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
This four-panel comedy chronicles the everyday lives of six very quirky high school girls. Meet the child prodigy Chiyo, the animal-loving Sakaki, the spacey out-of-towner Osaka, the straight-laced Yomi and her best friend Tomo, and the sports-loving Kagura throughout their high school...

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.
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.

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. Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Plagued by a...
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...
A story of seven lives the complete manga collection
Shirakawa, Gin, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
A heart-tugging tale of stray cats and the humans who care for them. The entire three-volume series will be released in English in one oversized omnibus edition. Nanao used to be a house cat, but after tragedy struck, he was abandoned on the rough streets of Tokyo. Now, alongside...
Tomie no use escaping
Itō, Junji, 1963- author, illustrator.
Paper Book
The complete classic horror series, now available in a single deluxe volume. Murdered again and again, one girl always comes back for more... Tomie Kawakami is a femme fatale with long black hair and a beauty mark just under her left eye. She can seduce nearly any man, and drive...
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. Kurouzu-cho, a small fogbound town on the coast of Japan, is cursed. According to Shuichi Saito, the withdrawn boyfriend of teenager Kirie Goshima, their town is haunted...
The walking cat a cat's-eye view of the zombie apocalypse
Kitaoka, Tomo, author, illustrator.
Paper Book
A survival horror tale about a cat's journey after society collapses. Zombies roam the earth and civilization as we know it is dead. When Jin--a young man trying to survive the chaos--rescues a cat from certain death, the unlikely duo sets off on a quest to find a mysterious...

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