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How to guarantee a surefire victory in all possible situations?! Simply follow the commandments set forth by Sun Tzu’s “The Art of War,” today considered one of the Seven Military Classics of the Far East. This oldest and possibly greatest military treatise emerged from Ancient China’s long history of warfare and Sun Tzu’s desire to share his ideas about “invincibility” and survival in battle. What decides victory and defeat in battle? What is the best possible strategy…? Find out in this comic book based on the ancient military treatise which describes ways to guarantee a surefire victory in every possible field by analyzing and penetrating the essence of war.

After witnessing his wife's adultery, King Shahryar becomes intensely distrusting of women, taking a virgin bride every night and immediately having her killed the next morning. In order to put a stop to his terrible crusade, Scheherazade begins to tell the King a series of stories…… Passed down from the middle ages of the Arabian Peninsula, and an 18th century best seller throughout Europe, this epic masterpiece of Middle Eastern literature is now in manga form!

It's a manga adaptation of "Das Kapital" by Karl Marx. It's published under まんがで読破 by East Press, which is a series of paperback manga who are adaptations of masterpieces of literature. It provides an introduction to the German socialist's original work, written in 1867. The targeted readers are office workers in their 30s. The fictionalized Vol. 1 of "Das Kapital" chronicles a cheese factory run by protagonist Robin, who rebels against his father's socialist principles and becomes a slave driver after teaming up with a cold-blooded capitalist investor. But Robin struggles between his capitalist ambitions and his sense of guilt over the exploitation of his workers.

A manga adaption of Adolf Hitler’s book which combines elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler's political ideology pamphlet, first published in 1924. "Mein Kampf" is the latest publication in a collection of historical manga adaptations called "Manga de Dokuha" ("Learn With Manga") edited by the publishing firm East Press. The collection already includes adaptations of Karl Marx’s "Capital" and Tolstoy’s "War and Peace".

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, often shortened to Hamlet, is a tragedy written by William Shakespeare sometime between 1599 and 1602. Set in Denmark, the play depicts Prince Hamlet and his revenge against his uncle, Claudius, who has murdered Hamlet's father in order to seize his throne and marry Hamlet's mother. Hamlet is Shakespeare's longest play and is considered among the most powerful and influential works of world literature, with a story capable of "seemingly endless retelling and adaptation by others".

Manga adaptation of Oku no Hosomichi, a poetic work of classical Japanese literature written by Matsuo Bashou as a sort of travel diary, as he journeyed on foot across Japan in the late 1600s.

I Am a Cat satirizes human beings from an innovative perspective! Natsume Souseki's first novel, that has become a timeless story representative of the beginning of modern Japan, is now adapted into comic format!

A deeply moving and tragic drama from the father of animal fiction writing! The 19th century America, it was the pioneering era where a wave of change in civilization struck and animals were overhunted. Seton, a hunter and an artist who is researching animal ecology befalls a request to exterminate a pack of wolf. The wolves are relentless by all means and do not yield to the hands of man, but for Seton this encounter would mark a great turning point in his life. Within the 55 compilations in “Seton’s Wild Animals,” the masterpiece “King of Wolves” and two other compilations have been transformed into comics!

It's a manga adaptation of "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Sorrows of Young Werther (German: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) is a loosely autobiographical epistolary novel by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, first published in 1774. A revised edition followed in 1787. It was one of the most important novels in the Sturm und Drang period in German literature, and influenced the later Romantic movement. Goethe, aged 24 at the time, finished Werther in five-and-a-half weeks of intensive writing in January–March 1774. The book's publication instantly placed the author among the foremost international literary celebrities, and was among the best known of his works.

An existence that transcends time and space! One day, a man takes a bite out of a cake he was having with some tea and suddenly experiences a strange sensation that revives memories of his boyhood. Follow the protagonist as he sets out on a lifelong journey of growth and change, and at the same time gain a glimpse into the world of French high society around the time of the First World War. This is the manga adaptation of the mammoth novel that revolutionized 20th-century literature and philosophy with its unique vision of time!

Manga version of the novella The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka.

Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others. A weak constitution and the lingering trauma from some abuse administered by a relative forces him to uphold a facade of hollow jocularity since high school.