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Included one-shot: Volume 6: Saraba Aniki

Yumi Hotta and her husband talk about how everyone can draw manga and that dividing the pannels is the key.

The essay comedy manga centers on a fourth-grade elementary school student named Akiko Hayashi, who lives in Miyazaki in Japan's Showa era. (Source: ANN, edited)

An autobiographical manga detailing Ayami Kazama's newlywed life.

1. Aoi Mangakyou 2. Boku no Norakuro 3. Karakou Monogatari 4. Boku no Heya ni wa Beethoven no Death Mask ga Atta 5. Tokiwa-sou no Charumera 6. Tokiwa-sou Monogatari 7. Ogawa no Medaka 8. Tezuka Osamu-shi no Itta Hi 9. Kaze no You ni... Se wo Hashirisugita Mushi

A memoir series detailing the mangaka's bout with colorectal cancer.

Shikabane never knew his mother. Abandoned by his father, he lived alongside his grandmother as a child in poverty. But thanks to the kindness of the latter, despite a difficult daily life and the blessings of his comrades, he managed to grow and build himself. As an adult, he finally believed he could enjoy life. Unfortunately, when his grandmother seems to show signs of senile dementia, Shikabane loses his footing and doesn't know how to react... (Source: Akata, translated)

Manga artist Yuuji Yokoyama moved from Tokyo to Tokachi, Hokkaido, after being told by Shogakukan's Weekly Shounen Sunday editor-in-chief Takenori Ichihara to "make the best curry in Japan". Yokoyama is working hard day and night to build a farm in Tokachi, and his days of growing vegetables are comically depicted in the story. (Source: Shogakukan, translated)

When it comes to the topic of cancer, there is no one way to handle the news. For one young woman, Akiyama Momiji, the diagnosis leads her to reevaluate her life. Single and on her own, she's not diving into despair, instead she's ready to learn about herself and her identity in the wake of her diagnosis. Based on the real-life experience of the author's own battle with cancer. (Source: Seven Seas Entertainment)

Aiming for unity of man and hawk! Living with a goshawk named "Master", hunting and tasting the prey. A four-panel essay on falconry that teaches the traditions of falconry and nature. (Source: Seikaisha, translated)

The life of Kaya Takada, who grew up in an intentional community.

This manga contains short stores of the author's own paranormal experiences dealing with ghosts, apparitions, and other encounters of fantastic nature. In this volume, she covers a few of her more recent experiences during her travels across Japan, whether for leisure or for business. Many of the stories revolve around the history of the land or hotels where she stays. Some of her stories may incite chills down your spine, while others can be more comical and/or lighthearted. (Source: MangaHelpers)

I, Kitty Senior, enjoy my life as a house cat. When it's time to eat, my humans are there to serve me food. When it's time for play, my humans are there with toys. And when it's time to sleep, I have my very own human heater waiting for me in my futon, his name is Dear, A.K.A. Undies Man (don't ask, humans are weird). All is purrfect. Well, all was perfect... until Nekomaki decided to bring a little demon "cat" called Acorn into the house. I'm not even convinced that this ball of snotty fur even is a cat. I can already tell: my twelve years on this earth is NOT going to be peaceful... (Source: Fantasista Inc.)

An autobiographical manga depicting the harsh life experienced by Keisuke Itagaki in the JGSDF 1st Airborne Brigade that consumed his youth!! The fierceness of the most elite unit in the Self-Defense Forces far exceeds people's common shambling impression of the SDF...! (Source: Akita Shoten, translated)