Koike Kazuo

The Biseikai group is funded by the dues and donations of more than 260 supporting members. The motto of the group is beauty for female models and sincerity for male models. Sakiko Yakuoji, the chairperson of the group, seduces the male models with the idea of having physical relations with them by any means necessary in order to win new members. This time, her target is 24-year-old Mioko, the eldest daughter of the Ureshino family, a wealthy family. She is a "woman who never smiles" and has never laughed... (google translated)

The story follows the journey of a traveling female sword fighter, who is burdened with a tragic fate, and her lover.

Tsurujiro Kikuchi, a jitte master from the Edo period, was once called the god of death, Tsurujiro. Tsurujiro, who returns to Edo for the first time in five years, ends up working with a female pickpocket, Oshun, but...

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Lady Snowblood returns after a 20 year long hiatus! Ikegami Ryoichi takes over the art while Kazuo Koike continues to deliver the same writing that made Lady Snowblood a hit originally. This volume contains three stories that take place after the original series. A politician and his wife try to lure Yuki out of retirement to exact their vengeance. A Buddhist nun tries to escape her sisters and bring the true teachings of her sect to the populace with a stolen mandala. She is rescued by Yuki but terribly wounded in the process. A police official tries to get Yuki to assassinate another assassin.

Based on the period drama "Sazen Tange" by Fuubou Hayashi.

McGraw, a black detective from the homicide division, and Marcus, a mysterious old man covered in scars, work together to solve a variety of difficult cases!! What's more, Marcus was once the jitte master "Kazori Hanzo" who shook Edo, and he's already over 90 years old...!?

A hit duo of Kazuo Koike and Seisaku Kano. Yagyu Jubei Miwa... A man born into this world with the four dragons swastika in his fist. In order to protect the Tokugawa family, he wanders around wearing a Sengomura Shoji sword possessed by a vengeful spirit. What awaits the future of Japan's number one swordsman, a swordsman with the sad fate of cutting off the evil in this world...?

Ogami Itto, the Lone Wolf, and his nemesis, Yagyu Retsudo, lie dead on the field of their titanic duel. Ogami's young son, Daigoro, will not leave his father side, and none dare help the child, none save Togo Shigetada, a samurai on a desperate and deadly mission of his own!

Gotsuhiko, a general of Yamataikoku, incurs Himiko's wrath because he falls in love with the enemy's landlady, Momotsuhime. The two are cursed by Himiko to transform into demons at sunrise and sunset, and set out on a journey to break the curse...!

An adaptation of Edogawa's detective story.

A remake of Mad Bull 34 that is set a decade later.

Photographer Takeshi Kusaka, who was filming the Japan Women's Open on the professional golf tour, was fired from his newspaper company after receiving a protest from the Women's Professional Association due to a slight dispute with female professional golfer Moe Hinata while he was playing. Afterwards, Takeru reunites with Moe without stopping. Takenouchi, a professional golfer who persistently gets involved with Moe, tells him that he is Moe's lover and drives him away, but based on what he said at that time, he is given an outrageous condition: \`\`Become a professional golfer within two years and win a championship within one year after that.'' It ends up as Takeshi's challenge, which puts a man's pride and will at stake, has begun!

A stylish outfit and a magnum in the pocket. Sequel to the casual detective \`\`Relaxed Hikojiro''. A mystery suspense detective drama created by the master and student duo of Kazuo Koike (original story) and Satomi Kamie (illustration). Following the sad cases of women, Hikojiro Kuroda, Sakuradamon's "woman in charge", has a clear deduction!

Olympic track star. MIT whiz-kid. Adored by the beautiful co-ed's. Revered by classmates and teammates alike. Yu was sitting on top of the world. That is, until the evil seductress Payetta, leader of an outlaw gang of boozers and brawlers, kidnaps Yu at knifepoint and steals him away to her hideout. He learns he's actually the son of Gilgamesh, the legendary founder and ruler of the ancient yet highly advanced civilization of Agartha. The history lesson doesn't stop there, though. Payetta claims to be the granddaughter of Adolf Hitler and wants to share her maniacal dreams with Yu and the new dystopia she plans to create.

Soen Yanagi, the management director of Edmund Oliver, is an art dealer with an uncanny ability to identify forgeries. One day, a man who had stolen Vermeer's masterpiece from the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna barricaded himself in a building with a bomb. At the request of the police, Soen Yanagi enters the room, appraises the painting, and discovers that it is a forgery based on information only he knows. When he scratched the picture with a knife, a sketch just like Soen Yanagi had said came out. The prisoner commits suicide out of despair...

Shiro Tsujimura, a potter who saved actress Naomi Watanabe, is targeted by a mysterious religious group, the Space-Time Super Science Society. He becomes involved in an incident involving ancient Japanese history, and enters the dark world of ancient history!

Kiriba Dan, a special investigator at the headquarters who was transferred from Paris. His skills were bought and he joined the Metropolitan Police Department through connections. His mission is to bury Christine, a female terrorist who has infiltrated Tokyo. She was the woman that Dan once loved.

A westerner searches for the lost connection between the Jews and the Japanese in premodern Japan. The manga builds upon the popularity of theories about connections between the Jews and the Japanese.

In the early hours of February 26, 1939, a coup d'état by young military officers broke out. This is the so-called February 26 Incident. On the morning of the uprising, Second Lieutenant Yaichiro Ino had slept in a brothel and arrived late, but he was shot and did not enter the front line because it would be shameful for future generations to admit that he was late. After learning about the war situation, Yaichiro wanders around in search of a place to die, but is protected by the Spanish Legation and prevented from committing suicide. And then, in the middle of a civil war between the republican government and Franco's army, the country turns into a battlefield...! ! A pathetic tale filled with the grand romance and drama typical of Kazuo Koike! Works published in Weekly Playboy (Shueisha) from 1987 to 1995.

Yo Hinomura was an ordinary Japanese potter when a run-in with a Chinese mafia changed his life forever. Now an assassin for the 108 Dragons, Yo is the perfect killing machine. As a sign for remorse over his victims, he sheds tears after eliminating his targets. Because of this, he is infamously known by the Dragons and every other crime gang as "Crying Freeman."

Daizaburo "Eddie" Ban, a Japanese-American, joins New York City's toughest precinct, the 34th. On his first day he is partnered up with John Estes, called Sleepy by his friends and Mad Bull by his enemies, a cop who stops crime with his own violent brand of justice. Mad Bull makes no qualms about executing common thieves with shotgun blasts if they even pose a minor threat to him or anyone around them. Mad Bull also often steals from prostitutes and does incredible amounts of property damage while fighting crime. Mad Bull's unpoliceman-like behavior often puts him in hot water with his partner Daizaburo and the 34th precinct. However, despite how reckless or illegal these acts are, a good cause is almost always revealed. Perrine Valley, a police lieutenant, joins Daizaburo and Sleepy later on to help them tackle more difficult cases involving the mafia and drug-running. Mad Bull 34 is inspired by the high-action buddy cop films of the 70's and 80's.

Brothers is the name of a trio who use their incredible gifts to accomplish seemingly impossible missions. Not part of any government organization, they work privately for large sums of money. Their leader is Macky Pluto Kara who has a brilliant mind. The other two are HEM, Homo Electric Mechanics, which means that although they are alive, their cells are made of silicone instead of proteins which all humans are made of. It makes them nearly invincible and allows them to have superhuman powers. Rickey Neptune Kara is his older brother and Memory is his younger sister and lover. The Brothers are untouchable, even by the CIA, and carry out difficult tasks for their own benefit.

Tetsuki is entrusted with guarding Yukihi, the successor of the Nezu Zaibatsu. Tetsuki was a strong man who was bought when he was a baby and raised by the Indian assassination order Sag!! In order to build the Nezu Kingdom, Tetsuki and Yukihi's fierce duet begins!!

The original author, Kazuo Koike, is a master and always a challenger. A chemistry tag work by Tomoo Kimura, a rising star who established the face of Bakabon's papa in the gekiga club during his time at Fujio Productions. Nowaki, a woman with a similar past, appears in front of Momohei, the main character who uses cowardly tactics to hunt for bounty... It's a historical drama and a romantic comedy. Erotic and gore, yet pure love. Is it strong? Is it weak? Is he a pervert? Is it normal? Everything is innovative and challenging, continuing to fool the reader until the very end! This is where the new manga genre "Gag Gekiga" was born. A Young Jump series from the early 1980s, with a title similar to the original light novel, "Tokutonto Momohei: Strong or Weak!?'' is now available as an e-book for the first time. By the way, it is written as "dokushita'' and read as "dokubero.'' Limited to the e-book version!! Comes with an afterword written by Tomoo Kimura that describes the episodes from that time!!

A few days ago the eighth Tokugawa had inherited the shogunate in the midst of an unstable political situation, a striking man entered Edo. He had a shocking beauty eyes, and was so handsome that seemed to have come from an engraving. It was Kainage Mondo, the new poison taster newly employed by the family of the shogun. However, some Koga ninja had hatched a plot to attack the lives of Yoshimune and Mondo.

Yuko Kusaka is a Japanese journalist sent to Brazil to do a report on the gold rush phenomenon that seems to be making many people rich from night to day. Rumors say that among the many "garimpeiros" (gold diggers) currently on the Amazon forest, there is a Japanese known as Rio Baraki. Reaching their destination, her crew member is promptly attacked and she is raped as a warning to stop their work and return immediately to their home country. Determined to do her job, she stays and finds out from the attacker that he is none other than Baraki, a white haired muscular man with a large scar on his back. Later she discovers that his real name is Keisuke Ibaraki. Once a promising quarterback, he ended up falsely incriminated by a powerful organization known as GPX.

It was later made into a book as a bonus included in the DVD-BOX.

(from ebookjapan): Hayato Kuno, a man who chose to become a hitman to support his family as the eldest son after his father committed suicide. In a world like this, the only people who can believe in each other are family members, and it is the eldest son who must endure, never dreaming! What is reflected in Hayato's eyes as he faithfully carries out his orders and lives only in the present reality...? A violent action manga with soul!

On his way to avenge his master's death, low-level yakuza Kimokawa Tanpei encounters a beautiful, chubby girl in a strange cloak cowering with injuries. Tanpei tends to her wounds, but to his surprise, she is completely naked under her cloak! This is a mysterious love story between Tanpei, a slightly dim-witted but honest-hearted human, and Betty Valentine, a witch who came from the demon world in pursuit of a demon for revenge...

This one is just plain bizarre. Funny and ecchi, but bizarre. Hanappe is something of a loser. He’s no good with women, and some have been known to take advantage of him. After one such incident where he winds up helping in a gun robbery after a woman flashes her breast at him, he goes home to (ahem) relieve himself when two demons pop out of his television set. They are Mephisto (the she-devil) and Ofisto Bazooka (the demon) and they’ve come to grant three wishes, but instead the demon assaults his mother, Mephisto piles a ton of money in front of his father and then goes after his sister, and they lose track of things. They decide instead of granting wishes to simply live here. As a result of this unplanned madness, Hanappe winds up with the power to make people spontaneously undress and want to have sex with him. He is also given the power to shut this off, but he doesn’t learn this immediately. It has consequences far beyond what he imagines though… And then Hanappe discovers a side-effect; he has untapped strength and abilities. And then it gets weird…

Kuhei, who works as a guard at the Rokkaku Prison House (currently a prison) in Kyoto, has a mysterious ability. The ghost of his late wife, Mio, tells him about the various dangers that occur around him. Using this ability, Kubei and his fellow guards overcome repeated crises! One day, he meets a moneylender called Kon. She is a stingy girl, but she ends up having a physical relationship with her virginity...!?

This story set in the Edo period, tells the love story of a young samurai who is in search for his beloved girlfriend.

Path of the Assassin, called Hanzo no Mon in Japan, is the story of Hattori Hanzo, the fabled master ninja whose duty it was to protect Tokugawa Ieyasu. Ieyasu was the shogun who would unite Japan into one great nation. But before he could do that, he had to grow up and learn how to love the ladies! As the secret caretaker of such an influential future leader, not only does Hanzo use vast and varied ninja talents, but in living closely with Ieyasu, he forms a close friendship with the young shogun.

Chico, a Puerto Rican novice police officer who was sent to the 69th police department of the New York Police Department. The first buddy, Bart, is a man nicknamed Mute. Kill or be killed is a game! Burt was killed in the line of duty. An erotic action film about Chico, who is caught in a dilemma between justice and reality, while being caught in the rough waters of the city.

A trio of third-year junior high school students, Akinori, Morio, and Shigenobu, are preoccupied with women. He's a problem child who always plays pranks and is disliked by girls. One day, Shonyo fell in love at first sight with an adult woman he didn't know at the supermarket. The glimpse of the back of her skirt excited him. Distressed, he comes up with a plan to write a love message on her egg and give it to her... ──A youth gag depicting boys who have too much energy and are in the prime of their lives!

It tells us an adult court police story located in the Edo period. (from ebookjapan): Tenichibo, claiming to be the Shogun's son, rides into Edo with a piece of evidence. However, it would be a big problem if an impostor was allowed to meet the Shogun. Ooka Echizen therefore selects Hango, who is rumored to have "wolf's testicles" because of his temper, to determine whether Tenichibo is the real Shogun or an imposter. Iigo Fujikake, his lieutenant Yuzo, and Tsurujiro run amok in the Minamimachi Magistrate's Office in this humanistic detective story. A masterful work by the famous duo!

Bannai Tarao. He is a dull man with glasses and a mustache, a private detective who investigates cases for no pay. But his true identity is Daizo Fujimura, a genius in disguise who calls himself an "apostle of justice and truth! But as expected, he is getting old. He begins his search for a successor, and finds a young man named Junpei, who is suitable to become the second generation Bannai Tarao! Bannai is impressed by his physical strength, intelligence, and gallantry, as well as his passionate sense of justice, and tries to teach him all of his abilities, but......?

The fierce life of Jinsuke Hayashizaki, a speedy swordsman and the founder of Iaido (battojutsu) who survived from the Sengoku period to the early Edo period! An amazing martial arts story by the master and student duo of original author Kazuo Koike and illustrator Takeshi Kanda! Published in "Comic VAN" (Geibunsha) from March 1975 to March 1976. Incidentally, Jinsuke Hayashizaki's disciples include legendary swordsmen such as Shigemasa Tamiya (founder of Tamiya-ryu) and Ujishin Sekiguchi (founder of Sekiguchi-ryu).

During the Three Kingdoms period in China, Zhuge Liang Kongming, a young man who had the ability to predict and control demon women who controlled water, fire, earth, and wind, went on a journey to see various countries in order to create a peaceful world without war. A masterpiece created by Kazuo Koike with the Romance of the Three Kingdoms as a motif and created by Hitoshi Hirano. First published in 1975.

Manga adaptation of 1975 Fuji TV's Denjin Zaborger tokusatsu series. Secret Police agent Yutaka Daimon returns to Japan after learning his father was murdered by the evil Dr. Akunomiya, leader of the criminal gang Sigma. From his father Yutaka inherited the robot warrior Denjin Zaborger, made out of the mysterious metal Daimonium which responds to Yutaka's voice commands. Zaborger has the unique ability to transform into a motorcycle, Machine Zaborger, for Yutaka Daimon to ride.

(from ebookjapan): How was Sasaki Kojiro a different person? Musashi was a member of a gang of juvenile thieves who attacked villages, until he met Kojiro at a young age and eventually became famous throughout Japan as a master swordsman. Kazuo Koike and Noboru Kawasaki present a new interpretation of the story of the great swordsman Musashi Miyamoto. Includes many color pages at the beginning of the book!

Satomi Koue's debute manga Himo, from 1973. Collected work titles: 身代わり活二郎さん ガサガサバリパリのター坊 ネンネコ彦さん 見習い生の新チャン 活弁ヒロシ君 始好き美男の昭平君 やどかり善さん パナナ探しのサリーさん 手鍋ジェーンさん ヒモヒモヒモ

In 2006 the Japanese publisher found extra material for a new volume starring the same character, but in a different historical context.

Terror is fear. Something frightening, something that causes fear, and someone who causes great fear. "HOLY TERROR'' is a terrifying person, and "KING OF TERRORS'' refers to the god of death. The man's name is Kensuke Takashiro. His code is "kiken". At the request of the American CIA, he goes into hiding in Japan...!? An anarchic action comic drawn by the genius George Enami.

(from ebookjapan): Wars and conflicts that never cease in various parts of the world.... There was a sad women-only fighting group that made fighting their bread and butter, and found only comfort in the fight! --Their name is "Sahara"! Each of these women bears a sad past. They are the women's foreign unit who prove that they can live by fighting!

Two slaves free themselves from a slave ship; one a Japanese man, the other an African American. After escaping, they find themselves on the shore of Edo-era Japan, a society with a strong caste system, isolated from the world. How will the Japanese people perceive this giant black man, and how will they survive? But first things first: how will they get these shackles off their feet?

A man in a kimono slaps the butt of a high school girl who was smoking on the train and yells, "I'm sorry!" He, Akutsubuji, is a Japanese history teacher who has been assigned to a high school attached to the University of Tsukushi. Yurie, the leader of the Kiyurikai, who was embarrassed on the train, tries to prevent Akutsu from going to school, but...!?

What is Lady Snowblood about? Vengeance. Pure and simple, this is a revenge story. Yuki was named as a child of hell by her mother. Yuki's father was killed by a group of men who conspired to use him to start an uprising; they then brutalized her mother. Her mother subsequently killed one of her attackers and ended up in jail, where Yuki is born. Yuki's mother was serving a life sentence; there was no way she could escape and continue her revenge. Consequently, she concocted a plan which included seducing the guards in order to produce a child who could pass beyond the prison walls. Dying in childbirth, Yuki's mother impresses upon a friend the importance of imparting to her infant daughter the necessity of her revenge–the grudge that she could no longer carry, but which she passed to her daughter. The friend agrees to do so, and Yuki ("snow," so named for her snow-white skin) is trained to become the instrument of her mother's vengenace. Twenty years later, Yuki is a skilled assassin. For the price of 1,000 yen she will perform murderous miracles, often proceeding through trickery, deceit, and the assumption that as a woman she poses as little threat to the criminals she is often dispatching.

In a prison world, there are few good stories, and this is the world of Kubikiri Asa, the beheader and master samurai under the Shogun. It's a world full of vengeance, greed, and violence. A world of depravity and sin. One man can set things straight if he can keep his wits. This is a story of extreme proportions, of sword study thick in tradition and with grim purpose, of blood rivers, agonizing screams, bondage, torture, and the evil prevalent in human failure. Drafted by the confirmed masters of the international medium of manga, Samurai Executioner is a shocking combination of darkness and fire, fine lines, and a fine man in the face of human decline. (Source: Dark Horse)

In the middle of the Edo period, there was a person with a keen eye. The Ronin called himself "Soldier" and belonged to no one, but was a fierce swordsman who faced evil by following his anger against injustice. When he gets involved in various incidents, he draws a lonely hero image that stands up without bending his own policy. A full-fledged action historical drama from the unique duo of Kazuo Koike, of Lone Wolf and Cub, and Ken Tsukikage.

From MangaHelpers: It all started with the suicide of an up and coming female photographer named Hirose Miki. The autopsy revealed that she may have been raped before she threw herself off of the condo balcony. Her fiancé, Kuremi Takeo, a TV producer, is unable to accept her death and begins his own search for the truth of what really happened to Miki. Beginning with one photograph that he finds, Takeo begins to unravel a dark mystery. But the deeper he goes into the abyss, the greater the conspiracy becomes and the more danger he encounters. The thirst for justice and revenge will push Takeo to take on whatever obstacle stands in his way

The International Military Tribunal is an illegal intelligence agency rumored to have been operating behind the scenes in democratic countries since the 1950s. Speaking of "Colonel (Cargo)", the executive officer of the International Military Tribunal, If you're a communist intelligence agent, you're no stranger to him. In the name of world peace, the communist nation's intelligence agents were plunged into darkness by his hands. In an era of rebellion, riots, and revolution...Cargo attempts to take further action, but is captured by Hungarian military intelligence...

Rika Mikimoto is a TV personality nicknamed \`\`Thursday Rika'' because she is a regular performer on Channel 5's Thursday program. However, the truth behind her is that she is a talented and beautiful sniper who is the only woman in the world to win the Nobel Prize for Murder!! During the recording of a program hosted by Rika, the director of the Finance Ministry's Bureau of Public Accounts, who was a guest, was approached by someone. A major incident occurred in which he was shot dead. Moreover, Rika herself is wanted as a suspect. Rika discovers that the incident was the work of HAL, the number one sniper group in the underworld, and takes on an international crime while evading the police!!

In the feudal era of Japan, Ogami Itto is the elite executioner for the Shogun until the ruthless Yagyu clan frames him in an attempt to gain the position. His name dishonored and his wife murdered, Itto and his infant son Daigoro wander Japan as an assassin for hire, named Lone Wolf and Cub. Ultimately, Ogami Itto strives for revenge against the Yagyu clan.

Dr. Araki was a Hiroshima survivor whose parents had died in the blast. As an adult, he moved to Nevada to work on Gamma bomb tests for the U.S. government, but during a countdown Araki spotted teenager Ricky Tenda in the blast zone. Leaving the safety of his bunker to rescue Ricky, Araki told his assistant Igor to hold the count, unaware Igor was a Russian spy; the count continued, and though Araki got Ricky to safety, he was caught in the blast himself and transformed into the raging monster "The Hulk".