Manga One-shots and Single-Volume Omnibuses

Want to read Japanese manga but aren't ready to commit to a multi-volume series that the library might not own in full? Everything on this list is complete in one volume, so you can read the full thing with a single checkout.

Updated June 18, 2025
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Manga One-shots and Single-Volume Omnibuses

Want to read Japanese manga but aren't ready to commit to a multi-volume series that the library might not own in full? Everything on this list is complete in one volume, so you can read the full thing with a single checkout.

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Azumanga daioh omnibus
Azuma, Kiyohiko, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
The best high school stories are simultaneously funny, warm, and endearing - but most importantly, the characters come alive on the page. Get to know the girls who set a new standard for the high school experience! Sakaki - strong and silent with a soft and fuzzy center Chiyo - a...

Not technically a one-shot since it was originally released as multiple volumes, but this omnibus volume collects the entire series.

Clover
CLAMP (Mangaka group), author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Kazuhiko is a young, but already deeply wounded black ops agent of a baroque, retro-tech future -- pulled out of retirement to escort Sue, a mysterious waif, to a destination she alone knows. Sue and Kazuhiko have never met, yet she knows him, having grown up since the age of four with her only...
This isn't technically a one-shot, but this omnibus volume collects the whole thing. Be aware that this is also an unfinished work - it's beautiful, but ends with unanswered questions.
Glass wings
Asaoka, Misuzu, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
This Gothic shojo manga is a simple volume comprising three stories that feature characters falling in and out of love, against all odds. Rated for teens.
Himeyuka & Rozione's story
Yumeka, Sumomo.
Paper Book
In a corner of the city, Himeyuka, a female high school student, begins living by herself in an average, unremarkable apartment. One day, she returns from school to see her building completely covered in colourful, crazy childish scribbles! The offender turns out to be a little boy named...
I'm a terminal cancer patient, but I'm fine thirty-eight-year-old author of erotic manga has colon cancer
Hilnama, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
After being diagnosed with terminal colon cancer, the creator documents her physical and emotional journey through treatment in this powerful memoir manga. At 38 years old, Hilnama, an erotic manga artist, is diagnosed with colon cancer. Never one to lose hope or give up, she...

A manga memoir about the author's experience with colon cancer.

Ichi-F a worker's graphic memoir of the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant
Tatsuta, Kazuto, author, artist.
Paper Book
On March 11, 2011, Japan suffered the largest earthquake in its modern history. The 9.0-magnitude quake threw up a devastating tsunami that wiped away entire towns, and caused, in the months afterward, three nuclear meltdowns at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Plant. Altogether, it was the costliest...

Not technically a one-shot since it was originally released as multiple volumes, but this omnibus collects the complete thing. A manga memoir about the author's experiences working at the site of the 2011 Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant disaster.

A life turned upside down my dad's an alcoholic
Kikuchi, Mariko, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
A moving autobiographical manga about her father's alcoholism that inspired a critically acclaimed live-action film. Mariko Kikuchi tells the painful story of her father's alcoholism and her own journey through guilt to understanding her father's illness. She rejects the common...

Manga memoir about the author's experiences growing up as the child of an alcoholic and her complicated feelings when her father was diagnosed with cancer.

No longer human
Itō, Junji, 1963- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene...so begins Tadashi and Kaori...
Olympos
Aki, 1967- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
From on high, the gods make sport of the mortals who toil below them. None know the cruelty of these beings better than Ganymede, a beautiful prince who was torn away from his family by the gods' divine hands. Granted immortality, Ganymede now whiles away his days in an inescapable miniature garden...
Paradise kiss
Yazawa, Ai, 1967- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
One of the most popular comic artists in the world, Ai Yazawa, returns with a 20th anniversay edition of the fashion-inspired comic that made her an international sensation, Paradise Kiss. This new edtion celebrates 20 years since Paradise Kiss began serialization in Japan and combines the original...
Sadako-san and Sadako-chan
Tsutsumi, Aya, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
This hilarious manga takes a look at the softer side of one of horror's most iconic monsters- Sadako from The Ring! Sadako is destined to bring death and despair to anyone who's fallen under her curse. One day, as Sadako goes to claim her next victim, she meets another girl named...
Shuna's journey
Miyazaki, Hayao, 1941- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
A New York Times Bestseller An Eisner Award Winner From legendary animator Hayao Miyazaki comes a new manga classic, never before published in English! Shuna, the prince of a poor land, watches in despair as his people work themselves to death...
Spider-Man. Fake red
Osawa, Yusuke, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
There's a new Spider-Man in town! And he's got a lot to learn about being a hero! An awkward teenager puts on Spider-Man's suit, but quickly learns being a hero isn't all photo ops and social media likes. Yu's new high school is kind of awful. He's failing his...
Tomie no use escaping
Itō, Junji, 1963- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene...so begins Tadashi and Kaori...
Tropic of the sea
Kon, Satoshi, 1963-2010, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
In a rural Japanese fishing village called Amide, the locals have long been blessed by the legend of a mermaid. Now the masses have gotten word of this myth and they are moving in on this community hoping to cash in on this alleged mythological wonder. Tropic of the Sea is a modern day fantasy from...
Uzumaki spiral into horror
Itō, Junji, 1963- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Another of Junji Ito's classics, the sci-fi masterwork Remina tells the chilling tale of a hell star. Something is rotten in Okinawa...the floating stench of death hangs over the island..What is it? A strange, legged fish appears on the scene...so begins Tadashi and Kaori...
Wolf children Ame & Yuki
Hosoda, Mamoru, 1967- author.
Paper Book
When Hana worked up the courage to speak to the mysterious loner in her college class, she never expected the encounter would blossom into true lovenor that he was secretly a wolf living in human form. Their relationship was far from ordinary, but she wouldn't have had it any other way. Her joy only...
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