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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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
The sci-fi classic from the creators of xxxHOLiC and Cardcaptor Sakura returns, in a remastered, hardcover edition, featuring the entire CLOVER series. One of CLAMP's most ambitious works -- part AKIRA, part Metropolis -- CLOVER features nearly 500 pages of manga. ...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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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