Two men chat in a prison cell about the war going on outside.

The Golden Age of Pirates

In 1715, pirates established a lawless republic in the Caribbean and ruled the land and seas. These outlaws paralyzed navies, halted international trade, and plundered vast fortunes. They threatened the power structures that ruled Europe, inspired the imaginations of millions, and left a legacy that still endures.

Into this world sails a young, cocky, and fearsome captain named Edward Kenway. His skill with a sword and disdain for authority earn him the respect of pirate legends like Blackbeard, but thrust him into an ancient conflict that threatens to destroy everything the pirates have built.

From MangaHelpers:
Finding himself in a war torn Japan that has just lost the war to the US, Zaji wanders the land that used to be a city. Suffering from amnesia, the only thing that he remembers is that he has to remember something important. He quickly learns that he has incredible martial arts combat skills and is able to use it even if he doesn’t realize. It since it seems that it has been engrained into his body through years of training. He is taken in by Gin, the owner of the local bar which occupying US soldiers frequent. Zaji learns the full extent of his strength as he tries to protect the helpless in a devastated society.

Upon his father's death, Akihito Kuze became a viscount at the age of 10. His smart, handsome young butler Tomoyuki Katsuragi has since managed all affairs pertaining to the viscountcy perfectly. The talented and charismatic Katsuragi is very popular in their social circle; but as Akihito grows older, he becomes colder and more distant by the day - though still as faithful to the Kuze household as he has ever been.

Akihito is now a young man, and desperately in love with Tomoyuki. He determines to discover the reason behind his butler's inexplicable behaviour, and this is where their story begins...

What will Seimei of Abe, the royal palace’s most powerful sorcerer, do when he has to deal with a lovesick demoness, his jealous dragoness wife, and an arrogant new rival – all at once? Also includes Seimei’s back story, a romantic twist on a classic Japanese folklore.

Itou Kaiji is a bum who steals car emblems and slashes tires on what seems to be a regular basis. This routine changes one day when he is paid a visit by a man in a trench-coat. Once the two get talking, it seems that the visitor (Calling himself Endou) is a debt collector. The reason for his visit is an unpaid loan which kaiji had previously co-signed for a work-mate (Furuhata Takeshi). The original loan was 30000 yen and once Takeshi had disappeared, the loan then fell on Kaiji.

Kaiji is then told of a way to clear the interest compounded debt (which stood at 3,850,000 yen), which involved getting on a boat with others in his position. Once on the boat the debtors would then have to gamble with loaned money, which would end with a few winning, and others getting into deeper debt and having to work to pay of their debts. After some coercing kaiji accepts a position on the boat, in order to clear himself and make a bit of money as well...

In the 18th century, seeking "freedom and equality", the event that became the starting point of modern French society, the French Revolution, began. There was one more protagonist that lived within the darkness, Henry Charles Sanson. He was the fourth generation family head of the Sanson Family, and executioner of Paris.
This is the historie of him nobly facing the harsh fate.

Note: Was nominated for the 18th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize Reader Award in 2014 and for the 8th Manga Taisho Award in 2015.

Hero is a dramatic adventure manga set in ancient China.

China: 184 A.D., a time of great turmoil. A young drifter named Zhang Fei stumbles upon a slaughtered village and encounters the volunteer army of Liu Bei. He joins them in time to help in the defense of a walled city. But later, while attempting to save the life of a little girl, he's struck by an arrow and thrown off a cliff. Rescued by two wizards, he is revived and given great powers. But the price could cost him his very soul!

Note: the series appeared in Kodansha's defunct Young Magazine Uppers, continued in Flex Comix Blood and then transferred to Flex Comix Next.

From Easy Going Scans:

The protagonist, Boreum Park, is the daughter of a goddess and a womanizing taoist. Stolen from her mother at birth, she lives on earth with her father Chun Park. Her whereabouts are hidden from her mother by the protective charms set up around their house and she is always forbidden to leave them. When on the prowl for women one day, her casanova father comes across a man playing the flute. As they get to know each other he falls in love with the man. In order to stay close to the man he offers a marriage proposal for Boreum to marry the man's son. Thus stirring things up in the heavens when her mother finally finds Boreum's whereabouts.

From Easy Going Scans:
The fourth son of the famous Caluanthes family is, well, quite infamous. Mockingly referred to as a bird of paradise, Force dresses gaudily, spends money like water, and has turned the trip he's been sent on to learn more about the world into his own personal gourmet dining tour. His behavior makes the rest of high society whisper about him behind his back. The only exception is Eiri Lawrence, who finds Force and his entourage intriguing rather than laughable - and who is everything that Force is not. Theirs is the world of high society, where truth and falsehood, and dark and light, intertwine.

Myojin was once a cursed child who managed to work his way up to being a God of the Celestial Realm. For the sin of killing his fellow celestial beings, he was cast down to Earth to live -- and, eventually, die -- among humans.

But the wheels of fate turn in the oddest of ways, for one day the baby son of a celestial deity and mortal man ends up falling into Myojin's custody. Believing that showing kindness to the child will help him be accepted back into the Celestial Realm, Myojin takes him in. But can this man, whose heart has become hardened towards both suffering and joy, rear a healthy, wholesome child?

During their school days, Rin and Karaku were a detective duo of sorts. One day they meet again as adults, and indulge in a stroll down memory lane together. But what one of them doesn't know is that he is already dead, wandering the earth as a ghost...

From MangaHelpers:
In the 1950s, an old woman was brutally murdered on the face of a clock tower by her adopted daughter. Two years later, the clock tower is known as the 'ghost tower' and it is supposedly haunted. Through an unusual series of events, a young NEET man named Amano Taichi is attacked by someone or something in the same clock tower, and finds himself bound to the clock face to be killed in the same way as the old woman. Luckily for Amano, he doesn't meet the same fate. He's rescued by a mysterious person who claims his name is Tetsuo. He is searching for a treasure that is connected with the ghost tower, and he wants Taichi to be his partner. Taichi, whose life has mostly consisted of poverty, loneliness, and pornography, is enticed by the idea of gaining extreme wealth. He's further convinced when a house fire leaves him without a home and depends on Tetsuo's charity. The adventure is going to be very dangerous, since the same 'enemies' who attacked Taichi before seem certain to try something again! Not to mention, Taichi really knows very little about his new partner.

Billy Bat is a comic-in-a-comic and the real protagonist is a Japanese-American artist named Kevin Yamagata who draws Billy Bat for "Marble Comics".
Shortly after they transition to the artist in his studio with his assistant, two actual detectives, who look like Laurel and Hardy in Dick Tracy era suits and trench coats, knock on the door and appropriate Kevin's room for the purpose of conducting surveillance on a room in an adjacent building. One of the detectives, the skinny “Laurel”, sees Kevin's work and it turns out he's a Billy Bat fan. The other chubby "Hardy" detective picks up a page and says that the characters look familiar and accuses Kevin of translating an old "Jap" comic.
As Hardy remembers the comic he thinks Kevin is ripping off, we make another Urasawaesque time jump to 1949 Tokyo.

Note: Won the Max und Moritz Prize for "Best international Comic" in 2014.

A collection of stories:

From Lililicious:

1. Cosmos no Saku Niwa (The Cosmos Garden)

2. Goshujin-sama to Issho (Together with Master)
A "PET" is a love animal, created for the express purpose of pleasing their master. This is a short story of how one PET became endeared to her master, and vice versa.

3. Kuchinashi (Gardenia)

4. Sakura Buntsuu (The Cherry Tree Correspondence)
A sweet story set in the Taisho period.

5. Hare ni Mau Yuki (Snowflakes Fluttering Down Through the Clear Sky)
A love story about a princess and a knight.

6. Hoshi ni Negai o (Wishing on a Star)
Two friends deal with grief.

7. Sakura Buntsuu - After Story (The Cherry Tree Correspondence - After Story)
Another pair of girls begins exchanging letters.

From Paperdolls Project:

Hotaru Kunoichi of the Iga Village has accepted a request to infiltrate Oda Nobunaga’s castle, Aduchi Castle. Under the guise that she is the younger sister of Mitsuhide, Nobunaga's confidante, she investigates the Oda army for dissenters. Hotaru deepens her relations with great military commanders, from Nobunaga to Hashiba Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu. However, it will all be over if they find out who she truly is . . .

Munakata is an anthropology professor who studies the relationship between folklore or fairy tales and real historical events. He believes that many of these stories that most presume to be entirely fictional are actually based on real events. This manga tells the story of Professor Munakata as he follows the clues left from both the imaginary world of fairy tales and the real world of historical evidence.

Mutsu enmei-ryu is an unarmed style that allows the user to defeat any number of armed opponents using incredible speed and strength.

Shura no Toki tells about some Mutsu generation and their important role in history.

1st arc: Yakumo Mutsu (Musashi Miyamoto era) - Vol1

2nd: Izumi Mutsu (Ryoma Sakamoto era) - Vol 2 & 3

3rd: Azuma Mutsu (Izumi's younger brother) -Vol 4

4th: Takato Mutsu (Tokugawa era) - Vol 5 & 6

5th: Kiichi Mutsu (Yoshitsune Minamoto era) -Vol 7, 8, 9 and 10 (elex edition)

6th: Tatsumi Mutsu, Komahiko and Torahiko (Oda Nobunaga Arc) - Vol11,12,13

7th: Tenpei Mutsu (Shiro Saigon Arc) - Vol14

8th: Sakon Mutsu (Raiden Tameemon Arc) - Vol 15