Motomiya Hiroshi

While surveying the whole of Japan, Ino Tadataka happened to come across a boy named Ninomiya Kinjiro, who was reading a book while carrying firewood on his back. The Kinjiro family had lost their father and were living in poverty, but they also lost their mother, and the siblings were left in the care of different relatives. Kinjiro vowed to come and get them.

Xu Fu, court alchemist of the Qin Empire, is sent by Qin Shi Huang across the sea to the land of Penglai to find the elixir of immortality. But what he finds on this eastern isle is a land of bountiful nature populated sparsely by peace-loving primitives, and he falls in love with this land. Will Xu Fu find the secret of immortality? And if he finds it, what is the cost? A millennia-spanning epic by the creator of Otoko Ippiki Gaki Daisho and Salaryman Kintaro! Divided into two parts, the first titled "Koun Ryusui: Xu Fu" and the second titled "Koun Ryusui: Nobunaga."

Yajima Kintaro has returned to Japan after a long time of traveling. As he approaches the age of 50, he is guided by his guardian Nakamura Kayo to join Shuto Electric Power Company as an ordinary employee. Kintaro wreaks havoc once again at this large company, which is facing a mountain of issues such as dealing with the nuclear accident and liberalizing the electricity market. This man will once again heat up Japan and the world!

It has been 20 years since the death of the legendary Kyotaro Murata. Kyoichi Murata visited his father's grave with his grandmother and mother. The man who came there was the person who once fought with his father and took his life. How will the man who inherited Murata's gene act in front of his father's enemy? Murata's family lineage is fierce and hot. The "fourth generation" has inherited his father's will and is now rousing himself here!

A mook book that celebrates Tetsuya Chiba's then 55 year long career, with various interviews, galleries, a previously unpublished one-shot of Chiba's made before his debut, discussions and articles on all of his famous manga and contributions from various mangaka. They are as follows: Fujiko Fujio A Shinji Mizushima Takao Saito Moto Hagio Hiroshi Motomiya Hisashi Eguchi Takehiko Inoue Kenshi Hirokane Jun Hatanaka Kenji Morita Kenichi Kitami Hiroshi Kurotetsu Yu Koyama Mitsuru Adachi Hirohiko Araki - A one-shot based on his experience with Tetsuya Chiba's manga series "I'm Teppei" as a child. Rumiko Takahashi Yoichi Takahashi Interview with two great respecters: Katsuhiro Otomo: "Chiba's works were my textbooks." Nobuyuki Fukumoto: "My youth was the Tetsuya Chiba Award." Tetsuya Chiba Photo Gallery Attic Workroom, Rikiishi Toru's Funeral, Akio Chiba's Writing Scene The Workroom in the 1980s," "Family Photos" and other rare images! The manga that Tetsuya Chiba made when he was 15 years old, "The Rise of Dr. Science!" All in one volume! Family Forms \[Siblings] Tetsuya Chiba talks about the true face of his younger brother, Akio Chiba. \[Parent-child dialogue] Tetsuya Chiba and Shuhei Chiba \[Married Couple] Sachiko Chiba, Wife Manga not included in the book "Ieji: The Road Home, 1945-2003" Special Contribution Atsuko Takamori "About Tetsuya Chiba and Ashita no Joe Shizuka Ijuin "The Man I Admire The only 14 handwritten original manuscripts left by Ikki Kajiwara! 〜Tetsuya Chiba, Artist of "Tomorrow's Joe" (Commentary by Fusanosuke Natsume) Special Talk: Tetsuya Chiba and Sho Hakuho Tetsuya Chiba and Monkey Punch TOMORROW'S JOE" as a basic education of Manga 〜Why are there so many parodies of "Tomorrow's Joe"? 〜Sho 2 Tetsuya Chiba and Monkey Punch Tetsuya Chiba's 40 major works, 1956-2008 Tetsuya Chiba: A List of All Works

Shimatani Shousuke, an editor for a publishing company in Tokyo and Yamauchi Shinichirou, a graduate of one of Japan's top universities and bank employee, have been best friends all life long. After both of them proposed to the same girl, to keep their friendship intact, all three of them decide to get married. Will this decision bring them closer together, or end up with one of them being left behind?

"Salaryman Kintaro" is back! With the global recession, Yamato Chuo Construction is in danger of going bankrupt. Kintaro persuades King Hassan of the Arabian Kingdom to sell his shares. The company can be revived as Yamato Arabian Construction. However, King Hassan's condition is that Kintaro becomes president! A new Kintaro adventure spanning both Arabia and Japan begins.

Years after his father's disappearance, Okada Masao, whose own life is going poorly, learns about how his father lived the last few years of his life. With nothing left to lose, he decides to live alone in the forest himself.

Shintaro Douchi, who was mistaken at birth and handed over the lord of the Tanagura Gomangoku Domain to his younger brother. He himself opened a swordsmanship dojo in Edo and enjoys a carefree life in the city. And if you hold a sword, you are extremely strong. People call him "Nedaro until noon". The curtain opens on Hiroshi Motomiya's delightful entertainment historical drama, depicting his freewheeling way of life!

Okada Kenzo, 60 years old, is fired after a whole life spent to work. His wife and children leave him without money. He tries to commit suicide without success and decides to live a new life in the forest that doesn't let him die.

That passionate man is back. Kintaro Yajima. This time he works at a foreign investment bank. However, after jumping into the world of money games, Kintaro loses 5 billion yen in one night in a bet with his new boss, Janet. Will Kintaro's drive work in a world where the only goal is to make a profit? This is the first in the new series of "Salaryman Kintaro."

(from ebookjapan): Ippei Yasuda travels all over Japan in order to find a suitable spouse who is recognized by all members of his family to be the heir to the Yasuda Zaibatsu, a super giant conglomerate. While living such a life of travel, Ippei Yasuda is arrested for possession of methamphetamine! The conflict between Ippei, who has no memory of the crime, and the police, who assume from the start that he is the culprit, only deepens. The situation is so entrenched that Ippei is on the verge of exploding...! Mangaka Hiroshi Motomiya presents a new "My Sky" series from a contemporary perspective.

(from ebookjapan): The Yasuda Group, a conglomerate said to be capable of founding a small independent country with just one family, had a custom. The heir to the family must find a wife who is approved by all members of the family and bring her home. The prospective heir, Ippei Yasuda, embarks on a journey that may never end in order to meet a wonderful woman. As Ippei continues to grow and develop through repeated encounters and partings, he learns of the disappearance of his mother, who left him when he was very young. ......

Kyotaro Murata, chairman of the World Economic Association, is a Japanese don who controls the yakuza organization Sowa Rengo behind the scenes. A high school girl appears before Kyotaro. She is Kyoko Murata! She was Kyotaro's only daughter. At that time, Katsuzo Wakamatsu, a fighter of the Kobe Anzai-gumi who was absorbed by Sowa, is released from prison for the first time in 19 years. Will the battle between Kanto and Kansai begin again?

Kyosuke Murata, the Japanese Don who manages the Souwa Alliance. A student visits him. His name is Kyotaro Murata. He is Kyosuke's only son. However, despite being a high school student, this Kyotaro was a terrible villain, perhaps because of his blood! In Katsuhara, Chiba, he used his henchmen to make a lot of money with poaching, prostitution, and fleas. A hardcore manga depicting the conflict between parent and child!

A man named Yajima Kintarou quits his job as a fisherman and moves to Tokyo to become a salaryman. Burdened with Ryuuta, a memento of his late wife, he aims to work for a prestigious company, Yamato Construction. However, this man has an unconventional background as the former head of a motorcycle gang, the Hasshuu League.

Legend has it that Nobunaga died in the fire at Honno-ji, but the truth is, he survived! And after that, he vowed to take back the world by his blade! Meanwhile, Hideyoshi and Ieyasu also aim to grab hold of the country, while Mitsuhide plans to assassinate Nobunaga! These swirling ambitions create a new chapter in history! Get ready for some fun historical fiction filled with wild imagination!

(from ebookjapan): The end of the Later Han Dynasty in China. The dynasty was in a state of political turmoil, and the people of the land were destitute. A man named Liu Bei Xuande steals and is beaten by the peasants. The woman he takes by the hand to be his wife turns out to be the daughter of the Dragon King, the god of heaven. Xuande ascends to the Heavenly Realm with Zhuge Kongming and heads for the Flame Castle, where the evil-drinking demons reside, to become the most daring man in the human world. There, tormented by a hallucinatory hell that never knows when it will end, Xuantong is...? The "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" is a dynamic sanguinary tale bursting with Motomiya's style!

Ippei Yasuda, heir to the Yasuda Zaibatsu, is back as a detective! Despite being a rookie Ippei takes on cases head-on, but is confronted by the unreasonable crimes of those in power. Will Ippei be able to maintain and apply his manly justice? (from ebookjapan)

Kyosuke Murata, a third-year student at Kita High, lives with his mother. He is a quarrelsome and single-minded man. Kyosuke's real father was Shozo Murata, the head of the Murata group. Kyosuke, who is devoted to quarreling in love, is involved in the conflict between the yakuza organizations, the Kanazawa-Murata group and the Matsuyama-Date group because of his birth! Kyosuke Murata's turbulent youth begins now. A representative work of Motomiya's hard-line manga.

(from ebookjapan): The Matsuyama Date family is one of the most prestigious families since the Edo period. Takekichi Date, the head of the Date family, single-handedly attacked the Akaiwa clan and destroyed their office. At the same time, in Osaka, Kenzo Shimaji, a.k.a. Ken Hyoro, fires a pistol that he wrested from a police officer at a member of the Osaka Nissui clan who was accusing him of a crime. Two reckless young men meet in a convoy. They are transported to the Asahiichi Prison in Tottori, a prison for loners and violent criminals who have single-handedly taken on the gang... An Otoko Roman that clashes with grand dreams and ambitions!

Katsushika's famous family, the Hanami family, is a family of three generations of matriarchy. In such a house, a boy was born for the first time in 100 years. Its name is "Hanami Mantaro"! Mantaro, who grew up to be more hard-headed than most, has a fiancée! Her name is Satsuki Matsudaira. She was the first princess in 230 years to be born into the Matsudaira family, a prestigious family that has been dominated by men for generations.

(from ebookjapan): Billy Holiday, the greatest gunfighter in the Wild West, has left his past behind and married the daughter of an Indian. The triplet outlaw Jason brothers come to town and set their sights on him. In addition to the title story, "Big Gun," this collection includes three short stories, "Chasing Across 25,000 Miles", "A White Summer's Day", and "Hitotsuki Hanjiro".

Comicization of an eternal masterpiece that shines in the history of Japanese literature. "Sanshiro", which is said to be a model of the founder of modern Japanese judo, a masterpiece judo story that is full of humanism!

Ginjiro Yamazaki, a third year student at Tencha Junior High School, is a hard man who hates women! Carrying the baby Mamoru on his back, he spends all his time fighting today. Then a beautiful woman with an outstanding figure, Takako Ozawa, transfers to his school...

Yasuda Ippei is the heir to the wealthy Yasuda Family, and a bright and talented student who is admired by all. On his 18th birthday, he is sent on a year-long journey in which he is guaranteed complete and utter freedom. However, unless he returns by the end of the year with a bride the entire family approves of, he will be disinherited.

At the end of the Pacific War, the Japanese military was pushed back by the power of the US military and was in a difficult situation. As the war situation worsened, five Zero fighters of the Kamikaze Special Attack Unit, Kizakura Unit, led by Lieutenant Yamabuki, took off from the base to carry out a suicide attack on the US military task force... This is the passionate and fleeting story of the men who belonged to the special attack unit.

Based on the life story of the swordsman Miyamoto Musashi. (from ebookjapan): In the summer of 1600, just before the Battle of Sekigahara, the young men of Aida-goori in Mimasaka Province were looking for their last chance to become samurai. While the 200 young men were arguing over who would be chosen as their commander, Benzo (later to become Miyamoto Musashi), the most violent man in Miyamoto Village, came forward to take his place. In order to show his skills, he provokes Kihei Arima, a Shintoryu who was staying in the village, and summons him to a shrine... Hiroshi Motomiya's version of "Musashi Miyamoto" depicts the anguish and growth of youth through Benzo.

A manga about revolutionary politics in which Taroji Tamba, the illegitimate son of a millionaire in Okayama, comes of age and leads the fight against a Japanese dictator.

The plot of the series revolves around Mankichi Togawa, who at the start of the series is a single delinquent student with one dedicated follower. Like many later iconic shonen protagonists, Mankichi's power is his ability to appeal to the others around him who join his cause (sometimes only after first losing to him in a fight). Join Mankichi as he fights other delinquents, dangerous criminals, and even juvenile detention camps! Historically, this is Weekly Shonen Jump's first major hit, the title that got their magazine to sell millions. The authors of both Saint Seiya and Fist of the North Star have both stated in interviews that Otoko was their inspiration to get into the manga industry, and it was one of the first shonen manga to get its own anime. While it may seem insignificant now, nearly every Shonen Jump manga out there owes its existence to Mankichi.

Tappei Hioka, a deaf boy. He had a superhuman sense of distance. Soichi Sawara, the son of a wealthy man. He was enjoying fame as a genius boy golfer. He is a boy who hates golf and a boy who thinks it is just a game. Guided by the thread of fate, two boys with completely different circumstances begin to play golf. A true golf story.

Strider Hiryu was the youngest Strider to ever reach the rank of "Super-A" grade. He was the greatest Strider the organization has ever produced, but he eventually grew disenchanted with them and retired. An uncollected prologue tells how Hiryu had been forced to kill his sister, Maria, who had inexplicably gone insane. He left the Striders for Mongolia, where he lived in seclusion for some years. The collected manga opens with a Strider assignment gone horribly awry. Two Striders, Kain and Sheena, had been assigned to Kazakh, but were ambushed by a paramilitary organization. Kain and Sheena defended the city valiantly, but were eventually overcome by the simplest of ruses: an armed child. Sheena managed to escape, but Kain was captured by a military officer bearing the Strider tattoo…