Manga like Ishi no Hana

Adolf ni Tsugu

Also known as Message to Adolf.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Mystery , Romance

A graveyard in contemporary Israel has an unlikely visitor. The elderly gentleman from Japan, a former news correspondent, lays a bouquet of flowers at the tomb of one Adolf Kamil. For he remembers the tale of three Adolfs: Kamil, a Jew who grew up in Kobe, Japan, the son of a baker; Kaufmann, only child of a German consul stationed at that port city and his Japanese wife; and the Fuhrer with whom the Far Eastern nation made common cause.

Note: Won the 10th Kodansha Manga Award for general manga in 1986.

Tags: Historical , War , Military , Fugitive , Torture , Espionage , Tragedy , Seinen , Travel , Foreign , Time Skip , Politics , Language Barrier , Guns , Disability , Suicide

NeuN

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Drama , Thriller

The story unfolds in Nazi Germany, when SS Reichsführer Heinrich Himmler commanded a top secret mission in Wewelsburg under the Führer. It follows Neun, the ninth child to carry Hitler's DNA, and his protector, Teo Baker, as they travel across the country on the run from the Nazis.

Tags: Military , Historical , Seinen , Tragedy , Super Power , War , Gore

Inui to Tatsumi: Transbaikal Senki

Status: Finished
Genres: Action

Yasuhiko's new series will center on the artillery bombardment expert Inui and the newspaper reporter Tatsumi during the events of the Siberian Intervention. The Siberian Intervention was a military expedition by the Allied Powers from 1918 to 1922. Troops from various countries including Japan were dispatched to intervene in the Russia Civil War. This month marks the 100th anniversary of the beginning of the Siberian Intervention.



Tags: Foreign , Seinen , Military , Historical , War

Ten no Ketsumyaku

Status: Finished
Genres: Adventure , Mystery

Set in 1903, just half a year before the Russo-Japanese War. An academic research party from Japan is in the town of Ji'an on the northern bank of the Yalu, the river that separates Manchuria and the Korean Pennisula. The party's objective is the Gwanggaeto Stele, the monument erected in memory of King Gwanggaeto of Goguryeo in ancient Korea. The epitaph holds the key to the history of ancient Korea and the ties between Japan and Korea.

Tags: Seinen , Historical

Kurd no Hoshi

Also known as Rebel Sword.

Status: Finished
Genres: Action , Adventure

A young man has left Tokyo for Istanbul to meet his mother and find his long-lost father. But instead, he finds that he's fallen headlong into somebody else's rebellion!

Jiro Manabe hasn't seen his parents since he was a child. He doesn't know what to expect, except that his mother is Turkish and his Japanese father mysteriously disappeared when he was almost too young to remember. When a stranger appears who can take Jiro to his mother, the mysteries that Jiro has come to solve only grow deeper. Is a drug-addled belly dancer Jiro's mother? Why and where did Jiro's father go? And perhaps most importantly, why are army troops trying to gun them down?



Tags: Foreign , Seinen

Seikan Bridge

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

This is about a rich Japanese family starting to live in Shanghai in 1936 just before the war Japan-China break down.
Haru, the young girl will discover another culture in a country highly hostile to her. Hopefully, she will meet a young chinese who will soon become her first anf only friend. Step by step she will open to this country and its people.
But the war is just around the corner.

Tags: Historical , Primarily Child Cast