The daily life of Ichiko, a young woman who lives alone near a small village called Komori (lit., "Little Forest"). Each chapter features a dish or meal scavenged from the forests and mountains around Ichiko's home or harvested from fields she cultivates herself.
While there are no wild flights of fancy as in Majo or Hanashippanashi, the organic artwork and majesty of nature…
IGARASHI Daisuke
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A collection of short stories about supernatural occurrences that take place in our everyday…
A wildly imaginative trek into the deepest realms of human beliefs and the mysteries of the universe. Daisuke Igarashi's amazing pen can recreate anything he can imagine on paper, resulting in beautifully chaotic, maddeningly detailed scrawls of pure wonder. A true celebration of the human imagination.
When deep emotions come to the head, the witch that dwells in the heart…
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Ruka's dad and the other adults who work at the aquarium are only distantly aware of what the children are experiencing as they get caught up in the mystery of the worldwide disappearance of the oceans' fish.
Note: Won the Excellence Prize in the Manga Division at Japan Media Arts Festival in 2009.
A 33-volume collection of award-winning oneshots put out by Kodansha from 2002-2012. Some of these would later get serialized or collected in other volumes. Click here for the full list (.txt).
Serialized or otherwise collected:
AKABOSHI Tomo Shishunki Syndrome
AKIZUKI Risu Oku-sama Shinkaron
ARAI Hideki 8-gatsu no Hikari
ARAMAKI Keiko GENOMES
ASADA Torao Spoonman 3.18…