu Enmei Ryu. A style that is said to have never lost in its 1000 year history. Tsukumo not yet a perfect fighter also increases his strength as the story progresses.

Won the 14th Kodansha Manga Award for shounen in 1990.

From Stiletto Heels:
Kanna Seto lost her childhood friend Haruta in a an accident when she was a freshman in high school. Carrying the emotional pain from that incident throughout her life, Kanna is still wounded as an adult. Will she evet be able to love again? The series is composed of coherent episodes that feature different characters.

Note: Won the 33rd Kodansha Manga Award for Shoujo in 2009.

Edo, 1855, in the Hill of the Three Hundred district: Japan's isolationist foreign policy has been lifted, and the era of the Bakumatsu has begun. The samurai Ibuya Manjiro, 26 years old, has just begun his career as low-ranking retainer to the minor daimyo Lord Matsudaira. Tezuka Ryoan, 29, a disciple of Dutch medicine, has just been accepted as a student at Teki Academy in Osaka. Each has a temper to go with his talent, and in a time of brewing upheaval the two are not slow to find trouble, which brings them together in spite of their mutual dislike. Tezuka is called in one night to sew up Ibuya after an illicit duel; a few weeks later, Ibuya finds himself the only thing standing between Tezuka and a gang of swordsmen sent by the head of medicine for the Shogunate.

Note: Won the Shogakukan Manga Award for general manga in 1984.

In 1878, as the wave of Western culture spreads through Japan, Miyo, a girl orphaned in the Satsuma Rebellion, works at a curio shop in Nagasaki called Vingt. The dresses, sewing machines, binoculars, boots, and other items acquired at the Paris Exhibition by the proprietor Momotoshi Koura have aroused her curiosity. Miyo accumulates experience in her job while using the clairvoyant ability which she has possessed since she was very young. The story vibrantly depicts a new age that visits a Nagasaki thriving with merchants and prostitutes, centering on Miyo's changes as she begins to experience feelings for Momotoshi akin to the awakening of love, and Momotoshi's past, which gradually comes to light.


Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize 2020 - Grand Prize Winner

Kunou Totonou is a perceptive college student who's often forced to think his way out of dangerous situations.
The story starts with the police questioning him on suspicion of murdering his classmate.

Note: Won the 67th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2021. Was nominated for the 12th and 13th Manga Taisho Award in 2019 and 2020, 65th Shogakukan Manga Award in 2019 the 44th Kodansha Manga Award in 2020 and the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022.

Traveling all over the world seeking treasure and attention, there's nothing that the flashy phantom thief Joker can't steal! Using his incredible ability to predict and calculate, as well as a few gadgets, Joker always makes a miraculous escape, no matter how dire the pinch he finds himself in.

Each chapter of this action comedy manga features Joker and his sidekick Hachi pulling off a caper in a different geographical location.

Note: Winner of the 58th Shogakukan Manga Award (2013) in the children's manga category.

Fuutarou Uesugi is a poor, antisocial ace student who one day meets the rich transfer student Itsuki Nakano. They argue but when Uesugi realizes he is to be her tutor, he tries to get on better terms. While trying to do so he meets four other girls.

Note: Won the award for Best Shounen Manga at the 43rd annual Kodansha Manga Awards.

On the far northern island of Hokkaido, Saichi Sugimoto, a veteran of the Russo-Japanese war nicknamed "Sugimoto the Immortal", seeks the riches promised by the Hokkaido gold rush in hopes of saving the widowed wife of his deceased comrade. When he comes upon information about a massive lode of stolen gold hidden in a location known only to a wily band of criminals, he teams up with a resourceful Ainu girl who saves his life from the harsh northern wilderness and together they set out on a race against the bandits and other forces trying to get to the gold first.

Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016. Was nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

From Habanero Scans:

"Money Is Buried in the Ground!
Natsunosuke Bonda is a relief pitcher in Tokyo Spiders. In his eighth pro season, he makes 18 million yen at age 26. But he is always troubled by how little he makes, given that he is surrounded by high income earning baseball players.
This is a relief pitcher's story in Nippon Pro Baseball, his envies, worries, sweat and tears."

Note: Was one of two winners of the Best General Manga award alongside Kangoku Gakuen at the 37th Kodansha Manga Awardin 2013.

Shigeharu Honda is a Japanese League batter on the rise. His son Goro is a Little League pitcher who one day hopes to follow in his father's footsteps. Momoko Hoshino, Goro's schoolteacher, is the first woman Shigeharu has been interested in since the death of Goro's mother. The destinies of these three individuals will become intertwined as father and son experience both heartbreak and triumph on the baseball diamond. But when an unspeakable tragedy visits the family, it will take everything they have to pick up the pieces and reclaim their dreams.

Note: Won the 41st Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 1996.

One day Ooki Taiju builds his courage to confesses to Yuzuriha, the girl he loves, when the sky is filled with a strange light. Everyone touched by that light is turned to stone. After a thousands years trapped in stone, he breaks out of his shell and starts to explore the world until he finds his old friend Senku, who was freed from his stone state half a year ago.

Taiju and Senku decide to team up and bring back the now lost human civilization, starting by investigating the true nature of the light that turned them all to stone thousands of years ago and how to fix the situation.

Note: Won the 64th Shogakukan Manga Award for the shounen category.

Terror has paralyzed the clockwork metropolis of Tokyo! Possessed by demons, people have begun to burst into flame, leading to the establishment of a special firefighting department: the Fire Force, ready to roll on a moment's notice to fight spontaneous combustion anywhere it might break out.

One of the Fire Force teams is about to get a unique addition: Shinra, a boy who possesses the unique power to run at the speed of a rocket, leaving behind the famous "devil's footprints" and destroying his shoes in the process. Can the Fire Force discover the source of this strange phenomenon and put a stop to it? Or will the city burn to ashes first?

Note: The manga was nominated for the 45th Kodansha Manga Award in the shounen category in 2021.

Hideo Suzuki is a thirty-five year old mangaka assistant struggling to be the hero in his own life by breaking back into the lime light with a new serial all the while juggling his relationship with his girlfriend and his own delusions. However, as hard as Hideo may try, the world seems to have a different set of plans for him; sinister and dark machinations that completely overturn his reality as he knows it. Nominated for the 3rd and 4th Manga Taisho Award (2010 and 2011).

Raimon Middle School 's soccer club captain, Endou Mamoru is in a pinch - his club is about to be destroyed! Literally! To avert the wrecking ball and disbanding of the club, his team must win against the toughest soccer team in the area - Teikoku. Will Endou and his team meet a crushing defeat or will a mysterious transfer student with a fiery kick save them from disaster?!

Won the 34th Annual Kodansha Manga Award for Best Children's Manga.

In a world terrorized by werewolves, Velou wants to save his village. But the villagers decide to seek outside help and hire Grimm, a little girl who is part of the Hunters Guild. Velou will need to team up with this outsider to become the hero he wants to be!

The winner of the 14th Gold Future Cup rookie manga competition now launches as a full series! Unique art captures the unfolding battle between hunters and werewolves. Who will win this battle to the death, man or beast? This grim fantasy tale with tons of style begins the hunt in Shonen Jump!

The oneshot was Golden Future Cup 2020 Entry #1. Published in Weekly Shounen Jump issue #42 on September 19th 2020.

Akihime is a seemingly normal girl attending junior high school, but she is actually the daughter of Ryokuhouzan's tengu. She lives with her mother in the human world, living a normal human life. However, her childhood friend Shun is constantly trying to convince her to go to the mountains with him, so that they can become tengus together. Despite his continuous urgings, Akihime refuses because she has feelings for her classmate, Takeru-kun.

Machi de Uwasa no Tengu no Ko won the 2009 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shoujo.

After a genetic mutation, mosquitoes have become the strongest predator on the planet. Will mankind be able to fight back?

SERIES 8: Jojolion
This is the 8th installment of the Jojo no Kimyou na Bouken saga and an alternative take on Diamond wa Kudakenai (Part 4).

Won the 17th Japan Media Arts Festival Grand Prize for Manga.

Ichigo Kurosaki has always been able to see ghosts, but this ability doesn't change his life nearly as much as his close encounter with Rukia Kuchiki, a Soul Reaper and member of the mysterious Soul Society.
While fighting a Hollow, an evil spirit that preys on humans who display psychic energy, Rukia attempts to lend Ichigo some of her powers so that he can save his family, but much to her surprise, Ichigo absorbs every last drop of her energy.
Now a full-fledged Soul Reaper himself, Ichigo quickly learns that the world he inhabits is one full of dangerous spirits, and along with Rukia, who is slowly regaining her powers, it's Ichigo's job to both protect the innocent from Hollows and to help the spirits themselves find peace.

Note: Won the 50th Shogakukan Manga Award in the Shounen category in 2005.

Shamisen is a traditional Japanese musical instrument that looks similar to a guitar. Teenager Sawamura Setsu's grandfather who raised him and his older brother Wakana, recently passed away. His grandfather was one of the greatest Shamisen players and the two siblings grew up listening to him play and learning to play the instrument. Since the grandfather's death, Setsu dropped out of high school, moved to Tokyo and has been drifting, not knowing what to do besides play his Shamisen. That's when his successful and rich mother, Umeko storms into his life and tries to shape Setsu up.
She enrolls him back into high school but little does Setsu know that he is about to rediscover his passion for Shamisen.

Note: Was nominated for the 4th Manga Taisho Award in 2011. Won the Kodansha Manga Award for Shounen in 2012.