Other and Alternative Manga

This list contains both manga series and standalone volumes that don't conform to one of the four major established editorial categories of manga -- shōnen, shōjo, josei and seinen. Many of these titles are one-off publications that weren't included in a major magazine. Expect the unexpected with this collection!

This list also includes some manhwa titles -- manga-inspired books created in Korea.

Updated July 8, 2024
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Gandhi : a manga biography
Ebine, Kazuki.
Paper Book
THE INSPIRING LIFE STORY OF A TRUE TWENTIETH-CENTURY HERO Through his quietly powerful leadership and influential use of nonviolent resistance in India's struggle against the British Raj, Mahatma Gandhi became one of the most revered figures of the modern era. While history has...
Deserter
Ito?, Junji
Paper Book
An ever-increasing malice. A mind-numbing terror. The seeds of horror are sown in this collection of Junji Ito's earliest works. A vengeful family hides an army deserter for eight years after the end of World War II, cocooning him in a false reality where the war never ended. A...
The liminal zone
Ito?, Junji
Paper Book
Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito presents brand-new nightmares! What destiny awaits them after the screaming? After abruptly departing from a train in a small town, a couple encounters a "weeping woman"--a professional mourner--sobbing inconsolably at a...
Shiver : selected stories
It , Junji
Paper Book
A best-of story selection by the master of horror manga. This volume includes nine of Junji Ito's best short stories, as selected by the author himself and presented with accompanying notes and commentary.  An arm peppered with tiny holes dangles from a...
Tombs : Junji Ito story collection
Ito?, Junji
Paper Book
Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond. Three-time Eisner Award winner Junji Ito invites you to the horrific Tomb Town and beyond. Countless tombstones stand in rows throughout a small community, forming a bizarre...
Shuna's journey
Miyazaki, Hayao
Paper Book
Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death harvesting the little grain that grows there. And so, when a traveler presents him with a sample of seeds from a mysterious western land, he sets out to find the source of the golden grain, dreaming of a...
Onward towards our noble deaths
Mizuki, Shigeru
Paper Book
A landmark publishing event of one of Japan's most famous cartoonists Shigeru Mizuki is the preeminent figure of Gekiga manga and one of the most famous working cartoonists in Japan today-a true living legend. Onward Towards Our Noble Deaths is his first book to...
Offshore lightning
Saito, Nazuna
Paper Book
Anxiety and longing suffuse incisive portraits of postwar Japan Nazuna Saito began making comics late. She was in her forties when she submitted a story to a major Japanese publishing house and won an award for newcomers. She continued to work through the 1990s until she...
Good-bye
Tatsumi, Yoshihiro
Paper Book
"Prepare to be disturbed and blown away. The stuff is remarkable, amazing."-Los Angeles Times Good-Bye is the third in a series of collected short stories from Drawn & Quarterly by the legendary Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi, whose previous work has been...
The man without talent
Tsuge, Yoshiharu
Paper Book
A Japanese manga legend's autobiographical graphic novel about a struggling artist and the first full-length work by the great Yoshiharu Tsuge available in the English language. Yoshiharu Tsuge is one of comics' most celebrated and influential artists, but his work has been...

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