Kuwashima Kusabi, a seemingly plain girl brightens the world that is “boring“ to Kamigaya Kai.

It is 1969, and famed artist Seiichi Hayashi has decided that his comics, having flirted with pop, need some heart and soul. He turns to the moody graphics of old kashihon gekiga and the sentiments of Japanese enka blues. "Because of you, my long life will be withered with frost. This fading shadow of an empty shell ... our love." So laments the heart-broken bar hostess of Flowering Harbour, one of the classic works of the legendary alternative manga magazine Garo.

The sudden retirement of Lucifario, who had ruled as Archfiend for untold eons, incited a war for succession known as the Archfiend Contest. Thus did numerous Archfiend candidates, each dreaming of being the next to take the throne, descend upon the Moral Realm.


Now, the story of one such Archfiend candidate and his army of Childs is about to begin!


(Source: SHIFT UP Corporation)

Destiny Child is based on the mobile game of the same title.

Publishers:

• Comic Alive (magazine)

Seiichi Hayashi produced Sekishoku Elegy between 1969 and 1970, in the aftermath of a politically turbulent and culturally vibrant decade that promised but failed to deliver new possibilities. With a combination of sparse line work and visual codes borrowed from animation and film, the quiet melancholy lives of a young couple struggling to make ends meet are beautifully captured in this poetic masterpiece.


Uninvolved with the political movements of the time, Ichirou and Sachiko hope for something better, but they're no revolutionaries; their spare time is spent drinking, smoking, daydreaming, and sleeping—together and at times with others. While Ichirou attempts to make a living from his comics, Sachiko's parents are eager to arrange a marriage for her, but Ichirou doesn't seem interested. Both in their relationship and at work, Ichirou and Sachiko are unable to say the things they need to say, and like any couple, at times say things to each other that they do not mean, ultimately communicating as much with their body language and what remains unsaid as with words.


(Source: Drawn and Quaterly)

Sekishoku Elegy was published in English as Red Colored Elegy by Drawn and Quarterly on July 22, 2008.

Publishers:

• Garo (magazine)

A wacky-loser comedy about Lord Belial, one of the Four Heavenly Generals.

One of Hayashi's early contributions to the alternative manga magazine Garo, Flowering Harbour is a love story filtered through the aesthetics of enka music, known informally as "Japanese blues".


(Source: Breakdown Press)

Hanasaku Minato was published in English as Flowering Harbour by Breakdown Press on July 1, 2014.

Publishers:

• Garo (magazine)

Seiichi Hayashi (b. 1945) was a leading figure in Tokyo's hotbed of avant-garde artistic production in the 1960s and '70s. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for Garo, the famous alternative comics magazine. The present volume collects a handful of Hayashi’s most important manga from this period, including “Red Dragonfly” (1968), “Yamauba’s Lullaby (1968), and “Gold Pollen” (1971). Published here in their original full color, these stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop Art sensibilities, and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the shadow of America over 60s Japanese youth culture.


(Source: PictureBox)

Mishikima-kun is a very shy second year high school student who loves gardening and has problems socializing, which makes it difficult for him to interact and make friends. One day he meets Mori-san, a girl with a very serious expression and who transforms into a tree every time she gets nervous...


(Source: Batoto)

Kujou Asagi was "forcefully" moved to Tokyo in order to become manga artist.

An anthology for the Hanshin Tigers’ 80th anniversary.

1. Ichigo to Anemone (Strawberry and Anemone)

2. Shiroki Shisha (The White Messenger)

3. Higara (Periparus after)

4. Schrodinger no Koibito (Schrodinger's Sweetheart)

5. Hoshi no Hayashi ni Tsuki no Fune (Stellar Wood and Ship of the Moon)

1. Kyoudai Suki Houdai!

2. Sensei tono Gohoushi Osouji

3. Kazoku Diet!

4. Kateikyoushi no Kagai Jugyou (The Home Tutor's Extracurricular Lesson)

5. Matsuri Ane Hayashi

6. Seishin Seii de Kanbyou Shimasu

7. Friendship

8. Suite Share

9. Cosplay Rhapsody

10. Renai Kyuuyaku

After Yune returns to Japan, Alice can't seem to forget about her, so she decides to go visit Yune herself! Each chapter in this series features "quickies" that show the daily lives of Alice and Yune having fun being silly in Japan! Each page links to the next in a sequence of events that help build the story as it progresses!


(Source: M-U)

Published on Garo 1967-11.

Down in the depths of Hell is Aguma's inn, which hasn't see a customer since time immemorial, until one day a lone soul steps over its doorway...

A 4-koma about a robot working at a convenience store.

High school girl Kamigaya Kai often gets confessions. She then poses a requirement "If you let me stab you to death, I'll give my love to you." This way people don't reaproach her in her quest to live her boring life, with boring parents, boring school colleagues and boring media.


Kuwashima Kusabi, a seemingly plain girl brightens the world that is "boring" to Kamigaya Kai. It first seemed like she was just another confession that Kamigaya turned off, but she ran home instead to fetch a sturdier knife.


(Source: MU)

Anthology collection for Yurucamp △.

An comic of Yama no Susume by various mangaka.

An comic of Kuma Miko by various mangaka.

A massive, 1200 page anthology gathering stories from every Garo author up until 1984.
Full list of authors / stories in MangaUpdates.

An comic of Re:Zero kara Hajimeru Isekai Seikatsu by various mangaka.

An comic of Non Non Biyori by various mangaka.

Anthology of oneshots about the Hanshin Tigers, from various authors.

Collection of short stories by various mangaka about the misadventures of Tomoko Kuroki.