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Seton

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure

Seton is the story of Ernest Thompson Seton (1860-1946), a famous American writer and naturalist.

Tags: Historical , Seinen , Cowboys

Ginga: Nagareboshi Gin

Also known as Silver Fang – The Shooting Star Gin –.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Drama

A giant demon bear named Akakabuto has taken over Futago pass. Shortly after, a silver, tiger-striped Akita pup named Gin is born and is trained as a bear-dog. Gin is brought to Riki (the leader of a large pack of dogs and Gin's father) to join the pack. Riki let's him join after proving his strenght and sends his platoons to all parts of Japan to recruit strong males to fight Akakabuto.

Gin, the third generation of bear-dogs goes through many hardships for the purpose of stopping the terrifying bear, Akakabuto.



Note: Chapter count reflects the original serialization in Weekly Shounen Jump. The chapters were later combined into 55 chapters for the tankōbon release.

Tags: Primarily Male Cast , Animals , Revenge , Shounen , Snowscape , Archery , Disability , Male Protagonist , Amnesia , Rural , Coming of Age , Cannibalism , Ninja , Torture , Primarily Animal Cast , War , Suicide , Anthropomorphism , Ensemble Cast , Gore

Golden Kamuy

Also known as Golden Kamuy.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure , Comedy , Drama

In the early twentieth century, Russo-Japanese War veteran Saichi “Immortal” Sugimoto scratches out a meager existence during the postwar gold rush in the wilderness of Hokkaido. When he stumbles across a map to a fortune in hidden Ainu gold, he sets off on a treacherous quest to find it. But Sugimoto is not the only interested party, and everyone who knows about the gold will kill to possess it! Faced with the harsh conditions of the northern wilderness, ruthless criminals and rogue Japanese soldiers, Sugimoto will need all his skills and luck—and the help of an Ainu girl named Asirpa—to survive.



Note: Won the 9th Manga Taisho Award in 2016 and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize in 2018. Nominated for the 20th and 21st Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize and the 40th Kodansha Manga Awards in 2016.

Tags: Conspiracy , Historical , Military , Outdoor Activities , Seinen , Politics , Indigenous Cultures , Ensemble Cast , Educational , Surreal Comedy , Travel , Food , Found Family , Primarily Male Cast , Gore , Primarily Adult Cast , Survival , Guns , Cute Boys Doing Cute Things , Male Harem , Revenge , Language Barrier , LGBTQ+ Themes , Anti-Hero , Slapstick , Crime , Snowscape , Prison , Trains , Animals , Male Protagonist , Nudity , Swordplay , Disability , Archery , Suicide , Tanned Skin , Transgender , Twins , Cannibalism , Zoophilia , Wilderness , Heterosexual , Yakuza , Dissociative Identities , Time Skip , Crossdressing , Gender Bending

Toudo no Tabibito

Also known as The Ice Wanderer and Other Stories.

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Drama , Slice of Life

An anthology of six short stories. The title story is set in the Klondike region in 1897 and recounts the American author Jack London’s fortuitous encounter with an enigmatic old man. White Wilderness is also related to Jack London - it's an adaptation of the early part of his White Fang novel in which two men and their dog team are relentlessly pursued by a pack of wolves. Our Mountains, set in Japan in the 1920s, follows an elderly hunter in his attempts to take vengeance on the enormous bear that killed his son. Kaiyose-Jima is a nostalgic tale in which a boy is sent to spend the summer with relatives on the coast after his mother is taken ill. In Shôkarô, a mangaka looks back on the strange apartment building he lived in when he first came to Tokyo as an aspiring artist and the unusual people he met there. Return To The Sea is the tale of a marine biologist working on the coast of Alaska who becomes obsessed by an elderly bowhead whale and by Inuit tales of a whale cemetery.



Tags: Classic Literature , Philosophy , Historical , Rural , Seinen , Autobiographical , Animals , Anthology , Foreign , Drawing , Primarily Adult Cast