MangaEveryone kills everyone over gold buried in Hokkaido
Satoru Noda ran the series in Young Jump from August 2014 to April 2022, 314 chapters across 31 volumes. It won the 9th Manga Taisho and the 22nd Tezuka Osamu Cultural Prize.
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MangaA viking manga that took twenty years to put down revenge
Makoto Yukimura began the series in April 2005 and finished it in 2025, with the final volume 29 published on 22 September that year. It won the Japan Media Arts Festival grand prize in 2009 and the 36th Kodansha Manga Award.
MangaDemon Slayer: a four-year serial that closed at 23 volumes and kept its readers
Koyoharu Gotouge's Demon Slayer ran in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2016 to May 2020, ending at chapter 207 across 23 volumes. A boy who loses his family takes up a sword to turn his demon sister human again.
MangaHistorie: the record of the man who became Alexander's secretary
Hitoshi Iwaaki's Historie has been serialised in Afternoon since January 2003. It follows Eumenes, the secretary to Alexander the Great, from slavery to that position.
MangaThe Apothecary Diaries: a poisons expert sold into the rear palace, solving what she is told not to notice
Adapted by Erika Ikeda from Natsu Hyuuga's novels, The Apothecary Diaries has been serialised since May 2017. Maomao, an apothecary from the pleasure district, is sold into the imperial rear palace and starts reading poisons and illnesses there.
AnimationThe samurai whose one skill is escape
Hojo Tokiyuki survived the day the Kamakura shogunate fell. Season two of his story has been airing since 17 July 2026, twelve episodes from CloverWorks.
MangaTwenty years of chasing the rank of great general
Yasuhisa Hara's epic about the state of Qin has run since 2006. It passed eighty volumes in August 2026 and crossed 100 million copies in print.