Nagayasu Takumi

An adaptation of the novel by Asada Jirou.

Poppoya: Satou Otomatsu is a lonely station master of a small station in Hokkaido, situated at the end of the line in a small village with an aging population. The station is due to close in the coming spring, and he will retire with it. One night in his last winter manning the station, an encounter with a young girl marks the beginning of the events that will see him reflect on his working life - performing his duty as a railroad man, whilst enduring the pain of its cost to his personal life. Love Letter: Goro just got out from jail, but a police officer wants to talk to him right away. He announces to him that Goro's wife is dead and that he has to go to Chiba and take her body. Goro has no recollection of having a wife, but then he remembers he married a Chinese woman a long time ago. He married her for her money, and had she married him because she needed a Japanese visa to work. In fact, she's a prostitute who came to Japan hoping to find better life. At first, Goro can't be bothered by this situation, but he goes to Chiba just because he can earn a lot of money. Later on, during his trip, Goro finds a letter she wrote him and through it he discovers the pure person that lies beneath this common prostitute. She is a woman of such kindness and love that Goro is moved to learn something about the woman he married. With those few words of love and tenderness, he understands her fears, her goals, and her hopes for the future – a future that he knows will never come.

Orbiting serenely above a long-ago poisoned earth, the last bastion of human civilization is the space colonies. After a terrorist attack, the colonists are forced into exile on the blighted planet below. In the confusion, a young mother is separated from her family and is flung into a bleak, uncertain future… But Sarah will not rest until she finds her children.

(from ebookjapan): Saburo, a new doctor, met a man in downtown Susukino, Sapporo. Saburo sees the life of a fierce doctor in Tetsuro Kokubu, who has suddenly disappeared after having shown great promise for the future due to his competence at a university hospital. The gekiga contains nine heart-wrenching arcs including "The End of Snow," which depicts the past of Kokubu, who established a small clinic in a backstreet of Shinjuku and is called "Dr. Kumahige" by the residents of the town.

A youthful taiga romance in which Ritsu Isomura, a strong-willed girl who grew up in a fishing village in Aomori, grows up despite being at the mercy of a cruel fate. Nihei is an old fisherman who continues to search for Kon, the demon king of the sea, who was the cause of the great tsunami that hit the Sanriku region in 1899, and who has been his nemesis for three generations. Then, in 1975, Nibei was informed of the appearance of a seabream by his father who was in a dream, and went to sea with his granddaughter Ritsu...!?

Ai Saotome is a high school girl from a well-to-do family. When she was kid, she was in an accident that resulted in a young boy being permanently scarred between his eyes while she emerged unscathed. Although she never knew who he was, she never forgot him. Makoto Taiga ' a young man with a scar between his eyes, has had a rough life, but has emerged as a bancho, rough and tough bully - a thug and a brawler and about as rude as they come - all of which he blames on the incident that gave him his scar. When Ai and Makoto run into each other again, Ai feels guilt for what Makoto has become and decides to intervene and rehabilitate him. Is he a diamond in the rough, or just a bully? NOTE: Volume count based on the bunkoban. Won the 6th Kodansha Publishing Culture Award for Children's Manga in 1975