Female manga authors

Blue Period 1

Tsubasa Yamaguchi • 2020

Now a hit Netflix Original Anime!<br/><br/>A manga about the struggles and rewards of a life dedicated to art. Popular guy Yatora realizes he's just going through the motions to make other people happy and finds himself in a new passion: painting. But untethering yourself from all your past expectations is dangerous as well as thrilling...<br/><br/>2020 Manga Taisho Grand Prize Winner<br/>YALSA Great Graphic Novels for Teens selection<br/>Texas Library Association Maverick Graphic Novels Reading List unanimous selection<br/><br/>STILL LIFE<br/><br/>Yatora is the perfect high school student, with good grades and lots of friends. It's an effortless performance, and, ultimately... a dull one. But he wanders into the art room one day, and a lone painting captures his eye, awakening him to a kind of beauty he never knew. Compelled and consumed, he dives in headfirst--and he's about to learn how savage and unforgiving art can be...

Banana Fish, Vol. 1 (1)

Akimi Yoshida • 2004

Nature made Ash beautiful; Nurture made him a killer!<br/><br/>VICE CITY: NEW YORK IN THE 80s...<br/><br/>Nature made Ash Lynx beautiful; nurture made him a cold ruthless killer. A runaway brought up as the adopted heir and sex toy of “Papa” Dino Golzine, Ash, now at the rebellious age of seventeen, forsakes the kingdom held out by the devil who raised him. But the hideous secret that drove Ash's older brother mad in Vietnam has suddenly fallen into Papa's insatiably ambitious hands--and it's exactly the wrong time for Eiji Okamura, a pure-hearted young photographer from Japan, to make Ash Lynx's acquaintance...<br/><br/>Epic in scope, and one of the best-selling shojo titles of all time in Japan, Akimi Yoshida put an electric shock into the genre and gained a huge crossover audience through Banana Fish's stripped-down, non-stop style.

To Your Eternity 1

Yoshitoki Oima • 2017

A new manga from the creator of the acclaimed A Silent Voice, featuring intimate, emotional drama and an epic story spanning time and space...<br/><br/>A lonely boy wandering the desolate tundra meets a wolf, and the two become fast friends, depending on each other to survive the harsh environment. But the boy has a history, and the wolf is more than meets the eye as well... To Your Eternity is a totally unique and moving manga about death, life, reincarnation, and the nature of love.

Gachiakuta 1

Kei Urana • 2024

Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Vol. 1 (1)

Shinobu Ohtaka • 2013

An epic dungeon-busting adventure inspired by One Thousand and One Nights!<br/><br/>Deep within the desert lie the mysterious Dungeons, vast stores of riches there for the taking by anyone lucky enough to find them and brave enough to venture into the depths from where few have ever returned. Plucky young adventurer Aladdin means to find the Dungeons and their riches, but Aladdin may be just as mysterious as the treasures he seeks.<br/><br/>Together with the djinn Ugo and his friend Alibaba, Aladdin sets out to find his fortune in the depths of the endless dunes...

Atelier of Witch Hat 1

SHIRAHAMA,KAMOME • 2018

Coco, que vive en una pequeña aldea, siempre ha anhelado ser maga.<br/><br/>Sin embargo, solo pueden llegar a serlo aquellos que nacen con el don de la magia; a los demás ni tan siquiera les está permitido ver cómo lanzan conjuros. Por ello, Coco había renunciado a su sueño... hasta que, un buen día, visita el taller de su madre el mago Qifrey. Entonces se las apaña para espiarlo cuando se dispone a realizar un encantamiento y... ¡El desespero se torna esperanza en este cuento sobre una niña que soñaba con convertirse en hechicera!

Dorohedoro, Vol. 1 (1)

Q Hayashida • 2010

A twisted tale of sadistic Sorcerers and the monsters they create.<br/><br/>In a city so dismal it's known only as "the Hole," a clan of Sorcerers have been plucking people off the streets to use as guinea pigs for atrocious "experiments" in the black arts. In a dark alley, Nikaido found Caiman, a man with a reptile head and a bad case of amnesia. To undo the spell, they're hunting and killing the Sorcerers in the Hole, hoping that eventually they'll kill the right one. But when En, the head Sorcerer, gets word of a lizard-man slaughtering his people, he sends a crew of "cleaners" into the Hole, igniting a war between two worlds.

Delicious in Dungeon Vol. 1

Ryoko Kui • 2017

When young adventurer Laios and his company are attacked and soundly thrashed by a dragon deep in a dungeon, the party loses all its money and provisions...and a member! They're eager to go back and save her, but there is just one problem: If they set out with no food or coin to speak of, they're sure to starve on the way! But Laios comes up with a brilliant idea: "Let's eat the monsters!" Slimes, basilisks, and even dragons...none are safe from the appetites of these dungeon-crawling gourmands!

鋼の錬金術師 1

荒川 弘 • 2005