Set in the 1590s, this manga tells the story of the rise of kabuki theater. Kiki is traveling with her mother, Izumo no Okuni, as she tries to spread the popularity of her new style of dramatic dancing. They face a lot of difficulties in this politically tumultuous period of history, as the warring ...
Mangaupdates:A 59 pages story set in feudal Japan about a love story between Nohime and Nobunaga, two historical figures during that era.First published in volume by year 1979 in a collection bearing the same name, along with Christmas no Kiseki 1975, Ojousan wa Genshijin 1970, Monkey Rock 1970 and ...
From Wasurenagusa: A shounen-ai version of the Issun-boushi story. Heikuroo is only as big as a human hand and only in the light of the moon he can gain the normal height. Because people think he is cursed, he leaves his village and goes to the capital, where he becomes a guardian of an aristocrat n...
The US military is to use manga-style comics to teach Japanese children about the two countries' security alliance. Four comics featuring a Japanese girl and a visiting US boy. In it the young girl, Arai Anzu - which sounds like alliance when pronounced by a Japanese person - asks the boy, Usa-kun -...
In the year 1589, the Tokugawa clan is looking for a way to destroy Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi depends on the resourceful, intelligent samurai Sanada Yukimura to help him protect his people and foil the plots of his enemies. He also assigns the loud-mouthed, impetuous shinobi Sarutobi Sasuke to w...
From MangaUpdates: Outcast... Accursed... Long ago when the gods dwelled in the mountains, the fief of Miyoshi is overrun and Princess Miyoshi flees to safety. But she is pursued by the Magatsuhi ("Devil's Masks"), powerful spirits who possess human bodies and foment rebellion and assassination. The...
In 52 B.C., the Chieftain of the Arveni tribe, Vercingetorix, united the Gauls in a major revolt against the power of the Romans. This is his story, beginning with his rise to power. In one of the tribes, he rescues the 11 year old Taranis, the only son of a Gallic hero who was executed by the Roman...
In the aftermath of the Crusades, two travelling Arabic minstrels - Farhad and Saud - arrive at the castle of the melancholic Baron Victor. Over a series of four connected short stories, Victor reveals the reasons for his sadness, the minstrels' own stories are revealed and, in very different ways, ...
Those who know their ninjas know Ayame, daughter of Hattori Hanzo of the Iga ninja clan. Even though she is a woman, she has exceptional talent as a ninja. With Oda Nobunaga in the lead, the war consuming Japan is winding down to an end, and Hanzo was planning to have her lead a normal life. That is...
Summary from Sherbet Lemon: The story begins with a rich young lady named Mo Kai who is over the age of marrying but with with no proposed marriage. One day, she met a gentle scholar named Yi Nuo-Sheng and thought that she could woo him over without any troubles. But she later finds out that he alre...