Shuzo Oshimi is the best-selling author behind works such as FLOWERS OF EVIL and HAPPINESS. His works mix in the struggles of youth along with modern fantasy themes. Oshimi is the winner of the 2002 Chiba Tetsuya Award for New Best New Manga Artist. Since then he has penned a dozen series including the New York Times Best-Selling Flowers of Evil and the cult hit INSIDE MARI.

Shuzo Oshimi

Mari's life is starting to fall apart. She's fallen out with her friends, teachers and family. So, with few clues as to where she has disappeared to, Isao and Yori turn their focus on the man currently living in the Komori apartment.

Drama

Mystery

Inside Mari

Inside Mari, Volume 3

Asumiko Nakamura (1979-) has quietly become a star of Japan's women's comic scene. The artist has penned nearly twenty titles since 2000 and has reached critical acclaim for her sensitive portrayals of romantic narratives featuring a wide range of characters within an equally broad range of genres. In 2016, her best-known work Doukyuusei -Classmates- was adapted into an animated film released in the US by Aniplex.

Asumiko Nakamura

All aboard! This book is your ticket to seven romancesâ€•from confessions in Iriuda to proposals in Enoshima and all points in between.Beloved josei and boys love mangaka Asumiko Nakamura returns to the English market with a unique collection of romance shorts each set around Kanagawa's railway system, the Odakyu. Combining moments of contemporary women, lesbian romances and coming-of-age tales, Maiden Railways is a ride to romance rarely seen in manga these days. What the Press has to Say about Asumiko Nakamura: "Just as Haruki Murakami masks deeper examinations of culture and identity in his novels, so too does Nakamura." - Seth Hahne, Good Ok Bad

Romance

Maiden Railways

It is becoming clear to Isao and Yori that finding Mari is going to take more time than expected. As the two continue their search they'll have to cooperate, despite their contrasting personalities, to preserve Mari's social life.

Inside Mari, Volume 2

Ten years after their Comitia debut, panpanya is still exciting indie comics fans with an original artistic style and way of story-telling. Often seen on award lists, including the 2014 Manga Taisho Gran Prix Award, panpanya is poised to beguile the West with this English- language debut.

panpanya

Collecting a handful of self-published shorts along with a mix of serialized stories and essays, panpanya's English-language debut mixes art styles and narratives from a range of genres.If you are ever fortunate enough to see a crab strolling through your neighborhood, please follow its lead. By slowing down to a crab's pace and looking around and about in this world, you too may discover life's many mysteries that are hidden in plain sight.

Comedy

Fantasy

An Invitation from a Crab

Range Murata&nbsp;is best known as a character designer for&nbsp;Last Exile&nbsp;and&nbsp;Blue Submarine no. 6.&nbsp;Over the years his art has been featured in and on the many magazines of Japanese manga publisher Wanimagazine. Always in high demand, his art has been featured on the covers of such hit works as Attack on Titan: The Harsh Mistress of the City. In 2019 Murata's character designs were featured on two animated TV series -&nbsp;Cop Craft&nbsp;and&nbsp;BEM. What does the Press Say about Range Murata: "Stunning, dark, exhilarating and disturbing, Murata's collection of contemporary Japanese comic art gives an inside view of the explosive work happening there today."&nbsp;-Publishers Weekly

Range Murata

This full-color collection compiles more than twenty years of comics, cover art, promotional art and character designs from legendary Japanese artist Range Murata. The oversized release contains dozen gate-fold posters, and several comics from the ROBOT anthology along with renditions of each of his magazine covers. This is the most definitive collection of Murata's work so far.

Mature

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Hiroyuki Asada is one of the more recognized mangaka of his generation. The creator of the best-selling Shonen Jump manga series LETTER BEE and I'LL. His comics are full of ennui and fashionable youthful characters. Asada recently lent his talents to the MAPPA animated TV series adaptation of Osamu Tezuka's DORORO.

Hiroyuki Asada

In this full-color collection set in a post-apocalyptic world, Pez and Decosuke cross a now desolate landscape searching for signs of life. Along the way, they experience a few moments that remind them of what it meant to be alive and why their lives are so precious.Previously published in pages of the legendary ROBOT anthology, this is the definitive release of this short series.

Science Fiction

College dropout Isao Komori wakes up one morning to find himself in the 
body of a high school girl. How did this happen and what happened to the
 girl whose body his is possessing?What are People Saying about this Title: "Inside Mari is currently the standard for the body-swap genre." - Makoto Shinkai, Director of Your Name

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