The story takes place over a 24 hour period. In the southernmost part of Japan, 20 fishing boats of an unknown nationality suddenly fire upon and occupy parts of the Hateruma archipelago. Members of the Japan Coast Guard are detained. Under the extremely tense situation, the Japanese government sends Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and an escort fleet to the area. Ryota Akitsu is the captain of the Aircraft Carrier Ibuki and Toshiya Niinami is second-in-command. It is now 6:23 am. and Japan faces one day which they never have before.

Dolls takes puppeteering as its overriding motif, which relates thematically to the action provided ...

A young man is falsely accused of molesting a high-school girl on a train. He is arrested and charge...

The story is about a convict released from prison for an old murder who is thinking about returning ...

As children, the introverted Smile was being bullied by a gang of kids until the brash Peco comes by...

Fleeing heartbreak in the big city, Ichiko returns to Komori, her rural hometown. She battles summer...

Ichi travels to the village of Itakura to pay his respects at the grave of Kichizo, a man he killed ...

A young boy takes interest in piano while his family begins to disintegrate around him after his fat...

Seven years after the death of his wife, widower Shigeharu seeks advice on how to find a new wife fr...

A nameless ronin, or samurai with no master, enters a small village in feudal Japan where two rival ...

A spell of time in the life of a family in rural Tochigi prefecture. Yoshiko is not an ordinary hous...

Young Haru rescues a cat from being run over, but soon learns it's no ordinary feline; it happens to...

Sōra is a high school student who is basically invisible at school. He is friends with Chūya, who is...

A story about the effect of the atomic bombing of Hiroshima on a boy's life and the lives of the Jap...

Two contract killers cross paths in the middle of the same job and realize they are childhood friend...

Fukami is a high school janitor whose father was a gangster. He works at the school as a janitor ins...

In a dysfunctional family where the mother is a heroin addict and prostitute, beaten by her son, and...

Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined...

It is the Edo Period. Younosuke, Nami, and Koutaro of the Hayate School and Ikkaku and Ikki of the I...

In the future, the Japanese government captures a class of ninth-grade students and forces them to k...

The struggles of a group of outcasts living in "Yentown", in an alternate-future Japan.