Mangas

Tout commence au Vietnam en 1973 quand un soldat américain perd la tête et tire sur ses camarades. Après cela, il ne parle plus si ce n'est pour laisser échapper parfois ces deux mots "Banana Fish". Douze ans plus tard, à New York, la police enquête sur une série de suicides assez douteux. Un jour, un homme est abattu froidement dans la rue et, avant de mourir, remet à un jeune chef de bande nommé Ash Lynx une substance mystérieuse. Une substance que Dino Golzine, chef de la mafia corse veut absolument tenir éloignée de Ash. Au même moment, Eiji Okumura, un jeune japonais reconvertit dans le journalisme débarque en Amérique, accompagné de son ami Shunichi Ibe qui l'introduit à ce métier qu'ils partagent. Eiji fera rapidement la connaissance de Ash lors d'une interview où il tombera en admiration face à ce jeune homme certes plus jeune que lui mais qui vit dans un monde si différent du siens. Il se retrouvera embarqué dans des affaires de gang et bien plus encore... Quel lien y a-t-il entre ces morts suspects ? Quelle est cette substance mystérieuse ? Ash va tenter de découvrir la vérité...

Heath Swanson, an 18 year old high school dropout, runs away from his home in San Diego, California to make a fresh start in New York City. Along his travels he meets Eve, another troubled teen who latches onto him. Although annoyed by his presence and idealistic dreams of life in California at first, the two form an inseparable bond. Living among artists in SoHo, the two help and support each other as they try to make a living in the city.

Sept ans après les événements de Banana Fish , Garden of Light suit Akira Ibe, la nièce de Shunichi Ibe, lors de sa visite à New York. Elle reste avec Eiji, maintenant un photographe accompli vivant à Greenwich Village, alors qu'il se prépare pour une exposition majeure dans une galerie.

Toshi is your regular senior high student, except in the evenings when he's a bartender at a joint frequented by American servicemen, where he deals drugs, pimps, and even cross-dresses a little on the side. And his best friend Miyuki just happens to be the son of a loan shark with gay tendencies. If this sounds like the hardboiled world of Yoshida's later and most well-known work Banana Fish, it's balanced by Toshi's madcap adventures at his all-male school (where his mates jerk off to everything in sight, and scenes from shoujo manga are performed in all their histrionic glory), as well as the unexpected delicacy of his relationships with the women in his life. This episodic drama is bursting with all the frustration, the tenderness, the audacity, the horniness and the hilarity that comes with being young and male. All the tough, silly, dirty, and sweet things boys get up to in the locker room and out of it never brought a bigger smile to your face. Bunko ver released in 1994. summary from Baka-Updates Manga

When a rumor starts going around about Rikako and the school's notorious bad boy, Fujii, she decides they might as well make the rumors true. But things don't go exactly as planned and she starts developing feelings for him. This two-volume series focuses on Rikako and her sister and their friends and classmates in a series of loosely-linked stories.

The drama club of an all girl high school puts on the play "The Cherry Orchard" by Anton Chekhov.

A letter comes to the three Kohda sisters in Kamakura, bringing the news of their father's death. A father they hadn't seen since he divorced and left home 15 years ago. Despite feeling indifferent about their father, Yoshino, the middle of the three, and Chika, the youngest, go to Yamagata to attend his funeral on oldest sister Sachi's request. There, they meet Suzu, their young and reliable half sister.Umimachi Diary won the Excellence Prize for manga at the 2007 Japan Media Arts Festival Awards. It was also nominated for the 1st Manga Taisho, where it came in 3rd place, for the 12th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize, where it came in 2nd place, and for the 13th Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.