Yamada Fuutarou

In the first years of the Meiji era, when Tokyo still named Edo, Senba Heishirou, a former policeman at the Minami-cho magistrate's office, was leading an uneventful life as the kept lover of a geisha. Until he is consulted for a murder case...

The Showa writer, Kyutaro Yamada was a medical student- Yamada, a young man who never went to the battlefield, continued to write about the state and problems of Japan at that time, sometimes sharply and sometimes emotionally, despite the conflict. How was it in his eyes in 1945 when it became a turning point in Japan? Note: Was nominated for the 26th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2022.

An adaptation of the Kouga Ninja Scrolls novel.

This is the latest story of the famous "Ninpo-cho" series of Yamada Fuutarou. It begins in 1638, during the Shimabara Rebellion, where a powerful swordsman who should have died is instead transformed by an arcane ritual into a demonic creature. As time passes, more swordsmen facing death go through this transformation. What could these new, demonic swordsmen be planning?

An adaption of various short stories written by Yamada Fuutarou. First story: "Kunoichi Kokihei" This story begins the year before the Battle of Sekihagara, in the pleasure quarters of the capital. Kagerou, a real beauty who is a child of the Ootani family, meets five of the most powerful men of the Uesugi clan while serving at a brothel.

17th-century Japan. A rebellion in the Aizu teritory has been brutally crushed, leaving twenty-one brave warriors dead and most of the nuns of the local convent slaughtered. Now the surviving nuns have sworn to seek revenge. They turn to the greatest swordsman of the land to train them to be able to kill the fiends who slew the men and the other nuns.

Depicting the history of the Shinsengumi and the dramatic life of Kamo Serizawa, the first director of the Shinsengumi, from the perspective of Toshizo Hijikata! Newly drawn Shinsengumi creation story! ! Was Kamo Serizawa, the first head of the Shinsengumi, purged for some reason...? What is Kamo Serizawa's real name and who is he? Futaro Yamada's masterpiece short story "Shinsengumi clown" is drawn and made into a comic!

By the order of Shogun Ieyasu Tokugawa, ten ninja from the Iga and the Kouga clans must fight to the death in order to determine who will be the next Tokugawa Shogun, with the surviving clan ruling for the next thousand years. But Oboro of the Iga clan and Gennosuke of the Kouga clan have fallen deeply in love. Now these star-crossed lovers have been pitted against each other. Can their romance conquer a centuries-old rivalry? Or is their love destined to end in death? Note: Won the Kodansha Manga Award in the category "Best General Manga" in 2004.

Now… Jubei Yagyu is the head of the Yagyu Clan following the events of Demonic Resurrection and has mostly retired from the world. A group of warriors decide to ask him if he wants to take over a post at their dojo, but Jubei is more interested in watching the Noh of his friend and subordinate Chikuami. Yagyu Jubei Dies is the third in Futaro Yamada's Jubei Trilogy that began with The Yagyu Ninja Scrolls and continued in Makai Tensho/Demonic Resurrection.

The story takes place after the failed Shimabara Rebellion, led by Shiro Amakusa as a Christian uprising against the Shogunate. It ended… brutally, and Amakusa himself was executed. However, dark forces are at work, and Amakusa returns from the grave…