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 September 22, 2023
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Ristorante paradiso
Ono, Natsume, 1977-
Paper Book
A charming tale of a mother/daughter reunion, a burgeoning romance, and a little restaurant in Rome. At the age of 21, Nicoletta travels to Rome to find her mother, Olga, who abandoned her long ago. Nicoletta finds her at Casetta dell'Orso, a charming little restaurant...
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 Sadako...
Angel
Sakurazawa, Erica.
Paper Book
Tokyopop is proud to publish for the first time in English six of Sakurazawa-sensei's most compelling and provocative works. These fairy tales for adults are lovingly drawn and feature elements of magic and mystery, as well as some gritty realism drawn from daily metropolitan life in our times.
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.

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...
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.

Harlequin violet. Blind date
Hirose, Mihoko, illustrator.
Paper Book
Dark Horse Manga and Harlequin Books are delighted to present a shining new line of books that marry two of the most successful phenomenon to hit bookstores - bestselling Harlequin romance fiction and female-friendly Japanese manga!

A manga adaptation of Emma Darcy's Blind Date, a 1986 Harlequin novel.

What the font?! a manga guide to Western typeface
Ashiya, Kuniichi, 1994- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
A unique and engaging tool for learning about design using anthropomorphized Western fonts! When the designer in a small production company disappears, Marusu is forced to take over the job of creating logos. Unfortunately, Marusu is a sales rep who doesn't know the first thing about fonts....

Edutainment manga about the history of Western typeface/fonts.

Crimson shell
Mochizuki, Jun author, illustrator.
Paper Book
If you like Pandora Hearts, then you'll love Crimson-Shell, Jun Mochizuki-sensei's debut! Rescued from the darkness by Xeno, a mysterious swordsman, Claudia the Rose Witch is the foundation of the Crimson-Shell, a special division of the Red Rose-an organization aiming to capture the...
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.
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.

Angel nest
Sakurazawa, Erica.
Paper Book
A story of love between two friends that borders on obsession, this title has a 100% Manga format. When Natsu finds her husband with another woman she is strangely neither very shocked nor very sad. One night an angel visits her & life takes on a whole new meaning.
Not love but delicious foods make me so happy!
Yoshinaga, Fumi, 1971- artist
Paper Book
There is a Japanese saying that goes, "Hana yori dango," or "dumplings over flowers." And no one is more of an advocate of this adage than mangaka Y-naga, a woman whose life revolves around her intense work and equally intense sleep schedule. The only thing that can rouse her out of this infernal...

The author writes about her experiences at various restaurants.

Black Gate the Black Gate does not wait for the soul to die. [Vol. 1-3]
Sumiyoshi, Yukiko.
Paper Book
The Black Gate does not wait for one to die in order to draw the souls out living bodies. Causing unexplainable accidents and fires, the Black Gate continues to devour innumerable souls. However, there also exists the Mitedamashi, the chosen ones able to see the Black Gate and prevent the...

This omnibus volume collects the whole series.

Himeyuka & Rozione's story
Yumeka, Sumomo.
Paper Book
Won't you share a scribble-covered dream with me? Intent on being an independent young woman, high schooler Himeyuka lives on her own in an unremarkable apartment complex in a corner of the city. But one day, she discovers her ordinary building has turned into something extraordinary! Her beloved...
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.
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.

Beautiful people
Mihara, Mitsukazu, 1970- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
Often as twisted as it is thought-provoking, this collection of short stories is the first of four stand-alone releases from the cult favorite Gothic Lolita manga-ka. Rated for teens.
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...
Goodbye, Eri
Fujimoto, Tatsuki, author, artist.

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