Top Manga Like Showa: A History of Japan (Comic Showa-shi) [2025 List]

Comic Showa-shi

A historical story using Ghosts to explain the life times of the reign of Emperor Hirohito.Showa-shi by Shigeru Mizuki, is volume (1) in the series.
It describes an era of upheaval and impoverishment in Japanese history, beginning with the Tokyo Earthquake of 1923, and covering the financial panic, the Great Depression, the March 15th Incident, and other events up until the Manchurian Incident (1931)
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Showa: A History of Japan has finished publishing and it has 119 Chapters. It is also Known as: コミック昭和史, Comic Showashi, Shouwa-Shi, A Comics History of the Showa Era

Genres: Historical

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Top Manga Like Showa: A History of Japan (Comic Showa-shi) [2025 List]

4. Hadashi no Gen

Hadashi no Gen

The childhood of Keiji Nakazawa dies on a sunny Monday morning. The biggest mass destruction weapon in human history is thrown at the Japanese town Hiroshima. 20 years after the incident Nakazawa begins to work up the gruesome events of his childhood and begins to draw manga.

Barefoot Gen has finished publishing and it has 54 Chapters. It is also Known as: はだしのゲン, Barefoot Gen - Bomb on Hiroshima

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3. Hidamari no Ki

Hidamari no Ki

The story of friendship between a samurai and a doctor in the final days of the Tokugawa Shogunate (source: Wikipedia)

Hidamari no Ki has finished publishing and it has 62 Chapters. It is also Known as: 陽だまりの樹, The Tree in the Sunlight

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2. Kuro Hakubutsukan: Ghost and Lady

Kuro Hakubutsukan: Ghost and Lady

Deep in Scotland Yard in London sits an evidence room, where artifacts of the greatest mysteries in London history are kept. In this "Black Museum" sits two bullets, fused together after a head-on collision. This was the key piece of evidence in a case that brought together a supernatural Man in Gray and the famous nurse and activist Florence Nightingale—the only person who can see him. Surrounded by war and suffering, the lady enters into a desperate pact with this ghostlike man...

Black Museum: The Ghost and the Lady has finished publishing and it has 28 Chapters. It is also Known as: 黒博物館 ゴースト アンド レディ, Kuro Hakubutsukan: Ghost and Lady

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1. Gekiga Hyouryuu

Gekiga Hyouryuu

Over four decades ago, Yoshihiro Tatsumi expanded the horizons of comics storytelling by using the visual language of manga to tell gritty, literary stories about the private lives of everyday people. He has been called "the grandfather of Japanese alternative comics" and has influenced generations of cartoonists around the world. Now the visionary creator of "The Push Man and Other Stories" and "Good-bye" has turned his incisive, unflinching gaze upon himself. Over ten years in the making, "A Drifting Life" is Tatsumis' most ambitious, personal, and heart felt work: an autobiographical bildungsroman in comics form.Using his life long obsession with comics as a frame work, Tatsumi weaves a complex story that encompasses family dynamics, Japanese culture and history, first love, the intricacies of the manga industry, and most importantly, what it means to be an artist. Alternately humorous, enlightening, and haunting, this is the masterful summartion of a fascinating life and a historic career.

A Drifting Life has finished publishing and it has 48 Chapters. It is also Known as: 劇画漂流, Gekiga Hyouryuu

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