Japan is hit by a series of monumental natural disasters that leave the country fragmented and its people devastated. Follow the lives of its citizens as they deal with massive emigration to refugee camps on the Asian mainland and try to solve the political task of rebuilding their nation.

A Spirit of the Sun is also a retelling and melding of two well-known stories in Japan. The setting is directly lifted from the early '70s disaster science-fiction book and movie "Nippon Chinbotsu," (Japan Sinks) while many of the characters are allegorical to the key players in the Eastern classic "Sangokushi" (The Three Kingdoms). Sangokushi aficionados may discover greater entertainment by watching the characters in A Spirit of the Sun closely to spot these resemblances.

From Kaiji Kawaguchi, the author of Silent Service, Eagle and Zipang (as well as the artist for Confession).

A Spirit of The Sun received the 2006 Shogakukan Manga Award for the seinen/general category along with Rainbow by Masasumi Kakizaki and George Abe.

Straight A student Yuka is a little too honest for her own good and has no friends but unexpectedly begins dating Haruomi after he helps her out of a difficult situation. The only problem is, Haruomi has a strict policy of dating someone new every Monday…

After a nuclear war turns most of the Earth into desert wastelands, surviving humans had used the sands in order to survive. One of them is a professional mercenary named Sunabozu, who makes a living by hiring himself out to anyone who needs his talents.

"That spring, an eleven year old girl bought a man for the first time."

After her mom left, leaving her five hundred thousand yen, Rinko sets out into the city at night to find her, but instead meets Haruno, found passed out at the intersection. Haruno introduces himself as a kept man, and Rinko, who can no longer bear being alone, decides to hire him.

The distorted and painful life of an elementary student and a kept man, somehow still full of warmth, is about to start.

After passing the Guangzhou Special Chef Trials, Mao decided to travel around China, to learn more about the unique preparation of food. Upon his return, he will learn that the real battle has only just begun. The Underground Cooking Society has already begun to move...

Kim Soohyuk, a veteran rescuer in Shinil-seo was crushed and killed during a rescue operation in a collapsing building. Soohyuk, who thought he was dead, opened his eyes in an incident 10 years ago. [Save Everyone] He was able to save two people that he couldn't save in the past. As a reward, he was also given new abilities and strength. "Great. From now on, I will save the lives of those I couldn't save in the past!"

An accidental encounter during his childhood made the newly coronated emperor unable to forget the sorcerer he met, A'Luo. When they meet again, can the youthful emperor capture A'Luo's heart? A beautiful fantasy romance is unrolling.

The story is set in the continent of Jugdral, home of the descendants of the Twelve Crusaders. Lord Sigurd is the hero for the first generation, fighting an invasion from Verdane and helping out in the lands beyond. Sigurd's son, Celice continues his father's legacy in the second generation, where he rallies an army to defeat the Grandbell Empire. From Baka-Updates: Based on the Super Famicom strategy game, Fire Emblem 4 features the son of Lord Byron of Chalphy, Lord Sigurd. Bandits from Verdane made an attack while Grandbell's armies were away, and now Sigurd rallies the remaining forces to drive the bandits out so he can save his friend, Adean... Little does he know what he leads himself into will lead into a tragic turn of events in the face of Grandb.

Due to a false charge, Felicia Suwarose got her engagement with His Highness annulled and was expelled from school. There’s nothing but misunderstandings all around her, but the person herself only wants a rose-coloured commoner’s life. It’s a story about characters from “Nation’s Saviour Lady Rose”, an otome game from her previous life.

What if a child who died at a very young age appeared just as she was? What if it was the work of a supernatural tanuki? This isn't a reunion. She's not real, but still... her parents want to cling to it. The lie is kind, yet saddening.

A heart-wrenching human drama, from Kawamura Taku.

Maybelle had lived a life of abuse under her parents. Upon discovery that these 'parents' aren't her true biological parents and that somewhere, her father exists, with a sad heart, Maybelle sets off in search of him.

Somei Yoshino is a high school girl, born and bred in a yakuza family, but that hasn't stopped her from living a peaceful life - that is, until meeting her fiancé, Miyama Kirishima.

A regular college freshman Kim Jung Hyun and his roommate Kim Homo are polar opposites and friends. It's a story that deals with many sensitive topics with a dash of humor.

This is a world where evil creatures are gradually rampaging. However, the evil creatures are strong, they all disappear after this mental hospital, and even without dignity, they are reduced to ingredients and pets. This is the Green Mountain mental hospital, where talents are abundant and strong people are surrounded. In this regard, the seriously ill Lin Fan, who is carrying the system, said: I am definitely not a mental patient, I am a normal person who likes to cultivate. Usually is to touch the socket, climbing high voltage box, thunder days standing on the rooftop to the heavens dance a stick method.

Park Tae-Jun Comics Company, Kim Soong-Nyung / Gwangsan

Shin Kim, the rare serial killer who shook the Republic of Korea!

Ji-hoo, who lost his family to Kim Shin, meets another victim, Du-seok, and is trained as a human weapon. And he goes to prison on his own to kill the killer with his bare fists…

‘There has been no execution in our country since 1997. Shouldn’t someone be doing it?’

The girl I fell in love with is… an alien!? I, the class president, happened to fall in love with my classmate, the eccentric Haru. I confessed my feelings, but her true identity was an extraterrestrial who came to Earth to survey it. “I still like you!” I started going out with Haru, but I have a further “secret” to keep…

Young Alice Estevan has a secret. She was actually reborn in "The Tyrant's Silver Flower", a hardcore, tragic BL where she'll be killed for abusing the male leads! Luckily, she still has time to avoid that fate by liberating Edwin, one of the male leads, from the tower he's trapped in. And though she succeeds in getting the key to free the boy, there's just one problem: he hates her guts! With the threat of death looming ever so closer, will Alice win Edwin over and earn her happy ending?

Okazaki Shimako is an office worker for a fashion company who believes her boyfriend is going to propose to her on Christmas Eve, and is planning on quitting her job. Instead he dumps her by phone right before their date. As she's home trying to understand what has happened her younger sister whom she hasn't seen in 18 years shows up…

Minori couldn't be more different from her older sister. Shimako is straight-laced while she is wild and a free spirit who sleeps around and lives life fairly full. But Minori needs a place to live, and moves into Shimako's apartment. Just what effect will Minori's appearance have on Shimako's love life? Or is it the other way around?

Tachibana works in a beachside cafe and roams the beach sands with her dog, Dolphin. Then her cousin Ippei loses a surfing challenge to a newcomer. With a shock Tachibana recognizes Arikawa, her first love--her first heartbreak. After four years he's back from the U.S. and he thinks Tachibana doesn't like him. But before they get a chance to talk Ippei challenges Arikawa to another surfing match--in the face of an on-coming hurricane!

The year is 2019, and the Japanese government has recently increased their involvement in censorship of the mass media. The upcoming Tokyo Olympics accelerates their efforts. Depictions deemed obscene by the Japanese government become increasingly difficult to publish, even in manga.

Under these circumstances, manga author Hibino Mikio just got an opportunity to publish his horror manga: "Dark Walker." His manga centers around a disease that turns normal people into cannibals during the night. Watch as Mikio finds himself in a manga industry shaken by a war on the freedom of expression. [DrCoke]